I don't have a problem with using the AI to create first drafts, but I worry that some of the journalists, especially under tight deadlines, might take shortcuts and decide to just publish the AI draft.

Having the AI create a draft that the human journalist reviews and revises? Fine.

Having the AI just write the story and publishing it without review? Not so good.

I suspect that the difference between Republicans and Democrats is less down to who is currently in the White House but a fundamental difference in how they view the economy and socio-economic factors. I think Republicans have traditionally been more of the "Pull yourself up by your bootstraps" group whereas Democrats have been more inclined to believe people - especially from traditionally marginalized groups - are often not completely in charge of their own economic destiny.

In my conversations with folks from each side of the aisle I find Republicans to generally be more skeptical that racism or sexism is a factor (certainly in modern America) in people's economic outcomes, whereas Democrats are generally more likely to believe those are major factors.

Not without cause - in fact you can be assured that their bosses are already salivating over the potential to cut headcount and boost profits by replacing pesky humans with AI.

But I'm skeptical that we'll be able to simply legislate them out of that. Capitalism and profit are too strong a motive. In the short to medium term helping those workers reskill to work WITH AI and be more productive may be the best we can do.

In the longer term we're probably going to have to move to some kind of UBI...but how to fund that and how to appropriately level set is going to be a serious challenge.

We're buying a new house next year and high on my list is to add solar if it doesn't already have a good solar system on it.

Basically the account. You buy a subscription, that gives you a Microsoft 365 account with a domain (.onmicrosoft.com by default) and you can add users and services to that. That whole account is called a "tenant".

If you have tens of thousands of users and an IT staff to manage your own hosted cloud and servers then that's great for you.

For "Joe's Landscaping" who has 13 people and outsources their IT from Geek Squad it's almost always going to be better to just use Microsoft 365 out of the box.

I'm not sure if you understand what this story is. This is for people who have already bought a Microsoft 365 tenant but haven't assigned a real domain name to it so they're just using the default ".onmicrosoft.com" domain. No real business should do that.

This doesn't force people to any platform. The only thing it "forces" them to is to buy or use an actual domain (which they'd probably buy from a 3rd party domain registrar anyhow) if they want to send a lot of email.

I have no idea what the merits of this case are, but it always struck me as odd when somebody files a case like this against their former employer claiming the employer was unethical and unfair...and the relief they want is to be re-hired by that company.

Why would he want to go back to work there and, given that he's suing them and claiming they did something unethical, how welcoming of an environment does he expect it to be if he were to be reinstated?

When I worked at Microsoft we used this feature internally and it was pretty handy. You never had to think about which printer to send a print job to (unless you had some special requirements like you needed to print to a giant plotter or something). You just printed it and whichever printer you walked up to and swiped your badge on would print your job.

I listen to podcasts on 1.8x generally. I'm so used to it that on the odd occasion I hear them at normal speed they sound weird to me.

For YouTube and other videos I very commonly nudge it up to 1.1 or 1.25 as available.

"Come on! I don't have all minute!"

I guess iFans have proven that they'll pay ridiculous prices for iThings so I guess the fact that the American-made iPhone (if any actually materialize) will probably be at least 20% more expensive won't faze them too much.

I've occasionally said that nobody should be allowed to name a product unless they've spent at least 6 months doing tech support.

They'd sell it as "Cold Dead Fish" for 3 months. Then they'd rebrand it as "Dead Fish Premium 365".

Then 5 months after that they'd rebrand it to "Fish 365 for Home".

Then 4 months after that...

That's really only relevant to their consumer subscriptions - Microsoft 365 without Copilot has always been available to businesses.

And the "without Copilot" version was always available, it just wasn't widely advertised. If a customer tried to cancel their Family or Personal Microsoft 365 subscription they'd get offered to revert back to the "without Copilot" version.

Yeah, have to admit that feels like a stat they grabbed to try and prove a predetermined point. But if you pause to think about it, it actually seems to show the opposite.

Of course you get companies like Microsoft that have had some high-profile layoffs in recent years but they still employ a lot more people, overall, than they did in 2015. And despite the layoffs, they also have quite a few job openings - so they are still hiring, even if they may not be growing their total headcount.