"When I became the NASA administrator, (President Obama) charged me with three things," Bolden said in the interview which aired last week. "One, he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering."

Is... is this just a way to give musk & bezos even more goverment money?

I'm beginning to get a little suspicious.

Your argument only works (or tries to) because of phrasing it badly. "Handing your kids to the government" sounds like you let the government do evil things with them by default ... but we're just talking about them sitting in class getting taught. That's nothing to be afraid of normally. That doesn't justify mass surveillance, which is something taking away freedom.

Could be worse, handing them to religious nut jobs to sexually abuse. Of course some governments are full of religious nut jobs so you have the worst of both worlds.

I use the Meta AI for illustrations for my D&D game. I'm not sure I'd pay for it but it has made a positive impact in the game. ie the players rave about having images for bad guys.

I was in middle school and school bus cams first appeared (massive black box with a window, many of us speculated that only some of them even contained a camera) There were some incidents where the video was used. The school always has the option of giving video to the cops. Likewise, the system always had the option to subpoena the video.

This is all about cops just being able to pull up the school bus footage on a whim. I don't really see how increased access to video for investigative and not evidential reasons is going to keep society at large safe. I can imagine some rather nauseating use cases though

Solution: "Factory Reset" and then never connect it to the internet again. I did this after the last UI update put a 3rd or 4th row of ads on the home-screen and it's made my life a whole lot easier.

"Tell us you don't know what we're talking about without telling us." - You use that trope a lot... maybe you should find a different insult thing.

I am literally laughing. The I hate Elon therefore I must hate on anything SpaceX does crowd are legendary for their inability to back up their statement and hiding behind shadow bans and blocklists. They hate facts. SpaceX fans are on every social platform loudly flying the flag. Hell, many are so enthusiastic about it a common thing is, "I hate SpaceX because their fanboys are everywhere." Saying they hide in their own communities is absurd.

Ah, so it's the dumb human's fault! Got it!

unraveling what many tech workers once perceived as a guarantee of affluence and employability.

"Microsoft Teams only partially worked".

No surprise. Teams only partly works on Windows.

His name is spelled "Newsom". And he is a careerist wife cheater who doesn't appear to hold any particularly strong convictions except those that blow best with the wind. These are performative executive wishes that don't do anything to stop job destruction, slipping standards of living, stem inequality, or create jobs for the zillions of people out-of-work.