Police also get conditioned by being around the absolute worst examples of human beings on a regular basis. That can corrode the soul of a regular person. Especially one that joins with the intention of really making a difference. All too often it will seem like making no difference at all - and that will corrode you as well.

Police are like a bilge pump - all we ask is to make sure the boat doesn't get swamped. It's a thankless, never-ending job, and the pump may despair in the end because it can never, ever, make the bilges dry.

Nobody cared about the commentary on his feelings about Apple...

I thought it was Mar Florida (Sea of Florida) - that's what I've been calling it since this fiasco began.

Republicans cannot be elected here. Just won't happen any time soon.

So Republicans join the Democrats. Local media calls these people "moderates" - no, it doesn't make much sense, just the accepted code word. Most of the current batch are funded by more or less reactionary tech billionaires. (The older set are less, the newer ones more.)

So yeah. You have to read past the label. Democrats here are such a big tent that we let Republicans run things a lot of the time if they wear a fake mustache and mumble something vaguely progressive-sounding now and then. But they do whatever's good for AirBNB and Salesforce when they're not servicing commercial real estate.

The SF Democratic machine is all in on Flock. That might have something to do with the Flock being in the SF Democratic Party.

Mar raised another concern: Two of the committee's current members -- Lily Ho and Trevor Chandler -- work for Flock. Last month, the San Francisco Standard reported that a prior version of Mar's resolution was removed from the party's agenda by a subcommittee chaired by Ho. Neither Ho nor Chandler offered to abstain from voting on Wednesday. The committee does not have rules related to conflicts of interest for issues like this one, Tung told Mar. They then proceeded to count both Ho and Chandler's votes.

I'd like to award you "dumbest possible mix of misunderstanding the text combined with missing the point, garnished with a sprig of self-satisfaction and a dash of ignorance".

Watch for it in the mail.

This looks like the final cell-phonification of the Mac. I'm bummed.

But they're right - if you assume that a significant fraction of Mac users are going to install some sort of third-party interface with an LLM, it is either significantly extend and harden the security perimeter deeper into the OS or your customers will routinely have everything exfiled as a matter of course, and it would just be cheaper to make iCloud into an anonymous FTP site.

And given Zuckerbook's demonstrated willingness to brazenly, actively subvert OSes, I'm willing to bet they're going to go Russian on their subjects, er, customers, anyway. ("You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push.")

It will probably be what finally pushes me to a Linux laptop, though. I'm old, I spend a lot of time at the shell. I like Macs because they're great unix workstations, still. But I don't see how you can accommodate both people like me and people who need to be protected not only from themselves, but from Zuckerbook and worse.

And they're a much bigger market than people like me. And "AI is the Footure."

Yep.

Oh, sorry. It really is hard to tell here.

You seem to be complaining that some unspecified music awards body didn't act, and instead one composed of "nerds" did.

Aside from a classic case of "Area Man Yells at TV", and apparently being disparaging of nerds on a site subtitled "News for Nerds", I simply don't understand the complaint.

Are you also angry at biologists for naming something after Gary Larson because someone you think is cooler didn't?

Your pretty fantasy dissolves in the face of police omerta.

All of your "good" cops are complicit in the acts of the thieves, racists, and psychopaths. They more than tolerate it - they actively impede attempts to bring these criminals to justice. It is literally a mockery of justice by the very enforcers who are supposed to fight for it.

Anyone remember all the performative outrage about "Stop Snitching" stuff? Just another attack on rival gangs.

The man at CHMR who would have been doing the target analysis of the girl's school (former Senior Advisor for CHMR & the Civil Environment Lead to QA/QC) has thoughts on this matter, for anyone who cares.

Use-once and throw away.

Hell, if they get in your way, throw them off the boat, we'll go to Costco in the morning.

And some as far as ruining businesses, eh, you gotta break some eggs. (No, I don't talk about the price of eggs.) This is about habituating the populace to domestic military presence, not something trivial like people's livelihoods.

It is exactly the same mechanism as special interest group politics: concentrated interest, diffuse harm.

You think that because the fanbois flock to Blue Angel celebrations. What you don't see is all the people cursing at them everywhere else.

They are pushing to have antitrust regulations against the various labs dropped so they can "collude" on slowing down. This will of course require banning open models and disallowing access elsewhere.

Captive market, increasingly captive citizens, unconstrained capital openly colluding with government.

Where have I seen this story before...