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Eliana Moreno and George Marciniw identified as the Reporter/Pilot for NBC4 Los Angeles in the chopper that crashed. Eliana was a seasoned reporter who went by "Eli in the Heli" on Instagram and George was highly experienced, logging more than 14,000 hours in the chopper. Extremely sad night in L.A.

Eliana Moreno and George Marciniw identified as the Reporter/Pilot for NBC4 Los Angeles in the chopper that crashed.
Eliana was a seasoned reporter who went by "Eli in the Heli" on Instagram and George was highly experienced, logging more than 14,000 hours in the chopper.
Extremely sad night in L.A.Eliana Moreno and George Marciniw identified as the Reporter/Pilot for NBC4 Los Angeles in the chopper that crashed.
Eliana was a seasoned reporter who went by "Eli in the Heli" on Instagram and George was highly experienced, logging more than 14,000 hours in the chopper.
Extremely sad night in L.A.

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

Image of Sundar Pichai and the Gmail logo

Just a reminder this statement was said by a sitting Congressman to the public, Trump and his DOJ offered not one pushback, denial or lawsuit.. it’s still just sitting out there

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"A bunch of people would rather post on Race War Now Dot Swastika rather than Bluesky because you keep making fun of their imaginary computer friend" is a RESOUNDING endorsement for the concept of hostility.

Part of a thread from some bluecheck:
Multiple people I know have told me that they love the idea of Bluesky, and want it to succeed, but have abandoned it for X because the use agentic tools in their work and find them incredibly useful, and feel that any mention of their usage here leads to hate and ridicule.

I wouldn't bring this up if it was just one person, but it was multiple people since the beginning of August who mentioned in passing something to the effect of either "I'd spend more time on Bluesky if people weren't so anti-AI" *or* "As much as I hate to be there all the useful AI talk is on X."

I'm not saying it's anyone's responsibility to praise AI usage. I agree with much of the criticism of the tool. But for many, many people, it is a useful tech (I have talked about the ways I find it extraordinarily useful, only to have people here mock me, insisting my lived experience is a lie).

I am just noting that for all the people here who say that people should get off X and spend more time here, the reason I keep hearing from people in various circles who would *like* to do that, but don't, is the vociferous belief of many here that there are no possible positive uses of AI.

All of the LLMs stole from me. Most of the big "A.i." billionaires are horrifying right wingers. Consumer-facing generative "A.i." "writing" and "art" tools deskill people, cheat kids out of real education, spread falsehoods and disinfo, and violate privacy. So no, I ain't using that shit.

There’s a guy on TikTok who posts just him taking a pizza out of the oven every day with tongs and all of the comments are about how their day is ruined from having watched this