If social media can survive advertising, it can survive AI

FTR, I selected the phrase "respecting copyrights" specifically to avoid judging right or wrong on present copyright policy.

If MidJourney and Photoshop are both tools, then so is a tool to download copyrighted films (which is clearly not respecting copyrights).

Copyright law already distinguishes between exact copies, derivative works, and fair use. All delineated by fuzzy boundaries. So it's contextual, based on circumstances. In the case of MidJourney, to comply with copyright law, they probably need to put up guardrails like GPT5 already has done. GPT5 will outright refuse to draw Superman, but MidJourney happily complies. If guradrails let something slip through, then maybe there should be a DMCA take-down mechanism.

I hate it when people say "my computer used a kilowatt of energy". Same here. 1.6 years per what? I believe it's per 8 years of the study. So annualized that's an acceleration of (9.6/8)^(1/8) = 2.3%/year. Now, in real life it's probably not cumulative like that. Their study group was middle-aged. It's quite possible that consumption brings cognitive capacity down to a lower baseline and stays there. But the 2.3% number gives you a flavor of the acceleration rate.

Soon we will have AI call screening that answers for us, interacts with the caller, and decides whether to handle it directly, disconnect, or forward it to the user. At what point do we just have AI talking to AI, peddling AI services to AI agents? Will we end up with both sides of the AI getting into a generation loop and find calls of them repeating a word or phrase at each other indefinitely? Or will the human suddenly have a 117 quadrillion dollar charge declined on their credit card because their AI agent agreed to buy one petaseat of licensing?

Suffice to say: "What could possibly go wrong?"

"requiring information blackout"? As a U.S.-based website, it should read (at minimum) "prompting information blackout".

That requires a 5G tower, which would not be available to rural customers

There are still dial-up services available:

• NetZero
• MSN
• Juno

With a specification coming out in 2028, that means the very first (enterprise, high-end) products can be expected 2030 at the earliest. And that's based on past (PCIe5 and earlier) rapid adoption. PCIe6 was standardized three years ago and there are still no motherboards.

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"

I like Windows. But I like unified memory more.

It's super-trite, but true: technology can be used for good or bad.

I love the productivity gains and breadth of instructional knowledge AI has given me.

I hate that when I'm on Facebook I have to spend half my time blocking groups that generate AI summaries of classic TV shows and characters (that I'm otherwise a big fan of and follow).

...assuming the book can still be found in print form

CSS is not Turing complete

I once warned a manager at a smallish company that their fantasy of doing manufacturing would never happen partly because of a lack of QC and the lack of anybody with authority to shut a project down if it was not meeting spec. "We need that guy!" the manager said, and I came back, "If you had that guy you'd fire him the first time he told you something you didn't want to hear." Musk is in a pickle right now and I'm sure he really doesn't want to hear that the tank failed an X-ray inspection and the whole craft needs to be taken apart to make sure it's OK, thereby missing the launch window. And I'm sure the QC guy knows that. So as I warned that guy who once asked for my advice, this is what he got.