"The arc of the moral universe just walked into the kitchen but forgot what it was looking for. It mindlessly opens the refrigerator as if the answer might be sitting next to the milk. All the shelves are empty."

'AI' will eat itself

“Canadian retaliation has already cost U.S. exporters. U.S. exports to Canada subject to auto retaliation declined by 53% year over year in April, and U.S. exports subject to IEEPA retaliation declined by 13% [...] But retaliation is far from the biggest problem.”

www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

IRL is the killer app

Nothing beats it for anything

It's inefficient, but it works better than anything else

Everything else is a workaround

“To call AI a con isn’t to say that the technology is not remarkable, that it has no use, or that it will not transform the world [...] It is to say that AI is not what its developers are selling it as: a new class of thinking—and, soon, feeling—machines.”

www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Here's hoping we actually do get more of this infrastructure as the City of Winnipeg's Transit Master Plan is implemented...

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Measuring the motor vehicle splash zone on sidewalks when there's a heavy rain should be a factor in setting speed limits.

Of all the -isms, transactionalism is the most powerful

Meshtastic is designed specifically for sending text messages over free-to-use radio frequencies to both groups and individuals, even when cell service and internet connections are nowhere to be found.

www.wired.com/story/youre-...

I’ve said it before: companies used to be coy about the extent of the surveillance. It was always more extensive and egregious than the “bargain” suggested. But now that artifice is out the window. The thing they are explicitly selling, in fact all they have left to sell, is surveillance.

It's odd that nostalgia now includes earlier phases of the Internet

I used to be an early adopter