captainastronaut
@captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org
- Comment on X will soon start selling inactive usernames to Verified Organizations. 4 days ago:
They seem determined to attract every kind of fraud and fake.
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 6 days ago:
Tesla self driving is never going to work well enough without sensors - cameras are not enough. It’s fundamentally dangerous and should not be driving unsupervised (or maybe at all).
- Comment on California Assembly speaker and other Democratic state lawmakers ditch X, citing hate speech, disinformation 1 week ago:
Way overdue. Hope it starts a trend.
- Comment on A Trump H-1B crackdown could hit Big Tech hard, with Amazon suffering most. 2 weeks ago:
Oh, you think the crackdown would be unilateral and affect fElon companies the same as others? lol no way
- Comment on Is it safe to travel with your phone right now? 2 weeks ago:
On iOS, hold down power and volume up (like you’re going to power down or go into emergency mode) then cancel. Next unlock will require your PIN.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Shingy! Ah those were the days, when the crazy weird famous people were fun and harmless …
- Comment on Publishers sue AI startup Cohere over alleged copyright infringement 1 month ago:
Get those suits in while we still have a court system!
- Comment on DeepSeek sends shock waves across Silicon Valley. 1 month ago:
No need to apologize, all news is a downer lately. 😕
- Comment on Can anyone explain the reason behind the drop in MAU that happened end of January? 1 month ago:
This.
- Comment on Deepfake videos are getting shockingly good | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Why do we need this? What is the reason any of these companies will get paid for this? (Besides porn)
- Comment on Two decades after Enron’s bankruptcy, the company is back as a crypto firm? 2 months ago:
Appropriate, really.
- Comment on Ford’s X account calls Israel a ‘terrorist state’ in apparent hack incident 2 months ago:
Serves them right for still being on Twitter.
- Comment on I'm about to have to get a second job 3 months ago:
Shut up and take my money! That is perfection.
- Comment on Is there an extensive guide on how to protect kids on the internet? 3 months ago:
This is a really good start TY
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 3 months ago:
That ship has sailed, Milk boys. Consumers call it oat milk and that’s not changing.
- Comment on Sitting too long can harm heart health, even for active people 4 months ago:
Cool. Something else to stress about.
- Comment on Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon? 4 months ago:
Sign up process is easier. No existential decisions to be made to get started.
- Comment on Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts 4 months ago:
Keep pressuring all journalists, celebrities, brands, and influencers to delete their accounts or at least stop posting there (and publicly say so). Twitter’s only power to spread untruths is the eyeballs still watching it.
- Comment on Meta is reportedly working on its own AI-powered search engine, too 5 months ago:
Do. Not. Want.
- Comment on Google’s DeepMind is building an AI to keep us from hating each other 5 months ago:
There will be an AI for that too!
- Comment on Google’s DeepMind is building an AI to keep us from hating each other 5 months ago:
Everything looks like a nail when you have a hammer…
- Comment on Google Is Stuffing Annoying Ads Into Its Terrible AI Search Feature 5 months ago:
Same. Completed my switch this week on all my devices. No regrets. The results are excellent and well organized and it’s really useful.
Next project is to add the rest of my family to the family plan
- Comment on Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025 5 months ago:
Yo ho ho and a terabyte of NAS!