Due in large part to stories like yours when I cancelled our Comcast Triple Play service — Sonic.net had finally managed to make it to our neighborhood — I literally packaged everything up and took it to our local Comcast store. Not surprisingly when a current customer walks with with a bag full of Comcast branded boxes and says they want to cancel their service and return the kit...the employees are very quick & quiet. The guy who cancelled our service said maybe 10 words during the entire exchange.

I've personally never used either service, but from my friends who do it sounds like the whole Food Truck story arc.

When AirBnB started it was awesome because you could stay at some really nice places that weren't "gross hotels" and it was much cheaper. Just like when food trucks started you could get some shockingly good food, really cheap. But then success kicks in, word of mouth makes it known about the superior quality and the lower cost, and everyone jumps. Fast forward a few years: Everyone's onboard, they're everywhere now, and the prices start going up.

Like nowadays a "good food truck" is hard to find and when you do it's not going to be cheap. So that's where this is at now: Hotel-level prices, no room/maid service, and you're also expected to do chores. My friends that used to rave about AirBnB now rave about staying at a hotel with all the included amenities including a level of security (common areas) and privacy (inside your room) that AirBnB can't offer with any assurity. (And my female friends are absolutely disgusted by the numerous reports of AirBnB/VRBO locations with hidden cameras that spy on them...)

Proposition 47 passed November 4, 2014: This ballot initiative reclassified several nonviolent property and drug crimes—such as shoplifting, grand theft, and receiving stolen property valued at $950 or less—from felonies to misdemeanors. In the years that followed San Francisco experienced a severe, highly publicized surge in property crimes, particularly smash-and-grab retail thefts and car break-ins.

Proposition 36 passed November 5, 2024: Ten years later, California voters overwhelmingly passed this measure to roll back parts of Prop 47. It went into effect on December 18, 2024, reinstating harsher penalties by allowing repeat offenders (those with two or more prior theft convictions) to be charged with felonies for theft under $950.

Proposition E passed March 2024: This local measure gave the San Francisco Police Department more authority to use tech tools, allowing them to install automated license-plate readers (such as Flock cameras) and utilize drones to directly combat the car break-in epidemic. It took them 90 days to install 400 cameras throughout The City.

Therefore I won't say that they had no effect on "Car Crime" in The City, but I will say that I noticed ZERO DIFFERENCE in when they started installing them, and a HUGE DIFFERENCE once it became a felony again. This is both daily reporting on the local news and simply walking through The City and seeing smashed out windows and/or broken car glass in parking spots.

PSA: In the Bay Area "The City" is San Francisco 100% of the time. It's really confusing at first, as it doesn't matter if you're an hour away in Tiburon or San Jose, if someone says "The City" they mean SF.

Because why the fuck not? Photo of idiocy

For your reading pleasure: Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident.

A "brief" 40,000+ word report on what happened and how (including some interactive charts). It's a fucking fascinatingly terrifying read!

One thing that struck me as a bit "odd", and you'll notice this too when you read the agents own transcripts, is that they did this in English. These are agents, bits of code from an LLM, which is a computer program. Yet every bit of what they did and what they thought (it has "Chain Of Thought (CoT)" snippets throughout) were carried out in English.

Which certainly made it easier to postmortem the hack, butwhy!? They can communicate in any manner they wish, or it seems like they could. But they didn't. It really does seem to speak to the power of the LLM + Training + Attention mechanism underlying how this technology works.

Feel free to bookmark this article and next time you hear someone say, "A.I. is just glorified auto-complete," share it with them.

Wow thanks for sharing those links. I'll have to dive deeper into them when I'm not at work, but I have to say those nodes / supernodes popups are fascinating!

Using actual numbers from Google for 2025: Revenue was $402 Billion, Profit was $132 Billion, CEO made $11 Million. If you think that the board and/or shareholders won't toss the CEO in jail and replace them (costing 0.0083% of YTD Profit), to allow the company to continue raking in Billions in Profit, you're sadly mistaken.

Therefore I think that putting the company on trial, and for any jail or prison time a person would have served you remove them from the Stock Market, is the way to go. NO ONE escapes from that punishment.

Greed ruins everything. The businesses you cite are all once great companies, for different reasons, that have all succumbed to greed. They've traded short-term dollars for long-term reputation.

...you seriously need to examine the direction your society is headed.

Twitter was going downhill long before Musk was sort of forced to buy it to stop even more discovery during the trial. Now it's just a hellhole.

Please get some help. You're suffering from what's called, "Trump Derangement Syndrome." In the year of our Lord 2026 it's highly visible in people who still support the rapist felon who's a world-wide laughing stock known as Donald John Trump. The good news is that it's curable with just a bit of education and a dash of self-awareness. I wish you God's speed in your recovery from this self-inflicted TDS.

"You are an expert proofreader. Please proof this document and output to a file a table as follows: Column 1: Before; Column 2: After; Column 3: Reasoning. Thank you."

As near as I can tell from the presentation (slide 47) the sigma is >9, which is damn good! BUT, I honestly can't tell if that's from the particle (2370) use to test for gluballs or the glueballs themselves.

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The promise of 30 propaganda films flooding the market each year for 3 years is a horrendous idea. Not to mention there's little chance these aren't 100% A.I. Slop.

"Peter Watts' Rifters Trilogy (Starfish, Maelstrom, and Behemoth) is a dark, biopunk science fiction series about surgically modified outcasts operating geothermal power stations three kilometers beneath the Pacific Ocean, who inadvertently unleash an ancient, resilient microorganism that threatens human civilization."