The would-be Trump shooter was not a school teacher, he was a mech eng/comp sci graduate with a tutoring gig.

And just generally dude, chill... most teachers are just trying to teach and take care of their kids while navigating a tangled mesh of rules, methodologies, and liabilities in an environment where technology is disrupting everything and parents either don't care or are hyper-defensive.

You didn't pay "marginally" more attention, you paid a lot more attention because you weren't trained to favor continual short dophamine hits from short-form media. You see, it's not just the classroom environment that has changed: the entire cognitive ecology that young people live in (inside and outside school) has been re-shaped.

The impression I get is that many districts have difficulties implementing such policies because helicopter parents panic at the thought of not being able to immediately communicate with their children.

Too, as kids get older, they get cleverer about concealing phones or providing decoys.

"So just don't..." arguments about technology always seem so naive, and this one is no exception. Smart TV manufacturers don't care about edge cases, they care about making sales, developing annual recurring revenue (ARR), and avoiding liability. Acting as a dumb terminal only marginally helps the first item while hindering the latter two. Likely, most manufacturers will probably require you to use an app or their website to setup/register your TV (and to manage it thereafter). Plenty of other consumer products are already following the same path, but the incentives are especially strong for smart TV manufacturers because they load down your TV experience with spyware and injected ads. Want a dumb terminal? You'll be paying a lot more. Perhaps that works for you but the masses will be left behind, which sets the stage for the next wave of corporate overreach/enshittification.

Yeah, I suspect this is just a statistical cluster that's unsurprising for the given population size and their base rate of risk for suicide, murder, and disappearance. Too, the numbers are somewhat inflated by the inclusion of administrators and even a secretary. Still kind of weird and worth investigating (because enemy action does exist), but ultimately it's probably going to be a nothingburger.

Guns are simple and can be built or smuggled by motivated individuals. Huge facial datasets, on the other hand, can probably be regulated fairly easy without vicious/unmanageable black markets popping up.

Yeah, I counted 6 small boats plus at least 3 helicopters (and a fourth one idle on the deck). The "porch" took forever to assemble. Was it over-engineering, political theatre, or sensible design?

Yeah, I was unimpressed. I expected more of Carreyrou. While some of the spelling similarities and timing coincidences are interesting, I'm unimpressed about the share ideological and technical backgrounds... I feel like most people participating in the early cryptocurrency scene (e.g. on the cyberpunk and cryptography mailing lists) would know what PGP is, embrace libertarianism, and use some common technical lingo.

Or, less drastically, prosecute him for creating a competitor to the dollar, similar to the Liberty Reserve guy.

The annoying thing about the "it was a group of people" theory is that it ignores the crypto/cyberpunk community that was bouncing ideas and implementations around for years in public mailing lists. The "group" and their work is in plain sight... no shadowy government black ops required.

Depends on how far you look back... censoring music, comic books, and contraceptive info seems like a bigger imposition than policing pronouns and racial epithets.

But whatever way you weigh the balance, we definitely need a new political ascendency that values freedom and human rights, including especially free speech.

Disease is universal and inevitable: only a subset of cases are caused by lifestyle choices you disapprove of.

In fact, clones will have strange and novel diseases because they're being grown in an essentially alien ecology. We've seen this problem on a much smaller scale with, for example, the explosion of peanut allergies caused by overprotective school administrations banning all peanuts. The body relies on exposure to pathogens and other stressors to inform and direct its development.

Those who used to be ideologically motivated (for freedom) lost their first love (programming for fun) and have grown resentful of the tech billionaire sociopaths who have benefited from their work. And instead of fighting the emerging techno-feudalism (like they would have done when they were younger), they want to be cut in.

Stand down soldier. It's not an attack on your precious Lord Musk, but simply a rhetorical technique to convey the cost in relatable terms, e.g. to emphasize that these missiles are within the means of affluent consumers. Reporters do this all the time, and yes, many such measurement analogies are arbitrary and silly.

Home appliances are dropping dead because of bullshit internet dependencies going dead. Do you really want your movie ticket logic applying to all of your personal possessions?

The consumer's personal responsibilities do not absolve the seller of their social responsibilities, and I'm tied of greedy actors (marketers, politicians, etc) telling us otherwise.

Political remedies aren't just for the rich. We the people can organize and demand political solutions for online privacy, algorithmic pricing, right to repair, Tivoization, DRM, right to root, pervasive surveillance, and all the other anti-user/anti-freedom ills born from modern technology.