He may not be completely swapped in, but he has staffers who are aware of what's going on in things like decentralized social media, and are trying to keep up.

As a bonus, thhose staffers are not overtly planning to keep him in office past January 2029.

* Apply a reasonable carbon tax to the alternatives that burn stuff
* Apply a storage cost / carbon tax for peaking power to the alternatives that are intermittent

Nuclear will definitely look better after you do that.

There is a lot of debate about how much better or worse, but there's no denying that intermittent sources have distributed costs that are hard to capture (grid resilience and running power up from consumers), whereas nuclear has centralized costs, making it an easier target.

... for companies supporting open source projects to get paid for their efforts without using the copyright nail-studded bat to coerce their users.

Perhaps by offering excellent paid support for people who need it, and can't wait for the Open Source Fairy to flitter by and fix their issues?

The EU is not 30.4% of Apple's global revenue - see here.

Yes, Gruber is an Apple cheerleader, but his facts tend to be accurate.

When Apple says "Europe" in their financials, they mean:

But there are a significant number of high-GDP countries in Europe that aren’t in the EU—the UK (most famously), Russia, Turkey, Switzerland, Norway, and Ukraine. More importantly, Apple’s “Europe” includes the entire Middle East.

I'm not going to call people "stupid" for not knowing this. Ignorant, perhaps, and ignorance is curable.

"it's mine therefore I have a right to waste it" stops when you have to dump the waste into the atmosphere or the waters.

Now do this to bigger ISPs, and eventually work your way up to Comcast/Xfinity and Verizon, for taking hundreds of millions of dollars as part of a federal program for rural broadband, then lobbying the government to change the definition of broadband to include ASDL (so they could "give broadband" to areas without replacing aging copper lines).

"picture", who is the flasher, her or him?

when they start storing text for bills in a version control system, with every clause traceable to the legislator/staffer/lobbyist who wrote it.

... is "all of the above".

See here.

Good on China for ramping up solar, but they are still increasing their total carbon emissions. The atmosphere doesn't care about per capita - it only sees more CO2 or less CO2.

USA carbon emissions from energy production peaked in 2007, and have been declining (somewhat bumpily) ever since, primarily because we have been replacing coal with natural gas.

... can connect to my house's wifi. I enabled it to see if it would reach out and reset the clock.
Nope - it only resets the clock through OnStar, which I refuse to pay for.

I now see that I should definitely disable that - it does nothing useful, and might be sending data back to GM.
I should crank up Wireshark before turning it off, just to see if it's obviously sending data back.

Has the EU found any companies headquartered in the EU doing similar stuff?

Or from just before "The Adolescence of P-1", there was John Brunner's "The Shockwave Rider".

Both of them nailed the idea of migratory programs roaming a network and adding data to themselves.

Ryan's P-1 got the AI part as right as he could have in 1977.
Brunner's "tapeworms" were just really clever coding - the smarts were in the protagonist programmer, which I guess is why the ultimate tapeworm didn't have a name.

is here.

Money quote: But I actually think Google might also have performed a public service, by making explicit the implicit rules that recently have seemed to govern a great deal of decision-making in large swaths of tech, education and media sectors: It’s generally safe to punch right, but rarely to punch left. Treat left-leaning sources as neutral; right-leaning sources as biased and controversial. Contextualize left-wing transgressions, while condemning right-coded ones. Fiscal conservatism is tolerable but social conservatism is beyond the pale. “Diversity” applies to race, sex, ethnicity and gender identity, not viewpoint, religiosity, social class or educational attainment.

My wife is a free lance sign language interpreter. Her ring tone for agencies that give her work is the first 30 seconds of Pink Floyd's "Money".

It is reasonable to mock people who don't know something, but clearly think they do, enough that they install security systems with flaws that are obvious to knowledgeable non-experts.

I would mock someone who pretended to read a CT scan, especially if they made an important decision based on their "reading".