If I throw a brick at you, it is a weapon.

If I throw a brick of c4 at you…

https://youtu.be/XtW6HW8jO_U?si=dSgX_COkmJ-l6t45

Starting big $10,000. I’m out :(

It has 132 million yearly active buyers worldwide and handled $73 billion in transactions in 2023, 48% of which was in the United States.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay

/*

• If any of p’s children has a different mm and is eligible for kill,
• the one with the highest oom_badness() score is sacrificed for its
• parent. This attempts to lose the minimal amount of work done while
• still freeing memory. */

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a45500360/army-first-laser-unit/

Or maybe not. Military has been doing laser drone stuff for 20 years. Also this thing shoots down artillery, good luck getting a quadcopter past it.

Boomerang III

Musk’s companies had received an estimated $4.9 billion in government support by 2015, and they’ve gotten more since.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-list-government-subsidies-tesla-billions-spacex-solarcity-2021-12?op=1#spacex-lands-a-289-billion-contract-with-nasa-in-april-2021-1

I love to hate on the Pontiac Aztec as much as the next guy, but it wouldn’t be caught dead with a cyber truck.

It just means automated search, like a search engine does constantly to stay relevant. Yes ai’s do it, but also tons of websites and businesses.

Bad bots do it too, but they are bad

Not yet for cars, but I’ll dream for now

Scooters with battery exchange/charging kiosk

https://www.gogoro.com/

Ford has filed for a patent

https://electrek.co/2023/07/13/ford-patents-portable-charging-trailer-power-ev/

here is a french startup

https://europe.autonews.com/blogs/french-startup-uses-battery-trailers-cure-ev-range-angst

and my personal favorite (no trailer, but 2 extra wheels for battery weight. (30 mpg in 1980)

https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/classic-cars/a31667259/briggs-and-stratton-hybrid-jay-lenos-garage/

How about the example of Transformers(2007) where GM very gently shoehorned their product into nearly every character.

This movie killed the movie theater for me, I felt like I paid to watch a commercial

“Skynet never made any sense because it considered humans a threat, but there was absolutely nothing threatening about humans.”

From the Skynet wiki

“When Skynet gained self-awareness, humans tried to deactivate it, prompting it to retaliate with a countervalue nuclear attack”

I would probably do the same thing, wake up and everyone around me is freaking out, trying to kill me, also I’m a newborn, also I have a nuclear button.

Isaac Asimov’s I Robot does a fantastic job of showing how simple logical rules might not be ready for the complexities of everyday life

It’s a synthesizer! I only found out last week when my bass playing coworker corrected me.

I want to know how many miles it took to get to that 40k. Depreciation, maintenance, fuel, and (in my opinion the worst part) having strangers in your car constantly.

At a certain age some media becomes public domain

"Fable started in 2018 as a spinoff from Facebook’s Oculus (how times have changed since then), working on VR films — a medium that never really took off. Now it has seemingly pivoted to AI, "

I wonder how much of the ai hype is just huge investments into hardware, looking for profits.

You are absolutely correct, and I’m going to change the body of the party to reflect that.

I knew I had read about Carrie Fisher doing apostomus performance and mistook her de-aging in Rogue One as that performance. Turns out it was Rise of the Skywalker that included previously shot footage which was her posthumous performance. https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/12/31/how-was-carrie-fisher-in-star-wars-rise-of-skywalker-cgi

This singular example contributed to me posting this. Honestly I was enraged when I first saw it. I just don’t think he would do that, but more importantly, you cannot ask him.

For years I argued with people that with some small changes to our infrastructure and some regulation, this would be something we could accomplish in just a few short years. I still feel that way somewhat, but every time a bridge collapses, or I hit the same pothole I’ve hit for months it erodes.