When it comes to "(anti) trans crap" (for lack of a better word), the question is not about the biological sex of transgenders, but whether biological sex or perceived gender should prevail in various social contexts, and when one would be considered a transgender (self-declared, diagnosed with gender dysphoria, or having undergone sex reassignment surgery). And so on. They are social rather than biological questions, even though biology does play a role, for instance when considering transgenders in sports.

"We need AI to do stuff we can't do"
I am letting AI do that... for stuff that I personally can't do. I've had AI design logos, make short clips, draw cartoons, create avatars for online use, write and perform music. I can't draw, sing or perform for crap, and since this is all for various hobbies, I can't afford the humans who can do all that either.

Not the "brain drain" we were worried about...

If there are any other arguments - real arguments - pay attention to them, but the equity concerns should be filtered out of the conversation and their advocates seen as having wasted people's time.

The idea that ideas can be owned is the defect. It's an idea you had. It's not your idea.

That's how a lot of classes were in my high school (Montessori). We were told to read certain chapters of the syllabus ahead of the class, perhaps do a few exercises. In class, the teacher helped with difficult problems, walk the class through the tricky ones, and expand on the material that was studied. And the amount of homework we got was very reasonable.

Removing the swastikas is silly, but I can kinda understand why they didn't want to simulate giving meth to sailors to make them perform...
Then again, in Rimworld (space colony survival game) you can get your team messed up on all manner of stimulants, or even just wire an electrode into their brain's pleasure center. Maybe the difference is that a U-boat crew is a little too close to home.

The problem is not that cellphone location data (or CCTV) was used to figure out who was near a crime scene. The problem (according to the lawyers) is that a search warrant was issued solely on the strength of him being nearby when the crime was committed.

A lot of these things are to access AI. And while I'd love smart glasses that let me tag people so I can always put a name to a face, such an application is a privacy nightmare. Same for AI assistants. Now I understand why companies are scrambling to bring AI into their ecosystem, so far I've not seen many compelling use cases for AI, not in the form of devices like these.

As for facial recognition in security cameras, I already have a solution for that, and it kinda works. Completely off-line and off-cloud.

FSF was founded by idealists who believe code should be as free as speech rather than owned. Spoiler alert: they're right.

They were built on principle and likely will stand on it.

Many users prefer to get these notifications, either one that tells them a message arrived, or even one displaying the message itself. Up to the user to show or disable them. Only problem is that not many people understand how notifications work, or that they are stored outside of the app data store.

Some investor pointed this out a while ago, and it's worth looking into. If you're investing in EFTs on US indices, chances are you are exposed to the risk of the AI bubble collapsing.

Not really. The 2x $1000 or so I spent on targeted ad campaigns have been worth it. If they weren't targeted, it would be far less effective; there's quite a few articles pointing out that targeted ads have a far higher click-through rate, and a higher conversion rate as well. Without targeting, my ad budget might still be $2000 but I wouldn't be spending it.

That's not going to happen. The global advertising market is approaching a $1 trillion dollar value annually, and personalized ads have driven a lot of that growth. Personalized ads make it possible to zoom in on your target demographic more precisely, so you're not paying for impressions going to the wrong target group. It made advertising affordable to people who could not have justified the cost before. Hell I've ran a few global online ad campaigns for an app I wrote as a hobby project.

No, they'll not going to kill the goose that lays those particular golden eggs.