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@stefan@gardenstate.social
2026-03-09 04:36:52

Revoke their license.
Emergency Responders Say They're Now Unpaid "Roadside Assistance" for Confused Waymos share.google/yGTL3WVyQYFfoFDS4


emergency operations. On Sunday, a
Waymo robotaxi bloc an ambulance
from responding to the scene of a mass
shooting in Austin, Texas. Footage showed
the cab blocking a street Wer freezing in
place, forcing the ambulance driver to
reverse out and take a different route.
Waymo cabs have also been spotted
blazing through an active police standoff,
and have forced police officers to pull
them over for mishaps like driving on the
wrong side of the road.
@pre@boing.world
2026-02-19 18:40:32

Half way through the Hoopla Improv Story narrative course and we actually attempt a couple of 20 minute stories.
One pretty confused one about a voyage to find unicorns which ended up about time-travellers due to mixups.
And one about the child of a missing astronaut seeking his father by joining a space mission.
Edits are what made the main difference here. Shouting "Cut to the jail" left half the players thinking they were in a flashback and the other half thinking they were in the consequences of the previous scene. Thus one ending up being a time-traveler.
A more coherent edit might have been "Flashback to jail", and these more coherent edits are key to what made the second story less chaotic and more whole. "Cut to the training test" or "Flashback to school where a teacher is impressed with the protagonist"
I like a game with a narrator. The narrator can give the story structure and theme and act as a director of the action. But we can do that without a narrator if the edits are well thought out and shouted clearly enough to keep the actors on the same track.
Mind you, the chaos is the funny bit usually.
#improv #hooplaImpro #london