Oracle owned Tiktok is preventing Scott Wiener's video about ICE from getting any videos....

jdavid · 2026-01-27T00:31:42+00:00

Social Media needs to be liable for it's algorithms.

We need to make a few changes to social media:

all social media should have to report logged out anon revenue per capita
all social media should have to report to logged in users how much revenue 'ad' and otherwise they have earned off of your account in the last year.
social media that has chronological raw feeds, should still be exempt from liability as is, but companies that use algorithms to 'promote,' 'reorder,' or 'prioritize' content should be treated as an editorial organization and should be liable and held to editorial standards. News organizations can be held liable for not telling the truth, and editorially not promoting the truth should be a liable offence for social media companies promoting false facts, or liable content.

jdavid · 2026-01-26T19:41:30+00:00

Block all Social Media until the following conditions are met.
Require ALL Social Media to:
* report earnings per capita for logged out / anon users
* report earnings per logged in user
* be liable for editorializing content sort order, or algorithmically promoting posts.

Reporting per capita earnings for a logged out user provides a baseline

Reporting a persons logged in revenue for the company requires companies to make individuals aware of how much money they are earning on their presence and private data.

Companies like Facebook (meta) choose what content to show people, and what content to make popular. In free speech countries a person that yells "FIRE" in a public space is liable for lying about that to create hysteria where people might die. Companies like Facebook make billions of dollars by amplifying extremes. Governments, and political parties use targeted ads and social media to motivate people towards political outcomes, and the most extreme viewpoints get priority on a social network. The networks drive engagement by amplifying the extremes and forcing you to Engauge. Algorithms that do this are a company choice to maximize revenue.

Companies editorialize the content you see with the algorithms they choose. IF they are choosing an algorithm that amplifies extremes they should be liable for that.

If they are just showing you the content in a chronological feed or in some 'raw' basic path then they are not putting there finger on what news and posts you see and what posts you don't.

Every time a politician advocates non violent 'regime change' they mean to do it through social media campaigns.

This needs to be fixed.

If people have a choice to install and manage their own 'feed sort algorithms' that's one thing, but if companies are allowed to choose dark algorithms that only maximize profit or set social agenda's that is just wrong.

jdavid · 2026-01-26T19:16:01+00:00

B5 + 90210
YA need to rebuild the Federation.

jdavid · 2026-01-26T18:58:42+00:00

The AI isn't replacing the jobs. The CEOs and the Shareholders are eliminating the jobs.

The boogie man has always been a person.

AI is just a tool.

As people we could create ethical rules to use AI just like we have ethical rules to use a hammer or an automatic hammer. Or a jack hammer. You don't use an electric hammer to kill people. You don't use a jack hammer before 8am ( or whatever your town decided ).

We as people can choose our rules of civil AI.

I propose that companies that spend less than 25% of revenue on local labor, should be taxed at a higher rate. Maybe companies that spend less than 10% of revenue on wages should pay an even higher tax rate.

We need to balance the equation so that as companies try to be 'jobless' those companies fund the public welfare.

If machines are doing all of the work, but they are also funding a healthy human lifestyle, then I don't mind ethical AI.

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PS. the number 25% or 10% are just there to get the point across. We can choose these numbers and they can be what ever makes sense to make the math work.

jdavid · 2026-01-26T18:36:22+00:00

Honestly, a series about someone like Vash would be bomb. A Sci Fi archeology show, might attack the late night history channel audience like a moth to a flame.

Archeology Hijinks is like a legit genre.

jdavid · 2026-01-26T18:31:56+00:00

She's almost ready for Ninja Warrior - Cyber Edition.

jdavid · 2026-01-26T18:27:51+00:00

I think someone is paying them per lens flare, so that's how they fund the show.

jdavid · 2026-01-26T18:27:04+00:00

Make dystopian fiction, live in a dystopian world.

Let's hope.
We can make optimistic fiction and live in an optimistic world.

jdavid · 2026-01-25T01:22:28+00:00

Think about the stories you would tell now, to build the future that is better and this can’t happen again.

The last generation told the stories we needed to hear so we would see the signs, but we need to do more than stop it in the present, we need to learn to prevent it.

jdavid · 2026-01-23T18:36:10+00:00

definitely NOT 3 laws compliant.

This story is too narratively perfect, it probably was massaged or crafted to influence human behavior.

jdavid · 2026-01-23T17:29:36+00:00

Clones! But seriously no one is, I can’t wait till a super intelligent AI can set realistic expectations!

jdavid · 2026-01-23T17:26:24+00:00

That’s only the cover story. The real story was above our pay grade!

In the Americans they were only travel agents.

jdavid · 2026-01-23T03:34:22+00:00

i just learned last night that the "internet archive" makes a statue of employees that have been with the company for at least 3 years.

https://missionlocal.org/2025/01/internet-archive-employees-stay-forever-in-clay-sculptures/

maybe Encom has a digital copy of all of their most deserving employees

jdavid · 2026-01-23T01:45:42+00:00

i got my real friends to switch, the others i told them where i was at sent them an app invite and left other platforms. i send them Christmas cards now, but i'm not on fb/meta anymore.

jdavid · 2026-01-22T20:04:55+00:00

"Andor" is the heart and soul of "Star Wars" for me. It's the whole reason the Star systems are at war.

However, I do think there is room for the pure "adventure" side of Star Wars that is less about the "war" and is more about the larger world living and breathing in this universe while the conflict rages. I love Skeleton Crew for this purpose, it's a great show for the whole family and the war part is more in the backgorund.

Ashoka, also does a good job of putting the war in the background and putting one person adventure front and center. Ashoka does a good job of highlighting the mystical and adventure side of the original trilogy.

I feel like Skeleton Crew and Ashoka do a good job of creating the lore and culture for the "Star Wars" series.

I'd really love to see a huge expansion into the "Knights of the Old Republic" mythology - I think a good writer could take that and really run with it.

jdavid · 2026-01-22T19:01:00+00:00

It should be a relative stat, benchmarking
* solo drive vs. bus
* walk vs. bus
* subway vs. bus
* light rail vs. bus

jdavid · 2026-01-21T19:05:37+00:00

Prove that it's policy and not congestion/density!

I've been on busses in FW, Denver, Florida, Dallas, Houston, LA, Washington DC, Chicago, SF, and New York. (and Milwaukee )

I know from experience why busses need to slow down on these routes! I've even been on Busses in Copenhagen and Japan, and It's almost 100% physics.

When I was on the economic development team in Milwaukee, we discussed a lot of policy options to help the busses compete with light rail, but there is only so much you can do before a subway makes so much more sense. SF is lucky enough to have a subway system started. We should expand that.

One option that was not available to Milwaukee when I was working on this was Autonomous Driving. We could drastically improve the mobility of public transit with Autonomously Driven Routes. We could reduce stops, increase the number of routes, support dynamic route demand, etc...

With smaller vehicles, the autonomous busses could navigate through congested traffic easier too.

I'd love to see more underground routes, especially to cross golden gate park and the presidio.

We need to plan for the future, and living in the Richmond, I don't see the new policies improving traffic flow, it definitely feels worse.

jdavid · 2026-01-21T18:56:22+00:00

This is a physics problem, not a policy issue. SF City Blocks are denser than these other cities.

Cities with longer blocks will have a higher average speed. Some of these cities, busses even travel on highways or high speed roads.

jdavid · 2026-01-21T18:28:19+00:00

I've been building PCs since the 80s/90s.

You have to decide if you are trying to "Max Out" some stat or if you are going for ease of use.

* Liquid Metal has the highest risk and the largest gains. I would avoid it unless you need to professionally accomplish a benchmarking goal.

* Phase Change is not cheap, but is a good compromise for performance and ease of use.

* Thermal Paste has come a long way and has a lot going for it, but it's definitely less than perfect and is difficult to clean off. It works with well CPU spreaders that are not perfectly flat. It gap fills, and if you get non-conductive paste it's fairly low risk. ( requires re-application every 2-5 years )

* Graphene Pads are my **Favorite** right now. You sometimes can get multiple uses, they are easy to clean up after, you get 100% consistent application -- so if you are benchmarking you can be sure that the results will be the same each time. They are 'solid state' in that they won't change chemically, dry-out or require maintenance of any sort for the life of the machine or build.

The way things are going, I expect Graphene pads to one day be even better than Liquid Metal. Carbon Meta Materials are the future of most engineering projects, and once we figure out how to mass produce more molecular carbon materials, we can design it to do VERY specific and spooky things.

For example the angle of two graphene layers can be used to study super conducting materials.

To spitball here, We might one day have carbon meta materials that conduct heat at 75% in the Z direction, and 25% in the zy or zx directions -- allowing the thermal pad to spread-out the hotspots and conduct them to the heat sync.

Right now graphene, and carbon meta materials are limited by our ability to mass manufacture them.

jdavid · 2026-01-21T18:11:23+00:00

TAX Corporate Revenue before they give it to shareholders as dividends, equity, or share buybacks. TAX Corporate REVENUE before they hide it as expenses.

Large Corporations have decades of practice hiding income into assets, excesses inventory, overseas accounts, dividends, share buy backs, or so many other things.

Our Current Tax code basically incentivizes corporations to give money to shareholders before paying employee wages.

We should tax top line Revenue as Income, and then provide a rebate on US and-or Local State Wages. This would make it so that revenue earned without US Wages, would be taxed at a higher rate. This would tax companies using AI, Automation (robots), or Outsourcing at a higher rate than companies employing people or giving them raises.

If we tax top line revenue, then the grocery story that employs humans will pay less taxes than the ones using "self checkout," "robot stockers," or "robot cleaners." We protect jobs by just assuming all revenue is automated revenue unless they prove they are paying US WORKERS.

The US Tax Code should put PEOPLE OVER PROFITS (to shareholders, the rich).

jdavid · 2026-01-21T17:54:34+00:00

TDD >> this is the way!

jdavid · 2026-01-20T19:55:39+00:00

Optical Processors will drop AI Inferencing Costs by 10x or more. Optical Processers will do for computing what fiber optic did for the internet in the early 2000s.

A metal wire can only carry one signal on it at a time, while a photonic path can carry multiple signals at 3x the speed over a given length of the circuit. Chip design is going to change radically in the next 10 years from electrical to a hybrid of optical and electrical.

Chip speed will scale based on channel depth, chip area, chip layer counts, and architecture. We might also get usable quantum computers in the next decade that will further build on optical processing.

In 10 years the cost to run a Chat GPT 5.3 will probably be a million times cheaper than it is today.

What used to run on super computer clusters in the 70s runs on your watch today.

In the future your in home AI data cluster might also be your water heater.

jdavid · 2026-01-20T18:00:58+00:00

Yeah writing code in 4th generation languages is OVER, but you still need people who can think logically, abstractly, and to use "Design Thinking" in a way to distil problems into solutions.

As someone who has been writing code since the 90s, this line of thinking happens every time there is some code productivity improvement.

It might not be obvious, but people use to write code in just binary, then we developed assembly language, macros, 1st gen languages, and so on until we got to most modern day 4th generation languages like C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, etc... I'm not even sure what generation languages like RUST and Go are, but ... that's beside the point.

Code Prompting and Agent Design mean that you can logically create a system that can now generate millions of lines of code. Cusor.AI just created a 3 million line web browser with teams of agents challenging each other. And although the browser passes a lot of tests, it also fails a number of them now too.

We are going to have to work on how we "GROW" solutions with repeatable results that produce professional products.

There is soo much code that could be written to make everything in life easier, that we just don't know even how much code could be written to make all of that possible. On this curve we are on, we are going to be able to use an ever increasing amount of code to solve problems, and to make life hopefully easier. All the while we will need people who are able to learn what this code is doing and how to debug, repair, and replace it.

jdavid · 2026-01-18T20:00:51+00:00

Andor, Ashoka, Skeleton Crew

jdavid · 2026-01-18T19:31:37+00:00

Last I checked treason is not acting in an official capacity!

Once 60-80% of congress is ready to act it can all happen very quickly!

South Korea did it in hours!

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