Max Headroom was clearly ahead of his times.

Not well, according to my friends in the Army...

Apparently Delta tried for a couple of years to buck the trend of "everything is about lowest price" but they didn't make enough money to support that model.

I think the thing that's broken about budget airlines is their limited reach. They fly to a limited number of markets, offer a relatively limited number of services, and generally work if they happen to fly where you want to go.

(I remember a trip from Dulles to Detroit. I found a seat on Frontier for $18, the corporate travel agent had to triple check the price as she didn't believe it, either. The problem was coming back, there the flight on United cost me about $300. From that experience I decided the demand for flights to Detroit was a lot less than the demand to escape...)

Trump Department of Justice issues legal opinion that all Trump Executive Orders are Legal and Constitutional.

And of course, the Bad Guys (tm) won't be able to figure it out...

Will kill the Criminal Defense Lawyer industry....

We've seen what can happen when translation programs "hallucinate": https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

The trade imbalance is a political football. One team blames it on the other if they need something different to use to paint their opponents in an unflattering light. Then the next month they won't care about it.

Many employers made a switch years ago to having only a vanishingly small fraction of applications read by humans; instead opting to have applications screened at the first level by algorithms that people don't understand or know how to adjust.

Now we see the next "logical" step in that process, having AI do even more of the process.

We can see where this is going, but we can also see what it is supposed to do. If this actually worked correctly, it would ensure that every applicant was actually given a fair shake, and evaluated without bias. Unfortunately no system that I've seen actually accomplishes that; and generally the most effective way to get from applicant to interviewee is to reach out directly to a human who can help you bypass the automation.

It does make me feel bad for Gen Z as they finish schooling and attempt to enter the labor force; they are being pushed into the fight with one hand tied behind their back.

"It's easier to make a working program fast, than to make a fast program work."

(and "work" should always include "secure".)

"Users love ads" and "If Apple can let users choose to block ads, it will ruin our business."

But I'm sure Meta's corporate attorneys will find jobs in the Trump Department of Justice when the company is broken up.

No one ever tracks how well his/her predictions actually pan out, but the track record with respect to Apple's plans and products is generally really poor. Caveat Lector! (And don't forget, Bloomburg is the company that posted the article about Chinese backdoors in servers that EVERYONE denied, but Bloomberg has never retracted that story, either.)

Apparently an interviewer got suspicious and asked. The guy on the other line immediately hung up, not wanting to answer that question on-the-record.

If a significant number of CEOs are departing and cashing out golden parachutes, the boards that hired them are at fault for (a) selecting the wrong person and (b) improperly incentivizing them.

Of course, no BoD can hold a card to the set of sycophants who gave away another large chunk of Telsa to Elon, only to watch him hose the company's reputation and revenue. At least for a while, there was some accountability in the Delaware courts for that. Of course, that's why Musk moved Tesla to Texas.

The latest Aggressor, Inc techno-military-thriller, Antarctica STORM, is all about antimatter, and what happens when you deliberately lose containment. Not my favorite in the series, but a fun read if you like those kinds of books.