You can buy a magic keyboard with Touch ID. You can also do some security tasks on your Mac Mini with your iPhone or your Apple Watch (which is sometimes annoying if your phone is in the other room and you have to find it just so you can pay for your pizza).

Hmm, I wonder if it ran a version of iOS if it would be a better experience for the user?

That was my concern, too - does it suggest the Neo is underpowered or the iPhone overpowered? Although, as I think about it, most tasks people complete on their phone (posting to social media, taking and minor edits to photos, email, text, whatsapp, browsing the web) are similar tasks to those most people do on their laptops, just with a larger screen. It does seem really odd that they would put this chip in a new laptop when they've got M-series in their iPads (although those would be $200+ more expensive once you add an external keyboard).

I know this is crazy talk, but maybe people of different religions and historical family backgrounds could, I don't know, learn to get along and share the land in a meaningful way with each other? Or maybe everyone should leave and it should be set aside as some kind of visitor-only international park, so no one gets to live there.

Everyone knows you don't go hunting for corn. In modern Iowa, after all the GMO modifications of current crops, corn hunts you.

who served as a nuclear launch officer for an underground silo that housed ICBMs. I asked him if the order came, would he turn the key?

He said he would.

Is AI really more dangerous than humans?

Yeah, most of them for me too. Although the local University has tons that are free and are really good quality.

The major touring pop acts are all targeting the 1%, and with no middle class anymore, who can blame them. Those solid gold swimming pools don't build themselves.

Not gonna happen. AI is going to eat the recording industry. The only money will be in live performances and celebrity management.

That's exactly my reaction; without any data or evidence, that's just like, your opinion, man.

AI will be the death of the recording music industry, not people joining fan clubs and text lists and buying CDs and vinyl they can't play anywhere... When you can have AI generate a song in your favorite style, that sounds just like your favorite artist, and it's about YOU, and it's essentially free...why would you pay a streaming service?

There will still be a market for live performances, although it will increasingly be about celebrity and "the experience," and community / fandom, rather than musicianship. Some classical music and orchestras will survive, but mostly in service to the arts rather than anything mainstream.

Oh, it definitely is about skills - companies used to have their own training programs for their employees, but now they've outsourced those to colleges / universities and expect new employees to come to them with everything they need for success on day 1. Now, this is totally unrealistic, but that's beside the point.

In addition to skills, yes, there are some, what might be called soft-skills, that a college degree might demonstrate (such as communication skills, following directions, showing up on time, etc.), but other experiences might demonstrate those skills too (such as military service), so those aren't necessarily unique to formal higher education.

"buy the hype!"

Said no successful investor ever....

And this is the problem when education's purpose focuses increasingly on jobs. The Trump administration (and conservatives in general) have doubled-down on this, pushing the expectation and belief that school is only "worth it" if it leads to a high-paying job immediately upon graduation.

I don't agree with this at all. Education is about building a better life - about confronting new ideas, about being challenged to do something you didn't think you could do, about interacting with people who see the world very differently than you, and about experiencing the full world of art, literature, theater, and music.

Yes, we all need to be able to produce enough resources to have a good life. But life isn't about producing resources, and education shouldn't be primarily about getting a job. When you step back from the 'education is a job' perspective, you can see why sending an AI in your place would be such a waste.

Just create an AI version of your voice, then let it take orders and I can go back to trying to unstick my shoes from the floor of this BK "kitchen."

So you agree that Trump is abusing the power of pardon to benefit himself financially?

Biden selected a location in Delaware for his library. He is now fundraising for it, now that he is OUT of office (as it should be). Trump demanded publicly-owned, beachfront property be given to him for the library, and is planning on building a for-profit hotel and other business that will benefit him on that stolen land. So, you agree that building "libraries" that personally benefit presidents is wrong?

Obama and Biden both were prioritizing the use of limited resources to target those illegal immigrants who presented a real risk to the general public. They were still enforcing the law, but as it was written it was not fully enforceable. Every president has had Supreme Court rulings they didn't like, but they are all Constitutionally bound to follow them. Trump has ignored many of them.

Where does the Constitution say that states are not allowed to prosecute crimes that occur within their borders?

The evidence is quite plain that there are pages and pages that have not been released. See: https://www.npr.org/2026/02/24...

Biden did make "a big frikkin deal" out of Trump's past behavior.

So you agree that Trump receiving an airplane and then changing policies toward the country that gave him the airplane is corrupt and he should be held accountable for doing that?

The White House said Trump didn't support her but would have if she had declined to accept the prize (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-machado-snub-nobel-peace-prize-venezuela-b2895216.html), and that her accepting it (instead of declining and demanding it be given to Trump) was "a sin." She then did give it to him, and he still didn't support her. Later, he claimed he never said any of this, but that was only after it blew up in his face.

It is very clear he thinks of himself as a king - see these photos of himself as a king the Whitehouse shared (https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-donald-trump-king-time-2033574); and his supporters clearly treat him as one (including the elected Republican officials).

I'm not screaming, but I genuinely would like to know how the following behaviors are not Trump being a king:

-Pardoning people after they make a large donation to him.
-Pardoning his friends and supporters, even when they clearly break the law, because they were breaking the law in support of him.
-Demanding public institutions give him free land on which he will build a hotel and other properties that will benefit him (and may contain some kind of "library").
-Flaunting the law and saying rulings from the Supreme Court make no difference.
-Refusing to share evidence of criminal activities with local law enforcement officers.
-Hiding dozens and dozens of pages of materials from the Epstein files that allegedly implicate him in wrong doing.
-Receiving an airplane as a bribe - er, gift - and then rewarding that country with favorable policies.
-Saying he will name a person to be the leader of Venezuela IF she gives him the Nobel Peace Prize (which she did).

All of this - and more - he does while his sycophants bow down and worship him, lavishing praise on everything he does and never acknowledging or pointing out anything that he ever did was wrong or should be held accountable for.

So please, explain to me how this isn't a king?