What about underwear?

More likely Vibe-hacking.

Wonder if Meta has Case's number on quick-dial?

We are moving to an economy where if you aren't in the 1%, then everything will be a few months wage. This is definitely a case where a US administration was doing everything to increase prices, intended or not. Its what happens when you let a monkey and his buffoons run a system that requires understanding of consenquences.

Keith Richards has already lived through the heat death of one universe.

I was lucky; I lived in a Road Runner test market and my off-campus apartment with early cable modem had unreal speed compared to the fractional T-1 the school used.

Oh geez, they've flooded alt.sex.bald.captains with crappy AI / and it's always Q. WTF?!!

Is nothing sacred?

Everything requires maintenance. Hopefully the repair equipment can be migrated to hybrid and then fully electric in the coming years. It’s going to take years, given the investment, but when oil is politically risky and environmentally risky, then there are incentives to move beyond it.

John Brunner has entered the conversation.

Obligatory:

plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

          --Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, January 1849 Les Guêpes Journal

Wasn't one of the first open source scrapes of teh internets (text and images I think) around 80TB to download? Can see smaller IT businesses, labs, universities able to use something in that range. Lost of schools had decent size clusters.

I was hopping for a bobble-head run.

Most of these companies (probably all) are trying to save money. Offer wages competitive enough and the right people will show up for an in person interview and occasional office visits.

In the US, at least in my state, jurors are not allowed to bring a cell phone into the courtroom and unless you have an issued pass, you can't bring cell phones into the court building.

The decimation