*snicker* Hey, we're a first-rate banana republic.

And, of course, the GOP will happily give tens of billions for roads and airports, but *hates* trains. Biden got Amtrak its first major money for upgrades, and I'm worried about next year.

Meanwhile, if you're *not* talking about the Northeast Corridor, where the Pennsy/NYC/er, Amtrak owns the lines... the scumbag freight railways hate maintenance (cf Ohio last year), and having just ridden the Empire Builder (Chicago to Seattle) for Worldcon, here's a fiver if there's no major derailment in ND or IN, or, for that matter, OH within a year.

Font issues mean you need to install more fonts, presumably the collection of M$ fonts.

So if I'm reading you correctly, the GOP has replaced reality with "we make our own reality"*, and everyone else is defined by you as an activist, because we're looking at actual reality? And we're objecting to fantasy as law?

* VP Dick Cheney

Oh? Do tell.
I never had any trouble with resumes being slurped up by corporate software, nor has anything else I've written in LibreOffice and saved as .doc or .docx been a problem to anyone using Word.

And, as a writer, my manuscripts are read just fine by editors, and I've had no trouble dealing with copy-edited galleis sent me to proofread.

Odd that you're having issues.

A thought that just struck me: why tiles, and not, say, strips?

a) 21% of the US is functionally illiterate.
        26% cannot read at 10th grade level
b) I've been reading for over 10 years that most Americans don't read three books a year.
c) Guilty - between myself, my wife, our kids and grandkids, thousands of Americans don't read a book a year (to lower the average that we skew).

That's the way this story reads.
We'll ignore dark money "Heritagae Foundation" (Fascist). And all the others...

Skimming the comments, y'all mised the point: Anthropic made $5B in revenue, while loosing *many* billions in operating costs.

So, how much longer will they be in business, before they collapse (and vulture capital pulls out)?
Also, given the reported in the media emails that *said* that the CEO *chose* not to pay originally "because it was too complicated", they were looking at a 100% chance that they'd be found liable.

Collapse of the AI bubble, coming soon.

Wrong. It's bs, vomited out of the mouth of someone who has no clue, and is trying to cover that fact.

is a scam.

So, if I understand this, it would be like paying interest with stocks instead of real money. Then, on a withdrawal, or loan, the banks would have to pony up the current value of the stocks...

Can we talk about "buying" ebooks from Amazon?

Really? And how does it play out when we KEEP our vehicles (like my PHEV minivan) for 10-15 years?

First, it's not AI. It's typeahead writ large.

And Cory Doctorow reports on a report that says 95% of all companies using AI are finding it a complete fail. Meanwhile, ROI on AI for the companies making it is on the order of a billion or three... while they're burning through hundreds of billions in venture capital.

IF you have a job - and I doubt that - you probably do make more, since I'm on social security. 240 WPM? ROTFLMAO - I have an ex who was well into the mid/upper 100-200 range. So, tell us - is that after correcting typos and spelling errors?

Really. Is someone *paying* you to post bullshit, or do you just have no job, no life, and think annoying others is "fun"?