and by "detain you" ... overnight is typical if you pissed them off. your won't get your phone back ever

I didn't word that carefully. You're not "denied" entry. In my experience they give you the option to turn back. If you insist you are legally allowed to enter the country and still refuse a search, then they will detain you and your devices until you comply.

Your Prime Time sitcoms and news casts are likely already written by AI.

After a while I get a lot of excuses from Claude. So I clear the session. And start with new prompts. Generally I have to break the problem down into smaller pieces and connect the dots before the AI agent will agree that what I want to do is not only possible, it's the correct way to do it.

For what it's worth, I've had junior engineers get stuck and push back in a similar way. It's fine. If you don't know the answer, I can teach a human to methodically work through a problem to find answers. With an agent with limited memory and a small token window, there's only so far I can carry it. And each time I go into it, I have to repeat the process with the next session. That situation isn't likely to stand though, we'll soon see more AI models that are better and cost me even more money to run.

I'd like Android-in-docker. Run Android and have a perfectly usable phone. Normal PIN entry. Normal apps. Can make phone calls. Pretty limited text message log. And then start the docker container with your accounts, chat programs, etc. The key thing is I would want it to take over the messaging services while the container is running instead of having everything going to the outer dumb layer.

Not only is this good for agitators fighting government overreach. But it seems like a good way to have a work account on your phone without Google's terrible work profile feature that hands your phone's reset and lock requirements over to your corporate IT. and good for people who want to practice some better security and data hygiene in this era where 1 in 5 people experience identity theft, and AI tools are going to make that more like 4 in 5 in a year or two.

Customs agents do not need probable cause or a warrant to initiate a routine seizure and basic search of your electronic devices at a U.S. port of entry. Almost any seizure while under the border search exception is basically considered justified. So if you delete your phone, burn your wallet, tear up your love letter to your EX, flush your drugs, etc. The border agents can view that as "Destruction or removal of property to prevent seizure"

Don't like it? Write your legislature to reverse the long-held ruling.

On paper you have the right to remain silent anywhere. IANAL but you don't have to engage ICE or CBP or speak to them. You can legally refuse searches even in the 100-mile exclusion zone, although some agents will illegally put up a big fight and lie and threaten you a bunch, so it's almost never worth it.

Refusing searches at a customs inspection point at an airport should theoretically only escalate to denial of entry. Deleting your phone while the customs agent has the authority to do a border search and is in the middle of doing it is a felony and not Constitutionally protected. (18 U.S. Code Sec. 2232 - Destruction or removal of property to prevent seizure)

Most subjects are best learned through repetition. Learning your multiplication tables isn't something you just reason out. Learning how to do the process of long division or add fractions is best done by having the student do it thousands of times. Our little monkey brains need to be force fed information in order to build up any hope of retention.

People are addicted to social media because we adults shifted the responsibility for self-discipline onto children. That's bad, we are bad for letting it get this far, and we should feel bad.

I was hoping the removal had a more physical quality to it.

AI ingestion is a combination of destructive and non-destructive scanning. Valuable books go through non-destructive scanning, these are books that are determined to have significant resale value. They might be rare but the key is they are also in demand. Books that are rare but have an unknown or limited resale value or require a significant turn around time for sale, are being scanned destructively.

But without decent public transportation or reliable eyes-off autonomous driving, we're going to continue to waste money and human life on distracted driving.

While I would love to believe that getting the word out with public service announcements to improve the public's general awareness of the risks of distracted driving, or actively reworking our training and licensing programs. The cynic in me knows in my bones that most people think they are above average drivers, and that people will feel that raising the requirements to get a license is somehow unfair.

VAT is a regressive tax too. Utter dogshit policy to be expected of the center-right ordoliberal governments that dominate EU economic politics.

Maybe next do a museum of all the libraries paved over for parking lots at upscale shopping centers.
The grocery store near my old apartment was torn down to make space for upscale condos that started at $400k back in the mid-2000's, I'm sure they're like $1.8m now.

As they benefit from the improved economy. Call the payment network public infrastructure

They letter should say you are exempt from the clause, in exchange you will continue paying for prime and at Amazons choice they can end this agreement by returning your payment within 90 days.

No idea if it would hold up against an army of corporate attorneys that would file in the most business bias district possible, but that it technically a contract as it has valid considerations.

IANAL - I watched a semester of introductory course work on public access in the 1990's. This is not legal advice, for entertainment purposes only.