A data privacy lawyer during the day, in the evening, Mead slips into his 6-foot tall, 7-foot-long luminous dinosaur costume and Dolores Park becomes Jurassic Park. "This is how I deal with my day, with my life choices that led me to become a lawyer," he said jokingly.
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Werewolf. The difference being that there are not currently grifters manipulating the economy with their insane promises about werewolf futures.
I think I'm on to something here. Any time you read about Artificial General Intelligence, read that as Artificial General Werewolves:
If you read these headlines and think, "That's funny, but it's absurd, because werewolves aren't real"... keep going, you're so close to figuring it out!
For extra credit, combine this with other headlines by replacing "The Economy" with "Rich People's Yacht Money".
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I'm intentionally not linking to the honeypot from here, for reasons, but I'll bet you can find it pretty easily (and without guessing URLs.)
It's kinda funny.
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This dystopic scene of identical robocars clogging an entire block to carry maaaybe 1/4 of a busload of people, was posted by a waymo employee who thought it made his company look good.
Yep. The future desired by robocar people is that in a concert hall of 40,000 people, 40,000 private cars just slow-drive around the concert hall from the 7:30pm dropoff until the 11pm pickup time, blocking streets for a mile in every direction, so that they can be ready for their masters at a moment's notice. Think "world's biggest traffic jam, everywhere, all the time". The future!
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NEW YORK -- Cursing under his breath at yet another round of inapt debate answers from the vice presidential candidate, venture capitalist Peter Thiel reportedly rushed onstage Tuesday to restart a glitching J.D. Vance during a commercial break. "Seriously? For what I paid for this thing, it should work flawlessly," said the billionaire investor, striding confidently past moderator Norah O'Donnell to insert a paperclip into Vance's ear and initiate a hard reset that might stop the short-circuiting candidate from repeating the phrase "girls of menstruating age" in response to a question on inflation. "Shit, I probably just need to wipe its memory banks clean. I'll have to re-upload all the anti-pornography tirades, but it's better than spending the evening on edge worried about another malfunction. Probably some kind of Russian malware got installed, honestly." At press time, Thiel was seen rapidly paging through Vance's instruction manual as the politician sparked up and said the word "inseminate" in an increasingly high-pitched voice.
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Driverless car companies like Waymo and Cruise still will not be ticketed under the amended bill. Rather, law-enforcement agencies will report instances of autonomous vehicles' "non-compliance" to the Department of Motor Vehicles.
That bill's author, Assemblymember Phil Ting, explains that giving billion-dollar companies tickets would've just become a cost of doing business -- and was also legally unworkable. He said he altered his bill after consultation with the Judicial Council, which runs state courts, and the California Highway Patrol.
Autonomous vehicle critics, however, bemoaned that the companies continue to be treated differently, and more leniently, than human drivers. [...] The bill was meant to close a loophole that required tickets to be presented to a human driver, thereby preventing the citation of self-driving cars for traffic violations. [...]
"I bet everyday Californians wish that when they made a mistake driving they got a courtesy note instead of an expensive ticket," said Peter Finn, the Western Region vice president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. [...]
Human drivers, Ting says, "don't want points on our record. But if you give Waymo a ticket, there's no 'You get three points and you're out of business.'"
After my burst of cleansing outrage, I grudgingly admit that this kind of makes sense. They would just pay their moving violation tickets in bulk, just like UPS and FedEx pay their parking tickets millions of dollars at a time, per city, and just DGAF because there are no consequences.
A fine is... what? Anyone...? Anyone...?
A fine is a price.
Now, this "You get three points and you're out of business" quip, oh, very funny, very droll. You're so close! Keep going! You've almost gotten there!
But no, that would be Felony Contempt of Business Model.
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'No! You stay!' a San Francisco police officer bellows at a misbehaving Waymo vehicle. The car nearly rolled over the fire hose being used to douse an explosion and fire in the Sunset District. 