This is one of many reasons why designing societies around cars was a mistake. It's not a path to follow, it's something that good civic leaders are now trying to undo. These guys don't understand *anything* about society, yet governments are allowing them to shape our futures with their ignorance.
“.. He said cars were once portrayed as killing children, but the world changed its norms by having sidewalks and crosswalks ..
“When I was growing up, I used to play in the streets,” Huang said. “When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now.”
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"Provide access to trusted AI agents for every post-secondary student – from the arts and commerce to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), and medicine."
I'm pretty sure that nobody who teaches in a post-secondary institution asked for this, and this makes their jobs even harder.
Well, at least he still has the Taco Bell Arena (Boise State).
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Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, launched AI for All, Canada’s new national AI strategy. Over the next five years, this strategy will introduce new legislation, investments, and programs that e...www.pm.gc.ca
The Kennedy Center has removed Donald Trump’s name from its building, its executive director said Saturday, erasing a symbolic fixture of the president’s remaking of Washington, DC.
Don't wait until it's too late for Epstein-like files to drop when you have the chance to expose networks while they're active.
Court rules
🔨Google's AI Overviews are NOT search results
🔨search engine liability rules DON'T apply
🔨"users can check for themselves"defense is🐄💩
"Google built the AI[..]so Google owns what it produces, "because it alone has influence over the AI's offering &the algorithms w which the AI operates"
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A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators ...
NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.
Seems to be in the air. Friday I wrote Sunday's Sentiers and mentioned the Axial Age—which I first learned about in a talk by @jonathanrowson.bsky.social a couple of years ago.
Saturday @noemamag.com's newsletter lead with this.
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“I mean, your society’s broken… Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”
—Iain Banks died #OTD, 9 June, 2013
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No.406 — Sensing the third horizon ⊗ The public should own half of the big AI companies ⊗ Cities that lost the economic development plot ⊗ The illuminated windows of NYC
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More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.
Awareness of the relationality of all being is a response to the planet in crisis.
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Iain Banks died last Sunday, just before the publication of his final novel The Quarry. Last month he talked to Stuart Kelly about writing, politics and all the things still left to do . . .
