WTF-Beta

Wow that’s big news.

THat's really cool.

@bernard

I made it 3m52s in and stated feeling queasy and didn't want to risk another minute.

Coincidentally (or maybe not), Matt Yglesias' column today is about how Ken Martin sucks and needs to be replaced. His job is raising funds for the party and right now the RNC has 15x the cash on hand of the DNC, and the DNC has more debt than cash.

I’ve had issues in the past with them nitpicking photos. I’ll get it done at Walgreens or the post office.

I was just about to post the site Ax posted. I'm going to get a photo made tomorrow and submit the application online by end of day.

I don't know how fast they can implement it but it's worth a try. Mine expires next April and I'm going to renew it now, and pay for an expedited process.

https://x.com/samstein/status/2049176717248348412?s=46

And even for not using the right AI.

Researchers sent the same resume to an AI hiring tool twice. Same qualifications. Same experience. Same skills. One version was written by a real human. The other was rewritten by ChatGPT.

The AI picked the ChatGPT version 97.6% of the time.

It gets worse, though. Read the details.

https://x.com/heynavtoor/status/2048088874686300431?s=20

The Brooklyn TJs had no parking lot (of course) but it was so busy they would occasionally have to stop people from entering, and just letting a few enter as people left. In such occasions the line for checkout would wrap around the inside of the store making cart movement hard (though at that store most everyone used baskets since they were walking home with their groceries).

Yeah. There’s a new Aldi’s not too far away but I haven’t made my way there yet. My mom shopped in one.

I’ve been going to TJs for 20 years. First in Brooklyn then here. Though in Brooklyn it was my primary store, here it’s an occasional visit for a few favorites.

Oh I don’t doubt that at all. But yeah I can imagine it being quite a shock when an old building needs major structural work and your assessment goes through the roof.

Europe passed a regulation just recently mandating user-replaceable batteries in smart phones after a certain year.

They passed a law a few years back mandating usb-c (in effect) on phones by outlawing proprietary connection standards. That was enough for Apple to change the design worldwide.

Maybe the phone makers will do something similar with the batteries.

Yeah it really is. We need to make it legal to build again.

Well that's one less ting to worry about.

I have friends with places in SE Florida who tell me the common charges have skyrocketed for all the repair work the state is mandating after the Surfside tragedy. One guy I know sold his coral gables condo over it, it just wasn’t worth it any more as a second home (this guy lives in Philly).

Has that been an issue in your neck of the woods?

Happy belated Birthday!

Genius

Ugh. Sorry you’re living through this, Daniel.