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We NEED to put this kind of pressure on all ALPR companies. I don’t mean to take the foot off the gas with Flock, but I’m so afraid that Axon and Motorola and others will swoop in once Flock is gone, and everyone will be done with/tired of this particular public fight.
Now do Axon and Vigilant/Motorola!
The whole point is, they can’t wait for sustainable energy to be a thing. They won’t let profits suffer in the name of protecting the planet. This is capitalism, and it’s a cancer.
These people were already living pretty desperate lives. Many were lucky to have one place to go…now thousands are homeless with nowhere to go, and no means to get a new home. It’s tragic.
I’m bought in. Whatever Firefox is doing is better than Chrome in every way. The VPN feature is useless though. I can’t get any website that I actually care about to work with it turned on. Same with the email and phone number masks (Mozilla features not Firefox specific). Can’t use any Mozilla email/phone mask to work with 90% of the services I use. Amazing ideas in theory, but in practice they’re mostly useless.
Anyone have the leaked docs?
The crazy thing is, this isn’t really a “squeeze” in the traditional sense. The problem was that every single mainstream AI product has been heavily subsidized…because it’s wildly expensive and not even close to being profitable.
That sort of subsidization was only going to last for so long. The dam is starting to crack. People aren’t ready to pay what AI truly costs.
I agree, the US still has international exposure and will feel impacts from it. I mostly had issue with the claims that the US isn’t planting enough in 2026 and will have to cull livestock because of it. It’s just not true. Most of the planting has been done and is being fertilized with supply that was secured before the shock. 2027 will likely be the tougher year, but it still won’t be because the US can’t plant anything.
The US produces most of its fertilizer locally, and most of the fertilizer it does import comes from Canada.
“No crops being planted” is just wrong: https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/news/article/2026/05/11/crop-progress-corn-57-planted-49-28
They probably don’t sell mythos because they can’t afford to do so at the same, heavily subsidized cost. They’re already burning more money than they generate, and the only way the continue to have cash at all is from fund raising. Selling AI is massively unprofitable. Mythos surely consumes even more resources than Opus, and they probably see that it’ll make them go broke even faster than their current trajectory will.
Not even one mention about the 2016 primary and how sabotaging Bernie led to Trump winning. No mention of Biden/Harris ignoring progressives and sticking to the status quo. No introspection whatsoever.
This party is so cooked.
The cynic in me says there’s no way this passes and gets signed…right?
I agree, but clearly they’re either unphased by the blame (e.g. for 2016 and 2024) or they’re in denial about it. Personally I don’t think they give a shit. They won’t be held accountable by anyone but their billionaire donors.
“just as easily” if and only if the DNC doesn’t nuke the progressive option and force the Republican in sheeps clothing to take the nomination
Oh wow, swinging?!? She’s so brave. Surely she’ll stick to her guns if she ever gets nominated…right??
ffs get these establishment dems far, far away from the next election.
That’s true! I’ve read recently that GitHub’s uptime is pretty terrible too.
My site is low enough stakes that I can live with it on codeberg. I just relaxed the uptime check a bit so it only alarms if I have an extended outage. Even so, the alarms aren’t actionable to me…other than maybe announcing to my users that there’s an outage rather than having them ask me if I’m aware of the outage.
That’s true, but even at worst case (full 8 hour outage per week) that’s still 96% uptime.
Most of my outages have been out of that window.
I like codeberg and have no plans on migrating away from it, but their codeberg Pages product is…weak to say the least. There’s very frequent downtime. I had multiple users reach out to me letting me know my site was down… embarrassing. I set up kuma uptime checks on it, and now I see when the outages happen.
Forget “four 9’s” or anything close to that…my 30 day uptime is a measley 91%…
Where I live, many towns have certain spending thresholds, below which some administrator can make unilateral decisions on what to purchase without getting council approval.
Flock et. al. know this and do bespoke contracts for like $1 under the limit, so in many cases the council isn’t even aware.