I have no idea why you've been modded down - your comment on this story is one of the most insightful ones I've read. Sadly, I commented just before I got to yours - otherwise I'd have modded you up.

Even though I use a keyboard almost exclusively these days, I'm going to play Devil's advocate here. I would at least want to see the time split between screens and paper. Taking notes on paper is - brain-wise - a qualitatively different thing than typing. Also, the ability to draw pictures, or even to just doodle, can be a valuable thought and memory aid.

Additionally, when you've written something in pen and then change your mind, you have to cross it out; whereas on a device you simply make it disappear as though it never existed. Having a record of a mistake or a discarded idea can be very valuable, both for learning and for creativity.

Then there's the ability to communicate in writing and drawing even when you only have pen-and-paper, stick-and-sand, or whatever...

I don't use technical references much these days, but when I do I like to have both digital and paper, especially for data books and app notes. The digital version is easier to search, but the paper version allows for using my fingers to hold two or three sections open simultaneously. Paper is the best for random access.

And that's why when I'm reading fiction or scholarly / scientific stuff, I only use the electronic version if have no other choice. For those kinds of reading, I will frequently flip back and forth by dozens or hundreds of pages to confirm my memory, or to find what a character said. In my experience, trying to do that on a device utterly sucks.

Reading a book and reading a screen are, for me, very different experiences. If I had to choose, I'd drop e-books in favour of paper and never look back. Except in the pages of my dead-tree books, of course...

Is there any other kind? Every photo of him I've seen looks like the result of a poorly formed query processed by a janky LLM.

Maybe it's the ghost of Windows 3.1 haunting Microsoft for giving it such a shitty legacy.

Then again, perhaps it's the essence of MacOS, taunting Windows users.

You really said a mouthful there. From my Canadian perspective, it's utterly shocking to watch American news and to see even the supposedly liberal media soft-peddling current events. And when I hear average American citizens being interviewed, and see the fathomless ignorance many of them have regarding what's going on even in their own country - never mind in the rest of the world - I feel as though I'm watching a parody.

I think America's approach to education has a lot to answer for. Sadly, even my own province's education system seems to be drifting that way. Gee - I wonder if it's just a coincidence that our Premier is a knuckle-dragging nepo-baby whose allegiance is to property developers and (allegedly) to organized crime.

Brilliant! Thanks for the laugh - wish I still had mod points.

Too late - they already handed the keys and the contents to Palantir a long time ago.

It would appear that LLMs aren't content to be merely replacements for low-level and mid-level workers. This latest behaviour qualifies them for the upper echelons of HR, the consolation-prize positions in the C-suite, and even - or perhaps especially - the CEO slot.

I'm pretty sure investors could get behind letting chatbots run a company, given that they're more than sufficiently psychopathic and cost said investors a lot less money.

Before I rant, I'll just say that yes, I know there's really no effective way to put social media toothpaste back into the tube. Once it's out there, it's out there - the internet can have a pretty relentless memory.

Having said that, I now ask: Why are social and reputational matters being wedged into the context of, and made contingent on, fucking commerce?

ANY minor, upon coming of age, should be able to demand the removal of ALL social media posts made about them by ANYONE. That includes posts which they themselves made.

The presumption is that minors aren't capable of informed consent - because of lack of maturity, experience, and brain development. That lack of capability has nothing to do with whether or not the people who made the posts profited from those activities.

Cool!

Are you sure? I don't know about the effects on bodies of fresh water, but the effects of data centres using ocean water for cooling are pretty concerning: https://planetarypl.com/the-ar... .

I'd be surprised if there aren't similarly bad effects from similarly heating bodies of fresh water.

I don't normally encourage advertising in the comments, but in this case I'm happy you made the recommendation and will buy the album. Thanks.

then grease up, and prepare to be Vizioed!

Seriously, I think we all should start using the word 'Vizioed' as slang for being ass-raped. If the term ever gained popular usage, it could result in the end of the brand. Then Walmart would be the one who got Vizioed. Who wouldn't want to Vizio Walmart with their own cheap consumer electronics?

Even if it starts out that way - and I have serious doubts, because those who collect such data collect ALL they can and do what they please despite promises - it's going to end up being used to decide who stays and who goes. Anybody who believes that it won't be used to cull the herd is an all-day sucker.