Enrico🐀
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Lights, trains, cameras, software, bikes, kayaks, drones, micromobility, and probably a bunch more I'm forgetting about. #BanCars #BuildTransit
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Banks really can't compete with this stuff, the future is here.
December 30, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Banks really can't compete with this stuff, the future is here.
If there's one thing Twitter was known for right after musk took over it was definitely that the product worked better
December 30, 2025 at 5:36 AM
If there's one thing Twitter was known for right after musk took over it was definitely that the product worked better
Not usually a full post office storefront, but if the package is pre-paid there's usually a way (often a postal drop box) to send it from the airport, at least for most places in the US.
December 30, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Not usually a full post office storefront, but if the package is pre-paid there's usually a way (often a postal drop box) to send it from the airport, at least for most places in the US.
When I used to fly for work regularly and also carried a Leatherman often, I would keep a flat-rate prepaid box folded flat in my carry-on bags so I could mail myself anything that I forgot to check that couldn't clear security.
December 30, 2025 at 5:15 AM
When I used to fly for work regularly and also carried a Leatherman often, I would keep a flat-rate prepaid box folded flat in my carry-on bags so I could mail myself anything that I forgot to check that couldn't clear security.
In new builds or major renovations, but that accounts for a very small portion of housing.
December 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
In new builds or major renovations, but that accounts for a very small portion of housing.
All these AI companies want to spin up their own nuclear reactors attached to their datacenters, why shouldn't you get in on the fun?
December 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
All these AI companies want to spin up their own nuclear reactors attached to their datacenters, why shouldn't you get in on the fun?
Great, now my kids won't be safe in the back of my hummer so I've got to get one of these too.
December 29, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Great, now my kids won't be safe in the back of my hummer so I've got to get one of these too.
It's not wildly difficult to explain, it comes down to a disagreement as to of its realistic to expect good funding *and* free fares. Busses should be free and also we should be doing massive increases in both capital and operating budgets for our transit agencies.
December 29, 2025 at 4:39 AM
It's not wildly difficult to explain, it comes down to a disagreement as to of its realistic to expect good funding *and* free fares. Busses should be free and also we should be doing massive increases in both capital and operating budgets for our transit agencies.
Also the North American NEMA 5-15R is finally catching up with tamper-resistant shutters and small number of 5-15P plugs can be found with coated prongs, but neither is what I'd call common yet.
December 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Also the North American NEMA 5-15R is finally catching up with tamper-resistant shutters and small number of 5-15P plugs can be found with coated prongs, but neither is what I'd call common yet.
The switches don't really do much to improve any safety (and you can add a switch to any American outlet for a couple bucks easily) but a plug that can suspend the weight of its own cable without partially pulling out of the wall is a huge improvement.
December 29, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The switches don't really do much to improve any safety (and you can add a switch to any American outlet for a couple bucks easily) but a plug that can suspend the weight of its own cable without partially pulling out of the wall is a huge improvement.
Busses should be free, etc etc, but I find the idea really funny that if you skip a fare you still get a ride but it's going to be on their terms, not yours.
December 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Busses should be free, etc etc, but I find the idea really funny that if you skip a fare you still get a ride but it's going to be on their terms, not yours.
Oh and also the buildings outside. It looks to my eye like just normal parallax movement, but I think the effect is amplified by compression as this is a fairly low-resolution video so only a few pixels of movement horizontally jumps around as compression decides which pixel columns get building.
December 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Oh and also the buildings outside. It looks to my eye like just normal parallax movement, but I think the effect is amplified by compression as this is a fairly low-resolution video so only a few pixels of movement horizontally jumps around as compression decides which pixel columns get building.
Finally the light on the floor is just a matter of opinion about how our eye reads a scene. It looks very natural to me, thin bands cast by gaps along the edges of a roller shade pulled down over a window, sun coming from left side of frame. It flicks in and out because people walk past the source.
December 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Finally the light on the floor is just a matter of opinion about how our eye reads a scene. It looks very natural to me, thin bands cast by gaps along the edges of a roller shade pulled down over a window, sun coming from left side of frame. It flicks in and out because people walk past the source.
The same is true for faces: detailed area of a fairly monotone color defined by small lines that get erased by compression blurring. (This video includes a glitch auto face blur on the mocap guy but that's algorithmic attempts to hide a face, not a genAI or compression artifact.)
December 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The same is true for faces: detailed area of a fairly monotone color defined by small lines that get erased by compression blurring. (This video includes a glitch auto face blur on the mocap guy but that's algorithmic attempts to hide a face, not a genAI or compression artifact.)
(This compressed video on the internet is also what genAI is mostly trained on, so it may go beyond coincidental similarities and actually be *because* of compression blur like this, in part, that genAI tends to use a similar blur between areas of low contrast.)
December 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
(This compressed video on the internet is also what genAI is mostly trained on, so it may go beyond coincidental similarities and actually be *because* of compression blur like this, in part, that genAI tends to use a similar blur between areas of low contrast.)
Both of these are white-on-white images with limited contrast. This is exactly the sort of detail degraded further in video compression, where subtle lines and edges are erased and everything blends into a blurred mess of roughly the same color.
December 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Both of these are white-on-white images with limited contrast. This is exactly the sort of detail degraded further in video compression, where subtle lines and edges are erased and everything blends into a blurred mess of roughly the same color.
To the points in the video above about not seeing where power strips are plugged in and the weird wall/window on the right of frame: it appears that the wall outlets are white plates on white wall and the "wall" looks to me like a white shade wrinkled over a window.
December 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
To the points in the video above about not seeing where power strips are plugged in and the weird wall/window on the right of frame: it appears that the wall outlets are white plates on white wall and the "wall" looks to me like a white shade wrinkled over a window.
This is also an ironic contrast to manual video vfx: while a skilled vfx artist does careful blending of composites, often the giveaway detail for this type of video is a detail or edge that's too clear or sharp rather than a blurring (besides motion blur covering comps, which is also common).
December 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
This is also an ironic contrast to manual video vfx: while a skilled vfx artist does careful blending of composites, often the giveaway detail for this type of video is a detail or edge that's too clear or sharp rather than a blurring (besides motion blur covering comps, which is also common).
Most of what is identified as fake in the video above is likely due to video compression - it turns out that AI smoothing of indistinct details looks just like compression artifacts because both are computers painting in pixels based on something not present in the resulting image.
December 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Most of what is identified as fake in the video above is likely due to video compression - it turns out that AI smoothing of indistinct details looks just like compression artifacts because both are computers painting in pixels based on something not present in the resulting image.
We've had minipulated images and some level of minipulated video for a long time, but now we view anything on the internet with a strong sense that it's not just possible but highly likely of a fake. GenAI isn't the only cause, but it's a tool that has brought this issue to everyone everywhere.
December 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
We've had minipulated images and some level of minipulated video for a long time, but now we view anything on the internet with a strong sense that it's not just possible but highly likely of a fake. GenAI isn't the only cause, but it's a tool that has brought this issue to everyone everywhere.
Needs a touch more reverb
December 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Needs a touch more reverb