Does anyone actually like touchscreens or are they just a humiliation ritual?

AI is killing Hollywood.. the same guy who shot the iconic Sydney Sweeney x American Eagle campaign just made a full Jack Daniels commercial using Higgsfield Seedance Pro it used to cost 1 million, now $20 with AI let's break it down:

It’s crazy that you can charter a helicopter from about $2000/hr for Bell 206L4 or 407 up to maybe $6000/hr+ for an S76 or AW139 yet somehow EMS helicopters charge $90,000 for a half hour round trip.

Dragon orbiting across Europe into Asia.

RIP Tesla: “Cars will need buttons not just touchscreens to get a 5-star Euro NCAP safety rating” In a new study, $TSLA was ranked the most unsafe vehicle, with industry’s highest accident fatality rate, thanks in part to touch screen heavy UI Elon Musk pushed to save costs.

The best part of the #USOpen is listening to Chris Fowler and John McEnroe bicker about strategy and who is the best. ESPN

The correct Aesthetic of Software

I said something similar in a reply recently and got broiled in the comments. I cannot believe the number of people who have a cynical attitude toward this. I don’t think people realize that paying people millions to do nothing hurts us all in inflation.

I’ve been kind of a long term AI doomer in the sense that I worry about the job market for truck drivers and manufacturers, etc and can’t quite see how society will function economically (will they pivot to construction due to so much growth?)but I do hope my occasional negative

Thoughts and prayers to the UPS crew. This is such an unforgiving business sometimes. This image was about 10 miles northeast of KSDF. The smoke was visible 50+ miles out

Not to be too morbid but if war becomes our robots vs your robots at what point do we realize this is just a silly kid’s game and maybe we could settle our dispute instead?

One thing that makes cargo aviation difficult is that OEMs—regardless of their marketing hype about lifetime support—will always try to phase out airframes they consider to be a liability. I think all freight dogs would love to fly brand new aircraft, but the economics don’t

Never forget the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, November 10, 1975.

A little blurry because we rushed to take this when we saw the brief opportunity taking off from Louisville the other night. The most haunting aspect of it is the snow outline of a “missing” MD-11, reminds me of the missing man formation used by the military. Sad to see these