what if indoor malls were a garage in the center surrounded by stores on the outside? + algorithms and new ideas

I’ve been thinking a lot about how platforms like Polyvore or even malls used to work—and how nothing has really filled the creative or social gaps they left behind. I had this idea: what if you combined the convenience of strip malls with the walkability and community of indoor malls, and literally made the space half-garage/half-retail—like a breathable hybrid of browsing + drive-up access?

Also, in terms of algorithmic culture: I don’t think the algorithm is ironic at all. It feels more like everything is reversed—like the things that would’ve ended up in the clearance bin at Target or Walmart are now the ones that surface first online. Not because they’re “funny,” just because the system flipped and now low-engagement-looking content is what performs. Not Z-A as a joke—just the math of what slips through and scales.

I wish there were a way for people like me—who aren’t rich or connected—to just donate our ideas to help build better systems or platforms. I don’t want credit or money, I just want the world to move in a smarter direction faster. If that means someone at OpenAI or any startup sees this and runs with it, go for it.

tags: #openai #simon #westfield #amazon #target #walmart #intellectualproperty

tv writing/AI algorithms/writing for fans not for art or money (until it’s proven its worth in those categories I guess?)

 

More “spirit of the law” stuff

If it was the state governments fault, then doesn’t that mean it was corruption? And the voters themselves shouldn’t be punished?

“…voter registration forms in that county did not included driver’s license and Social Security numbers.”

Also people get unregistered just because they didn’t vote in the last 2 elections? Why do you have to re-register? Sounds like more corruption, not an ethical law made with the right spirit.

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North Carolina’s State Board of Elections has removed 747,000 people from its list of registered voters within the last 20 months, officials announced Thursday in a press release.

The State Board of Elections in the release said the majority of those stripped from the rolls were deemed ineligible to be registered because they had moved within the state and did not register their new address, or because they did not participate in the past two federal elections, prompting an inactive status.

Other reasons for removal included death, felony convictions, out-of-state moves and personal requests for removal, the board said.

North Carolina is one of seven swing states likely to decide the presidential election between Vice President Harris and former President Trump. Only one Democrat this century, former President Obama in 2008, has won the state in a presidential contest, but Harris has been polling close to Trump.

The state is also home to a tough gubernatorial contest between Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein.

The purge comes just a few weeks after North Carolina Republicans filed a lawsuit that said the state had failed to act on complaints about ineligible people on voter rolls.

In the GOP lawsuit, a Wake County resident in North Carolina claimed that voter registration forms in that county did not included driver’s license and Social Security numbers. 

“By failing to collect certain statutorily required information prior to registering these applicants to vote, Defendants placed the integrity of the state’s elections into jeopardy,” the GOP lawsuit read.

Republicans also filed a lawsuit recently raising concerns after state approved digital IDs issued by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a valid form of voter ID. That claim was rejected by a local judge.

The state now has around 7.7 million registered voters. The Hill has reached out to the North Carolina State Board of Elections for comment.

Link: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4901476-north-carolina-purges-747k-voters/

You believe in banning condoms?

The Republican VP nominee is endorsing Project 2025, which seeks to ban porn, premarital sex, birth control, and condoms as well as abortion. Looks like they’re testing the waters to see when Trump should say he’ll let the other Republican politicians that are in the House and Senate pass these as laws.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/s/XCbYibkC2J

Capitalism’s final functioning form

Designer babies caste system

If we ban IVF now, when designer babies come around, we’ll be the only first-world country unable to enter the highest rank of the new caste system that every biology teacher says will be created once people start having designer babies as kids. Designer babies will take all the best jobs, and America could become a third-world country left behind. Better to leave it unbanned and allow America to continue striving to be the best in every field, for the sake of everyone’s livelihood and the country’s economy (even if you yourself wouldn’t be affected, the economy falling into a Great Depression might affect your life in ways you can’t predict now).

https://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/s/2oxzwx9fZA

Debate class