Show me the man, and i'll find you the crime--attributed to Lavrentiy Beria, head of Stalin's secret police

Some gorilla tape over the mike (Which I do on my Apple TV remotes) seems to block them

Are scholls going to teach penmanship (oops, penpersonship) so the answers can be read?

We used to teach this in the Boy Scouts, but that's been gutted. There are alternatives though.

THis sort of regulation is why Europe's GDP in now 1/2 the USs, and why almost no innovation (except innovation in bureaucracy) occurs in Europe.

Eco agit prop

So much scientific publication these days is simply noise.

I could not finish Fall. It was far too long. Seven Eves was also not interesting to me. I did like Anathem and Reamde. Some people need an editor to tell them , or at least query them about their books. Tom Clancey suffered the same problem. Sometimes a good crisp novel is what you want. What happened to William GIbson? Peripheral was decent. Agency was not recommended.

Given how much google has invested in LLM and othe "AI" you'd figure they could figure it out, but then the scammers are using the same technology to fool the Google "AI"