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[Spugpow 🔰 @Spugpow]

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[Paul E Williams @PEWilliams_]

I read @mattyglesias Bloomberg piece. Obviously I disagree, but I think it’s primarily an education issue. Matt ought to ride the Red line up to Shady Grove and take a tour of this 268 unit project MoCo’s housing authority just finished—no subsidy, low construction costs.

[Senator Scott Wiener @Scott_Wiener]

BIG TRANSIT FUNDING UPDATE

Last night, the Senate & Assembly released our budget, including most of the agreement on transit. We vote on Thursday.

The agreement is a strong step to address the transit operations fiscal cliff. More work remains, but this is good progress.🧵⬇️

[M Mallon @monicamallon]

“Even if you're not in an urban area, Californians who rely on transit often have no other choice, and we are royally screwing them over if we don't address this issue,” said Sen. Scott Wiener

https://t.co/muc6kFljdY

[Seamless Bay Area @seamlessbayarea]

The excuse that we can't 'save transit' because of a $30B state deficit is just false.

The legislature can provide billions *without adding to the deficit* by directing already approved transportation funds, including highway funding, to transit ops.
https://t.co/RSh6cLUQgs

[Jeffrey Ladish @JeffLadish]

LLaMA was a big escalation in AI proliferation. Alpaca and other derivatives are not possible without a powerful base model which is expensive to train. We can't go back to a pre-LLaMA world. But we can prevent the release of a LLaMA 2! We need government action on this asap

[Rebecca Saltzman @RebeccaForEC]

BIG NEWS - BART staff have figured out how to increase evening/weekend frequencies to 20 min from 30 min, without hiring more staff or spending more money.

No more 30 minute waits!!!🎉🎉����

🧵 with details:

[anton 🇺🇸 @atroyn]

announcing stable attribution - a tool which lets anyone find the human creators behind a.i generated images.

https://t.co/eHEIeedogc

[Lars Doucet @larsiusprime]

Eeeeenteresting. We ran out of raw text on the internet, and now we need live feedback for further training

[Adina Levin @alevin]

To show your support and get engaged in helping, sign and please share this petition... https://t.co/BhQsuBn78i

[Le Cinéma Club @lecinemaclub]

Now showing: DRONE a biting satire on modern military politics by SEAN BUCKELEW (@SeanBuckelew).

Government agents face a PR-nightmare when a drone named Newton embraces peace and leaves his destructive tendencies behind.

For one week on https://t.co/ze1aiGmvQ5.

[jermz 🧨 @nowayjermaine]

I borrowed over 60k in student loans for Art School pre-YouTube 💸

If I were starting today at 16 to prep for life in Animation Design, I'd tell myself to binge these channels for FREE high-quality art education:

[Shayok @the_phlogger]

@parabula_ With pleasure! 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days was their breakout hit. It is nail-biting. I saw it twice in a row to make sure I didn’t miss anything. 1/

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

We are running out of a vital resource: words!

There are “only” 5 to 10 trillion high-quality words (papers, books, code) on the internet. Our AI models will have used all of that for training by 2026. Low-quality data (tweets, fanfic) will last to 2040. https://t.co/hm1EaJ6Enu

[BART @SFBART]

🧵BART’s Top 22 accomplishments for 2022.

2022 was focused on welcoming riders back. Our staff worked tirelessly to put out service, adapt to the new normal, and celebrate our big 5-0.

[BART @SFBART]

Bay Area! New Year's Eve is approaching and BART is extending train service past 1am to safely move partygoers and revelers.🥳

BART will run standard Saturday service on New Year's Eve (until midnight) and then operate 3-line 🟨🟧🟦 special service.

[Katja Grace 🔍 @KatjaGrace]

I think people should think more about trying to slow down AI progress, if they believe it's going to destroy the world soon. I know people have like eighteen reasons to dismiss this idea out of hand, but I dispute them: https://t.co/AuIfgyDMKB

[Catsuka @catsuka]

4 episodes of "Odeon" short series by Jonathan Djob Nkondo (Cake/FXX, 2020) are also available online.
>> https://t.co/NbCQQeef2a

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This is how Ethan Schlussler from Sandpoint, Idaho built his very own human powered elevator as a means to gain access to his recently constructed treehouse

[full video: https://t.co/eMP4oROEc0]
https://t.co/gcveKZtKin

[Eliyahu Kamisher @eli_kamisher]

BART's diminishing reliability continued as expected in the past quarter Q1 for 2023. About a quarter of peak-period trains not running on time. Customer complaints surged 34% over the previous quarter.