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Submission + - Elon Musk admits DOGE was a waste of time (and money) (yahoo.com)

echo123 writes: Elon Musk appeared to admit for the first time that his work at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency was a total waste of time—which also destroyed his reputation.

He told Katie Miller, who is married to Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, that he would not take the controversial post in Washington, D.C., if he had his time over again.

“I think instead of doing DOGE, I would have basically built—worked on my companies, essentially," he told The Katie Miller Podcast.

“If you could go back and start from scratch like it’s January 20th all again, would you go back and do it differently? And, knowing what you know now, do you think there’s ever a place to restart?”

After a deep sigh, Elon Musk, 54, replied, “I mean, no, I don’t think so.”

“You gave up a lot to DOGE,” she said.

“Yeah,” he conceded, sadly.

DOGE oversaw a $220 billion jump in federal spending—not including interest—in the fiscal year, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Bill Gates has warned Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts will cause ‘millions of deaths’

Submission + - Cats Meow More Than Twice as Much at Men, And We Can Only Guess Why (sciencealert.com) 1

alternative_right writes: "Our results showed that cats vocalized more frequently toward male caregivers, while no other demographic factor had a discernible effect on the frequency or duration of greetings," write the researchers in their published paper.

A total of 22 different behavior types were looked at by the researchers, including yawning (often a sign of cat stress) and food-related behaviors (including heading to their food bowl). The vocalizations were the only behaviors that changed based on the owners' sex.

Comment Screenless Cell Phones&Startrek Computers-Stev (Score 1) 44

Hey it's been about 15 years, if you remember me, I'm the #1 Starcraft/Broodwar/Warcraft3 guy.

What you might not know about me is Steve Jobs and Larry Page used my 100+ pages to design the smart phone.
didn't sue them because I was waiting til they became the Surveillance State and they have..
So I showed my designs to Warren Buffet's Lawyers last year and Warren Buffet sold 133$ billion.
Steve Jobs didn't invent the Smart Phone, I did.
See designs at: www.techaform.com
In response to revealing to the world in Fall 2024, Apple/Google did not honor me, instead Tim Cook cost his company $833 billion fighting me:

1) Warren Buffet sold $133 billion in stock when his lawyers advised him my designs were indefensible.
2) Open AI cancelled its deal with Apple. $300 billion(future of Apple)
3) The stock market crashed on March 6th,2025: https://www.facebook.com/group... $200 billion
4) Eu fined/regulated Apple/Google... $200 billion

If I wanted money, I would have sued em 20 years ago for a hundred mil. I'm already succeeding in what I wanted to achieve.
I designed this to fight surveillance state.
Yes, I chose to not take a hundred million when I was young so I could help the world when I was older. Not many are like me.
I saw the phone would have GPS and everyone would use it. As a punk, I stood vs corporations and control at age 23. I saw it coming.
I had a choice: Don't invent the Smart Phone, or invent it so hard that I'd have a hand in the game down the road. I chose to bridge over the River Kwaii it.>
I have a solid following of over 100,000 people today... They see me as a champion for freedom world wide who'd rather live in poverty willingly than give in to the surveillance state. https://youtube.com/watch?v=G7...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozp8GB-i2Z4 5000+ viewer stream shouts me out often
https://wolfsheadonline.com/biggest-story-of-the-century-the-smart-phone-design-stolen-by-not-invented-by-apple-google/
https://wolfsheadonline.com/se... video: https://rumble.com/v51bj30-jam...
Or: https://x.com/JamesSager/statu...
Set A: https://x.com/JamesSager/statu...
Set B: https://x.com/JamesSager/statu...
web: http://techaform.com/
Design papers from 2000 that Tim Cook stole: https://techaform.com/bin/Smar...
Dilbert Guy confused about it lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
#1 Virtual keyboard
#2 3 button nav
#3 App store
#4 Palm+Cellular
#5 Cloud Computing
#6 Contact list
#7 Advanced Scheduler
#8 The Smart Watch->Apple Watch
#9 APPLE VISION PRO IN GOGGLE DISPLAY!
#10 Global Positioning System
#11 QR business Cards
#12 Wireless communications in a handheld device
#13 Fuzzy search settings by typing
#14 Different Sounds for different alerts & Vibro/Visual/Sound Alert combo.
#15 Voice recorder
#16 Air tags
#17 Wire to computer to move files
#18 Undo/redo
#19 Contextual help system/Adaptive onboarding and custom icon set circle around ?
#20 Spell Check
#21 Copy/paste
#22 Customizable programmable calculators
#23 Graphical User Interface (GUI) Principles for Mobile for screen realestate-Hideable zones/Customizable Home screen
#24 Email
#25 Media Casting from Mobile to External Display (from _ChromeCast_TO TV _DISPLAY)
#26 Filesystem Navigation in PDA/Smartphone (_filesystemfolder)
#27 Foldable Screen Hardware Design
#28 Different Device size parameters to different users
#29 Ergonomics of Device Dimensions and UI Layout
#30 Pc data link cable:
#31 Ipod designs

So I'm working casually on screenless cell phones and Star Trek like Computer Linux Interface designs...

Submission + - College Students Flock to a New Major: AI

theodp writes: "At M.I.T., a new program called 'artificial intelligence and decision-making' is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major," reports the New York Times. "Artificial intelligence is the hot new college major. This semester, more than 3,000 students enrolled in a new college of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity at the University of South Florida in Tampa. At the University of California, San Diego, 150 first-year students signed up for a new A.I. major. And the State University of New York at Buffalo created a stand-alone 'department of A.I. and society,' which is offering new interdisciplinary degrees in fields like 'A.I. and policy analysis'."

The fast popularization of products like ChatGPT, along with skyrocketing valuations of tech giants like the chip maker Nvidia, is helping to drive the campus A.I. boom. Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft have poured billions of dollars into the technology. And this year, Google and Microsoft announced company efforts to train millions of students and adult workers on A.I."

Submission + - Chinese reusable booster explodes during first orbital test (cnn.com)

schwit1 writes: A private Chinese space firm successfully sent its Zhuque-3 rocket to orbit but failed in its historic attempt to re-land the rocket booster Wednesday – the first such trial by a Chinese firm as the country’s growing commercial space sector races to catch up with American rivals like SpaceX.

The rocket entered orbit as planned, but its first stage did not successfully return to a landing site, instead crashing down, the company said in a statement.

“An anomaly occurred after the first-stage engine ignited during the landing phase, preventing a soft landing on the designated recovery pad,” the statement said. “The debris landed at the edge of the recovery area, resulting in a failed recovery test.”

Submission + - Poor mental health linked to dark web use (phys.org) 1

alternative_right writes: A new Florida Atlantic University study reveals significant mental health differences between dark web users and those who use only the surface web, and sheds light on a group whose involvement in this secretive online space has largely kept them outside the scope of traditional research.

Published in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, the study finds that dark web users reported substantially higher levels of depressive symptoms and paranoid thoughts as compared to surface web users. In addition, there were substantial differences between dark web users and surface web users pertaining to suicidal thoughts, non-suicidal self-injury and digital self-harm.

Adults who reported suicidal thoughts had nearly three times greater odds of reporting dark web use. Likewise, those who reported non-suicidal self-injury (e.g. cutting or burning oneself) were nearly five times more likely to report use of the dark web, and individuals who had engaged in digital self-harm (anonymously posting hurtful or negative comments about themselves online) had more than 19 times greater odds of reported dark web use.

"Our findings suggest that many individuals who turn to the dark web may be doing so not just for privacy concerns, but as a reflection of deeper mental health struggles and the possible desire to socialize and engage in information-seeking in a context free of scrutiny that might otherwise be experienced on the surface web or offline," said Meldrum.

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