The best answer I’ve seen for “how would your life change if they got rid of AI?”
Atrios@eschatonblog.com · 14h agohow would i survive without google summaries of reddit posts
Sean was here
@yyzbound.bsky.social
I go here and there. Sometimes I take pictures while I’m there.
Atrios@eschatonblog.com · 14h ago
Getting real sick of slop midwives pleading for a 'respectful discussion' of AI as relates to the arts. Your use of AI to 'make art' is not respectful. It benefits from stolen art, destroys the planet, and does not make you an artist any more than someone driving 26.2 miles is a marathoner.
If you think my shoes are dirty then you can blame the snobs who make the rules for the public washrooms at the Royal Tyrrell Dinosaur Museum.
Tall ladders and low railings on balconies? Noooo thanks. Glass floors? Nooooo problem.
Corporate media likes showing the percent increases in labour negotiations, but it lacks some important context. A 13% pay increase *seems* generous, and would be if their current pay was high. It is not. A 13% increase on an already depressed wage isn’t a huge increase.
Nice try, WestJet management. Airlines don’t cancel flights to “avoid stranding passengers”, they cancel them so the airplanes are parked in the cheapest & most convenient spots for the company during the shut down. If they wanted to avoid stranding passengers they’d give the FAs a good contract.
I do some instructing, but I’m not *really* an instructor. I don’t have an instructor rating (or, as the Americans might say, I’m not a CFI). #avgeek
Back in sizzling Germany. Sometimes (and definitely not all the time) I have a right seat landing so nice I wonder if “first officer” is my true calling. #avgeek
There are no 70mm projectors in my immediate vicinity, but this’ll have to do.
When we do training flights on legs that normally require three pilots we have to carry an extra pilot. This sometimes works out well for the augment crew, who may get a double-long break in cruise. #avgeek
How to passive-aggressively tell your dispatcher that they planned you too skinny on the gas.
ACARS Drama@acarsdrama.bsky.social · last wk.Air to Ground Message: ANY HOLD OR DELAY AND WE WILL HAVE TO DIVERT Area: Valparaiso, IN, USA Type: Boeing 737 MAX 8 A: #a0792a4d18d F: #f32e4eadfe9
A busker was singing “Volare”, so now that’ll be in my head for the next few days
A stroll through the Marienplatz in old central Munich. #travel
A little afternoon pick me up. I’ve been to Munich enough times that I don’t take a ton of pictures while I’m here… but ya never know when a shot will present itself
Many modern airline uniforms look vaguely like century-old navy uniforms. Many commercial pilots wear rank bars on our shoulders, military-style hats and jackets with shiny buttons & striped sleeves. It’s yet another maritime tradition. #avgeek
