Study after study shows kids do better in school, are more engaged, and more social when phones are out of the picture. 'Social' media is exactly the opposite, it's isolating and anxiety inducing for a lot of teens.

I think there's a lot of adults I know who might be better off too. I definitely have some friends / colleagues who waste so much time on it, and it mostly just seems to make them anxious or irate -- but as far as the platforms are considered, who cares as long as they're 'engaged' with it...

Same. I've always wondered why people with insane amounts of money keep working. I understand wanting to keep busy with hobbies, projects, personal interests, travel, etc., but man, life is short, if I could chill and enjoy a life of leisure, absolutely I would.

"I think there's considerable evidence this AI bubble is going to pop" Citations please? I've read lots of speculation, but where's this evidence you claim?

I think many of us may wish there's a bubble that may pop, but 'if wishes were fishes..."

There IS evidence that job losses are occurring, it's not just hypothetical, just because you say "I'm not seeing..." perhaps in your immediate world, evidence is to the contrary (just a few I found)

https://www.goldmansachs.com/i...

https://econofact.org/factbrie...

https://www.adpresearch.com/ye...

I'm late in my career, only a few years left -- and almost all of my jobs have been through connections with people I actually know or have worked for; so I'm not worried.

I think LinkedIn was 'ok' when it started, then it turned into spammers, bots, clueless headhunters, obnoxious self-promoters with made up titles/terms, people trying to be 'influencers' (hate that term, more like hucksters), etc. To use Doctorow's term, it got totally 'enshitified', I don't miss it at all.

I deleted all my data and closed my LinkedIn account years ago (their security was [is?] atroious).

I was surprised to see that people sometimes put salary history in LinkedIn, seems like a bad idea to me for various reasons. Thinking about this situation, you are tipping your hand to prospective employers.

Though, I guess people could lie and pad their salary to say they made $X + 15000k for example. I don't know if a prospective employer can ask your current employer what you make? I'm guessing this varies from state to state, and even country to country?

... please let this be a very well-done and highly polished April Fool's Joke.

Most days now it's hard to tell if some piece of news is an Onion article or the terrible, horrifying, twisted, sad truth -- usually it's the latter now.

I was thinking the same, carefully crafted echo chambers and intentional confirmation bias. The irony of the name 'social media' just keeps growing, as it continues to drive wedges between people instead of bringing them together -- or at a minimum, at least support a live and let live, 'agree to disagree' mentality. It's really a dystopian nightmare in the making.

It's interesting they say 'browser', sounds more like an 'application generator' because what they're describing isn't really a conventional web browser, it sounds like an application based probably on various web standards at best with a web interface. It's not performing a search to direct you to relevant websites (can you use it to browse in the traditional sense even?). Sounds like it's using the websites almost like an API, pulling data/info from them basically and then generating application from it? Perhaps calling it a 'browser' is a marketing decision, but it's not a browser imo.

Negativity is cool I guess. I found the show has lots of interesting elements, for example:

The tension between cyborg, synth and hybrids; almost like a class/race hierarchy
Pondering what being one of the above means... are you still human? Is humanity about the intellect/mind/soul only, or also the physical body?
5 corporations basically running the world. William Gibson alluded to this in Neuromancer and other works. And I think it mirrors some current trends.
Billionaires/Trillionaires who live in la-la land (or Neverland), like Boy Kavalier (great name btw), who give a shit about 'normal' people, live by their own rules, that sounds familiar.
Some great new species, c'mon, tentacle eyeball is just awesome and terrifying, ticks from hell.

Sure, has it flaws, so do most shows -- but I'm enjoying it, and looking forward to seeing where it goes.

Or possibly, both things can be bad and of serious concern...

Honestly, my backlog of games (I'm a pc gamer exclusively, not console) is so full that I never pay full price anymore anyway. I just wait for Steam season sales, or better yet, I can often get them much later on gog.com for DRM free versions that are mine to download and actually fucking own.

Plus most of the time there are so many bugs, patches, blah blah blah that need to come out first, why pay $60, $70+ when I can get the fixed/complete game later for 50% or more off?

Summary implies it's a choice, as you mention, search engines like google now promote their AI summary over linking to actual sites/articles -- so I guess I'm "using" AI for search but it's the default behavior of the the browser, not an active/conscious action on my part.

Probably just another way for AI pushers (looking for funding etc) to say "look at the adoption rate!", it's not really an adoption rate if there's no choice though.

I've been using the &udm=14 add to the querystring to turn it off when I remember too.

Suggestion: Try Minecraft: Educatiion Edition (you may have to work with your IT/network people for firewall, install, etc.)
https://education.minecraft.ne...

If you want to go more 2D graphics, CMU CS Academy (Carnegie Mellon U) has some free browser based tools/programs for Python programming with graphics, a lot like Processing if you're familiar with it. I customize most of the lessons though, as it can be a bit basic/repetitive, but it has a sandbox that you can play with
https://academy.cs.cmu.edu/cou...

I've used MC:EE with a lot of success with 8th graders for one semester elective, lots of engagement. It utilizes MakeCode which supports, block, JavaScript and Python. The students, even the 'non-coder' ones, love it -- a simple loop to spawn creatures, or using the Agent to build a structure with nested loops is a more engaging that a lot of traditional lessons. By the end of my class, the kids learn all the core stuff (variable, lists, loops, control-flow, some OOP basics, writing their own functions with parameters, etc.) that you're probably aiming for. Not sure of your age levels, but there's enough complexity available that if you have older kids you can definitely adapt it to more challenging projects.

Yes, it's gamification, but that's not always a negative. I use that class as a feeder into our more advanced stuff for high school, and the vast majority of kids who do the MineCraft stuff enroll in our high school classes.

Honestly, it's also a lot of fun to teach with, I mean, it's MineCraft... :)

I've been teaching for 8+ years, it's not easy so I know jumping into it is a challenge, but stick with it -- focus on the fun, do a lot of project-based learning, and give the kids so more control over the projects they work on, they will be more involved if that have more agency.

" .NET was actually designed as a programming language specific to Microsoft Windows. "

Wtf... that's wrong on so many levels, not sure how it was labelled insightful. .

NET is a framework, NOT a language. You can program against the framework using C# (most common), F# or VB.
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/e...

And it was specifically designed NOT to be platform dependent, MS woke up and moved away from being Windows dependent, .NET was intentionally architected to be multi-platform:

".NET is supported on Android, Apple, Linux, and Windows operating systems. It's available in several Linux distributions, like Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu."
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/e...

Lol, I'd mod you up if I had the points. Jive coding indeed...