And the "meritocracy" people claim this is in pursuit of more educational opportunities for American students without a molecule of irony.

Not lucky for the poor San Franciscan kids, that's for sure.

Now there's a claim that could benefit from a citation.

The First Amendment is what allows companies to regulate content and anything else that happens on their property however the hell they want.

Yeah I don't think this is something parents opt for out of curiosity or for fun.

If they aren't software, what are they?

Yeah, all kinds of options for consumer electronics that aren't made in China.

Quoting Hitler at campaign rallies undoubtedly energized the base.

One of the coolest theaters I've been to was this weird thing in Asheville, NC (go figure) where they replaced every other row of seats with tables and served pizza and beer.

I don't believe anything is dying until NetCRAFT confirms it.

I would love nothing more than a point release that addresses the OS's shortcomings for institutional device management. It is entirely too easy for device management to be broken by a bad link in the Volume Ownership > SecureToken > Bootstrap Token chain, where the only fix is a wipe/repave.

Apple has been openly hostile to institutional device management, even though K12/academia in general has historically been such a huge market for them. They simply have to get over this obsolete idea that he/she who possesses the device owns the device.

Demonstrating once again that in the big picture of security, the strongest encryption available can be thwarted by any idiot user.

Competing disinformation.

Except nobody is uprooting their factories and supply chains and pay American wages when they can just tack on 25% to their prices.

Happy to see an Ultima reference here, though as much as I loved the series (we don't talk about IX) I'm not sure it's reach puts it on this list. It was certainly influential for a fairly specific demographic of which many Slashdotters are a member.