Most of my boot-up time these days is not spent by the PC but taken up my recently acquired Dell monitor getting confused by the screen resolution changes at startup. After BIOS's splash screen it goes grey, and then showing a message "No signal. Entering standby mode", thus obscuring the GRUB bootloader, delaying my view of it until it finds the signal again.
The monitor was supposed to be super fast, at 180 Hz, but ...

After I hit Return, I get to a Ubuntu Mate login prompt within 4 seconds.

I am so sick and tired of all this disinformation.

Even if it had been obvious to every adult with at least half a brain that the claim had been the verbal equivalent to bovine do-do from the start, disinformation such as this is wasting everyone's time, money and energy to process.

The people behind that claim should be severely fined and locked up. And anyone who were fooled to believe it should be forced to return to kindergarten.

It's not as if the "Airpods Max" weren't already an a$$hole indicator, and people speaking in their iPhones in handsfree mode wasn't already a nuisance in public places.

Now they'll be recording people without their consent, and speaking handsfree even more to their pendants as well ...

Somewhere in that business hierarchy, there are consumers at the bottom. And those consumers need jobs, otherwise your hierarchy is a pyramid scheme.

The AI investment economy in a nutshell.

We might be dangerously close to a Kessler syndrome already without realising it.

PopSci video: Sabine Hossenfelder - We are Much Closer to Kessler Syndrome Than We Thought.

Paper: CRITICAL NUMBER OF SPACECRAFT IN LOW EARTH ORBIT: A NEW ASSESSMENT OF THE STABILITY OF THE ORBITAL DEBRIS ENVIRONMENT by Hugh Lewis and Donald Kessler (from whom the Kessler syndrome was named).

Whenever I order a taxi, I ask specifically that the cab not be a Tesla.
At first, it was only because I know that Teslas has broken driver-assist features. Later, it was reinforced by their apparent ties to fascism.
And now this.

I've heard that there are other car brands with car handles that retract into the body ... but that they still have a manual mechanism that allow you to push on one end to make the larger part of the handle pop out, so you could pull it.
Why hasn't Tesla upgraded their door handles to do this?

Compare to Scandinavian countries where they're closing prisons down because they don't have prisoners to put in them because they simply have less crime, and when someone DOES commit a crime, they rehabilitate them.

Wrong. It is actually the opposite situation here in Sweden now, unfortunately. That was perhaps the goal and sentiment respectively thirty years ago.

Today, the prisons are full, and there have been inquiries to rent cells in other countries until new prisons have been built.
The current administration had been elected for being "tough on crime", and wants to put 13-y/o's in prison despite of experts claiming that branding them as criminals and forcing them to socialise with older, more experienced criminals would only make them worse.

We are still a long way from the death penalty though, Thank God.

BTW. My best argument against the death penalty is that it would degrade ourselves to the criminal's level. We don't kill people, because we are better than that!

You've got something on your nose.

Windows 10 was an upgrade to Windows 8, and to Windows 8.1 ... back when I installed it.
But Windows Updates since then have removed pre-installed programs and made the system much slower.

Not to mention the irremovable Cortana icon that lingered in my task bar for a few years, despite Cortana never being available in my region.

It is not about human intelligence, but about different types of technology within the field of "artificial intelligence".

In classic "Artificial Intelligence" before neural networks became mainstream, the term used to stand for when a problem was solved exactly because it was based on carefully crafted rules, put in the system by experts.
Now it means technology that is a black box by design which probably is correct, most of the time, hopefully, knock-on-wood, and based on random posts on the Internet from well-meaning users and edge-lords alike.

Calling it a "crisis" is apt, because we can still do something about it.
The next step is "catastrophe".

One problem with that argument is that there are limits to how much CO2 plants can absorb.

And the majority of CO2 that gets absorbed is actually absorbed by algae in the ocean. And there are limits there as well.
Too much CO2 leads to ocean acidification, which harm life in the ocean.

Pumping do in many cases also cause CO2 emissions. Oil wells contain more or less of natural gas as well as crude oil, and that gas is often considered unprofitable to collect or to pump back into the ground.

This "waste gas", consisting of mostly methane is typically burned to produce CO2 ("flaring"), which has lower climate impact than just letting it out, but the latter happens too much too often. It also happens that flaring can malfunction, leading to incomplete combustion and unwanted emissions.

There are only losers in the "AI race". Feeding a bubble serves only to destroy capital.

Those countries who will lose less are the ones who stay away from AI, and who transition away from using Microslop products the quickest.