"allow users to search the web for information, create content, generate images, summarize information and analyze uploaded files"

Thank dog I will finally be allowed to search and "create content".

I'm well aware of how niche this is, but I just want a command line. Make the robot pal do whatever goofy tricks you like, I don't care and likely won't use it much.

Just let me access my own fucking data in ways that work for me.

While we're at it, why is everyone besides me allowed to easily track my phone? Why can't I tell Apple Maps to track of my movements all the time? A lookup every 5 minutes isn't going to mess up the battery more than some random free game the same thing. Aside from being an automatic alibi generator, there are a ton of times I wanted to look up where I was on some particular day.

And why I can't use all those awesome sensors and radios except in goofy indirect ways? For a brief time, the iPhone was an incredible wifi analysis tool, until Apple pulled the application (I can't remember the name now). It could easily become an awesome hobbyist combo-box of test equipment, but for Apple's demand it be a consumer device.

Why can't I export my text messages, but Elcom or Celebrite can?

But it is also entirely possible that they are Making an Example.

Oppressive states have long-hated Ham operators. The biggest issue is that we can communicate worldwide without asking permission, but they also don't like public-spirited independent-minded technical folks, they can cause a lot of trouble to an aspiring shitbird like Lukashenko or Stephen Miller.

Hey, speaking of Miller, his family immigrated from Belarus. Since we're all about preserving our culture through expulsion, can someone get one of those gutter-trash ICE thugs to extradite him back where he came from? Maybe just make Belarus the penal colony for all these fucking animals.

Given market caps, it would totally be possible.

They could offer one-size-fits all subscription, each month you could choose how much Ozempic you wanted vs. plastic-wrapped sugar and salted potatoes.

I guess Amodei reviewed his PR report and didn't like the mention count. Time to see if people are still scared of robots stealing their jerbs.

I'd rather they'd just exited the business entirely rather than just let some Chinese shop slap their name on products. "Sony" on gear use to mean something.

For one thing, how long we can continuously run an experiment.

I actually do think it is an interesting question - you need continuity of several things (broader social stability, specific organizational stability, a community of people interested enough to bother keeping it going) without any of the usual things that keep something going (profit motive, government edict, etc.)

But I like proof-by-doing sorts of things in general.

That's because you got played.

They have been on an authoritarian bender since the mid 90s, getting a bit worse each passing year.

Those people who rant about black helicopters? Their real beef is they want to be the ones shoving their neighbors out of them.

Because there is no "death of democracy". I've heard this hysterical horseshit all my long life. Everytime a Republican wins the White House, it means democracy died. Funny that I heard it for Reagan, both Bushes, and now Trump, and yet we keep having elections and Democrats win the White House sometimes too. "Democracy Died" just means that you threw a tantrum because your candidate didn't win.

It's always same stupid fucking thing: if we don't stop them this time, it's over! Democracy will die! This is the most important election Evarrrr!!!.

The world keeps spinning. Elections keep happening. You win sometimes and you lose sometimes. You people have become the boy that cried wolf, and no one gives a shit anymore. No one outside of your hysterical sewing circles buys it.

If you make it a pain in the ass to use busses and trains, then people will just go back to cars. Either buying their own, or renting per ride via Uber or something. If you're going to use a bus, then you're just going to have to accept that it's slow mode of transport. But it still beats walking in the snow.

You might be surprised. Kinko's was a sole proprietorship until it was sold.

J.C. Penny's was for its first 25 years. So was Walmart for the first roughly 20.

You can guess people's age by the first unit they think of to measure compute. (Assuming you're talking to someone who measures compute.)

Mhz? Born in the 70s or earlier.

Ghz? 80s.

Cores? 90s.

Watts? 00-on

FFS, this happened less than seven months ago: US strikes on Iran.

Yes, because it's completely a conspiracy and not at all a reaction to decades of iron-fisted rule. Iran was a happy land of lollipops and rainbows until now. The people love the Ayatollahs.

Yeah, the president that just bombed the fucking country in question doesn't care about Iran, it's all just a conspiracy to misdirect something else.

What would count as proper concern to you? A boots on the ground invasion to take out the Ayatollahs? We've sanctioned Iran, bombed them, attacked and killed their proxies at every turn. Just what are you wanting us to do to prevent those executions?