Adam Cook

Engineer focused on #Robotics, #ControlSystems, #SystemsSafety, #Manufacturing and #Simulation.  #ManufacturingOpen Core Contributor.  #Purdue Engineering alum.  Built in #Chicago, living in #Detroit. He/Him.
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2023-08-25 02:38:59

Wild weather in #Detroit right now, pretty much out of nowhere.
Tornado Warning in #Canton, so I am told.
Stay safe out there!
#Michigan

2023-08-20 15:33:10

The Dime Building light well in Downtown #Detroit.
The Dime Building (also known as the Chrysler House) is one of Detroit’s oldest skyscrapers.
23 floors. Completed in 1912.
#HistoricBuildings #History
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2023-08-17 20:10:49

"Fix the damn roads" is one of *the* most out-of-touch slogans in #Michigan politics today and I wince every time I hear and see it.
I live in #Detroit and I cannot even get a damn bus to #Livonia because the City of Livonia was allowed, inexplicably under Michigan Law, to simply opt-out. 🤷‍♂️
#transit #UrbanPlanning
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2023-08-17 20:10:49

2023-07-05 04:42:18

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@npub15l7…aang #Vegan ✊

2023-07-04 07:53:31

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@npub1ex3…c58j @npub1y98…fhhs @npub1dq6…kl95 I see it as Musk just grabbing with both hands - likely in an effort to avoid having to sell off more Tesla stock in order to keep Twitter afloat (and/or to finance new growth avenues, whatever they may be).
Musk, under no circumstances, can allow Twitter to die (or be sold).
It would not only remove Musk's ability to use Twitter to convert soft power into hard power... but, far more crucially, a failure would forever remove the cult-like aura around Musk.

2023-06-30 22:06:23

So, if it was not the case before, now that #Twitter seems to be walled off for good...
How can the #NWS and, say, The White House (as a two random examples) continue to remain solely on social media platforms that are inaccessible to millions of unregistered users?
Those exclusively on the #Fediverse, an open platform, are being actively denied public services, official policy announcements and timely emergency alerts.
Wondering if there is a legal argument here.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23779764/twitter-blocks-unregistered-users-account-tweets

2023-06-30 06:21:59

Interesting.
It appears that #Twitter is now "locked down" such that one cannot even view Tweets or user accounts without logging in first.
Not sure if this is an intentional change on Twitter's part or if they just broke something.

2023-06-16 09:27:54

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@npub1nvp…agzg @npub17ra…ksud I concur.
And I **really** wonder about my continued use of, say, #GoogleCloud.
Would #Google actually kill it off or, possibly more realistically, large chunks of it (say, Google App Engine or even Google Cloud Compute, in favor of just supporting new-fangled "AI" cloud offerings)?
I do wonder.
I have already been burned once, sort of badly, on the Google Cloud #IoT Core shutdown.

2023-06-14 13:12:34

Seriously, fuck this bigot.
#Musk #Twitter
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2023-06-11 12:02:44

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@npub1q2t…jr8a The bedrock of that is the cult that #Musk constructed, over years, through #Tesla and #SpaceX.
**A lot** of the members of that cult have invested their lives, and for some, the entirety of their possessions into Musk.
Even if many of these members would otherwise find Musk's behavior today disgusting... they are far too deep in now.
Musk recognizes this.
And so Musk wishes to expand his influence by capturing another, large, pre-built cult - the #AltRight.

2023-06-11 11:49:25

#Musk, who is the reply guy for actual, self-professed #Nazis (like Ian Miles Cheong), endorses a disgusting view that the #LGBTQ community is a front for Nazism.
Musk has been really letting his hair down lately on the hate.
Naturally, Musk does this thing now where he only "likes" the really offensive content - in an effort to boost it on #Twitter somewhat covertly.
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2023-06-06 10:06:24

#Detroit #Pride is coming up this weekend and, sadly, I think that we must be prepared for a rough time.
I think it is somewhat undeniable that this year will be extremely dangerous for the #LGBTQ community... and the #Nazis, emboldened by what they perceive as recent "wins" from several weak-kneed, apathetic companies, will likely embrace violence at these events as a means of intimidation.
We cannot allow Nazis to continue to stomp on minorities and under-presented groups, as they do.

2023-06-03 19:04:47

If you live in #Michigan or #Detroit, please consider sending a pre-written letter to key state representatives in support of increased #transit funding here: https://www.detroittransit.org/boost-mi-transit-funding/
Also, if you are able, consider donating: https://detroittransit.networkforgood.com/projects/180291-transform-transit-in-2023
It is absolutely vital that local and regional transit improves significantly and it is downright perplexing that the leaders of this state have yet to realize how it kills the attractiveness of this state.

2023-06-03 03:54:29

At minimum, #Detroit needs a train between the Detroit Metro Airport and Downtown.
Come on now.
This was last weekend.
Waited over 2 hours for a bus at the airport.
I am patient, but this should not happen.
Bus service cannot hope to (even remotely) satisfy a region the size of the Detroit Metro.
It simply cannot.
Not sure how many are coming in out-of-town for the #GrandPrix this weekend, but the #NFL Draft next year is going to be a disaster from a transportation perspective.
#transit
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2023-06-02 13:27:47

#AI #AIHype
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2023-05-31 10:47:00

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@npub1q2t…jr8a Such a model! 🥰

2023-05-31 10:37:32

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@npub17ha…t8va Absolutely barbaric.
These trainers and owners can spare me their faux-tears.

2023-05-20 18:25:10

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Ok, ok.
Here is another picture when Cheeto was a #kitten. 🤪
#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday
A purrito on his way to his first vet visit.
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2023-05-20 18:19:10

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Now, here Cheeto is, one year later, acting goofy in the garage of his #ForeverHome.
Just look how big he got!
#Caturday
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2023-05-20 18:11:49

So... last year during June's heatwave, when my wife and I were getting ready to leave #Texas for #Detroit, a tiny #kitten that was living under a nearby industrial trash compactor found us.
We cleaned him all up, took him to the vet and because we already have two #cat babies of our own... my wife's co-worker who had recently lost her cat baby adopted him.
His new #ForeverHome parents named him "Cheeto".
Here he is at his first vet checkup.
1.5 lbs.
5 weeks (est.)
#cats #CatsOfMastodon
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2023-05-17 15:51:24

The chart presented below claims that it is sourced from the #SAE and the #NHTSA, but...
**THE CHART IS WRONG!**
I took this from a "Tesla Twitter" exchange.
#Musk has staked much of #Tesla's future on the near-term success of their #FSDBeta program (however "success" is even defined)... so, naturally, there has always been an impulse on Twitter to "stretch" the capabilities of Autopilot and FSD Beta.
Let's take this apart because there are important public safety ramifications here.
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2023-05-16 17:55:27

I will say it again...
I do not recall an open letter with thousands of prominent signatories, a hastily-assembled White House Task Force and a big Senate hearing for automated driving systems.
You know... #SafetyCritical systems that are masquerading as #AI that have killed people and have the capacity to readily cause immediate injury and death.
We have an unregulated Wild West out there on that.
No, no.
Let's sound the alarm over a goddamned chatbot.
#ChatGPT #OpenAI #SenateAIHearing

2023-05-15 19:26:07

Alright.
Here we have another #Tesla #FSDBeta clip showing some highly-questionable automated vehicle behavior (the automated vehicle proceeds through a marked crosswalk where a pedestrian has already entered).
Let's put our #SystemsSafety caps on and take a look here...
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2023-05-08 16:02:59

This is really more of a story about #OSHA and its immense effectiveness failures - a long-standing problem that underpins US construction and #manufacturing activities.
The agency existing, on paper, while doing nothing actually harms the public as the public ***thinks*** there is someone looking out for their interests when there is not.
https://www.texasobserver.org/tesla-texas-worker-death-heat/

2023-05-02 02:41:13

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@npub1yk6…4zz4 You do you @npub1yk6…4zz4.
Your content is great and everyone should be able to openly celebrate their accomplishments whenever and wherever.
This post policing pisses me off and it is exactly the type of shit that is forcing creators **and** marginalized communities off of here.

2023-04-22 14:52:15

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#[0] The biggest issue was, in my view, one of a betrayal of journalistic ethics.
Many in the tech press were used by Musk to facilitate Tesla’s lies around their “full self-driving” narrative - which was anything but.
The public was concretely harmed by those ethical wrongdoings.

2023-04-06 01:02:59

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#[0] #[1] since 2018. 💪
It was, in fact, a Facebook video clandestinely recorded in a pig slaughterhouse that changed me instantly.
The video is forever burned into my mind.
Pigs are highly-social, extremely intelligent animals - no different from cats and dogs.

2023-04-05 00:20:45

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#[0] It really is a good point - and one that few in this newfound "AI safety" camp ever touched on.
Musk (and Andrej Karpathy), both connected to #[1] at various times, were engaged in vast, obvious systems safety wrongdoings on the public roadways that continue to this day.
Essentially, sloppily experimenting on the public with zero controls.
And Musk is profiting from that Big Time.
Where was an open letter with thousands of signatories when that was happening in full view?