Throwing all of the computers in the rivers would raise the water levels!

So you're saying some guy visited and had a complete laptop "mounted" to his front side so he could stand and use it?

I'm imaging a conversation with such a person. Or seeing someone waiting for public transit, standing there using a computer (one would probably get accosted doing this).

As I figured, everything you can think of exists, here's something like you described:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bhphotovideo.com%2Fc...

Just last week.

Given the ways many citizens rights are being trampled, maybe it wasn't an accident.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus...

There are actually some interesting quantum data and simulation angles they could have taken. Quite interesting as far as thought experiments go.

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

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rudebaguette.com%2Fe...

Regarding the movie, I can't see any human derived drivel being of any use to an advanced civilization (maybe they are looking for ways to destroy natural ecosystems on a planetary scale...).

This is actually a story about people who don't check their work ("bad employees" is the term I would use).

All of the problems noted are due to people not taking the time to "LOOK AT WHAT THEY ARE SAYING".

These are people that are willing to send out results without review. They think they know what they sent, but they don't actually know.

They are the problem, not the AI. They are lazy.

Meeting transcripts are fabulously useful. My notes are keywords now, which I can then cross reference with the transcript after the meeting.

As the article makes clear, much care needs to be taken with such source material as well as information derived from them.

In this case the AI did what it was told, summarizing everything. This is easy enough to avoid, here's a sample prompt:

For the meeting transcript below, please provide:
1. To Do List - Provide a list of follow up Tasks by Party.
2. Issues - Identify, classify, and provide details around any issues mentioned.
3. Technical Discussion - Identify and summarize any technical discussions.

Guidelines:
- Ignore unrelated personal commentary.

{transcript}

I was wondering about this "elite cycling is likely quite a bit cleaner now".

Proof is simply performance, and mountain times in the Tour de France have slowed since the EPO days.

Here's the analysis, scroll down to the graphs, they are very clear.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.int.washington...

Or they can go back to showing plain links (and be scanning). It is obvious by what is offered if they are manipulating or summarizing the results.

Ideas anyone? Here's mine.

This only applies to sites that want the revenue. Sites that just want the exposure would leave things be.

Anyway, allow websites to require payment from commercial scanning services (search engine or otherwise).

Enforce through logs and "slightly" poison data for identifiability.

Use extremely punitive fees to enforce ($250,000 per article, like sharing a movie..., scanned should be a good start, that would quickly get very painful). Get the fines into the 10s of millions. There are trillion dollar companies.

I believe this can be used for Disney to get compensation as well. Proof that their images have been trained is simply asking for it to create a copyrighted character. How could it do that if it wasn't trained on such???

Interestingly, mosquito populations have been steady or increasing over time.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fagupubs.onlinelibrary....

Ticks seem to be a bigger issue as well (maybe more awareness), compared to when I was a child.

And I'm not saying Trump's policies are causing the sharp drop in CEO confidence since the start of 2025, but the timing is suspect (down to COVID and 2007 crisis levels).

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I imagine that impacts hiring and discretionary/capital expenditures at companies.

Timely, the NY Times has an article about this today, covering the AI angle further. Might be paywalled.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2025%2F0...

On the Trump side, it's anecdotal. I've witnessed a variety of business pull back on new developments since January. Specifically IT consulting side projects. Fortune 500 to medium sized businesses. 100% say it's market and political uncertainty. They don't project this publicly, and the pullback is in discretionary funds, the companies aren't talking about slowing down spending.

First time we've heard that in... I can't remember when (I wasn't a consultant in 2007).

On the AI side, I don't need an anecdote, junior developers have enough of those for it to be evidence itself.

The uncertainty of 1) politics and 2) the resulting business uncertainty, combined with 3) the disruptive force of AI are certainly negatively impacting IT spending and investment which would lead to reduced or lower employment.

The list of large IT layoff is rather large for all of the almost record setting results coming in. Wonder why that is? I don't.

Great point, and It's both AI and Trump.

Uncertainty from Trump has caused pullback in discretionary spending. Companies are putting things off, growth is stalled because no one has any idea what tomorrow might offer politically.

Regarding AI, it does improve existing developer efficiency (and it will only get better). Management will want to test this and put off hiring (attrition as well).

Finally, AI is probably crippling capital spending. Why embark on a multi-year project now when AI might replace it in that time frame?

It means they will release the patch when it is available rather than sitting on it for an undetermined period of time just to be dicks about it...