AI in legal work won't get banned. As it gets better and AI agents can do things like pass the BAR exam, we'll even see it legitimized to hire a fully AI lawyer to defend yourself in court, or sue your neighbors.

Yes you did. Dorks are always right. Judges are often wrong.

That's funny, because the hand scanners at the YMCA are impossible to satisfy. I'd never trust them for anything beyond gym entrance, and they suck at that job. 9/10 false negative rate.

How? The dystopia has long since been here. If you have your photo on your gov ID, you are already in biometric scan databases used by: the FAA, the TSA, the FBI, DHS, and most county and state level police.

Giving it to yet another database changes nothing for you.

Oh I assure you, A TI-83 running a game was plenty distracting. I ran a small business charging people $5 to transfer games to theirs.

uh. In 2000-2002 or so, everyone with a TI-83 was playing drug wars and Doom, etc. Learn how to quickly swap to a math screen if the teacher stands up, etc.

Yes, it has always been, 100%, capitalist greed.

> toss that addictive little tracking device they have in their pockets.

I'll have you know the so-called tracking device (cellphone) in my pocket is running GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux, because if I'm going to be insufferable, I'm going to commit. That's right—it's running Ubuntu, not Android. Ubuntu. On a phone. Because I like my daily driver to be a daily adventure.

You think your phone is smart? Mine wakes up every morning unsure if it'll have Wi-Fi or a functioning touchscreen. I don’t get notifications—I get philosophical messages from systemd about the meaning of existence and why my keyboard layout randomly changed to Finnish. Sending a text is a sacred ritual involving dbus-send and the blood of a freshly sacrificed USB cable.

And no, I don’t have an app store. I have the command line and an overinflated sense of self-worth. Want to install a calculator? Hope you're ready to apt-get it like a real adult, followed by half an hour of dependency resolution that makes Dante’s Inferno look like a cozy Airbnb.

I can't use Snapchat, TikTok, or even Google Maps, but I can compile my own kernel on the toilet, and frankly, that feels more spiritually fulfilling. My GPS works if I climb onto the roof and hold the phone at a 37-degree angle while chanting "libre" in Latin. And when people ask "Hey, is that a new phone?" I say "No, it's a new way of life,” and then I vanish in a puff of sudo privileges.

So yeah, while the rest of you are swiping and tapping your lives away in the warm embrace of proprietary comfort, I’m living on the edge, where every reboot is a gamble and every update is a potential act of war.

But at least it's not Android. It’s Ubuntu. And it’s mine.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go recompile my modem driver because I blinked wrong and lost cellular service.

Honda's have had great crash safety. They have long been ahead of the curve in that regard.

Crypto is actually not used to any extensive degree to fund terrorism. most blockchains are auditable and transparent, so anybody can follow the money, making tracing trivial, making illegal usage discouraged. Cash, OTOH, is rampantly used. Most notable, JPMorgan Chase has faced scrutiny and been involved in cases related to anti-money laundering and terrorist financing, leading to fines and settlements with regulators.

The idea that crypto is for illegal use is outdated, debunked, and borne from FUD, largely sourced from the legacy finance system who are afraid of, and biased against, libre money such as Bitcoin.

As a former FDIC employee/contractor who was pushing for this back in 2013, it's about fucking time.

Funny thing is, the software in a current tesla is completely capable of autonomous self driving, but it's held back by regulatory hurdles and muddied by mistakes made in older versions of said software that have been fixed.

All Democrats (big D) are neoliberal.

Neoliberal democrats have been oligarchic for decades. It's not exclusively republican.

Agreed. I used to be a gov contractor. The amount they paid me, vs what they billed the gov for my time, was insane. like 1:10 ratio.

better to just have the gov hire them directly as feds, and save money.