I mean, I agree with the thread, but it doesn't help that gemini/gpt are heavily marketed with the 'one-shot' approach (i don't know about claude, probably a bit less so). so people looking at google/openai's official materials and want to seriously give the tools a shot are set up to fail

I know it's very disconcerting, stressful, and annoying to suddenly start getting tons of angry replies, but Occam's razor trivially suggests that this was the answer, and I would wonder why I jumped to the conclusion that there was some sort of shadowy behavior going on instead of something mundane

As early as 2007, Bloomberg spoke about his public transit goals, telling WABC, "If you were to design the ultimate system, you would have mass transit be free and charge an enormous amount for cars."

The NYT actually has been winding down its local (Metro desk) coverage for a solid 20 years. Hate-sharing their content on Bluesky gives them a reason to change tack and dump more resources into heckling the NYC electoral left

www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/new...

to be clear, this study doesn't say that people found climate change less pressing (that wasn't really measured), it just says that a higher proportion picked another category (largely wars and economic uncertainty) as their number one concern in the survey this year

Meanwhile, Pritzker who's talked a great game for weeks now, has his cops out at Broadview rounding up protesters.

drew pavlou moment

Syriza represented an effort to provide a parliamentary obstacle to austerity. The defeat of the movements 3 years before led many to adopt this as a last ditch effort. But its eventual coalition with a far-right party & the acceleration of austerity radically de-legitimised the "Left".