The timeline where Americans collectively lose their minds and make shit loads of money uploading youtube videos about it.

Thank you for your service 07

I’m not surprised, companies are starting to realise that AI is only as useful as the data it’s trained on. If you blast it with all the internet slop we have completely unfiltered, it’s going to start fucking up all it’s responses. It’s not just about the volume of data, it’s about the quality of that data. Sites like Github, and academic journals, contain the exact data that companies need to create well rounded LLMs, that don’t go off on racist rants and declare themselves as “MechaHitler”. That makes data like Github’s pure gold.

Absolutely, although as a Sydneysider, I generally have pretty good bus services where I live. The only thing that makes my blood boil is how awful the bus drivers can be to children. There was one day I had to catch the bus to the library after school, and it was storming a fuck ton. This group of highschoolers get on, and some of them don’t tap on and go and sit down. The bus driver, an old grey haired lady yells her head off at the back of the bus, but since they had already sat down, she couldn’t find them. So she decides the only thing left for her to do, is to stand by the Opal card reader, and force every single person to tap on. You might be thinking “well fine she’s pissed, but those guys should’ve just tapped on right?”

Well this little kid jumps on, and he looks no older than 12 years old. He asks, in a voice I can barely make out over the raging storm outside “can I come on? My family just moved here and I don’t have a card yet” - to which the decrepit bus driver yells “Not on my watch, get out of here! No one is allowed on this bus unless everyone taps on!”, she then proceeds to shove him to the middle of the entrance before shoving him outside.

I remember kicking myself the rest of the trip to the library - I was furious at myself for not having recorded what she had done, and I couldn’t stop thinking about it for the rest of the week. No one, especially not a child, deserves to be forced out of a bus in the middle of a thunderstorm.

So every time someone praises public transport here, I’m grateful for the comfortable experience I get to enjoy. But each and every time someone praises the buses, the first thing I can think of is that little boy, and how despite confessing to the bus driver he was new to the area, was pushed into the middle of a raging thunderstorm.

The owners of my family’s last house left us with solar panels, and as a struggling barely middle class family, it helped my parents afford all our expenses; from groceries to rent and even a vacation. It makes me so happy to see solarpunk become so popular, the good it can do is nothing short of awesome.

I disagree, > 40,000 protestors have been massacred (that’s just what we know of due to the nationwide internet blackout), and they are all begging for US/foreign intervention. I support regime change in Iran if it means Pahlavi can implement his transitional government. Since 1979 when the regime rose to power, the value of the rial has literally gone down by 190,000%. Yes you read that right, not 10,200,1000, 190,000%. This shit needs to end right the fuck now.