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The competition is very high, but I think there’s a good chance this will be the ugliest product to ever come out of the auto industry.
The issue with cyber trucks as I see it is, who the fuck would want to be seen in this?
The game is rigged
@briannawu It’s in the top five, for sure. Respectfully, so is ā€œThe Thing.ā€

Why is this woman a Canadian senator?

"After eight years of Trudeau, #Canada is broken.
Now, when this dire situation brings you to tears, you can't even reach for a Kleenex."

-Senator Denise Batters.

"This woman with a lifetime non-elected job gets paid with taxpayer money and spends her day posting absolutely ridiculous child-like things.
She's an embarrassment to this country.šŸ‡ØšŸ‡¦" - @arleneadamo
#HarperAppointee #saskatchewan #conservative #cdnpoli #senateofcanada

Excellent essay placing current AI in historical perspective, as part of a long chain of so-called "improvements" in efficiency that end up making everything worse instead:

https://www.stilldrinking.org/tech-erosion

Tech Erosion

Nice.

"Six years ago, I noted that you couldn't search Twitter for Alt-Text. But, I am pleased to say, Mastodon allows for that! Search results include the description of images."

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/08/some-thoughts-on-mastodon-search/

Some thoughts on Mastodon search

The latest version of Mastodon includes search functionality. It's early days, but seems to work pretty well. Here are some of the interesting things I found when using it. Search is complex - expectations I don't mean the act of searching a database - that's routine - but I mean it is socially complex. Lots [...]

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A developer close to Doug Ford bought this farmland and got special permission to build ā€˜desperately needed homes.’ Then he sold a chunk for what appears to be a huge profit. #onpoli

https://apple.news/AqFO8p-IjSOG6Kn4-Hr_9pA

A developer close to Doug Ford bought this farmland and got special permission to build ā€˜desperately needed homes.’ Then he sold a chunk for what appears to be a huge profit — Toronto Star

The development firm says it retains ownership of the Markham lands and will be involved in the construction of hundreds of homes.

I would like to request a ā€œhugā€ button on Mastodon that I can tap when someone posts something sad or emotionally delicate, for when there are no words and tapping a star seems like a weird thing to do.

Remember: The real freeloaders in this country are the rich, not the poor.

The richest 1% evade $163 billion in taxes every year.

The United States literally has a yacht tax deduction.

Hello?