Can't remember the last time I used Google to search. Yeah, even alternatives "use" google, but I don't use their interface.

Don't forget closing down everything, (except Walmart, liquor stores, head shops, massage parlors), stay home from work etc and of course, MAIL IN BALLOTS for elections. Covid 2.0

Does what I want and keeps everything UNCLUTTERED.

It's why I use a legal Fresnel license plate cover. Directly behind the vehicle? License plate is clear as a bell! From an angle or above? BLANKED out.

Oh! It's for your safety! If you have nothing to hide, what's the problem. YEAH RIGHT!

What percentage of those booing students had used AI to help them complete their coursework in the past year?

I would wager good money - 100%.

Too many screens, too much doom scrolling. Kids are not educated these days. They lack critical thinking because they don't have to think. They just say "hey google" (or whatever). Go back to pencil & paper in schools. Also PARENTS need to take active rolls in their kids education.

I download all my books DRM-free from bittorrent.

My ebook reader is an ancient Sony PRS-650, it still works fine and it has no trouble reading files that haven't been messed up by Amazon. What a concept eh?

"What about the book's authors who aren't getting paid when you download their stuff for free?" I hear you say:

Yes, I wish I could pay for what I downloaded. But I can't. The best option I could find was to buy the paperback as well, so some of my money would trickle back to them. But that's mighty stupid and totally not environmentally-friendly.

I did try to pay an author directly once (the late Ian M. Banks) but he send me an angry email back saying even if he got money from me, I was robbing his editor and distributor, and I should just buy his book normally - which I would, if that didn't entail leaving an undeserved cut to effing Amazon.

So there we are: there's no mechanism to legally buy books that aren't hamstrung by DRM. So honest people who value their consumer rights can't be honest.

Nothing against Craig...good actor but I was done with the Bond movies after his first one. I grew up on the ORIGINAL Bond movies. Bond girls, Bond villains, Bond humor. Now, everything is politically correct trash! Unless they GO BACK to how the Bond movies were, I won't bother. Pretty much the same for the Star Wars movies. Hollywood does that. Milk the cow until it is nothing more than DRIED BEEF JERKY!

Wood burning is very much alive - both old-stylee polluting open-fires and stoves, and ultra-efficient pellet, wood-chip and wood dust burning in power stations. And it's renewable. Try visiting any nordic country some day...

Also, just because burning wood has downsides doesn't mean it has to be ditcheds it entirely. Solve the downsides instead...

Where you waited (usually) until after 7pm to make a "long distance" phone call. And when you received a long distance call from the operator, who would call you and tell you that you had a long distance call, you knew it was pretty bad if they "called long distance". Funny that you could make a "local" call in your neighborhood, but someone several miles away was considered "long" distance.

1. Too expensive 2. Range 3. Charging network, especially for those who live in apartments Pretty much anyone that wanted one, has one. For urban areas, they aren't a bad thing. But for people that live in flyover country, where you live and or work on a farm etc, it's just not practicle. Personally, I'm waiting for Doc Brown to develop the flux capacitor & the Mr. Fusion reactor. ;)

Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.axios.com%2F2026%2F05%2F...

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh yesterday that demand for AI infrastructure is creating a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to reindustrialize America and restore the nation's capacity to build."

Why it matters: With many college grads fearing AI could obliterate their career dreams, Huang pointed to boundless opportunity as a "new industry is being born. A new era of science and discovery is beginning ... I cannot imagine a more exciting time to begin your life's work."

Nvidia, which makes AI chips, is the world's most valuable company. Huang told 5,800 recipients of undergraduate and graduate degrees that the AI buildout will require plumbers, electricians, ironworkers, and builders for chip factories, data centers and advanced manufacturing facilities.

"No generation has entered the world with more powerful tools â" or greater opportunities â" than you," he said. "We are all standing at the same starting line. This is your moment to help shape what comes next. So run. Don't walk."

"Every major technological revolution in history created fear alongside opportunity," Huang added. "When society engages technology openly, responsibly, and optimistically, we expand human potential far more than we diminish it."

Full speech: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

Oh they'll figure another way around it to get the data. Perhaps a "secret" back door code that GM "leaks" to the insurance companies...for a "small fee".

For the most part, blame the labor unions for the downfall of "service" for UPS/FEDEX/USPS. Eventually they will take over Amazon as well and someone else will create a new delivery service.