If Jony Ive is behind it, it will be objectively too thin, subject to being rendered useless by dust, and unupgradable.

Maybe AI will help M$'s shitty developers hurry up and provide easier importation of .pst files into Outlook 365 or "new" Outlook. Quick background: my main desktop just died, so I'm having to ship it off for a warranty repair, and I ordered a new desktop because my spare desktops are all slower and running Windows 10.

Instead of buying another copy of Office, I thought I would give Office 365 a try, but there's no easy way to get my .pst file into Outlook 365. It's f-ing crazy that M$ wants people to move to a subscription model without providing a seamless path to integrating years of emails, contacts, and calendar entries. To add insult to injury, Outlook (desktop) saves my .pst to OneDrive!, Really, WTF, M$?!? This is not just my ineptitude, it's in the f-ing Office 365 Roadmap. February 2026 to import contact from a .pst into new Outlook? What were they thinking? M$ created the file format, why not way to import it yet?

Instead of the constant "OOOOOOHHHHHHHH! NEW, SHINY!!!", maybe concentrate on your core products. LLMs are not a path to AGI, so all of this infatuation with "AI" is all just an industry-wide pump and dump.

Steam is less like a monopoly and more like a feudal landowner extracting rents from peasants who take all the risk for a given year's crops.

Former teen-aged me was excited for this at first because the headline made it seem like we were one step closer to . . . eradicating acne! There's a huge fortune to be made in little robots to clean pores. HUGE!

Single payer healthcare.

Well, a majority of their voters voted for Brexit, so this tracks.

How about giving me the ability to move the taskbar? Why does it have to be on the bottom? Why?!? Who's the dips**t who decided I should have less UI choice with Windows 11 than 10? Why can't I move the taskbar to the side of my landscape monitor in my chaotic neutral setup? Why do you hate me, M$, why?

No one. This is total marketing B.S. There is no way that Bezos & Co. can ever launch satellites at that rate. The FCC license gives Amazon the legal ability to put that many satellites in orbit, but it doesn't give it the capacity to do so. I hope that I'm wrong, but "news" stories rehashing corporate blog posts about the future should be treated with a healthy dose of skepticism.

This would have been a great story before the watches sold out. I would have worn the s**t out of one of these. Sigh.

I'm finally excited about a bumper sticker.

"All we are is dust in the wind, dude." -- Ted "Theodore" Logan

Reading this in an incognito window on Chrome (instead of Firefox) with all of my extensions turned off, and I still got a warning pop-up.

If you've never had the service, there are some pretty good series to binge. I would start with Slow Horses and/or Ted Lasso, but For All Mankind is really good, too.

"A Michigan college student writing about the elderly . . . ." If this student is writing about the elderly, why is he using an AI chatbot? What happened to actually doing the research yourself and then writing a paper? Obviously, this is a really weird output to get from a chatbot, but the elephant in the room is that you have college students using AI tools to avoid learning anything. I wonder how close we are to the world of Idiocracy.

July 2, 2025, is only 230 days away!