Oh, I 100% agree. I test installed the app, and it seems to be some of both (behavior tracking with a Safari extension, and store sponsorship).

That being said, I hate store monocultures even more, like how Amazon/Walmart can bully their suppliers through sheer critical mass and shoppers don’t even look anywhere else. That’s economic inefficiency. Price aggregators are a good thing.

Phoebe Gates cofounded Phia, an AI shopping assistant, with her Stanford University roommate Sophia Kianni. The shopping assistant plugs into browsers like Chrome and Safari to compare prices and surface deals across tens of thousands of retail and resale sites in real time. It essentially serves as your own personal deal finder: say you’re looking at a $200 dress from Anthropologie, Phia can find and compare prices at second-hand sellers to help customers find a better price.

That’s actually a neat premise. Fashion isn’t my cup of tea, but otherwise that sounds useful (albeit not very unique; shopping assistants are a dime a dozen).

Are they actually thinking that there’s some private individual that is spending billions building a secret massive network of bribed pilots and bribed mechanics that are spraying such chemicals to change the weather or influence the people in some ways?

I mean, that’s basically what the petrochemical industry has done.

Not to influence people chemically, but to keep business up.

It’s too late, though. She’d dead to hardcore MAGA, no Rumble influencer would dare amplify her, and algorithms would never show this to people more on the fence.

I hate this was announced via Discord, apparently.

I don’t get why people are getting so upset.

It’s using existing funds, existing roads, and IndyCar is a for-profit league that makes money to fund it.

A circuit around DC could be pretty cool IMO. I’d be happy to watch a race there, just like when Indy carved out a street circuit in my area.

Of course it doesn’t nullify the train of bad stuff the administration has done, but getting upset over innocuous stuff like is exactly what they point to cover the bad.

Oh. And I have a new community to subscribe to, thanks.

Though TBH I haven’t used Qwen much recently, mostly because GLM is very good and MoEs run so well with hybrid inference now.

The Chinese models are way ahead of this, training smartly and frugally instead of on a huge quantity. They don’t really need more internet to work fine as tools.

…And they share data with each other, and ignore copyright. Seemingly. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Chinese govt is providing a lot of data to them.

Also, it turns out multilingual training works very well. So even if the English internet turns to slop, other languages may fare better.

You half-joke, but it is not a joke: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

There really is no product too big, no sacrifice too self-destructive if it makes the line go up next quarter.

Clickbait headline.

If they make some kind of Moon base with China, of course they’re going to put an RTG or something there; that’d make a lot of sense.

Also, even the legacy of the Soviet space program is no joke. There’s a reason Soyuz delivered astronauts around the world (including US ones) to space forever… that being said, China would definitely be the leading partner here.

Autistic child joke is not cool.

Also, I kinda feel for Russian folks. Propaganda is a hell of a drug, and from what I’ve seen in some gaming chats many aren’t swallowing it, and seem aware of their situation.

Even diehards like Banon/MTG got pushed out over it. Never thought I’d see that.

Yeah, utility belt/sling over bags!

The thigh holsters seem a bit impractical though. If we’re diving into more fiction fashion, how about the pocketed Normandy crew uniform from ME?

I like those little built-in squares on the thighs.

I mean, this is a absurdly priced solution, but that’s a fair point.

It’s stupid fashion’s that way. I always thought that when I saw girls sticking phones in their shorts waistbands or whatever.

We should go back to the future:

Or even better, improve it:

And have shorts like that too? I dunno, I’m not a fashion expert, but still.

Inspired by the concept of “a piece of cloth,"

Looks at URL.

Born from the idea of creating an additional pocket, its understated design fully encloses iPhone, expanding to fit more of a user’s everyday items.

“The design of iPhone Pocket speaks to the bond between iPhone and its user, while keeping in mind that an Apple product is designed to be universal in aesthetic and versatile in use,” shared Yoshiyuki Miyamae, design director of MIYAKE DESIGN STUDIO

Looks at URL.

When stretched, the open textile subtly reveals its contents and allows users to peek at their iPhone display…

This can’t be real. Checks URL again.

Phone Pocket features a singular 3D-knitted construction that is the result of research and development carried out at ISSEY MIYAKE. The design drew inspiration from the concept of “a piece of cloth” and…

iPhone Pocket in the short strap design retails at $149.95 (U.S.), and the long strap design at $229.95 (U.S.).

…What the fuck? This has to be hack or something. There’s no way a human being wrote that article, and didn’t know what they were doing.

Eh, maybe that’s fair. Especially this:

doesn’t automatically mean he’s never been an engineer.

Maybe he was quite knowledgeable… On the other hand, I thought his old ‘Mars Colonization’ talk was bonkers too. I can’t remember what year it started, but it sounded like he had little understanding of the impracticality.

I will say it again:

Musk is not an engineer. E.g. he has not played Kerbel Space Program.

He demonstrably does not understand the tyranny of the rocket equation, and how obscenely uneconomical getting anything to, and doing anything in, space is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation

Geoengineering is something worth seriously discussing (and TBH I hope he draws attention to it), and “solar shades” are theoretically neat, but this is not the way. Not with the trajectory of launch tech we have.

Yeah. Talking about geoengineering is great.

“These are not nuclear explosions. These are what we call non-critical explosions.”

FYI he’s referring to nuclear “criticality,” e.g. testing the non-nuclear explosives placed around core. To simplify, the yellow stuff here:

…That is totally fine. It’s a good idea.

It’s also a great escape from what Trump said. If you’re energy secretary under Trump, this is exactly how you get out of this (and just hope Trump doesn’t notice).

Yeah…

I should. db0 or sh.itjust.works are better fits, but .world isn’t awful or anything, and I havent’ been particuarly motivated since everything’s federated anyway.