There were people in the loop of that entire process and she was illegally detained for 6 months for a crime they had zero probable cause for. Humans don't mean shit if they outsource their brains.

It has to be on-site for that amount. Mixer trucks can't be on the road for too long. They get filled up and have to immediately be dumped out. If one gets stuck in traffic for too long, the entire concrete drum might have to be removed, and they're often buried at the destination site.

That's what happened to the "Killdozer" guy. He was using a buried cement mixer drum as a septic tank and the city was like "you gotta hook up to the sewer, shit is literally flowing into everyone else's land from your place." Then the guy went on and on about how the town was against him or some shit because he was fucking insane. Then he built his armored Kotomasu and rampaged through the town. The evacuation order was the only reason people didn't die. He drove through a library full of children!

The 2019 documentary Tred goes into a lot of the details. That guy is held up as some kind of libertarian hero when he really was a mentally disturbed psycho.

The elected officials in these places are absolutely shitty beyond any measure. Someone needs to audit them and see how much they're getting in kickbacks. In this particular case, thousands of locals were protesting and the elected representative tried to tell people the protestors were shipped in from other places:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The guy is also bitching about people protesting at his house. Bitch you were elected and you're ignoring the will of the majority of your electorate for a colossal center company nobody fucking wants! If we went back a century and a half, you would be dragged from your house, and your family would be tied up and made to watch it burn to the ground.... and then you would have been voted out.

America has a dark history. The data centers are for the surveillance needed to stop the will of the people.

It benefits huge surveillance companies that want to invest in pre-crime and automating the criminal justice process .. like the girl from Tennessee who was extradited to North Dakota, a state she had never visited in her life, because an AI/computer-vision camera matched her via facial recognition to a crime she did not commit. She was detained for six months, and when her lawyer finally got her out, she was left outside the jail, with the clothing she came in with, no jacket, no winter clothing, no money and no airplane ticket back home. I hope she finds a more competent lawyer and clears out that fucking state for $12 million or more after legal fees and taxes! Fuck this AI bullshit.

When they first splurged this bullshit, I immediately though, "It's named 'Mythos'? Really?" Literally "Mythical"

I've read some post that show GPT-5 could find some of the same vulnerabilities if pointed to the same code, and the Mythos version that found some of these issues spent $2k or more worth of tokens on them.

I recently broke out Opus and Sonnet again on my personal projects (try to restrict LLMs to work where I don't care so much) and I found myself rewriting over a 1/3 of the output, even after trying to get the agent to fix issues. It's really a big quantity over quality issue still, with the latest and greatest models. Sure they can build things fast if you need unpredictable spaghetti code shit. Maybe great for one time migration scripts.

One of my managers showed me some MCP servers he setup and how he got Claude to connect to Grafana, examine his Pods, create a full dashboard and even automate alerts. It was kinda cool, but I was like "You used your read-only API keys for AWS/Grafana/etc, right?" ... He used full access, said you had to.

I worry about this level of dependence. I also have a feeling if I dug into those graphs, half of them would have bad queries or not be gathering the information they claim.

> quantum computers

These are such BS marketing fluff. It's been decades and IBM shut down their fun little Cloud Quantum experiment where regular people could run simple little sets of gates.

The record for quantum computer size seems to be 6,000 qbits right now, but they can only be held together for a few seconds at most. I don't think quantum computers will become a reality any time soon, and there is still a considerable debate on if some of these more advanced quantum gate based algorithms can really break older encryption in a reasonable amount of time.

I'm on a Q820 from 17 years ago at home.

Still runs fine, still had more RAM and disc than a number of new laptops which is a bit sad.

I remember the nimbus!

My school had a network of discless machines.

They could also boot into BBC mode with a reasonably good BBCBasic interpreter and RM mode as xxx well.

They were pretty good in their niche, really though the Archi was a fool 32 bit very fast RISC computer that knocked the competition into a cocked hat. Struggled on a bit but then vanquished into the embedded space until a few years ago.

You're assuming the companies with these fleets of (currently largely non-existant) robots are still going to solvent if the bubble pops. That seems highly unlikely in many cases given the business model for AI is apparently "borrow massive amounts of money to fund it using the promise future orders as collateral". Asset strippers have no interest in salvaging a business; their business model is to buy the physical assets cheap, dump the debt on to bagholders (the shareholders), and sell the assets off to whoever wants it, hopefully for more than the cents on the dollar paid they probably for it. I buy stuff from these auctions from time to time; it's a great way to get nearly new, and often still on the market, kit at a fraction of the retail price.

Also, Facebook might not be the best counter example there. Remember what happened to many of the hires, business units, servers, and services, Meta setup when Zuck went all-in on the Metaverse? What do you think he'll do if going all-in on AI doesn't pan out for him?

Yeah, but these are Humanities students. That, by its very definition, is an area where AI should have very limited use, where it is applied should be done really, really, carefully, and job losses are far less likely than in many other fields. Sure, there's analysis of datasets, especially of geographical and historical data, but that is one of the areas where a specifically trained model can really be of use, but an AI is never going to painstakingly brush away dirt from some ancient historical site, and I shudder to think what would happen if AI hallucinations get let loose on philosophy or religion. That said, it would probably be very amusing watching those who buy into the output; and doubly so if the model was trained on the Butlerian.Jihad from Dune, less so for actual crusades, jihads, and "holy" wars.

Still, if these presumably tech savvy Gen Z students are not fans of the tech, regardless of whether that's because the recognise how its being used by corporates or some other reasons, then I think the people that need to be more worried about this are those that have built the massive pyramid trillions of dollars of debt to build something that few seem to want or trust. Like the .com boom, the bubble must pop sooner or later and sort out who is a "pets.com" and who is a "google.com", and there are growing indication that, unlike .com, the demand that will be required to pay for it all just isn't there, and we're already way beyond the scale of any previous government bailouts. That kind of crash only has one outcome; a lot of shareholders (which includes pension funds) are going to lose their shirts.

I've been a rider for about 15 years. The absence of shifting is one of the things which makes EVs significantly less fun (in both cars and bikes/scooters). Even video games and movies recognize this in how they implement futuristic EVs.

The clutch on a bike is also more important than the clutch on a car, and it's a big part of the feel of a bike. Motorcycle clutches are 'wet', you can be half-on and half-off clutch. This is useful for helping control against engine torque to the wheels, 'engine braking' as well as controlling launch. For anyone accustomed to riding, it's a necessary feature, because it's literally how motorcycles work. Remove it and it doesn't feel like the same thing; it removes a lot of the enjoyment and tactility of the activity, and subsequently the enjoyment, of controlling a machine. It feels like you're doing something (and you are).

EVs feel more like a railcar, it's the exact opposite of the freedom of movement that motorcycles give you.

1941 to 1990

You mean 1939?

Oh yeah wait a mo America only "came to its allies aid" after being attacked. That my man is not being a reliable ally, that's being purely self interested.

There's not an agency in the US government at this point which doesn't drastically manipulate its data to fit either internal politics, or political party agendas.

The problem at AWS is that they largely don't have 'core competencies' anymore, and haven't realized it yet.

They used to be a company which embraced new ways of doing things and doing small, agile things quickly. That hasn't been the case for half a decade now - in part due to cultural changes pushed from the top, but largely hasn't been the case for a while.

You'd think a cloud company with a fully distributed global infrastructure would have been one of the forefront proponents of remote work, and they did lean in on that a little bit at first, but quickly reversed course - in part due to the kinds of people they'd started hiring in excess not working. Those people are predominantly NOT the traditional hard charging, results-oriented people they used to hire, and are instead people who seem to prefer meeting over doing.

US hasn't been a reliable ally to anyone sans maybe Israel in decades.

When has the US been a reliable ally?