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New comment by LurkandComment in "All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)"

LurkandComment — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:30:49 +0000

That whole website is just beautiful. I'd love to see more work by the designer.

New comment by LurkandComment in "The OnlyFans Economy of American AI"

LurkandComment — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:07:18 +0000

Every industry goes through its slop phase. You should see how much of early print was smut or really amaturish. We just like to talk about the Bible and the great art. What we need is a way to filter through it. AI should be decent at this, but for many intentional and unintentional reasons it isn't.

New comment by LurkandComment in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

LurkandComment — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:44:30 +0000

Just enough time to...

New comment by LurkandComment in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

LurkandComment — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:41:42 +0000

For claude shops this was a huge hit. But lets back this up. There are some companies that haven't even built a break-even model at this price because they are funded by investment. As soon as those investors lose patience the first dominos will fall. For those who have somewhat of a business model, will it survive a price increase? The bigger question is do the base model providers have enough runway and have a way to keep going as they need to recover costs.

New comment by LurkandComment in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

LurkandComment — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:21:01 +0000

This is market introductory pricing that hasn't factored in cost recovery. Most of it has been run on early investment with the assumption they will recover costs in the long run. The prices are subsidized across the board and they will need to go up signficantly to recover them.

New comment by LurkandComment in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

LurkandComment — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:19:26 +0000

1) This happened because they fundementally misunderstand how to use AI and how AI is priced 2) Most organizations are throwing everything in for analyses and not limiting the answer they want. You need to be specific of about what you analyze and what answers you want 3) People undervalue prompting or templated responses. I will have written. validated and sanity checked a prompt several times and run it across several models before I say its ready for use. But when it is, I know what it will give me and that the scope of its research and answer is as close to what I want as it can be. As little excess as I can. This all saves tokens

New comment by LurkandComment in "Expertise in the age of AI"

LurkandComment — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:45:08 +0000

Variable costs - electricity etc. Current model is very resource intensive. You know when they build all those Olympic Venues and then once the Olympics is done the ongoing cost is too expensive and then they become derelict buildings.... like that...

New comment by LurkandComment in "Expertise in the age of AI"

LurkandComment — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:19:49 +0000

AI is cheap right now. Let's re-ask this question when it's priced to recover profit and ROI.

New comment by LurkandComment in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"

LurkandComment — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:28:57 +0000

Related: Alberta Voter Data was leaked to an American Company by the separatist movement. Also, the question right now is if there will be a referendum proposal.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/20/investigations/a...

This is clear foriegn political interfierence. It's like mini-brexit. We have a weak, incompitent leader in Alberta who is giving in to her right-wing base so she can stay in power. It's David Cameron all over again.

New comment by LurkandComment in "Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz"

LurkandComment — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:35:53 +0000

See in an information war, it doesn't have to be true to be dangerous, and never assume how stock prices might effect people's resileance. The greater point is there are cans of worms that are opening that weren't anticipated. This is just one example;].

New comment by LurkandComment in "Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz"

LurkandComment — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:26:43 +0000

The Strait of Hormuz is a such a historical f-up. 1) It cuts the oil supply 2) It creates the demand and infrastructure for non-US backed Oil 3) It gives Iran a revenue stream and domain over taxing the Strait where none existed before 4) Crypto happens outstide of reach of most sanctions 5) Not knowing your footing: This has now encompassed the placement of underseas cables and global connectivity 5) As time goes one, there are other shoes that will drop 6) Even if this resolves, things like decoupling the USD and Oil now have momemntum.

New comment by LurkandComment in "AI is wiping out entry-level jobs"

LurkandComment — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:05:03 +0000

PS I love AI, but it's whose hands AI is in that determines its use and benefits.

New comment by LurkandComment in "AI is wiping out entry-level jobs"

LurkandComment — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:04:05 +0000

1. AI wipes out entery level jobs. Cost of tokens used will make you spend more especially overtime. Keep in mind, right now we're probably in the era of cheap tokens

2. We rehire base employees at lower wages. Move AI to hire level tasks. AI is now doing the work we said humans will do. Talent drains to other compaines. AI can do certain things every well but can't put it together. Start rehiring talent at lower wages

3. In the end, AI turns out to really be artificial wage competition designed to drive worke salaries down. All of this is subsidized by the government, fund managers and the environment. Billionaires leave earth in spaceship.

New comment by LurkandComment in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

LurkandComment — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:24:40 +0000

The current commercialization isn't economically sustainable.

New comment by LurkandComment in "Googlebook"

LurkandComment — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:25:22 +0000

I can't invest in Goolge products. I always feel like they're going to pull the plug or change the terms, pricing model etc.

New comment by LurkandComment in "Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents"

LurkandComment — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:39:51 +0000

In the comments.

New comment by LurkandComment in "Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents"

LurkandComment — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:30:20 +0000

Here's how its dehumanizing:

You say they're not good enough, they smell, they don't fit in, but you take their culture, their clothing, their food and rebrand it as scandinavian, high fashion, chic fitness, pumpkin spice. They do the things you value but for their skin color.

You pay them colored people wages, with colored people working conditions with no social mobility outside of where they live, but you literally rob them of voice.

Your lack of ability to see "why this is dehumanizing is" why you're replacing yourselves with A.I. "AI is better" f*k. AI is controlled by a few platform owners. Once everyone is replaced with AI they're jacking up the cost and no one of any color is eating. Just a few rich.

So yeah, i can understand why you think it isn't dehumanizing. You don't see when you do it to others, or when we do it to ourselves.

New comment by LurkandComment in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

LurkandComment — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:05:45 +0000

I'm just going to say this: Wouldn't load for me in Chrome, but the article loaded instantly in Edge... I never use Edge, I was just curious.

New comment by LurkandComment in "Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster"

LurkandComment — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:34:34 +0000

"An Edmonton city councillor says he and his team are helping a woman facing intimate partner violence relocate with her children after her address was leaked in an alleged privacy breach by a separatist group."

New comment by LurkandComment in "1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'"

LurkandComment — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:00:42 +0000

I've been waiting for someone to do something like this as long as I've known electric cars to be a thing. I hope they just start making them like this.