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Who did the cover ?

It looks a bit like Gil Kane.

11.03.2026 04:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mamdani Chooses His Words Carefully After Alleged Terror Attack

One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

10.03.2026 12:15 πŸ‘ 9031 πŸ” 1897 πŸ’¬ 351 πŸ“Œ 192

Yeah and Musk’s white β€œnativism” and mercurial relationship with the Admin will crater talent from South and east Asia HB-1 applications.

The DOGE idiots are probably typical of who works for Musk.

11.03.2026 04:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Serves pancakes when he’s healthy.

11.03.2026 03:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

These idiots are supposed to steal the mid-term elections run and controlled by 50 individual States.

11.03.2026 03:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fidelity got burned with Twitter. Last I saw that they valued X at 12 billion (Was 44).

I’d be disappointed that they were on this.

β€œThe success of SpaceX's IPO is contingent on two elementsβ€”a rapidly growing market and significant monopoly power.”

β€œSignificant Monopoly Power” - lol

11.03.2026 00:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

1) Transit experts suggest that the company’s systems were unprepared β€” or not programmed β€” for a failure of this magnitude, in which city signals, electricity, and cellular networks were all compromised at once

2) SF had worse planned Enron power outages in the 90s

3) Waymo system design failed.

11.03.2026 00:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

and β€œSafe Modeβ€œ is not a good state.

I made no apologies for Waymo and am skeptical there is a profitable businesses model given the massive investments and unsolved environmental complexity.

In space systems and autonomous systems where I worked it’s a state that requires intervention.

11.03.2026 00:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

?!
Retired Jan after 25 years in the field of AI ML, autonomy and verification R&D related to safety and transportation.

This doesn’t change the quality of an opinion, but I’m puzzled by your reaction.

10.03.2026 15:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

”Here is our N page report and it would be shorter if you gave us more time.”

10.03.2026 15:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

IIRC Waymo enters a safe mode without cellular.

these systems will always have an air traffic control like center, which will deal with issues liked block roads.

Profit maybe with lobbying for priority access to airports and dense urban areas as a taxi service.

10.03.2026 15:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

bsky.app/profile/plai...

10.03.2026 15:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Development in simulation saves $$$ over physical world experimentation.

Self-driving cars operate in the physical world and Google’s started in *2009* hiring from Stanford and operated cars at Moffett Field Fed base.

25 years 10s of billions and look where Waymo is now.

10.03.2026 14:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Trump out shut it out of Middle East while thousands remain stranded. Headline from Huffington Post.

Trump out shut it out of Middle East while thousands remain stranded. Headline from Huffington Post.

Or

Trump Ally Jetted Out Of Middle East As Thousands Remain Stranded Due To War

A TikTok influencer also snagged a seat on the plane out of Qatar amid America's escalating war.

09.03.2026 23:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Trump out shut it out of Middle East while thousands remain stranded. Headline from Huffington Post.

Trump out shut it out of Middle East while thousands remain stranded. Headline from Huffington Post.

Or

Trump Ally Jetted Out Of Middle East As Thousands Remain Stranded Due To War

A TikTok influencer also snagged a seat on the plane out of Qatar amid America's escalating war.

09.03.2026 23:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes and not all debt is equal.

The marginal propensity to consume means lower income tax cuts would be spent in the immediate and near term to generate additional economic activity and tax revenue.

Smaller hole

People could would get increasingly desperate and vulnerable to another Trump.

09.03.2026 19:42 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Predigital age a successful professor produced one senior author paper to a top in the field journal, one Collaboration Paper as co-author and a grey lit like a book chapter.

09.03.2026 05:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It didn’t iirc. Long lines and the industry shifted to smaller cars. US Auto Industry employment peaked in 1979.

09.03.2026 05:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, also anger that the entirety of the United States of America has let this happen.

09.03.2026 04:21 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
"Gloria" shared this pic of herself picking strawberries in CAs Central Coast in a very watery row

"Gloria" shared this pic of herself picking strawberries in CAs Central Coast in a very watery row

"Gloria" shared this pic of herself picking strawberries in CAs Central Coast. "The water was up to my knees making it very hard to push my cart. My feet were so wet and cold, I couldn’t feel them. Growers have us harvest despite the flooding to avoid losing product." #WeFeedYou

08.03.2026 23:17 πŸ‘ 464 πŸ” 149 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 8

March 6th

08.03.2026 23:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It used to be no one got fired for buying IBM. Then it switched to nobody got fired for buying Microsoft. Low risk. Might not be the best but low risk.

Now companies are supposed to transition their entire business to a non-profitable, single source vendor.

08.03.2026 23:20 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Starts with β€œI think…”
Ends with β€œyour opinion is just noiseβ€œ

There are many reasons people don’t like AI tools and the attitude that people are gonna get fired then willingly hired again to use the tools is another. You own that one.

1 Go figure it out.
2 See it worked like I said it would.

08.03.2026 23:17 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
'Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy' | Lloyd Bentsen takes jab at Dan Quayle during 1988 VP debate
'Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy' | Lloyd Bentsen takes jab at Dan Quayle during 1988 VP debate YouTube video by WFAA

True.
Joe Lieberman did much worse and so too Tim Kaine.

Lloyd Bentsen however went quail hunting.

youtu.be/KgtfEX2Pka0?...

08.03.2026 22:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I mean come on!

08.03.2026 14:04 πŸ‘ 502 πŸ” 160 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 27

Most of these deep thinkers would be titillated by the 1980’s Eliza chat program.

08.03.2026 18:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Seriously, he sounds drunk.

08.03.2026 17:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Trump was easily manipulated into the War and his Cabinet and innercircle of crooks certainly think in these terms.

08.03.2026 17:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is above all disrespectful to the fallen soldiers who are being mis-identified during their transfer

08.03.2026 14:50 πŸ‘ 254 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

Stock pile food?

The US isn’t an island off europe and has a glut of grain and beans from shutting down USAID and tariffs pushing foreigner nations to purchase elsewhere.

Stock pile emergency supplies bc FEMA will struggle In the next disaster.

08.03.2026 17:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0