It doesn’t matter if companies ditch people or not. If AI progress continues at the current rate the world will be completely unrecognisable in 10 years. The consumer and capitalist systems are almost certainly not a part of that world and the people making AI know that

If the people making AI knew that, then they wouldn't be trying to sell everyone on AI: they'd be keeping it for themselves (assuming selfishness).

What we're seeing is exactly what you'd expect if the AI hype were, from capital's perspective, just another NFT-style grift.

> The consumer and capitalist systems are almost certainly not a part of that world

I'm not sure how you view the world in 10 years, and I would really like to know more about what you're meaning here, and I agree that things will be bonkers in 10 years, for one reason or another, if the pace of AI progress continues.

That is true. What will happen in with the world is that consumerism and capitalism will be pushed aside for direct technological construction. In this world, AI, rather than the market, optimizes.

If you're OpenAI you scrape StackOverflow and GitHub and spend billions of dollars on training. If you're a user, you don't

Can someone validate the water test for lead adulterated turmeric? https://youtu.be/tXWPf0HQd5U?si=-SkT4EQB9SvMx7io

I don't follow youtube links during work hours as a personal policy but an India government webpage outlines the water test for whole tumeric: https://eatrightindia.gov.in/dart/

> Test 14 : Detection of lead chromate in turmeric whole > Testing Method: > * Add small quantity of turmeric whole in a transparent glass of water. > * Pure turmeric will not leave any colour. > * Adulterated turmeric appears to be bright in colour and leaves colour immediately in water.

The Youtube video was also made by the Indian Government. Validating the Indian Government's claim against the Indian Government's same claim (Test 15 in this case) probably doesn't tell us much

Test 15 is the test for powdered tumeric. Of course, their photographs also look photoshopped (the pure and adulterated photos have the exact same pattern near the bottom), which was rather confusing…

Even without that it's hard to make a judgement of the results without having something to compare it with.

That's for whole turmeric.

Depending on how quickly the body would convert the plastic in this highly unrealistic hypothetical, that might work out just fine

Not saying this makes the ui good but it should go without saying that the natural world has water which acts as a lens.

Also, of course we have perception of droplets. What we don’t have is an intuitive understanding of how light interacts with droplets.

I suspect that Apple are trying to leverage this lack of intuition to make their ui interesting to look at in an evergreen way. New backgrounds mean new interesting interactions. I’m not confident that they’ve succeeded or that that’s actually a good goal to have though. I have it on my iPhone 13 and personally I find it annoying to parse, and I feel relief when I go back to traditional apps untouched by the update like Google Maps

droplets of water are not lenses without a glass behind it, and we couldn't see substantial effects behind them before we had glass windows. There was little evolutionary reason to develop any perception of refraction in droplets of water. in contrast, shadows are instant indicators of distance and gradients instantly distinguish concave from convex surfaces for light coming from above.

(water doesnt do lensing unless it s a droplet)

I get that your point is that we don’t have a strong intuition for lenses and that’s tied to a lack of evolutionary reason to have them. I agree and suspect that might be the point of why Apple are using a the lens effects. We don’t need to go so far as to say the natural world is completely devoid of such phenomena. Of course they’re there but they’re largely not relevant to survival throughout human history

Considering his support of far right German parties around the same time, it seems far more likely he was doing it to curry favour like he’s tried to do with Trump

See "stupid edgelord."

How is currying favor and badly attempting to dogwhile (turned out to be a full blown whistle that people somehow still didn't hear) being an edgelord? Being an edgelord is saying something 'wrong' to try to be badass. Elon is funding and supporting far right parties to try to enrich himself. These things are not the same lol

How is he exaggerating the situation? What is false about the criticism? Are you referring to a previous time where they cried wolf? I read through the Twitter thread and GrapheneOS seemed pretty even keeled and above board about it to me (even if that is uncharacteristic)

Graphene's claim of "AOSP is dead" is easily verifiable.

> This also marks the availability of the source code at the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). You can examine the source code for a deeper understanding of how Android works, and our focus on compatibility means that you can leverage your app development skills in Android Studio with Jetpack Compose to create applications that thrive across the entire ecosystem.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/06/android-16...

This was posted 2 days back.

If you want to define "AOSP is not dead" as "there exists a source-available AOSP repo that is not ground-up buildable for any real world device without losing major features like SecureBoot", that's fine, but that's not the definition being discussed.

Absent device trees, AOSP as of the Android 16 release is a subset of the utility of Android 15. If one sees the use of AOSP as mainly relying on the now absent functionality, then declaring "AOSP is dead" is not unreasonable.

If the Linux Foundation sold itself to Microsoft, ceased publishing kernel sources or binaries, and declared henceforth Linux would exist as WSL and nowhere else, it would be reasonable to say "Linux is dead" even if something with a subset of that functionality, named "Linux", still existed.

> Absent device trees, AOSP as of the Android 16 release is a subset of the utility of Android 15. If one sees the use of AOSP as mainly relying on the now absent functionality, then declaring "AOSP is dead" is not unreasonable.

There are a million devices out there that build on AOSP that are not Google Pixel. This is a Pixel news, not AOSP news.

And every single one of those devices is missing features of AOSP, notably secure boot.

Google pixels were until recently the only phones able to run AOSP with 1:1 feature parity. And now there are none.

But you don't have any ability to run AOSP on any devices? Free as in literally unrunnable?

AOSP feels incomplete without there being some flagship way to use it.

It is the literal source code. You can read it, study it, distribute it, modify it. And I'm pretty sure the license allows you to sell it.

That's really really permissive.

They are talking about the device tree which has not been released with Android 16. So no way to run a custom kernel on actual hardware, unless that hardware is open. AOSP is a car without an engine now.

I guess I can also paper my walls with it...

Having stewed on this for a week, I'm even more morose over this.

I'm getting particularly salty that this is happening exactly as Android hurdles two huge integration challenges, as it goes from a standalone not-Linux-desktop single-screen computing device to something vastly more: a multi-screen capable, virtualized Linux desktop running device. Two huge leaps of integration.

This is just a maddening maddeningly crucial leap forward that Android is making right now, and it's woeful beyond words to see it making such a bold leap but leaving open-source totally behind at this exact junction, where the OS actually integrates with the hardware reasonably well/with more than the most trivial complexity for the first time ever.

This is just such a shitty shitty shitty turn of events.

That's "source available" not actual open source. If you can't build it and run it, you can't verify that it builds correctly.

He is not exaggerating the situation he is lying. There is no basis for his very clear and serious claim that AOSP is dead.

How would you more accurately characterize current situation with Android 16?

If half the earth's population lived in the pacific ocean, sure!

It's pretty easy to induce hyperlipidemia in mice by feeding them a keto diet. Wouldn't be surprised at all if it was the same in people

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38948738/

Edit: misread your comment, apologies… I’m not sure about inducing it in people based on diet, as that seems to go against any desirable outcome, but this is a link to another FH case presenting cholesterol nodules:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4498853/

It's so funny how outrage poisoned partisans have such crushing issues with pronouns. The word 'They' has been used to refer to individuals for hundreds of years. Get a life

> It's so funny how outrage poisoned partisans have such crushing issues with pronouns.

They might just be illiterate.

Let’s all be charitable.