It's rather amusing that Flock also spies on the cops using it.

The only thing I see accelerating is the rate at which opinion on these matters flip-flops.

This is not 'best of both worlds' - it's the best of 1 world: The online world. Now if you could also convert online-only games to physical media, then yes, it would be the best of both worlds.

I've been an armchair fan of quantum mechanics for decades. I read the nerd magazines when I was young, and continue to this day. I can even spell quantum chromodynamics, but I've never heard of quantum memory. Lost in translation, or drowning bs?

No one in their right mind would start a business hoping that a protectionary 25% tariff would be permanent. Right objective, stupid plan.

Zuckerberg has finally realized his shop doesn't have the AI muscle to compete with the top dogs, so instead he's emulating the Chinese model of releasing open models in an effort to undercut OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.

The Ellisons are a very litigious family. I'd be checking those 'commitments' very carefully for escape hatches. And 3 years of good behavior is clearly a small price to pay in the grand scheme of things. I think they could do (much) better.

And the world laughs even harder at the craven stupidity of the current American government. You're caught up in a kleptocracy my American friends, and the Thief-In-Chief is in the Oval Office. He'll steal your mid-terms if you let him.

To properly care for this garment:
- store it in the fridge
- wash it in the dishwasher
- iron it with a hair-straightener

When the garment has exhausted its useful life:
- cut it up and make a salad
- mulch it into your garden
- wrap Christmas presents with it

Not a problem. They said it was hydrophobic.

How many times do we have to read this headline? Aren't we numb yet? Does this garbage still raise a stock's price?

And by the way, the AI didn't 'break loose' of anything. This devious AI did not escape to other internet computers and start wandering the internet-scape looking for the next system to take down. Hardly. Instead, the AI found a security hole in its existing runtime environment and that gave it the internet access it needed to do more hacky things, because it was told to do hacky things.

There's no sentience here. It's little more than an LLM wrapped in one company's custom harness, and a big fat prompt.

Please stop.

Just within my lifetime, BMW has gone from "Germany's finest engineering" to Low Rent Slop. How sad.

Can I come to your party? I'll bring my good balloons :-). We can wear Facebook privacy-invaders and roast Clippy for entertainment.

I've clapped my hands in the dark to know if there's a wall in front of me. Seems to be instinctive to try this, though I didn't practice enough to call it a skill. Did anyone else have the instinct to try this without having been told?

So sad that huge companies have to be sued or otherwise legally threatened, in order to get them to treat their customers fairly. Makes you wonder how they got so big in the first place, and whether they will stay that way much longer.