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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · Jul 25

NHTSA closed their year+ investigation of Waymo. Waymo's 2 recalls re to this investigation were for crashing into a utility pole and roadway barriers. Evidently, robots repeatedly driving on the wrong side of the road into traffic and disobeying traffic control devices is ok in USA. Scale that.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 5h

First second of this video shows a Waymo robot drive through ~4 inches of standing water, leaving a wake. Parking garage runoff's prob flooding that spot in the road.

OP: tiktok.ulfrlock7

John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 5h

Waymo robot adventures in today's Arizona rain.

5k lb askew road hazard is not a minimal risk condition, IMO.
IDK was before or after or why Waymo paused service.

A robot’s "pause" aka failure

Weird how AI fails so hard
maybe telops got it going
else manual drive or tow

OP: tiktok.superpanza13

John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 14h

if you don't care enough to bring your own kit, you are prob in the wrong business

John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 15h

We could call Woz to get a joke.

woz.org/dial-a-joke/

Dial a Joke | Officially Woz

Comment from E-mail Can you tell us about “Dial-a-Joke” and some of your recent practical jokes? Woz Dial-a-Joke was a GREAT thing. I did it all alone, a little before Apple. I did a lot of great thin...

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 15h

gonna need a bigger museum

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 17h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 17h

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 9d

Today's Waymo geofence for the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival at the GG Park Polo Field appears to be the same as they used for Outside Lands almost 2 months ago.

Walking blocks to/from your robot being the new multimodal in San Francisco.

John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 17h

"One morning I even walked myself 20 minutes down to the Hollywood coffee shop so I could take a Waymo again to work. I didn’t love the hike, but I wanted that solitary ride."
from an otherwise ill-informed Bloomberg article

Walking blocks to/from your robot being the new multimodal in parts of LA.

John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 18h

ppl write/say this like it is a side effect instead of intended/known cost saving benefit, by AI vendors during development and their customers and themselves during operation/litigation.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 19h

shitposting as a news service

John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 20h

Did it even happen? I've seen no confirmation and that is not a credible source.

John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 20h

Shouldn't the pilot's duty of care to ensure safe passage/operation prevent them from flying under these conditions?

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 20h

The velocity and variety of his GIGO is impressive.

John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 21h

"EagleEye is a consequential step toward realizing Anduril’s vision of turning every warrior into a connected node on the battlefield"

connected == emanating RF, turning every warrior into an enemy trackable communications beacon/target

www.anduril.com/article/andu...

Anduril’s EagleEye Puts Mission Command and AI Directly into the Warfighter’s Helmet

Anduril today unveiled EagleEye, an independently researched and developed, modular, AI-powered family of systems that unifies command and control, digital vision, and survivability within a single, a...

www.anduril.com

John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 21h

rodama1789.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-...

The portable guillotine of Lyon

Back to death and gore.... http://blog.parisinsights.com/2011/07/ Until recently the last guillotine in Paris could be foun...

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 21h

the endlessness justifies the meanness

John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 22h

"a lone Waymo with no customers just circulating the parking lot 15 times"
OP: tiktok.ramontrantang

SAE Level 4 self-trapping car.

>16 years of the best ppl w most money produced robots without the wits of a squirrel.

FWIW, looping bugs are trivial to fix for procedural programs, but not AI/DNN.

John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 22h

The new All-American 'welcome mat'

Jay Marose @jaymarose.bsky.social · 1d

I have my message ready.

A welcome mat that says
COME BACK with
A JUDICIAL WARRANT SIGNED BY A JUDGE!

John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 22h

ICE phishing

Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 1d

If you haven't heard yet, stopice.org is a fake website made BY ice themselves and it would be a shame if they received thousands of submissions under Stephen Miller's name

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 22h

"it is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult level performance on intelligence tests or playing checkers, and difficult or impossible to give them the skills of a one-year-old when it comes to perception and mobility"
Hans Moravec, 1988

John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 22h

Waymo shutdown their Arizona service bc of rain & potential flooding, again.

Dozens if not hundreds of Waymo robots in AZ were stranded by/in rain/floods 2+ weeks ago. Waymo robots have been stuck in floods in other geos.

They clearly have a defect wrt floods. Moravec's paradox.

Good luck Miami.

John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 23h

Zoox, a Waymo competitor, had a recall for braking in ways that contributed to motorcycles rearending their robot.

GM Cruise, another former Waymo competitor, also had a recall for their robot's braking.

It is among the most common ADS/robot problems.

John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 1d

CicLAvia is a non-profit organization that has been opening streets throughout LA County since 2010. Come experience car-free open streets at our 63rd event, CicLAvia—Heart of LA.

www.ciclavia.org/ciclavia_hea...

John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 1d

Wouldn't be a car-free event without a Waymo robot failure:

6th St and Alameda, Los Angeles

🔱 Jacob Satan Party 🔱 @jacobsidney.com · 1d

Stalled Waymo at CicLAvia

Galaxy-brain Intelligence

A waymo can't process that it can't make a right turn where it wants to, so it just stops in an intersection with a passenger in it

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 1d

lapublicpress.org/2025/08/tikt...

TikTokers are calling LA ICE raids 'music festivals' to trick the algorithm

The coded language started in Los Angeles but is now being used for protests nationwide — including this week's protests in DC.

lapublicpress.org

John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 1d

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · Jul 18

Video of one of the 5 Waymo robots burned in DTLA attempting to turn around. Looks like it was giving room enough for a normal driver, though video ends before it was disabled.

In previous ~hour, Waymo restricted their DTLA geo forcing their robots onto this route & block.

bsky.app/profile/timo...

Timothy Malstead @timothymalstead.com · Jun 9

Four Waymo jags, one after the other, covered in graffiti and with their sensors disabled. A fifth decides its had enough and tries to leave only to be thwarted by someone just kinda standing there. I do love this city.