Also, the internet / screen part of such an appliance, always becomes outdated much faster than the appliance itself. A refrigerator is expected to last 10+ years, a computer attached to it, not so much.

The WSJ does, and always has, relied on advertising for a large portion of its revenue. Why would we expect that they would suddenly talk about how bad advertising is?

Well, to be fair, 3 megameters doesn't sound nearly as impressive as 3000 km. And impressiveness is definitely one of the goals of this article, certainly more than expressing an appropriate level of precision.

It is also in keeping with common usage on earth, people do tend to speak of thousands of km when traveling.

Sure, I can name some of the hot-button issues.

Abortion on demand, transgender surgeries for minors, religious expression of business owners and public school students, the specific level of COVID restrictions.

Do you deny that these are hot-button issues, and that neither side gives an inch when it comes to these?

AIs are getting the ability to do things other than chat. ChatGPT can write some Python code and execute it. Claude can now write Jira JQL code and execute it. It can modify tickets and Confluence pages on its own. Of course, these chatbots don't understand the difference between chatting and doing, it's all the same to them. So if a bot executes something instead of just telling you how to do it, it's not trying to "get around" what you wanted, it's just an extension of its existing programming.

Neither the law nor the Constitution *prohibit* companies from disclosing private information about you, to the government. What the Constitution does do, is prohibit the government from *compelling* companies or individuals, to hand over private information, without a warrant signed by a judge. If companies like Apple choose to hand over information willingly, no laws were broken.

I'm with you on the first part of your post. Trump likely did know his actions were illegal, but did it anyway, thinking that some of his actions would somehow slip through the cracks.

Your characterization of Biden being a "uniter" though, is exaggerated. Biden came down very forcefully on the liberal side of the fence, on every hot-button issue that divided (and divides) Democrats from Republicans. As a centrist myself, I personally despair of either party truly deciding to work with the other.

Well, to be fair, LLMs suck at citing sources of *any* kind!

We'll need to find some tachyons for that.

Whatever you do, don't drop that flask! Those imprisoned protons are liable to do just about anything, once they get loose!

I asked Copilot this question. It came up with some formulas to calculate the number of joules (3×10^8 joules), and concluded that the explosion would be about 30 million times less energy released, than dropping a paper clip.

That "money vacuum" isn't destroying the money. As with every gold rush, it's the tool makers that get rich. In this case, that's the chip makers and the AI data center builders. There is a LOT of profit being made, just not (yet) by the startups hyperventilating about what miracles AI can do.

Meta just wants to sell ads. That's what makes them money. The tracking part, that costs them money.

The NSA doesn't make money, their budget is $74 billion a year. That's a pretty nice chunk of change.

And neither needs a Fire Phone, any phone will do. iPhone, Android, even a dumbphone can be tracked. The Austin package bomber was located in part by cell phone triangulation, which works with any device that connects to cell towers. https://www.foxnews.com/tech/h....

So if you don't want to be tracked, you'd better not use a cell phone of any kind, or a computer of any kind that connects to the internet.

And you think that this new Fire Phone is somehow key to their ability to track you?

All these things you described, have been possible for decades already. And they do still cost a lot of money. Even for Uncle Sam, money is not unlimited.

They forgot that their religion was capped at 144,000 people.