The author wrote this for The Philadelphia Inquirer... They live in Philadelphia. This is a fluff piece to make people in Philadelphia feel more culturally significant. That said, there's the whole Rocky Balboa thing and they sometimes win the super bowl.

Management is having delusions of firing everyone and replacing them with AI. Even if it's a fantasy, it impacts the level of emotional investment and empathy management has towards workers. The pendulum will swing back, but not until businesses get a sharp reminder that they still need workers.

The "certain employee" is the CEO

In 2012 of the great blunders of JCPenney was to get rid of the constant "sales" and instead just offer low prices. Customers hated it, as they wanted to feel like they got a steal. Eventually, JCPenny brought back the scam pricing(raised prices then put them on sale) and customers flocked to the stores again.

Not just shoddy, they're setting themselves up for a mistrial. How are you going to get a jury in California that hasn't seen the news stories of his presumed guilt?

They could easily say that they have a suspect in custody and that the evidence is sealed. At this point, they're poisoning any possible jury and setting themselves up for a mistrial. Also, the evidence isn't slam dunk:
1) "driver had appeared agitated and angry" according to passengers
2) circumstantial evidence that he was near the fire when it started -> he saw the fire and called 911 multiple times to report it.
3) He asked ChatGPT a question: "Are you at fault if a fire is lift [sic] because of your cigarettes?"
4) They mention he prompted ChatGPT months earlier to generate an image of a fire, but they don't tell us the prompt.
5) He listened to a rap song, of which he probably was not watching the music video with the fires

He may have done it, but this isn't pride in the evidence they have, it's desperation to find someone to blame and likely exonerate the state for not putting out the fire as well. The power distribution system in California is notorious for starting fires. So there's public, political and private financial incentive to find a fall guy. Wildfires are ravaging California, so it's normal to do web searches and talk to LLMs about fires and fire safety. If this guy were as obsessed with fire as they claim, there would be *a lot* more material to report about his obsession.

Shouldn't the evidence be presented in trial and evaluated by a judge and jury? Why announce their findings to the public before it's been validated?

Very little money has gone into fusion relative to the benefit it would bring. ITER, the largest project, by far, was initially allocated $10 billion over more than a decade. With inflation budget has gone up, but no where near the $2 trillion spent on the F35 program that's mostly used to kill brown children.

Pubjeezy shilling for Jeff Beezy

Just imagine if this much money and effort had gone into nuclear fusion, securing clean energy for the rest of humanity's future.

I know concrete production is a significant contributor, but concrete production could be less harmful if renewable energy were used to slake limestone. In addition, we have alternatives for energy, but so far there isn't a scalable industrialized alternative to concrete. Fossil fuels are the main driver of climate change, and we have completely viable and affordable alternatives, that's why there's so much focus on reducing their usage.

It could also be used to send scammy marketing text messages as a service. Why would China fuck around, at a state level, with something like this? This is FUD and the FBI fluffing itself in public. I want to know what actual law was broken, because there are "potential" threats all over the place that are legal(for example, everyone who owns a car or a kitchen knife).

Your line of thinking is so smart. I had no idea women wore "make up," that's so deceptive! Also, people should stop wearing clothes or saying hello and asking how your day is when they don't really care. Fun fact, Nazis also thought women shouldn't wear makeup: "The Aryan ideal was a pure, un-scrubbed face. Visitors to Hitler's country retreat, lady visitors were actually given a little list of things they must not do: avoid excessive cosmetics, avoid red lipstick, and on no account ever are they to color their nails."

If she'd sold for over a billion, then the bank would deeply enough be invested in the lie to not reveal it with a lawsuit.

25 years as a professional software developer, vim user since 1994; I use an M1 MacBook from 2020 and I have zero temptation to upgrade it. I'm sure at some point Apple will enshittify the MacBook, but whatever you buy today will last at least 6 years.