Why do you think they would stop in their tracks every time there's a power or cell tower outage?

Yes, there have been some issues with widespread power outages causing the cars to get confused because things don't look right, but that's a bug, not expected behavior.

And although they won't have fares if they have no cell service, there's no reason to expect them to stop being able to drive. They will do whatever they normally do when they have no fare — find a place to park. Other than for learning about pickups and dropoffs, robotaxis use cellular networks only when they break down, to request remote driving assistance (i.e. relatively rarely).

Doge wasn't all him. It was just project 2025. And he didn't make big decisions, he made stupid and easy ones to kill children in exchange for tax cuts that made him a trillionaire.

In the real world he has teams of people whose job it to prevent him from making decisions at his companies.

I told them that Katyusha, my Russian Blue cat couldnâ(TM)t be trusted with commit rights.

I guess they had to find out the hard way.

Oh, yeah, I just realized that this is an expense on the Roku side, so the taxes would cancel out. Ugh.

Then yes, you're correct that there's no possible way for consolidating two businesses to save money without direct job loss, other than perhaps reducing payouts to external companies for things that they both do (e.g. accountants).

It's about bribes. Anything this administration does is because they didn't get their cut. We put a guy who hung around Russian Mafia in charge. What did anyone expect?

If your government breaking into your house and applying hardware-level attacks to scrape your secrets out of the RAM of your running computer is seriously part of your threat model, it's almost certainly very, very far from your biggest concern.

Also, you should probably consider turning your computer off.

Citation? Who is a household name leveraging AI to upend an established market...who isn't merely just reselling AI, like Claude/Cursor/etc. Has anyone disrupted a non-pure-technology business? entertainment? logistics? retail? transportation? dating?

Who is the grindr/tinder/uber/salesforce/netflix/amazon of the AI age?

All I know of are pick and shovel vendors. People selling AI to you so you can figure out how to make money with them.

So the good news is that won't happen with SpaceX satellites because they come back down to Earth every 5 years like clockwork. You could potentially wind up in that scenario for a few years you just have to wait it out which is frightening but it wouldn't be the end of space.

The bad news is that the high cost of maintaining that satellite fleet and the need to have big fat juicy government contracts in order to make it profitable means that SpaceX is not a viable company. Go watch the tail end of the last video Patrick Boyle put up on youtube. He takes a while getting there but he explains what's about to happen. The SpaceX IPO is structured so that if you bought it as a retail investor you can't sell for 120 days and after that every single index fund in the country is forced to buy into it whether they want to or not. That means your 401k is going to be heavily invested in SpaceX, Grok, Tesla and Twitter and any other crap Musk does.

It's possible that corruption will keep government contracts going his way and therefore keep the stock price up. But without that it's going to slam headlong into your retirement savings in a few years. And it's a corruption does keep going it's going to wreck your retirement savings another way. It's kind of a heads Musk wins tails you lose kind of thing...

Meant to be and is are very different things.

Starlink is technically profitable but it's heavily subsidizing the actual rocket business which is a huge money loser. It's expensive to put shit in space especially when you have to replace it every 5 years. And starlink is always competing primarily with wired internet.

So they're going to be very sensitive to having their satellites knocked out of orbit.

It is kind of funny that Musk books 7 billion in profit on starlink and 5 billion in losses from SpaceX even though they're basically the same company. I guess it does technically make it net profitable until you start mixing in the AI bullshit. Also it's very likely that Europe is going to start cutting starlink and SpaceX out for national security reasons. Never mind what's going to happen if the Republicans don't win in 2028.

Whether Anthropic was trying to hype about Mythos / Fable or not (and FYI, it is a pretty big leap forward), they absolutely did not want to get public access shut down. The US government very much seems to want to have exclusive access to it for now.

Also, to clarify the "jailbreak": They took open source projects that had known vulnerabilities, as well as deliberately introducing vulnerabilities into some other projects, then asked Fable to fix them, and then asked for test scripts to demonstrate that the exploits could no longer be exploited - the implication being that they could then use those exploits against unpatched systems. But what's the logic here? The challenge isn't "how to write exploits against known bugs", any model can do that. The challenge is finding the bugs - something Mythos / Fable has proven better than previous models at. Even if Fable refused to write said test scripts, it would automatically downgrade to Opus 4.8, and then *Opus* would have written those test scripts. Or any other model out there could do it, including free open source ones that can be safety-abliterated at will.

Because la Presidenta is a giant buttplug screwing up science and technology in the U.S.

"how many federal employees are employed full-time to monitor and report on the energy, water, and climate impact of federal government datacenters?"

Answer: very few, the current alleged administration does not care about any "impact" other than to their bank accounts.

It isn't just the administration, a good number of congress critters are similarly incompetent but have a media "outreach" organization to blind voters to this. That allows them to enrich themselves (stock trading, siphoning money in bills to their friends for a Bit-O-Graft under the table, etc). Their media "outreach" organization is a group of people dedicated to keeping their pet cockroach in office and paying them for their phony-baloney jobs.

In defense of the crabby old ladies at the DMV, ever you have to deal with the "public" on a regular basis? The "public" are the people who believe in conspiracy theories as truth, expect space aliens are whizzing around the skies spying on our clothes drying on the wash line (they like undergarments), think science is grows on trees, think championship wrestling is real, etc. They are irascible and perpetually irritated over fuck all. Then they come into the DMV and expect the old lady behind the counter to commiserate with why they didn't think to bring in the proper information for a license and are upset with the old lady for not just passing them through.

Try dealing with the "pubic" day after day and see if you don't theorize about bringing in a shillelagh for some tough love.

My own take is that the dustup is another ploy by el Bunko for a payoff. He isn't hard to figure out.