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Nashville - TN I watched this happen over years, and happen in many different ways. It has lured massive gentrification.

All started when Dean took office some years ago and a group of real estate investors had serious big plans. It has worked.

The really bad side on the ground is that there are AirBnbs in places with clueless people standing out waiting for an Uber in places they should not be, and worse; people thinking they should just walk from some places to others that they really shouldn't.

Many other groups of people would say the worse thing is loss of culture, venues, and entire groups of people forced out with no where to go. (one news article pointed people to a different city / state few years ago)

The reporting changes run deep, and most would never know it.

no, GP is right, and you say so after pointing to homicides then admit it's possible.

Homicides are the one thing that are hard to fudge the numbers with, although I am sure there are a number of deaths reported where there is not a homicide charge and there could of been, that is not the point.

I've seen the result of a city deciding to report less crime, it works. The stats go down, people from out of town find the place more attractive, real estate goes up. They argue nothing reduces crime like cranes gentrifying.

There is much more to the cycle of crimes not reported and/or not being prosecuted. It definitely works to bring down the numbers and exponentially.

Of course the long term thing of cranes coming in and pushing out the poor may be the lasting change. Although I believe the criminal element adapts as well and chooses things based upon repercussions, so the amount of petty crimes can go up while the cranes stamp out the larger noticeable ones.

relative's apartment / townhome complex in Nashville did similar about a year ago. They had to stop paying comcast direct and instead pay comcast through the complex.

This caused many days of customer support issues with their owned / not rented cable modem, and then very interesting discussions about the now separated cell phone bill and previously subsidized cell phones.

I think it took 2 months to sort those things out.

For at least 2 months they had to pay both the complex and comcast for cable in order to keep the cell phones from being disconnected.

Do not feel like it was a win for the tenants.

Hubspot - saying this because one of the teams I work with is sold on what it supposed to do, and it sucks at doing those things.

Specifically the ads hub or whatever they call the section that is supposed to help with ads reporting.

I've already built 2 replacements for it.

They were so sold on the hubspot promise they dedicated a significant amount of time and money to try to make the thing do what they expected, and then consulted with 3 software dev companies to build out what was needed to make it work.

Once they saw the $30,000 price, months of custom dev work, plus what is the enterprise level thing now? $7k or $8k per month - and this is shimming.. they paused finally.

Funny thing is the new canvas in google sheets did 99% of what was wanted, did it in 30 minutes, and it's $30.

Build a replacement for looker studio, exact same issues.

Although Cody might have done that with Graphed - I have not jumped in to test it yet.

Glad that is settled.

Matt has been one of the most important leaders in WordPress and in making publishing on the web accessible to everyone.

I’ve disagreed with plenty of decisions made by WordPress, Automattic, and Matt over the years, but that doesn’t erase the enormous contribution he has made to the open web.

Surprised the TC article did not mention info from a different TC article recently:

'In the 33-hour window between Mullenweg being put on leave and his return, two key executives at the company signed off on generous exit packages for each other. Davies, who became interim CEO during that window, and Chief Legal Officer Andy Missan, each signed the other’s severance agreement,'

$8 million siphoned from the company in 30 hours when they ousted Matt, and doing so knowing that he had 80% voting power to replace anything, seems even more sus than the first time I read it.

Because they already censor what businesses can use their payment preprocessing / stripe.

Does this mean they will be censoring openrouter?

Is there an open source alternative for when the censoring begins?

Can you (ublock, privacy badger, etc) at least block the videos / animations auto-playing all over the screen to give me some control over which ads steal my focus and time?

Stopping the movement of all things unless click / tap to play would be a huge adblock win in my book.

Certainly not the only data center that is not backed up in the past 12 months..

858TB gone forever: South Korea's data center fire shows the cost of no ... Oct 9, 2025 The National Information Resources Service (NIRS) in South Korea, however, recently lost 858TB of government data after a fire broke out in the building - and there were no backups.

I've wondered if it cost $10 to get through my email box the first two times what they would mean.

Hormozi could charge $1,000 to get into his read box.

We could refund people, add them to a whitelist - and return a 405? payment required by default and things change in interesting ways when the amount is variable.

yes. and I tell everyone that I expect that to change, so don't get used to the current status quo. We won't be able to build with top notch semi-unllimited robots for 20-$30 per month after the IPOs I am sure..

However we are seeing models come out like Gema and the distilation accused that are likely capable of building a browser based Descript, or Quickbooks (as most people would use them) and many other saas type things.. just running on a walmart PC for free at this point and going forward right?

So the future is now, the platform and url may change, but it looks like most software and art will be reproducible for 50 cents or a bit more one way or another. Maybe not as polished, maybe missing a few things that elitists point to.

That's not going to replace the software subscriptions for the fortune 500. Yet it's already replaced several saas monthly / yearly payments for me.

It's not $24 - it's $24 / month.

And last time I used it, when I went to export in high resolution (don't recall if it was 1080 or 4k) - it refused to export in the resolution that I uploaded unless I paid for an upgrade.

I can't stand monthly rent forever, yet a time many moons ago, descript's method was novel enough to give it a whirl.

It's no longer novel, just like many other projects.

yes, and the chef was a robot, so less of an issue with them in your house, and the robot only cost 50 cents.

(seeing the comment that it took 4 hours or so of AI time)

that's exactly what I see.

I've been wondering what it would take to have a delivery robot go to a storage facility down the road, grab my pallet of [holiday next] - and bring it to the garage and grab the pallet of [previous holiday] from garage and drop it into the storage place down the road.

and cost benefit bot to determine and then move my 7 pallets from place A down the road to place B further down the road to save $50 per month after electric and delivery is calculated.

This could be part of that.

I wish it was one click to:

right-click make rule about this sender delete all the stuff in the email address (from left to right) up to the domain name (not just the name and @ symbol, but subdomain too ) click drop down to select the trash click save wait for popup. click run single rule.

Does this actually run the ads?

I am blocked by meta from running ads for reasons it won't say, and I have several local business ideas I want to test with meta ads to see if they should increase.

But my Fb is blocked from running ads or boosting posts and using the meta pixel or something.

Posted a couple of blogs about it - https://steveiscritical.com/

Good idea and nice system from my few minutes of checking.

A write up about why vaseline is top choice noted when searching 'acne' (just discussed more in total? more than others per year? )

I typed 'fungal acne' into the search and it changed to 'acne'.

Would be cool, although difficult I am sure, to show a price range of products mentioned.

Would be interesting to say, show only results of the past 6 months / 3 months.

Not sure if it's possible to drill down into info via different regions of the world.

I have been learning about products and usage while helping develop web assets for esthetician wanting to help people with products and services for better skin via https://modernskinscience.com/

I'll be suggested your portal for others to learn what the discussions are around the products.

As I look back and see that there are some price notes but the contrast and font size made me miss them completely on first purusal.

Love that you can get to the discussion threads right from the individual pages.

Well done!

When I see "Watch out — Acne

Toleriane Double Repair often causes breakouts, especially in sensitive, acne-prone skin due to its heavy, potentially comedogenic formula."

I kind of want to see a * or link to where that data comes from.

So you become.. Ebay and or Alibaba.

People afraid to buy because they are likely to be ripped off.

Sure lots of people stop buying there. But they seem to still be doing business every second of the day I assume.

Had similar issue myself,

ran ads for a week, and also got the message “As a result, our technology took action.”

The AI said it couldn't tell me why the ban since it may help shady people understand what they ban people for.. and then told me I can read all the policies and guidelines to know why.. and said no appeals, final decision.

I was running ads offering help people make their google ads and facebook ads more effective.

The irony.

actual transcripts: https://steveiscritical.com/04/eight-days-how-meta-banned-a-...

https://steveiscritical.com/06/meta-built-an-ai-appeal-assis...

I made a third attempt to get the AI to tell me why - same 'no details, no appeals'

Talked with some other fbook ad experts and it was suggested that newer ad accounts can sometimes get banned faster.

So I wonder is it because my bank refused charges 3 times in a week (for like $3.90) ? if the anti-fraud ai at my bank pissed off the anti-fraud AI thing at fbook maybe?

- Is it because I had some logos in one ad? (I changed that ad to comply if that's the reason - but I don't know if that's a / the rule!) -

Tennessee just passed a law saying that Google has to provide reasons for banning google business profiles, maybe Meta will be next.

while I agree with the sentiment in general, I think it's safe to say that people have been giving up their darkest secrets to google and social media companies for many years.

Some people feel there is nothing they can do about it. Many people do not know / understand just how much they can know about people, so seeing it that way, yes it can be surprising to see so many giving the data right on the screen; as opposed to giving data passively / not understanding the value of combining or that they are even collecting passive data like location or what you type and delete, or what you hover / keep on screen..

I don't have hope that there will be any laws stopping the collecting and combining of data by any of these companies.

I do like the idea of an every year reminder sent to users showing what they can see with the data that has been collected and stored.

That is doable, and possible to get people to change some of what they share if the portals are honest in what they collect and how it can be combined with other data to paint more intimate / detailed pictures of you and those connected to you in some way.

many of the gas stations, I think cracker barrel, and many other tourist knick knack stores around my (tourist heavy) city have them.. of course printing your own is not hard these days.

I do think many people with websites an visiting websites would enjoy using webrings again.

Interesting to see some misconceptions in this comments here, and the graphic at wikipedia showing it as an actual ring of links, but I don't believe that was ever a solid explanation.

Sure there was the option to add your website to most webrings, and some had checker settings to see if a recip link existed then plublish and share.. but that was short lived because spammers, and google's change of 'bad neighborhoods hurt you' - then corporate rollup / walls up..

However on many websites it was great to find similar sites and other sites the author had an interest in and wanted to share with friends / visitros.. recip link or not.

It was a useful tool for discovery and sharing. Google got so important so fast that people (and even at the software level (starting at you wordpress)) removed blogrolls entirely.

Now that it's understood that you can share with the nofollow attribute added to links, I think we will see more people adding blogrolls / webrings and that will naturally lead to more links back, and people appreciating sharing of other places of interest.

I started developing a new webrings plugin to make it easier for people to share and get submissions / suggestions, with options for checking for recip links, having a default nofollow link and such.

This led me to thinking about other uses for the same data / DB / fields.. and decidedly that the same backend parts can also create 'directory pages' - which are essentially what webrings were just as a footer scrolling widget verses full page per category.. so I added that.

Then I realized the same bits are basically waht is needed for creating a directory or associates.. could be other people who meet at a conference, could be people you work with, other companies you've done business with, or other professionals you've bumped into at other job sites / projects.. so I added that and it also is becoming a contact sharing / directory / roledex kind of system.

I did one blog post showing part of the functionality that is in the works: https://betterwebgroup.com/from-business-cards-to-digital-di...

Right now I'm working through the backend being difficult to chose what shows up on the front end and under what conditions.. hope to have sorted by end of month - when will hope people will help with testing and suggestions.

Trying to make it as standalone react system that can work into any website and a wordpress plugin at the same time has led to so challenges.. but it's getting close.

close to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trespass_to_chattels ?

If blocking access to your store, your car, etc. this kicks in maybe.

I expected more information from the article and 'the paper' -

I see nothing that shows any system was making a decision on race. How is the race being presented to the AI?

All this is showing from what I can see, is that certain groups of people were more often denied a next step in the process - but why?

Was the AI going by spelling and grammar? Were there names that were different but the rest of the resume was exactly the same? Were there pictures?

There were mentions that the rate of each group may be more prominent in the data when you split apart different types of jobs instead of all jobs in aggregate.. One could read that like it's inferred; that more warehouse jobs are offered to a race and less admin jobs.. but that same would happen if AI was more focused on perfect grammar for one job and it was not as much of a factor for a warehouse job.

Also if the people applying for the various jobs were self selecting, acceptance percentages this would skew things based upon which ones were applied / not applied to right?

There are so many ways you could draw conclusions like this from data, however correlation is not causation, yet this seems to say it is.

I feel this is an important thing to watch, but Stanford may not be the place to trust with 'Policy Recommendations' as it's very unclear there is any proof that 'AI Hiring Tools Yield Racial Bias and Systemic Rejection' from this study and paper.

PS - now that I see the HN title did not have the word "can" in it, and the title of the article is actually "Tools Can Yield" - maybe that is less accusing and more noting.

I was thinking this months ago and asked AI what would be done.

IT quickly spit out a half dozen things it expected to be issues and the counter measures that would be deployed instantly and likely proactively.

It showed me videos of things like these 24/7 drones for people detected and less lethal things like soundwaves as deterrents.

It showed me videos of cables hardening and other systems being used to prevent cutting cables and stealing electricity.

Discussed the size of the jails that will be built, an expected number of people that move into a few groups of cybercrime (and which would continue to thrive with that) -

Had numbers of number of people that will be eating mealworms for lunch, the political and cult shifts that will occur, all sorts of interesting things.

I'll be putting out a movie about all this that AI already knows and expects to happen. And this is all with currently known and in use technologies.

Millions will be leaving many cities, and direct to needy from farms systems may keep people alive. Office buildings being converted to mealworm and similar farming may happen.

I do not see the millions of people who make a living via call centers to be able to find similar paying jobs. Most of them, and the people who currently make a living supporting them (sandwich shops, cleaning, etc) - will be competing for delivery jobs, which will depress wages, and they will be competing with robots and x-tunnels, etc.

I need to get a working title for all this info I gathered and come back and edit.

I've thought for a long time, two draw piles - one is lands only - and you draw from each of the two piles each turn.

this would be balanced for both players.

If course with magic the lands pile would have to have rules like no lands that turn into creatures or something.. maybe even just basic lands .

but each person gets a land each turn - been thinking that makes the game better.

Maybe they will fix the AI that banned me from running facebook / instagram ads after running them for 8 days.

My ability to run ads, and to work for about half the places trying to hire me to run ads, was perma banned by an AI with this message:

- "Our technology found your ad account doesn’t follow our Advertising Policies. As a result, our technology took action."

Or maybe people knowing of the layoffs set it up this way. Hmm. That would hit their bottom line many times over.

Either way, being struck down in the crossfire is terrible.

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Really appreciate you taking the time and thinking of some alternative methods!

Not sure if there is a blocker from youtube in some way, but making backups of public playlists would certainly come in handy for a lot of people.

Seeing the articles and youtube videos and other articles about how to find your YT profile URL and searching the archive - obviously it's a thing bigger than I thought, and not something I ever considered.

thanks for checking! I can see a big benefit in these being backed up, surely there are many others running into this issue.

The pivotal displacement I believe is going to come for all of the call centers, India has several major cities, and there are others in the US and elsewhere that could be seeing millions that no longer have a job in customer service and IT support - that had been keeping them working, and 1 or 2 other people in their local economy.

Many of the workers in call center IT, sales or customer support I do not think will find a lateral move in any workplace - which will put pressure on the no skill job market like uber and similar, which is already being displaced by waymo for rides and the 200 new delivery robots deployed in LA (and already taking jobs in Chicago)

Finance support jobs in NC, call people in Arizona and Vegas and others will be hit hard.

I have a bunch docs I may turn into a movie on this soon.

AI customer service is already better than many of the call center employees and depending on needs may replace a worker for under $100 / month, right now.

Only thing keeping these places afloat is contracts already in place, and that it may take a few months to ramp up the knowledge bases.

As far as fast food goes; Bojangles a block from me has AI voice bot that handles orders, questions, substitutions, different accents.. I tried to trip it up - and its better than most humans I have at the speaker box.

The inside kiosks at McDs started replacing humans long ago, if they took cash they would be better than humans today.

Replacing humans with cooking or cleaning? There are so many poor people in the US that it will likely just be cheaper to have humans doing that sort of thing.

Other commercial cleaning will likely replace 2 of 3 (or 1 of 3 if they are using child / other limited labor) workers with floor bots not too long from now.

When robots are skilled enough to clean chickens is when I worry about the impending desperation around my local in the US.