Recently our county sheriff put out an Amber Alert (a forced alert on all mobile devices) but the obfuscated link resolved to Twitter.

I wonder what portion of the public saw the Twitter login page and just closed the tab, never to see the details of the child abduction.

Reggie immediately chooses violence and Betty is so ready to conspire.

Setting aside the topic of generative AI, isn’t it about time that Pokemon goes to the public domain?

It’s been a long time since I read Lawrence Lessig, but I think we would undo Disney’s mods to copyright laws and allow more cultural remixing after a reasonable time. Like maybe 20 years instead of a century?

An EV engineer friend of mine said that this is specifically the Hertz Teslas because Tesla parts are expensive and sometimes hard to get. So when a Tesla breaks, they sell it rather than repair it.

I rented a Bolt EV from Hertz once. The car was fine, but the charging stations in the area were mostly broken, or they required downloading an app and giving personal information to charge.

I got the feeling the charging networks are all about collecting government incentives and the sale of private information from subscribers, and not at all about service.

My new preferred rental car is no rental car at all.

Ohm my god, right‽

I enjoyed the humor, but the OP did set a boundary of [serious].

So I guess what we are learning here is that setting boundaries is always going to provoke some people to break those boundaries out of spite.

Long ago “drive” meant urging an animal to move forward. And “dialing” a phone number meant entering the “digits” by turning a rotary dial with your digits.

Words aren’t as static as you seem to think.

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BYD has a factory in California where they make electric buses and commercial trucks.

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Someone should look at how much porn downloading and streaming bumps up when government employees are furloughed and have idle hands.

Maybe the evangelicals can be swayed to avoid a government shutdown with that kind of consequence.

Off the ravine or into it?

We’ve been in the ravine for a while I guess.

I’m going to go look for an update on DeepSqueak…

I think most computer vision cameras are fairly low resolution, so I’m not expecting the hit-and-run vehicle will be identified.

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