Define crypto as share trading, and tax it accordingly.

Because la Presidenta is a giant buttplug screwing up science and technology in the U.S.

"how many federal employees are employed full-time to monitor and report on the energy, water, and climate impact of federal government datacenters?"

Answer: very few, the current alleged administration does not care about any "impact" other than to their bank accounts.

It isn't just the administration, a good number of congress critters are similarly incompetent but have a media "outreach" organization to blind voters to this. That allows them to enrich themselves (stock trading, siphoning money in bills to their friends for a Bit-O-Graft under the table, etc). Their media "outreach" organization is a group of people dedicated to keeping their pet cockroach in office and paying them for their phony-baloney jobs.

In defense of the crabby old ladies at the DMV, ever you have to deal with the "public" on a regular basis? The "public" are the people who believe in conspiracy theories as truth, expect space aliens are whizzing around the skies spying on our clothes drying on the wash line (they like undergarments), think science is grows on trees, think championship wrestling is real, etc. They are irascible and perpetually irritated over fuck all. Then they come into the DMV and expect the old lady behind the counter to commiserate with why they didn't think to bring in the proper information for a license and are upset with the old lady for not just passing them through.

Try dealing with the "pubic" day after day and see if you don't theorize about bringing in a shillelagh for some tough love.

My own take is that the dustup is another ploy by el Bunko for a payoff. He isn't hard to figure out.

They'd run it again today anyway.

you miss out on the true meaning of Christmas.

News would be if he did something that *wasn't* fraudulent.

From NYS Teacher of the Year, John Taylor Gatto: https://www.informationliberat...
        "Call me Mr. Gatto, please. Twenty-six years ago, having nothing better to do at the time, I tried my hand at schoolteaching. The license I hold certifies that I am an instructor of English language and English literature, but that isn't what I do at all. I don't teach English, I teach school -- and I win awards doing it.
        Teaching means different things in different places, but seven lessons are universally taught from Harlem to Hollywood Hills. They constitute a national curriculum you pay for in more ways than you can imagine, so you might as well know what it is. You are at liberty, of course, to regard these lessons any way you like, but believe me when I say I intend no irony in this presentation. These are the things I teach, these are the things you pay me to teach. Make of them what you will. ...
          How did these awful places, these "schools", come about? Well, casual schooling has always been with us in a variety of forms, a mildly useful adjunct to growing up. But "modern schooling" as we know it is a by-product of the two "Red Scares" of 1848 and 1919, when powerful interests feared a revolution among our own industrial poor. Partly, too, total schooling came about because old-line American families were appauled by the native cultures of Celtic, Slavic, and Latin immigrants of the 1840s and felt repugnance towards the Catholic religion they brought with them. Certainly a third contributing factor in creating a jail for children called school must have been the consternation with which these same "Americans" regarded the movement of African-Americans through the society in the wake of the Civil War.
        Look again at the seven lessons of schoolteaching: confusion, class position, indifference, emotional and intellectual dependency, conditional self-esteem, surveillance -- all of these things are prime training for permanent underclasses, people deprived forever of finding the center of their own special genius. And over time this training has shaken loose from its own original logic: to regulate the poor. For since the 1920s the growth of the school bureaucracy, and the less visible growth of a horde of industries that profit from schooling exactly as it is, has enlarged this institution's original grasp to the point that it now seizes the sons and daughters of the middle classes as well. ..."

Last I checked, networking was a four-letter word, and those letters were CCNA.

Especially when this particular "anything new" is the subject of pending copyright litigation. See Doe v. GitHub.

Probably to the effect "We failed to poach the people who developed this framework in the first place. Can we import some immigrants, pretty please?"

Will it matter if companies demand to hire vibe coders and never realize the gap between their skills and real skills? The gap will be there, but some C-Suites will refuse to see it.

As the precis mentioned, use it or lose it. Companies force feeding AI to their employees are cutting their own throats.

And this will come back to bite us all in the ass. These kids grow up and will be unemployable; they will be a constant drain on the U.S. economy.

And this doesn't bother the Silicon Valley techbros, they figure they will determine how the U.S. operates in the future by telling everyone else what to do. And with the uneducated (and uneducatible proles), they'll have and easy time of it until the U.S. goes titsup because it cannot function. The techbros will continue to wallow in their wealth.

Read Adam Becker's book, More Everything Forever, if you want to know how bad it is.