+1 informative. Bonus points for details.

How do I submit a feature request to whichever website tracks congressional donations - it would be super helpful if it also listed the subject(s) of the bribery.

It seems like a multi-fail as music is already free and n00bs don't know what it used to be so the name is worthless.

I upgraded from a Pixel 5 to 6 a couple years ago due to the unfixable OTA hardware security bug in the 1-5 models.

Some days I'd like more storage but really I can't see what else a newer device would get me. LineageOS 23 is asking me to upgrade to it; I guess I should after the December patches land.

Seems to me that it already is. ChatGPT is significantly better at reading circuit diagrams (although it struggles with them too). Still, in this regard (and generally electronics) ChatGPT performs better than both Claude and Gemini.

Some jobs will still be offshored to India... where ChatGPT Pro is free.

I'm pretty sure securities fraud is the US Core Competence - so, perhaps Napster will be commended?

Is it only me that wondered if this post was stuck in the publication queue for twenty years?

If AI tools were used, they may have helped transform fabricated data into a text that appeared credible enough to attract citations from policymakers and coverage in major outlets.

How is this different from standard economics?

So, summary:

Corning's core competence resides within the AI they're using to do their work for them but prefer to keep this secret from their shareholders. Protagonist took one for the team to reveal this.

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National Insecurity Agency

The capacity of the government of a large jurisdiction like California, or more particularly the US, could bankrupt someone like Musk, so I say, bring it on. Within a decade Musk would have abandoned all efforts, or, even better, be stone cold broke (frankly billionaires shouldn't exist at all, and we should tax the living fuck out of them down to their last $200 million).

We're too afraid of these modern day Bond villains when we should be aiming every financial, and probably every real, cannon straight at them and putting them in a sense of mortal danger every minute of their waking lives, so that they literally piss themselves in terror at the though that "we the people" might decide to wipe them out for good.

JPEGXL really does everything webp does and so much more, and it's well thought out.

WebP isn't terrible; they are smaller than I would have guessed given that they have the container overhead, but there's no stunning argument for it. "Better than PNG for what we used PNG for." OK, true, but.

Google should just let AV1 be AV1 and focus on pushing HEVC out of the market with it. The real opponents of progress have left the image space and are mucking around with video and VR now. Google has the capability to do something about this and foster innovation.

Even if the prediction of comparatively controlled impact is accurate; I think it's worth considering just how grim it is likely to be; not in purely economic terms; but in the character of the work.

Maybe this is a personal peculiarity; but I that there's something exquisitely dispiriting about beating your head against people who are stubborn or clueless enough that every conversation is just a baffling sequence of different confusions, some of the repeated from previously. It's a totally different thing from dealing with someone who is merely ignorant; but learning, especially if they are enthusiastic about it.

Even if everything is fine in terms of job pace and security and all; that seems like it is shaping up to be a really hellish aspect of dealing with bots. The experience is sort of a somewhat weirder simulation of dealing with a chirpy, people-pleasing, very-junior type; except they are far more likely to lie than to admit ignorance; and they never learn(possibly the SaaS guys hoovering up your interactions in the background will make the next iteration better, possibly not, progress seems to have slowed considerably after only a brief period of improvement; but a given release is more or less full groundhog day).

That seems like a nightmare. Everything that sucks about teaching or mentoring; but precisely none of the rewarding aspects.

I've often wondered about this - is the main goal to simply get all those with a tendency for murder to fight it out until these genes are no more - and if you can gain some territory along the way, so be it - so all countries collude to aid each other in rooting-out violence.

we are not the world police until there's an attempt to buy oil without using dollars.