Yes, every news outlet. All of them. Some were nicer about it than others but all were asking questions about his ability. IDGAF about entertainment programs like The View though, if you have to bring that up to try to support the point then you've already failed. It's not a news program.

That's profoundly selfish. Shock amazement

Nothing in Israel is viable without American money, so no.

Man fuck history, this is now! I don't give two fucks what Russian peasants did in 1432, I care about what is possible today. And today something better is possible if we stop letting the billionaires convince us all that our neighbor who's just as fucked as we are is stealing all the money!

KDE is pretty good. There's nothing really worth complaining about in the design and most of the major long running bugs have been stomped. If I did have a design complaint it would be related to the settings app, but even it is pretty ok.

GNOME 2 was definitely better than the KDE of its day.

GNOME 3 OTOH...

Would there? How many people even know about e.g. Five Eyes? There already is mass coordinated international surveillance and... crickets.

More evidence has been presented publicly that Trump fucked kids than was necessary to convict Cosby or Weinstein. There are more accusers, too. You are willfully and deliberately working to attempt to conceal this fact. You are working to protect child rape. Someone should check your hard disk.

We will let the government give them something "useful" to do once the pedos get us into a war.

Exactly, a few questions or a short exercise to ensure that you have the basic skills required to do the job is one thing, this was masquerading as something else, specifically something no serious employer would do except to make people go away

People spend all kinds of money on all kinds of stupid unproductive shit so that's obviously wrong.

The fear really isn't rogue bots, is it? It's fear that their security is shitty. Which in turn is fear their bots are shitty, because they're using the bots to tell them how to do the security, right?

"I struggle to see what part of "anti-trust law" is in place here. Nothing what is being accused of here covers the act of monopolising"

You struggle because you still think antitrust is only about monopolies despite this never having been true.

One man's "gate-keeping" was everyone else's curating. The old model printing and distribution was a very real cost, usually two large to be borne by an author and certainly by a new author. The primary sales channels also had a premium on space, you can only put some many books on shelves low enough for customers to browse, their are only so many end aisles privilege products with placement showing more than their spine, and the story with magazine racks wasn't much different.

So the publishes provided enormous value to retail by both ensuring quality control, and filtering for what the public wanted to buy or was worth convicing the public they wanted to by thru various literary reviews, direct advertising, etc.

Digital has removed the *need* (and many of the retailers with that).

The question is was and remains how much value was the curating, QA to the consumer. We were reading/listening to better content because of the filter and not wasting on time on drek, alternatively what price were we paying for the gate-keeping aspect in terms of not hearing voices and ideas that might have proven interesting. What is the cost of the fan out. When everyone was pulling from the selection on the shelf at the local Books-A-Million, Dalton, or library shelf, there was good chance of running into someone who'd read the same thing you did. Now - FAT chance if someone actually read something it was probably a substack, or some Kindle E-book by someone you never heard of.. As with water-cooler television even if what we are consuming is very good the opportunity to have any local discourse about or discourse within your own social circles whatever form they take is nil because you must first convince someone else to make the investment in it.

It certainly is having an effect on social discourse and how ideas advance and change in our society and I think very likely calcify because their is no collective train of thought. As to the topic at and AI is just going to pour gasoline on all of this, it will absolutely eat the proofing, editing, polishing value the traditional publisher can still add in the ebook era. The incentive for various retail channels to 'stock' the stuff of least providence will be huge, if an algorithm can see sell Christine Middle Schooler another book about sparkling vampires and her Dad another story about manning a first generation aircraft carrier in the Pacific, she likes those and so does he, and they can pick from ones with almost no royalty/residual attached, more profit for them. If AI can make those good enough to get them to come back for more; what need for a traditional publishing house is there, that would pay the bills anyway?

The government asked media to be nice to Biden and they weren't. There were shitloads of reports of his incompetence, every time he so much as misspoke it was all over the news. Fuck off with your gaslighting, maggot.