"Inside stores, shoppers will see iFixit toolkits and parts on shelves..."

This is a chance how? They've had the toolkits for years at the one near(-ish) to me

My former boss used to say that he knew enough programming to be dangerous (and sysadmin, etc)

But he knew it, so he left it to us professionals to do the work most of the time. AI just gives people the tools to be dangerous, without them actually understanding much of anything. And any jobs to clean up their work will slowly be learned by AI to do a good enough job most of the time until that one critical disaster happens.

Luckily, I was working for NASA, and they have rules for critical systems.... but most companies don't. And it's only a matter of time before someone figures out how to poison the AI to leave back doors or whatever other vulnerabilities

The cycle is more like:

"The economy sucks because of too much regulation, I can make it better!"
(things seems to improve for a while, but they relax too much regulation and destroy the economy)
(other side gets elected to clean it up, and spend years trying to fix it)
"Remember how bad the economy was under that other side? I can fix it!"
(and then we re-elect the party that keeps crashing the economy) ... this last time the candidate actually said "are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?". Yes, yes I am. I may not be employed now, but it wasn't the middle of a pandemic that you made worse by telling people yo rise up against measures trying to help hospitals get a handle on things and forced states to compete against each other for supplies... then stole them.

Realized that the company was over valued, then used their stock to buy up Time Warner and such, so they actually had a legitimate value to their stock.

Of course, Yahoo tried it, too, but that didn't exactly pan out for them

It has nothing to do with Citizen's United. It's a push by some groups (likely people who control corporations) to try to claim that corporations should have rights that we give to people.

If you give freedom of speech to corporations, then truth in advertising laws fall apart.

Corporations can have free speech once someone can figure out how to apply the death penalty to a corporation. Until then, it shouldn't have the rights of people.

Let's consider for a moment:

Imagine if a corporation can outright lie to you about what they're selling, and then claim free speech when they're found to be lying.

"Made in America!"
"Gluten Free!"
"Does not contain rodent droppings or insect parts above the legal limits set by the FDA"
"Will not cause hair loss"
"Does not cause birth defects"
"Will not record your sex life and then put it on unsecured servers" ...etc.

Taking productive farmland out of operation for solar farms is pretty damned stupid, but there's also farmland that's problematic: steeper slopes and odd topography can require crazy terraced plowing to reduce errosion issues; closer to waterways you need to worry more about fertilizer usage.

But there's also an alternative called "agrivoltaics" where you mix the two on the same land. It requires a lower panel density for the solar so sunlight still reaches the ground, then planting crops that prefer shade instead of full sun.

You also need to put the panels up high enough that tractors can get under them... so it's better for smaller scale farms that don't rely on massive tractors.

You can also mix some ranching with solar panels... you leave enough space between them so the grass can still grow, and use it as sheep or goat pastures.

Over the roads?

There's a company that supposedly can make "solar roads" (panels that you would drive on), but as well as I know they have nothing large scale. I would assume it would be better for commercial driveways (the roads leading up to the building), as it doesn't make sense to use a parking lot or similar that's going to be covered for long periods.

(solar panels above parking lots are fantastic... shades the cars and you don't get wet transitioning in/out of your car ... so long as you account for snow loads so they don't fall and crush whatever is below them)

There was also a project to try to put solar panels over rivers ... which would reduce evaporation to make sure more of it got downstream in arid regions. (but I think they're also trying to figure out how it affects vegetation and animals that might be near the river)

There have also been solar-thermal paving projects, where you take the heat from the parking lot and use it for heating water in the summer ... and they usually put in a ground loop for geothermal, so in the winter you can use it to melt snow and ice.

My understanding is that there's a market for old flip phones in Amish communities (as they typically ban smartphones, but it's okay to have a phone that you can shut off when you're at home), and there are some schools that have talked about banning smartphones so the kids can still get in contact with parents but not be playing games and using social media while at school. ... but models? No clue. The only one that I can think of is from old TV ads for jitterbug phones. (a special network/service for old people)

No, it's about foldable phones.

Whoever wrote the headline must be AI or young enough to not know there's a major difference between the two.

Because my first diagnosis was depression ... and anxiety. Then finally ADHD... and then childhood trauma and "other personality disorder" which turned out to be something else that wasn't diagnosed til almost a decade later

Yeah... the headlines I've been seeing fail to mention that the test subjects all had ADHD to qualify to get the meds in the first place.

ADHD had a high correlation with depression and the many results that can come from depression.

Hopefully articles like this don't result in it being even more difficult for the people who need them to get access to their meds, because it's a royal PITA to have CVS not willing to tell you who actually has it in stock, so you have to go from store to store... then have your doctor send the prescription... but the first store had started processing it, so they have to undo it on their side... but it's now lunch time, so everyone is closing down right now... etc.

I moved my prescriptions to Wegmans as they'll at least order medications they don't have on hand, rather than make me do all of the work... unfortunately, they stopped accepting electronic prescriptions for my ADHD meds (but not the others), so I have to go on person with paper now

They're trying to hire people that they think they can make money based on their work.

The Manhattan folks were still doing experimental stuff that might not have actually worked in the end. You might compare them to the folks working on the mini-reactor projects today.

The AI folks are getting salaries not all that far off from NFL players... and yeah, it doesn't require abusing your body, but there's still the possibility of burnout when you realize what your AI is being used for and it conflicts with your morals.

Hopefully the people who take the money invest it well, and can then spin up their own companies to do actual good things with their knowledge after they leave. (like the folks trying to do landmine detection using multi spectral imaging from drones)

Ah, it's all about how you normalize your data.

Yes, children are more likely to be abused by teachers ... but there are a lot more teachers in the world. A pastor is still more likely to be a molester than a teacher.

There's also questions about how much more likely other children (or their parents) are willing to come forward when the molestation has happened to a teacher vs a pastor/clergy. (my grandfather was abused by a Catholic priest, and his mom treated him as a liar and refused to believe a priest could ever do something like that)

I recommend that everyone read Huff's "How to Lie with Statistics"

?? digital price tags?

Aldi uses those, but how would you make sure the person next to you didn't see the same price, and then you got that price when checking out?

You're probably thinking about the reports that they were pricing some items online higher depending on where you lived and your OS: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibtimes.co.uk%2Flook...