I remember an interview of Tim Berners-Lee (of www fame) in the early 2000's on his paper (or was it a book?) the Semantic Web. And he discussed that people would one day interact with "agents" to handle much of their software needs. Rather than with applications themselves.

I dismissed this as nonsense. That people would always want to interact with software. And that we as software developers need to improve our UIs to make software better, more elegant, more powerful, and easier to use. Because who would want to talk to some crappy speech-to-text system, that's noisy and slow. And we already accepted that most people don't want to use a command-line interface to interact with software. So agents seemed like a really backwards and stupid idea to me.

I don't think I could have been more wrong.

These guys never cared about hypocrisy, they don't appear to feel shame and relish the idea that some liberal might be upset.

The system that prepares students for college is no longer functioning properly. This is about giving unprepared students a soft landing, so hopefully they can adapt and avoid dropping out early.

All my thoughts would be about guillotines.

The Third Circuit court ruled that CFTC has jurisdiction.

Southern District of New York (Judge Analisa Torres, July 2026): Denied Kalshi’s request for a preliminary injunction. Held that the CEA does not preempt New York’s gambling laws as applied to Kalshi’s sports event contracts.
District of Maryland, ditto
District of Arizona, ditto
District of Nevada, ditto
District of Utah, summary judgment allowing Utah to apply its anti-gambling laws
One Sixth Circuit decision also went against Kalshi on related issues

The main way that the US has projected its culture throughout the world has vastly diminished. We're in a setting sun empire, and it's unfortunate that self-decsribed patriots choose to bury their head in the sand and deny reality itself. Effectively the greatest anti-American threat we have faced as the people who insist that nothing is wrong, and that we should go back to the good old days, regardless of where the rest of the world is today. A bunch of isolationist weirdos that are convinced they can run a tiny hermit kingdom better than the last half century of liberal economics and massive growth under globalization.

Can we punish people for uploading to the cloud. And punish the cloud for retaining, redistributing, and reselling what appears to be illegally obtained videos? Is that too much to ask?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"The entire movie making industry is in Hollywood."

It used to be.
https://variety.com/2026/tv/fe...

Criminals don't care about words on a piece of paper, aka laws. They only care about real enforcement and real consequences.

With all the real problems we have here in California, why did you bother making up a few fake ones. To serve some narrative?

Same here. All Linux, all the time. At home and work.
So we'll establish this as the baseline and everyone else as the outlier. ;-)

If being denied from posting on a forum with a decades old account isn't news here, then I don't know what this site is even for anymore man.

I come here for the dupes. Repetition is the key to retention!

Kessler syndrome will end GPS within a generation or two.