It's unlikely to be from Aptera. Within weeks of closing their "crowdfunding" round, they did 1/3 reverse split. Like early reservation holders ( you can likely kiss that $ goodbye) we got a 1/3 haircut on our worthless shares.
Federal gas tax $ 0.184/gal - last raised in 1993 when avg fleet econ was 20.9 vs 26 today, 80% of todays revenue/mile. With inflation, the current rate is 9c/gal. Trump EV tax proposal $250/year. Ford Explorer Fed gas tax @ 12k miles $70. Main cause of road damage? Climate Change. How to kill EVs.
Russian roulette is not a plan.
What you fail to appreciate is how meaningless the reasons for initiating the confrence are. Once started there are no guardrails and those in power make the rules.
I use a knife to open boxes, cut steaks and wittle wood, in nyc they can arrest you for carrying a knife.
Sometimes people only see one use for a tool, ignoring other uses that might be dangerous.
the convention has no rules. the christian nationalist that now control all three branches of government will use a convention to erase the last 60 years of social equality (among other things) leading (eventually) to the riots and civil unrest we saw in the 60s.
convention is a free for all. Have no doubt that people who have no respect for rules will run roughshod over the process to impose their will.
Times prints opinion that lower courts trying to rein in Trump are out of control and a threat to our constitutional order. This needs a rebuttal.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/o...
MMC: Mass Murder Count.
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This is how Trump gets a 3rd term, Abortions get outlawed and the we become MagaLand forever.
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We don't need more prisons (Alcatraz), we need fewer prisons. We already incarcerate more people than any other country on earth, including Russia and China combined. With roughly 20% of the world's prisoners, and only 5% of the world's population, the land of the free rings a little hollow.
My problem is dealing with the intolerance of Maga and the free speech absolutist and lost souls of the left. We live in a world of rainbows, but our choices are always black and white, despite the kaleidoscopic reasoning that may have led to any binary choice.
Show you? in 300 words or less? This isn't the correct forum for that level of discourse. Here is a link that supports one of my claims. www.ft.com/content/ae50...
Nope, took that into account, there are also the issues with bias amplification and lack of real-world complexity that lead to false confidence in potentially erroneous conclusions.
Synthetic data leads to hallucinations
If you think the authoritarian streak that is running through our country is new, you haven't been paying attention. As the country with the largest prison population, by ANY measure, we've been headed down this path for a long time. We have more people in prison than China and Russia ... Combined.
yes I did. I believe you underestimate the enormous amount of data and training needed to do anything close to what you are imagining outside the large language models. Even the customer Svc example, to be effective will likely need LLM tie-ins.
AI is a tool for processing aggregated data. Who chooses the data and the rules for training the AI controls the information it provides. Small players rely on the "neutrality" of that data and the training.
It is the cultivation of the data in the first place, then the training in the second, that makes this a weapon that this article misses.
It isn't artificial intelligence we need to fear, it's the clowns in charge of AI.
AI answer: Why do you exist?
By making AI serve you — and billions of people to rely on —
OpenAI is positioning itself to shape:
• How people think
• What information people see first
• What solutions seem "normal" or "available"
• What kinds of problems get asked and answered
From Procter & Gamble's CEO: "We have these wired homes with the permission of consumers, we can track exactly what's happening in the laundry room, for example, how many loads are done per week, what temperature those loads are, etc. And what you see is a reduction in the number of loads done" WTF?
That declaration was initially meant to get us away from England's King. This fight isn't over by a long shot.
This Fourth of July, we celebrate our independence from tyranny with the largest demonstration in American history, centering in Washington and around the country.
July 4th, 2025, the day Americans renew their vows of independence from Kings and Tyrants!
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On July 4th, 1776, we adopted the Declaration of Independence from a tyrant. 249 years later, we find ourselves with many of the same complaints. Americans do not bow to tyrants. We declare our independence and demand the liberty promised in our founding document.
July 4, 2025. Mark your calendar.
July 4th, 2025, is hereby declared our day of independence from tyranny. In Washington, DC, across the country, and around the world, we come together in greater numbers than the world has ever seen and demand to be heard.
Mark the date on your calendar now.