Nature is healing.

A bit ironic they offer a service to keep away AI bots from scanning websites, but say AI use is making them so productive they have to lay people off.

So AI bad or good? Getting whiplashed here.

“OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift. Greg Brockman, the ChatGPT-maker’s president, is helping fund Republicans’ congressional fights:”

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/brockman-openai-top-trump-donor-21273419.php

Simple math error. They counted limbs, then divided by four.

White, the Austin police official, said Waymos can get stuck when they’re forced to interact with people. “The human element is what’s killing them,” he says. “The moment you introduce the human element, [the vehicles] lack that social awareness of what to do, and they freeze.” Freezing creates “a significant danger to public safety,” he told federal regulators.

Nothing to see here. Carry on.

An even earlier manufacturer was Baker Electric of Cleveland, Ohio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Motor_Vehicle. They werem’t the first (EVs had been around since 1880), but by 1906 they were the biggest car maker, running the largest manufacturing plant in the world.

Main market was for those who made frequent short stops, and didn’t want to get their hands dirty hand-cranking the gas or steam motor starters. Their coupe model had a ‘boat-tiller’ instead of a steering wheel.

Jay Leno has a restored 1909 Baker Electric he showed on an old car show: https://youtu.be/OhnjMdzGusc

There was a glut of electric cars, then gas-powered ones with longer range showed up. In 1912, the electric starter was introduced for gas cars, taking away one of the main features of EVs. By 1914, Baker would merge and then shut down.

Dare you to try explaining all this to your elderly relatives.

Nothing a little bodge-wiring and a Pi compute-module can’t fix.

This feels like it needs a ‘Hunger Games’ add-on.

Outstanding meme abuse.

Is this Vegan?

Says so right on the box.

A U.S.-made Robot, designed to play sports.

Guess NASA didn’t want them writing SMTP rules while circling the moon.

There’s a Mister Polybius on line 2. He sounds very annoyed. Says the Association of Veterans of the Punic Wars would like to have a word.

RUD: https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/rapid-unplanned-disassembly-rud

Remembered I had an unopened Pi5-8GB on the shelf.

It’s not just the compiler. It’s all the libraries.