Did the article give one specific reason How having employees (and executives) in the same room would have made a difference?

I'm guessing not. As other posts have said, take what you want to achieve, and blame the failure on that policy. WFH or "Woke" it is all the same.

Show me the *proof* that if 2 or more execs were in the same room, they would have done one thing differently regarding their unbalanced portfolio that was dependent on treasury bonds. Show me the proof that some middle-manager 4 levels down would have saved the company if they happened to be in an office instead of at home.

Show me the proof.

Until you have it, you can shut the hell up, WSJ and FT.

"Looks like you're making a resume. Would you like me to pad it with a better college and a Fortune 500 company in there? It worked for George Santos...speaking of which, you should change your name, too."

"You seem to be staring at a blank page. Shall I just go summarize the Wikipedia entry for you?"

"This paragraph on civil rights in the 50s could use a little humor. How about a nice funny joke about black people?"

"Is this spreadsheet to help you with your taxes? I think we need to split up and see other people. Maybe you can deduct that?"

The hardest thing each year is to get my one last VCR to switch from flashing 12:00's to flashing 1:00's.

The main why is that on the western side of each timezone, during that first winter, sunrise wasn't happening until well after 8 (in Michigan's case, almost 9am).

If you look at the "19 states" link above, you'll find that except for Utah and Idaho, the states that want to go DST-365 are all on the eastern side of their timezones (TN is an interesting split - likely the DST-365 push is coming from the western part of the state which is already in Central timezone). So if the sun is already rising pretty early (relative to others), you don't mind the move. If the sunrise is really late in your state, like Michigan, DST in the winter really sucks because much of your necessary morning day is dark.

not really. they prefer that consistency of their days.

It is more how far east into your timezone, the more likely you are to prefer DST. Maine: they've voted DST-365 (can't implement without Congress to pass a law).

But Michigan? They're very much against it because the sun doesn't even rise until almost 9am (as they discovered when DST-365 was implemented back in 1974).

Of the 19 states that have passed DST-365 (but can't implement it because of the law as written), only 3 I would consider to be on the west of their timezones (Utah, Idaho, maybe TN). Other states already split their western portions off to the next TZ over, like the plains states (when the plains give way to the Rockies' foothills).

with the twice annual discussion on /. of DST as if we've never had it before and maybe THIS time we'll actually reach some kind of consensus.

To say it is like clockwork?

The issue is that usually the governor of a state, or other party leaders, can stand in the way of these types of bills from getting anywhere.

Because of DeSantis, we can't trust that in that state anymore. He's a blatant authoritarian who has gotten this legislation to pass some crazy crap already. The implication is that there's nothing in the way of this not passing. Same with the bill that would supposedly ban the Democratic Party. There's nothing in the system to stop them.

Clearly it violates the 1st amendment. But the 1st is not the target.

What they want to break is the 14th. They want to undo the Civil War's peace treaty (the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments) in its entirety. So they want things to go to this biased court in order to declare the 14th never meant what we've thought it did for the last 150 years.

(I can see it if a mod opted to remove an unused account to save resources, but I still don't see half a million of that, in only 6 weeks, without some bot software to make such a thing easy to do and a LOT of admins making the choice to do that purge.)

"It now has nearly half a million fewer total registered users than at the start of the year."

People actually explicitly terminated their accounts?

That's in the category of stuff nobody does. Ever. Not unless they really REALLY are quitting and want to make a point of it...like, say, leaving Twitter because of Musk (or Trump) or leaving Facebook...i mean, even those leaving Facebook tend to keep their account alive but unused/disabled for a time.

How many of us still have a MySpace? Did you really turn it off, or just stopped using it after all your friends went to FB and it probably is still gonna work if you could remember your password?

So this idea that 500,000 explicitly QUIT? I just don't see it.

"including a tendency to incorporate copyrighted material from training data into the generated songs"

Unlike text and image copyright violations, music publishers almost always win copyright lawsuits even for the tiniest extract of sound or melody that they think some jury or judge would recognize.

you know, you're right. MTV's Real World didn't have a host. Just captions on the screen to keep the focus going and remind you of everybody's names.

Now they had interviews, and here's where the AI falls short: an AI wouldn't be able to come up with QUESTIONS that would trigger answers worth including in the show.

The Question is the hard part, not the answer or the framing. To get an AI to ask a question, or simulate asking one for the sake of the script? that's harder.

ChatGPT does many things to answer questions. it does nothing to ASK them based on the paragraphs it generates.

Reality shows don't actually need intelligence to operate.

perhaps. but maybe i don't have time to deal with raspberry pi's and linux systems that change all the configuration files on me after every upgrade. I'm a software developer (mostly web and apps).

If you like playing with your o/s and hardware, go for it. I don't have time for that. It isn't fun. It just gets in my way of my doing what I want and need to do.

uh, it runs node.js, vsc, mongodb and mysql, apache+php, and chrome, along with my music player, slack, zoom, vlc, gitx, xcode command-line tools...everything i need to get through the day.