It's copied from The Atlantic, and right away, the opinion author's assertions run into trouble.

"For the overwhelming majority of graduates, the returns on going to college more than offset the cost of tuition. ". That's news to all the grads drowning in debt they'll never pay off.

"After factoring in financial aid, the cost of attending a public four-year college has fallen by more than 20 percent since 2015, even before adjusting for inflation." What? Seriously?

Many more things like that. And she never even addresses the issue of enrollment now being overwhelmingly female, with majors that are money losers in the job markets. Nor does she address the fact that a growing number of students are foreign, sent here by their families or governments to gain technical and business knowledge to take back home after graduation. The whole thing reads like a PR piece for colleges.

Negative, Ghostrider. While standard support is up, HPE has an extended support system called "mature support" covering HP 9000 and Integrity servers until 2028, including HP-UX support . So it's not truly dead just yet.

Everyone that buys Windows licenses from those El Cheapo Google Marketplace vendors has to as the licenses tend to be pro licenses pulled from machines that won't activate over MS's web method.

It's not an education if you only assign stuff "relevant to their lives" (which is a crapshoot decision in any case; what books are really going be relevant to modern teenagers?). Part of what you're supposed to be getting in school is knowledge of the foundations of your civilization, which is why colleges have a Great Books program in the first place. High Schools typically don't burden students with all that many difficult old books anyway. I had to suffer through Wuthering Heights but I also got to discover Lord of the Flies.

Might it be that the Beeb relies on groups like the Spectator for guests as an opposite to it's own party line, and thus drive the outrage demo to boost ratings? A' La the old CNN crossfire route? What else would they do? Bring on, say, the Guardian every night and basically just agree on everything?

The daily format, yes. The Internet has killed that.

But I think there's still some room for print journalism under certain conditions, and profitably so as well, if done right.

Many moons ago, I used to get the Washington Post's Weekly Edition. I don't know if they do it anymore, but it was a newspaper, mailed to your home once a week, that had longer, more in-depth investigative stories and analysis on the issues of the day than you'd find in the daily papers, as well as an opinion and editorial section. I think something along these lines, combined with certain elements of the old Sunday paper format... cartoons, ads, local events and notices, arts coverage.... could sell as part of a larger digital subscription that gives you daily access.

the bots have trouble now for sure, but look back 5 years and tell me you thought any of this was possible back then.

Writing Software: which if you aren't familiar can do pretty much everything knowledge related and produce any ditigal artifact. Still more: software can generate control instructions for physical media - like a fork lift - just as easily as it can crank out a PDF, and we have Language models that can already generate the code for that. So think bigger.

Yeah, for example, the copy writing example of TFA: Instead of the interns doing copy writing for a column or two they will be in charge of operating ChatGPT to write 10 of them at a time, or similar things thereto. The scale of work possible by one person will increase, the thought processes will move up one level of abstraction, but many of the same tasks will take place as before. We will just be able to do things we didn't think were practical before after completing them all. Think of how cell phones and ubiquitous internet changed our lives. This will be like that, except for all the grunt work. Entry level just moves up a level of difficulty, but it's ok, relatively speaking, because the new crop of employees have AI to help.

I know I'm just one person, but I'm sure there are many more like me: I ONLY buy audiobooks anymore. (And yes, I do use the accompanying PDFs when I need them.) I have purchased almost 600 books from audible over almost 2 decades now. I just can't take time to sit down open a book, but i definitely can blast one over headphones when I'm on the mountain bike trail, driving out of town, folding laundry or whatever. It allows me to fit reading into my life where I otherwise would not be able to. So, far from just converting users from print to audio... I think audio is expanding the pie of readers in general to those that couldn't afford the time.

More to the point, dating apps already suck for young men. It's hard enough for them to get a match of any kind, and the apps are notorious for women ghosting men or going out with men just to get a free meal or monetary favor of some kind. Now imagine finding out that the only reason a woman goes out with you was to use you for your work connections. How is this not a kind of catfishing or fraud?

I tell my sons to avoid these apps like the plague. This kind of stuff only reinforces that.

I don't disagree, but all that ignores the fact the the problem with schools is the student body itself: there are too many walking the halls that belong in reform school instead of real school.

We've had "easy access to guns" for 250 years. High Schools used to have firing ranges and shooting teams (including girls shooting teams). It was not uncommon to see rifle racks in the back windows of trucks in my high school parking lot. Somehow we managed to not shoot anyone. What's changed is the introduction of ghetto thug culture into schools. If you had a problem with a guy when I was in school, you arranged to meet out back after 3 PM and settle it with fists. Now kids "pop a cap" into students and teachers for "dissing" them. Then there's the constant, roving gang fights in schools, typically with a bunch of kids cornering one kid and beating him bloody, all while recording it on their phones and bragging.

It's ironic, because in the 1970's, French philosopher Michel Foucault kicked up a storm when he wrote that, architecturally, schools looked like prisons because they served a similar function. Modern school systems are buying mass surveillance systems precisely because modern students act like prison gangs, and have to be managed the same way.

My wife laments the downfall of ThinkGeek, because she used to know that if she couldn't find a gift for me at the store then a random desk goodie from ThinkGeek would always work. Now, it's once again a struggle.

It'll be a dying market in 20 years. AI doesn't need Christmas gifts.

Maybe geek nostalgia gifts will replace it. Shirts with a pic of a Bash script with "This used to be my job".