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Fauntleroy commented on Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/coloneltcb
Fauntleroy commented on · Posted by u/SethMLarson
The front page of this website is almost comically uninformative. I'd take this post down, update the site to explain itself better, and submit it again at a later date.
Fauntleroy commented on Federal Government's letter to Harvard demanding changes [pdf] harvard.edu/research-fund... · Posted by u/moelf
The mask obsession these people still have is just amazing. So angry at being told to wear a mask during a pandemic that they want to ban anyone else from doing it now. I would expect better behavior from a toddler.
They want to ban it for absolute facial recognition coverage, and pretty much nothing else.
Fauntleroy commented on AudioX: Diffusion Transformer for Anything-to-Audio Generation zeyuet.github.io/AudioX/... · Posted by u/gnabgib
The video to audio examples are really impressive! The video featuring the band showcases some of the obvious shortcomings of this method (humans will have very precise expectations about the kinds of sounds 5 trombones will make)—but the tennis example shows its strengths (decent timing of hit sounds, eerily accurate acoustics for the large internal space). I'm very excited to see how this improves a few more papers down the line!
Fauntleroy commented on Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March axios.com/2025/04/04/fore... · Posted by u/timvdalen
>I think the news feeds within the US may be approximately equal in their delivery of "this is good change" versus "this is catastrophic change", whilst internationally it's almost entirely "this is catastrophic change" with minor pockets of intolerance apologia.
Exactly.
Americans generally don't understand the degree to which the rest of the world gets the CNN 5min recap of what's going on in the US, and it's very much the CNN recap and not the Fox one.
"Tourists locked up, school children shot, government defunded, California on fire, tune in at 11 for more".
The fact that ~half the country doesn't think ICE should be locking up tourists without good reason and the other ~half doesn't think ICE should be locking up anyone gets skipped.
Edit: Just to head off the nitpickers, by "good reason" I mean stuff that border guards of any nation would lock anyone up for if they found, regardless of visa type, status or nation or origin.
Suggesting that giving the rest of the world the "fox news viewpoint" would somehow improve foreigner's views or knowledge of America is spurious at best, and delusional at worst.
Fauntleroy commented on The US Assault on Science: National Academies Letter nytimes.com/2025/03/31/sc... · Posted by u/pmags
Can you give an example of fraud that has been found by doge? If so it is to be commended, but I suspect they are just labelling stuff approved by congress and previous administrations fraud whenever they don't like it.
You don't need examples when you have faith
I've grown a little bit more skeptical of what can realistically be achieved by the passive nature of YIMBY-ism.
In Portland, they passed some radical new zoning laws a few years ago that allowed anyone, anywhere the ability to zone ADUs on their property. And the cost to get permits is almost nothing.
I have lots of friends and family in the area with property. But not a single one has added an ADU. It seems like it should be a no-brainer, so I'll bring up and ask why not? And there are basically two reasons:
- There's a general fear of being a landlord. Tenants have a lot of legal rights, and the risk of inviting someone onto your property who could start squatting or doing drugs and not being able to evict them is beyond the pale for most families.
- They don't need the money. If you can afford a home in the area, you're already pretty well off. Even though adding a rental could be pretty lucrative, there's just not enough motivation to go through with it.
To me it has little to do with incumbent politicians and everything to do with the incumbent middle class. I'm all for removing red tape and restrictions, but we also need to come up with incentives to light a fire under the butts of individual actors in our economy to actually go out and make things.
It's amusing to me that anyone would think a random smattering of ADUs would do anything at all to push the needle when it comes to housing. This is like fixing linter warnings (but not even doing that!) instead of building an entirely new section of an app. We need the latter.
This is getting ridiculous. Is there anyone associated with this administration who does not have a record of promoting Russia's positions?