I thought this was amusing, but also fun is this side discussion about why in reality, you might actually request a box of defective parts from a supplier.
I'm so excited about Caltrain running the new electric trains, Schneider has a short post about Caltrain electrification as well.
There's a ton more examples at the announcement site. It'll be exciting to compare this to Midjourney, which is what I usually use for image generation.
Among many other problems, a government shutdown would mean that the Fed would no longer have access to up-to-date info about how the US economy is doing, because the bureau of labor statistics would stop publishing data.
Ah yes, "blue"
Longer Reads
• Shortwave (my email client, an alternative gmail frontend) just added a ton of AI features that look really cool.
Flotsam and Jetsam
– Senate finally confirmed someone to a top military position. (src)
– Generative AI uses orders of magnitude less energy than doing tasks manually (src)
– Despite it's purported purpose, in practice, zoning doesn't even end up preventing oil derricks from being built in single family neighborhoods. (src)
– Arguments over the definitions of pseudoscience (src)
– The right-wing government of El Salvador did an extreme crackdown on crime and it seems to have worked. No one is sure why it works for them and not previous administrations in other countries who tried similar stuff. (src)
– Detroit trying a land value tax, very exciting! (src)
– Nintendo adopting passkey for logins, very cool (src)
– SF no longer tows for parking violations, no matter how many. Seems bad. (src)
– Yikes, Germany is falling behind in weapons production for Ukraine. (src)
– Argument that US manufacturing pay is not rising because worker productivity hasn't been improving. (src)