If you, like the Alabama Supreme Court, think that everything short of a perfect live birth for every embryo is grounds for prosecution, what's to keep every pregnancy and behavior of a pregnant woman free of potential scrutiny, litigation, and potential prosecution? Alabama is sending a message loudly and clearly to every woman: If you find yourself pregnant, get the hell out of Alabama before they decide that you aren't giving that lil' ol' baby inside you proper care and decide to send you to prison for a few years. The sad thing is that is the stated viewpoint of a certain political party and soon people stupid enough to vote for this party will find themselves exposed to this sort of stupidity. Poetic justice? Probably. But then, stupidity has always produced it's own reward.

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".

Still is. The pandemic hasn't ended.

Not useful yet, then.

Doctrow says as much in the article:

It's very hard to enter the market when people are selling things below cost.

That is exactly how a LOT of tech middleman companies got started - offer a service below cost, funded by VC money, with the assumption that profits from the service will go up with volume and customer lock-in. Uber, Lyft, all the food delivery services started out like that.

What happens is that consumers get subsidized initially, and get a false idea of the real cost of new services. When prices inevitably go up, that's seen as enshitification when it's more like the law of gravity - what goes down must eventually go up.

This will continue to happen even if we rein in predatory acquisition by big firms.

The main problem is having N Vision Pro headsets, where N is greater than 1.

N=1 is pricey enough as it is.

Not the sky-is-falling one - this one from The Space Merchants by Pohl and Kornbluth.

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Opening line:

Huge news: God spoke! And the first thing God said was, “Use other people’s money to pay for your home remodel, Colorado pastor Eli Regalado!”

The "invisible hand" doesn't fail, it just gets chopped off by government intervention. Apple doesn't run the app market as a charity, but the current model is not to charge for apps, instead treat the app as the demo and charge for upgrades. Apple wants a cut of that action. Developers are absolutely free to go back to the old model of having separate demo apps and paid apps where apple gets their cut up front and the consumer pays nothing more. Developers are also free to look at the massive profits from owning an app store and starting their own smart phone company. What they aren't free to do is demand someone else push their app for free.

They would offer stock to mods and users.

Looks like they are jelly of Alexa's driving features and care more about upselling their AI in cars than selling consumer AI speakers.

I fully expect Google to sunset all their home automation eventually. It is what they do best.

Yep, never trust Google with your time or data.

It's another reason why most mainstream languages suck. You can't install a new version of Python without it breaking half your code. Constantly changing versions of widely used libraries because "worse is better" and the developers couldn't be bothered to get the thing right the first time. Oddly enough, there are languages that try to avoid this. Common Lisp hasn't changed since the 1980's. Clojure avoid breaking changes like the plague. There are also languages outside the Lisp family that make stability a priority. My recommendation is that people who value their code avoid non-stable languages. It may be easier for lazy language developers who deliver half-assed features, but it makes life hell for people using the language.

Bard will argue with you if you tell it is wrong about some things.