Bond died and I've never liked the fan theory that the name comes with the number - for me it's always been the same guy portrayed by different actors and slightly adjusted for the times in which the movie was made.

Between Austin Powers and Jason Bourne, both ends of the Bond spectrum have been done, and done better.

The right holders may not want to hear it, but the Bond franchise needs a longer rest than it's had so far.

Every sales client I have... "You've secured my infrastructure... now give this CRM package I just found with Google full access to my mail, calendar, and file systems".

Sometimes you just want to give up on the world.

> "washington bureaucracy" just means "democrats"

Don't something like 80% of Federal employees vote Democrat?

If so, yeah, they would appear to be correct.

They're well aware that the Chinese aren't idiots and their worst nightmare is for China to start selling cheap AI chips which undercut those $50,000 GPUs and put them out of business.

Which is exactly what will happen if China can't buy Western chips and rely on them continuing to work if Trump decides he's going to bomb China next.

Yes. With companies declaring that they're going to replace most jobs with LLMs it seems weird that universities would be telling students they can't use them.

The entire university system is broken and they haven't yet come to terms with that.

But I'm sure Xi would much rather throw money at building up local AI chip design and chip manufacturing.

> Along with the 8 hour day and the five-day work week (for those of you with a life other than work), vacations, benefits - every single thing came from unions.

All those things came from companies wanting to hire good employees and keep them. The more benefits they offered, the better employees they got.

Look at Henry Ford, who doubled his workers wages because had more than 100% annual employee turnover and doubling the wages meant he got the best people and they had nowhere else to go for a better-paid job in the auto business. Or the entire health insurance system in the US which largely came about because employers wanted to hire more and better people in WWII and couldn't raise wages so gave them more benefits instead.

My girlfriend is in a union. A few years ago a new employee was such an asshole that a couple of existing employees quit over it. They tried to sack the new employee because she was still in her probation anyway and could be let go for any reason, but the union blocked it... even though other union members had quit their jobs to get away from that person.

I've rarely seen a union anyone I know belongs to do anything worthwhile.

We tried the whole "if you don't like it, leave!" Boomer thing but then it turned out that many companies are run by sociopaths with no concept of normal human behaviour. So no, they don't get to say Muh Private Company any more.

to their detriment for about 10 years? The employee ranking system IIRC

The big problem with AI Art is getting the "AI" to do what you want. I'm currently generating an ebook cover and there would be some great covers if I could tell it "yeah, take the text from image #2, take the background from image #4, take the character from image #5" and have it produce the cover I want the way a human artist could. But instead I generate 500 images, quickly go through them, pick the one that sucks the least and run it through an AI upscale model which can also make style changes while upscaling.

It's still an improvement over the old method of going to a stock photo site, paying $2 for an image that kind of works and adding text to it.

Fortunately their "AI" is just a very complicated random number generator. It can automate or accelerate a lot of work but humans will still need to monitor the output for when the "AI" takes a few tabs of digital acid and starts hallucinating.

But if they ever achieve their Holy Grail AI which is smarter, faster and cheap than humans then there will be no The Economy for humans any more. Humans will be as relevant as oxen to most of the oligarchs.

It's easy in the short term to cease development and switch to maintenance-only.

Then a few months later you start to discover why it's typically easy, but dumb.

Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/...

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh yesterday that demand for AI infrastructure is creating a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to reindustrialize America and restore the nation's capacity to build."

Why it matters: With many college grads fearing AI could obliterate their career dreams, Huang pointed to boundless opportunity as a "new industry is being born. A new era of science and discovery is beginning ... I cannot imagine a more exciting time to begin your life's work."

Nvidia, which makes AI chips, is the world's most valuable company. Huang told 5,800 recipients of undergraduate and graduate degrees that the AI buildout will require plumbers, electricians, ironworkers, and builders for chip factories, data centers and advanced manufacturing facilities.

"No generation has entered the world with more powerful tools â" or greater opportunities â" than you," he said. "We are all standing at the same starting line. This is your moment to help shape what comes next. So run. Don't walk."

"Every major technological revolution in history created fear alongside opportunity," Huang added. "When society engages technology openly, responsibly, and optimistically, we expand human potential far more than we diminish it."

Full speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

> Kind of ironic that a company that at the turn of the 20th century killed off so many coachbuilder automobile competitors by pioneering machine tools, mass assembly etc. is now finding itself on the wrong side of the equation because it can't keep up with electric tech.

If I remember correctly, Henry Ford literally started out trying to make electric cars, but they sucked so he made the Model T with a gas engine instead.

Are you sure? AI coding is creating plenty of security vulnerabilities to find in the future. Like all those websites with no authentication that were mentioned here a few days back.