Comment since when (Score 1) 12

by noshellswill on Friday October 23, 2026 @10:58PM (#66391062) Attached to: Singapore Boffins Weave a GUI Into Fabric

Around crowds of others, I believe clothing has been the human GUI since at least Gobekle-Tepe. Yes yes visual expression varied from Minoan dash to Mycenea paranoia, but sensory response carried TRUTH long before language. Of-course in this enlightened age some laxers do not dress for the occasion ...

Comment Re: Imma go ahead and announce that nobody cares (Score 2) 53

by ThurstonMoore on Friday October 23, 2026 @01:30PM (#66390000) Attached to: Microsoft Announces Per-Hour Cost for Xbox Cloud Gaming Service

Every time I've tried to play a game on a streaming service it became a blurry mess as soon as I started moving. This is on a 500Mb fiber connection.

Comment Hey Mike (Score 2) 88

by ThurstonMoore on Friday October 23, 2026 @11:07AM (#66389586) Attached to: Comcast Loses More Customers, Claims Other ISPs' Cheap Prices Are 'Irrational'

Cry me a fucking river.

Comment Re:Not surprising (Score 1) 40

by noshellswill on Thursday October 22, 2026 @08:49PM (#66388700) Attached to: Moderna Shares Plunge After Leak of Cancer Vaccine Data

With fusion power, crypt-coyn, Quantum computing, vegi-meat and *.AI all producing negative returns ... and promising those losses continuing into the indefinite future ... pure-play investors need to believe in SOME sure outrageously profitable money-stream. The wife may tolerate silver, but the mistress demands gold ! If not hallucinogens then ... what ...? Panic ... panic ...

Comment Re:AirBNB decides to commit retnal market suicide (Score 2) 129

by noshellswill on Thursday October 22, 2026 @10:38AM (#66387760) Attached to: Airbnb Bans Making Guests Do Dishes, Take Out the Trash

Why make life easy for AirBNB community smashers. Owners of such properties ARE running mini-hotels and denying land-use/housing to real residents. Instead of shelter for full-time residents AirBNB creates drug-addled adult vacation-toys for the upper-mid class. Is that act basically wrong? Yes ... in that nearby rental properties decrease land/aesthetic values for nearby permanent residents --- see < Isle of Palms SC > for a prime example, where proliferation of AirBNB-type housing culturally raped the local community. Of-course ... no moreso than a resort in the Poconos or Sierra Nevada. But, the distinction should be perfectly clear, between residential and recreational properties ; things like tax-rates, professional services and maintenance ought to reflect that difference. AirBNB owners want it both ways ... hotel+ income while shoving maintenance on visitors. I'd stop that right now ... as well as allowing ANY AirBNB properties within residential neighborhoods.

Comment birds of a feather (Score 1) 22

by noshellswill on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:12PM (#66384514) Attached to: Nscale, Anthropic In Talks For New $45 Billion AI Cloud Deal

I can understand ( if not sympathize with ) building data-centers/LLM factories in West Virginia. They have lots of coal. So while the supported AI corrupts human minds, so the coal power plants will corrupt your lungs. < Les oiseaux de mauvaise augure >.

Comment Re:Building wealth (Score 1) 202

by noshellswill on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @11:02AM (#66384424) Attached to: Professor Calls To Abolish Business Schools For Failing Society

You describe a race-to-the-bottom; your betters are not impressed. The wealthy still wear hand-loomed silk suites and dresses ... sail hand-fitted wooden yachts ... grouse-hunt with hand-bored shotguns ... and have their man-of-business do their trading. Factories can't compete. Maybe you need to save-up for a week to buy that hand-built & sharpened paring-knife; splitting goose-berries for cobbler really takes thumb-against-blade.

Comment Re:Law Schools also (Score 1) 202

by noshellswill on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:28AM (#66384348) Attached to: Professor Calls To Abolish Business Schools For Failing Society

You speak as if gun-barrel-supported "laws" were required to define human behavior. But, humans were self-organizing, negotiating and exercising self-discipline for 10s of thousands of years before the first Sumerian codex. Perhaps a Bible-reading culture could do W/O lawyers entirely.

Comment Re: what's wrong with you people? (Score 0) 124

by ThurstonMoore on Monday October 19, 2026 @03:18PM (#66382850) Attached to: Elon Musk Vows To Give a SpaceX Share To 'Every Kid In America'

His perspective is of Musk's pubes about an inch from his face.

Comment Re: big hype machine behind this movie (Score 1) 74

by ThurstonMoore on Monday October 19, 2026 @12:36PM (#66382570) Attached to: Elizabeth Holmes Doc 'You Can See Everything' Shocks With Massive Opening

I've seen a lot of commercials for it.

Comment Re: Fielder in Wired magazine (Score 3, Funny) 74

by ThurstonMoore on Monday October 19, 2026 @12:32PM (#66382554) Attached to: Elizabeth Holmes Doc 'You Can See Everything' Shocks With Massive Opening

She looks like a muppet. You're just attracted to crazy.

Comment Re:I don’t get it. (Score 1) 49

by noshellswill on Monday October 19, 2026 @10:26AM (#66382312) Attached to: Anthropic Announces 'Public Benefit Fund', Committing 5% of Its Shares

Generally speaking ..."Against the GP: the plan IS to have robots do those sorts of things. And there's real progress being made." ... replacing human labor with machines is no progress. The wealthy have ALWAYS understood this ... for example ... butlers, tailors, men-of-business, lawyers , secretaries, chauffeurs . Against the GP: the plan IS to have robots do those sorts of things. And there's real progress being made. Wealthy engage an entire class of personal , human assistants . OTOH grifters, strivers , hustlers and wanna-Beez pretend silly machines can substitute -- a humanist inhuman touch like self-driving autos OMG -- and consciously try forcing all to the same pretense. More honest and more "agentic" leaving "service" to your betters while practicing DIY tasking.

Comment Re: Use Rufus (Score 1) 87

by ThurstonMoore on Monday October 19, 2026 @09:42AM (#66382210) Attached to: Mozilla is Calling Out Microsoft for Forcing Edge on Users

Good luck finding one that lets you get rid of that online account requirement.

Comment Use Rufus (Score 3, Informative) 87

by ThurstonMoore on Monday October 19, 2026 @06:05AM (#66381954) Attached to: Mozilla is Calling Out Microsoft for Forcing Edge on Users

Use Rufus to make your install media and you won't see those "finish setting up" screens and you can disable online accounts.

https://rufus.ie/en/

Comment Re:"controlling men" (Score 1) 38

by ThurstonMoore on Saturday October 17, 2026 @08:52PM (#66380382) Attached to: Will New Documentary Make Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes More Sympathetic?

My former female boss didn't hire women for the same reason.