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Nerdy, but the still socially acceptable in a cool way. Love Star Wars and costuming, follow politics too closely, have cats that behave like dogs.

Snohomish, WA
Joined May 2017
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Tyquan Thornton pushed off of his dislocated and broken ankle to stand up and celebrate. Didn’t even know he was hurt due to crazy adrenaline. This is tough to watch, he’s been playing great.
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Go Mariners 😭
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Every app and every website is trying to force us to use AI, even if we never asked for it. What I’m saying is AI is the new U2 album on our iPods.
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There has been a lot of great videos that @UW_Football has put out, but this one just gave me chills imagining 70,000 joining in! Great job to our Creative Team! See all of you next Sunday!!! One Question.....Say who?
A decades-long tradition gets a new fan component in 2026. Before the Huskies make their way from the locker room to the tunnel - and then the field - fans will be invited to participate in a custom rendition of the “Say Who, Say What” chant. Led by the on-field emcee, UW Spirit and the Husky Marching Band, fans will help call the Dawgs out for the team entrance. Arrive early and get loud!
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Go Mariners 🖤
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San Diego just watched an Amazon delivery robot drive straight off a pier. 🤭 One determined little blue bot rolled to the end with zero hesitation and pure commitment to the route… then yeeted itself into the ocean. Somewhere a customer is still refreshing the tracking page while the robot did the world’s most expensive cannonball. Prime shipping: now available underwater. 🤖 💦 😬
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Amazon discontinued its Scout delivery robot program in 2022; it never operated in San Diego. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Sc… freightwaves.com/news/amazon-sc…
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Just wondering… Do they have restaurants in Japan where Americans cook in front of you with lawn chairs and a grill?
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La neta Inglaterra nos hizo un paro con sacarnos del mundial a tiempo... ¿Se imaginan a nuestros ratones verdes enfrentando a este tipo?🤣🤣🤣
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In 1989, Jim Varney and Robin Williams were caught on camera riffing with each other backstage at COMIC RELIEF III, and it's really amazing to see. The two had a known mutual respect for each other, first met crossing paths on the standup circuit, with Williams even saying that no one could keep up with him more than Varney 🔥 Two legends we lost way too soon
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Jason Segel revealed that Harrison Ford accepted their offer with a text that read: “I’m in. And tell the kid: great dick.” Jason Segel: It's crazy. I mean, the craziest thing was getting Harrison Ford. Seth Rogen: Yeah, I would imagine. Seth Rogen: How did you get Harrison Ford? Jason Segel: We got Harrison Ford because Harrison Ford is the kind of person you make an offer to, so that for three days you can say, "We've made an offer to Harrison Ford..." Jason Segel: He didn't know, I think, anything about me. And so he asked, like, "Can I see some of his work?" And they sent him... Brett Goldstein went and met with him, and they had a really nice meeting. And then they sent him End of the Tour and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. And then apparently, Bill Lawrence got a text that said, "I'm in. And tell the kid: great dick."
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In June 2000, Robin Williams sat down for a conversation with George Lucas for Robin's brief weekly interview show on audible. The episode was originally thirty minutes but below you'll find the entire raw recording from two different sessions, with discussions ranging from Marlon Brando as Jabba the Hutt, to Lucas asking if Robin would voice a CG Howard the Duck for a special edition of the '86 movie 👏 Really cool
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BREAKING: CEO discovers tokens cost money
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Me using Claude Opus 4.8 to rename a file
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Claude's first day at Dunder Mifflin
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Bill Hader on the reason why he completely broke during the first CALIFORNIANS sketch on SNL was bc Fred Armisen completely changed his voice for the live show 😂 watch the sketch after the interview
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May the Fourth be with YOU, from the Obama Presidential Center. Opening June 19. @BarackObama @MarkHamill
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Pete Hegseth thought he was reading aloud from the bible. He was reading lines from Pulp Fiction.
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Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.
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People oddly assumed that I didn’t understand LiDAR, even though I oversaw the custom LiDAR development that Dragon uses to dock with the Space Station
Aujourd'hui grosse discussion avec mes ingés (chez Argil) sur pourquoi Elon a viré le LIDAR de ses voitures autonomes. Choix radical, moqué pendant des années, et comme d'hab il avait raison depuis le début. Le LIDAR c'est un laser qui balaye l'environnement et crache un nuage de points 3D. Sur le papier tu obtiens la géométrie exacte du monde. Dans la vraie vie c'est une verrue technologique collée sur le toit parce qu'on sait pas faire mieux avec la vision seule. Problème numéro un : ça rajoute une modalité dans le training du modèle. Ton réseau doit apprendre à fusionner vision + lidar + radar + ultrasons. Chaque capteur en plus c'est une source de désaccord à arbitrer, pas une source d'info supplémentaire. Sensor fusion artisanale = dette technique permanente. Problème numéro deux, la bitter lesson de Rich Sutton : scaler le compute sur une seule modalité bat systématiquement les architectures bricolées à la main. Tesla a dropé le radar, puis les ultrasons, est passé full end-to-end vision. Leur courbe sur les edge cases s'est accélérée APRÈS, pas avant. Waymo fait l'inverse et reste stuck en ops géofencée. Problème numéro trois, le plus fondamental : le LIDAR voit la géométrie, pas la sémantique. Il sait qu'il y a un truc, pas ce que c'est ni ce que ça va faire. Les derniers 9 de fiabilité sont des problèmes de cognition, pas de perception brute. Un capteur de plus résout rien, il ajoute du bruit. Sébastien Loeb balance une 208 T16 à 180 dans un chemin boueux corse sous la pluie avec zéro LIDAR. Deux yeux, un cerveau. L'évolution a donné des yeux aux prédateurs pendant 500 millions d'années, pas des lasers. Il y a une raison. Le LIDAR c'est l'équivalent du marxisme appliqué à l'économie. Une solution planifiée, centralisée, qui prétend modéliser explicitement ce qui doit émerger d'un système distribué et adaptatif. Tu remplaces l'intelligence par de la mesure, la compréhension par de la donnée, l'émergence par le contrôle. Ça rassure les ingénieurs qui veulent tout spécifier en amont, exactement comme la planif rassurait les économistes soviétiques. Et ça échoue pour les mêmes raisons : la réalité est trop riche pour être capturée par un capteur, comme elle est trop riche pour être capturée par un plan quinquennal. La vraie intelligence, celle de Hayek comme celle de Tesla, c'est de faire confiance à un système qui apprend de l'expérience plutôt que de tout pré-encoder. L'élégance d'une solution c'est son rapport signal sur complexité. Le LIDAR explose le dénominateur. Défendre le LIDAR en 2026 c'est préférer empiler des hacks plutôt que résoudre le vrai problème. C'est de la feignasserie intellectuelle maquillée en rigueur d'ingénieur. Les mêmes gens qui défendaient les systèmes experts en 2012 contre le deep learning. Ils finiront pareil. Never bet against end-to-end. Never bet against la simplicité. Never bet against Elon.
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🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now. The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left. Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops. If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time. The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation. The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy. They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand. The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker. The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own.
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