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  • Anime character breaks free

    This is just delightful: 3D modeling artist Kensyouen Y posted this fascinating animation of an anime character reaching through the screen to interact with the UI of their animation software to bring herself to life.

  • The Hits of David Seymour: Reusable bags could kill about 20 people a year claims politician

    2018: ACT leader David Seymour says 20 people could die each year using reusable bags.  “It’s coming up to summer and people will be in a hot car with their chicken in a canvas bag … and suddenly, you’ve got a real serious case for poor food hygiene.”  Yeah… not so much, reported cases are…

  • Ngāti Toa’s challenge to David Seymour: Kill Treaty Principles Bill or front up

    Huge props to Helmut Modlik for calling David Seymour on his divisive bullshit Instead of a national conversation, Seymour preferred news soundbytes, carefully curated messages, and social media posts. His reasoning was being amplified by a range of affiliated political lobby groups and ideological supporters, he said. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/525767/ngati-toa-s-challenge-to-david-seymour-kill-treaty-principles-bill-or-front-up

  • Ministry of Regulation staffers earn an average of $150k a year

    The Wellington agency is more than three times the size of the Productivity Commission it replaced, hiring 91 staff. That’s despite ACT, and coalition partner National, campaigning to reduce the public sector wage bill, make 15,000 public servants redundant and slash “wasteful spending” in the sector. The anti-red tape ministry was a flagship policy for [David] Seymour…

  • How the Inflation Reduction Act is transforming America — and the world

    Thanks in part to the IRA, US greenhouse gas emissions in 2030 will likely be between 32% and 34% lower than they were in 2005, according to the REPEAT project, which is led by Princeton University’s ZERO Lab. By 2035, the reduction will have reached 40%-43%. https://theprogressplaybook.com/2024/08/20/how-the-inflation-reduction-act-is-transforming-america-and-the-world/ One of the things I love about how…

  • China Auto Tech Levels Up: BYD super car

    After teasing the electric supercar’s sleek design, dance moves, and other fun features, BYD launched the Yangwang U9 in February. Starting at around $233,000 (1,680,000 yuan), the U9 is priced at a hefty premium compared to most low-cost BYD models starting at around $10,000 to $25,000. https://electrek.co/2024/08/19/byd-chinas-supercars-get-serious-new-1200-hp-ev/

  • Intelligence v.s. Judgment v.s. Creativity

    Intelligence is a multiplier for judgment, but if you have bad judgment, intelligence makes you more likely to get the wrong answer. Intelligence is jet fuel for foolishness.

  • Wind and solar overtake coal power in the US — for good

    In the first seven months of 2024, the US got more electricity from wind and solar than from coal — a historic inflection point in the world’s largest economy. https://theprogressplaybook.com/2024/08/19/wind-and-solar-overtake-coal-power-in-the-us-for-good/

  • Why AI’s Tom Cruise problem means it is ‘doomed to fail’

    One way to explain this is to realise that LLMs don’t learn about relationships between facts, but between tokens, the linguistic forms that Bender described. The tokens “Tom Cruise’s mother” are linked to the tokens “Mary Lee Pfeiffer”, but the reverse is not necessarily true. The model isn’t reasoning, it’s playing with words, and the fact…

  • Rollerball warned you

    The nature of liberty and power…