Thinking of installing a browser extension to remove the letters "A" and "I" from all web pages. You may say that will make the fetched pages harder to understand, but I think at this point the alternative is even worse.

I've never understood all the excitement about the Gs. It's just some numbers going up, right? And the most relevant number is only going up by one: from 5 to 6. Ho hum.

Oh, shit, are they also banning people who use a dollar sign for the "S"?

Sure. I'm also going to modify the license. Nobody will read it, of course. But then I sue for millions.

It certainly seems as if the theoretical advantages of computers in education (interactive visualization, self-quizzing drills, instant grading) are more than outweighed by their actual disadvantages (distraction, discouraging deep thought, removing the knowledge internalization supplied by hand-writing notes), especially in a group setting. This is to say nothing of generative "AI", which will make all the old disadvantages look positively rosy by comparison

I'm in the process of migrating to Codeberg, myself. As another respondent pointed out, albeit in less flowery language, having all your open-source contributions digested into a pap that is then used to drown the younglings is not exactly rewarding.

Capitalist, Apparently Unknowingly, Announces What Is Definitely Plan to End Capitalism

The UI is terrible, but it's because it had too few buttons, not too many. You cannot easily, for instance, channel-surf through FM radio. And even once you finally figure out the horrible menus you need to navigate to get a screen where you can channel-surf through FM radio with considerable difficulty (while parked somewhere, if you value your life!), you can't use the display for anything else while you're doing it, and you have to be very careful not to make any wrong moves lest you end up somewhere else in the menu tree.

The Mazda scrollwheel ain't it. But full-touchscreen should be outlawed.

AI companies paying to prevent energy price rises is not, in any real way, going to happen. That would be so many dollars, y'all. They couldn't do it even if they wanted to.

"Preliminary data had indicated that the U.S. economy added 584,000 jobs last year. But the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised that number after it received additional state data, and found that the labor market had added 181,000 jobs in all of 2025. [...] One bright spot was last month, when hiring increased by 130,000 roles."

Okay, but how "preliminary" will the data for last month turn out to be?

They say the point of the liarocracy is not to make people believe lies. (Though many seem to anyway!) The point is to make it impossible to ever know what the truth is, so you don't ever believe anybody official saying anything, and that makes you give up on politics. Then they've got you where they want you.

I'd say the we're already well down that path with the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Sure, but it's worse than that, because at least 32 of the ounces in Sally Starbucks's mug are sugar and cream.

Robots, schmobots, as long as I can read it left-handed.

Imagine, if you will, a 100-year bond sold by Standard Oil in 1900. Wikipedia says Standard Oil was split into 39 successor entities. In 2000, which of them pays it back?

A lot can happen in 100 years. If you pay actual money for this bond, you will richly deserve all of it happening to you.

"So why not set a push goal now and re-calibrate when physics or some other issue rises?"

If you're asking 'why is lying wrong?', I guess I don't have a good answer to that.

"Five years from now, Musk predicted, SpaceX will launch and operate more AI compute annually than the cumulative total on Earth, expecting at least a few hundred gigawatts per year in space..."

That's a prediction, all right. Elon Musk makes lots of well-documented predictions. How many of them have been accurate? If and when this prediction turns out to be wrong, what will happen? Has Musk staked anything of value on this prediction? Will he suffer any consequences whatever for being wrong?

Okay. So, is it responsible journalism to report the future predictions of a person whose past predictions have been mostly wrong?