This is obviously some sort of op to purposely drum up hatred towards the tech elite so they can justify regulatory protection right
A big generational dividing line for me is if you’ve ever had to “log on” to the internet before
being 30/being a zillennial is really starting to fuck with me recently
i keep finding myself saying "that was 15/18 years ago" in conversation, and i keep meeting people who weren't even alive or were in diapers during my childhood and our cultural bases are so fundamentally different
a guy told me he'd never seen pokemon, digimon or yugioh because they were before his time
i found out that someone i knew when they were like 5 is having kids now
i keep hearing about all these youtubers from 2013-2017 as being fundamental parts of peoples childhoods and i have no idea who they are
its very unsettling...
Not sure how to put this but European cars used to *look* European. Now they just look completely devoid of any actual design choices
Interesting when someone else’s cognitive expense is your cognitive stimulant
i rented a car this week for few days & my lord i don’t think many ppl realize how cognitively expensive driving is.
it requires constant spatial awareness, you gotta predict other ppl’s dumb behaviors, make a fuck ton of micro decisions, etc. like jesus christ i am tired after like 30 min esp on busy city streets.
oh & i specifically rented a tesla to avoid this but they don’t even have self driving or option for it because of the liabilities i’m guessing.
It’s an unfortunate overcorrection though. I hate haggling as much as the next guy but if you’re in tune with the value of cars to any degree you will not be okay with what carvana is charging.
That being said, the average consumer is not, so here we are
I wonder how many pop culture fun facts currently in my repertoire were initially learned from Pop Up Video
Racing line brought to you by 6 miller lites and shot of Jameson
this is f*cking insane...
a guy reverse-engineered his Ray-Ban Meta glasses with Opus 5.5 and turned them into JARVIS for the race track
it reads the track in real time, draws the racing line on the asphalt and tells him when to brake, turn in and counter-steer
his lap: 1:52.4 → 1:47.1. minus 5.3 seconds in one session
here's how it works step by step:
step 1 → the glasses stream what he sees to his phone, 30 frames a second
step 2 → a vision model finds the asphalt, the curbs and the next corner in every frame, even with his head shaking
step 3 → Opus 5.5 plans the racing line: outside → apex → outside, and paints it right on the road
step 4 → green = full throttle. red = braking zone. orange = you're in the corner
step 5 → before every turn: "BRAKE · 80 m", countdown, then "turn in", then "apex"
step 6 → when the rear slides, it shows the drift angle and which way to counter-steer
step 7 → the voice in his ear: "brake… now", "hold the apex", "full throttle"
step 8 → a mini-map in the corner compares his line with the ideal one and shows the lap delta live
under the hood:
→ no cloud, everything runs on the phone
→ if it loses the road, the line fades out instead of lying to you
→ every lap is saved, so it learns where you lose time
F1 teams pay millions for a race engineer. he made one out of sunglasses
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Ray-Ban Meta glasses have no display/AR for road overlays; video is rendered visualization. Poster's follow-up shares hypothetical prompt using ~5 fps video call to computer, not claimed 30 fps on-phone real-time.
x.com/N01ennn/status…
meta.com/ai-glasses/ray…
vrarwiki.com/wiki/Ray-Ban_M…
Atrocious, reprehensible vehicle. Something spiritually broken about modern wrangler owners
See you in the Valhalla Spider, brother
Alfa Romeo is done with screens.
The brand's head of design said in an interview that it was time to "get rid of the screens" in new cars, and that oversized displays will eventually become obsolete.
Read more here: motor1.com/news/813012/alfa-…
Libs love to play the media literacy card and then get absolutely oneshotted by the jingliest possible keys
HBO's @LastWeekTonight has a long track record of citing social science findings without the appropriate context, massaging them to support whatever point @iamjohnoliver is trying to make.
John Oliver Warned Against Cherry-Picked Studies
Then he cherry-picked his own.






























