Heck, I'm pretty sure an AI is running slashdot!

Microsoft mice and keyboards are now made by Incase, not Microsoft. I have like the Microsoft mouse and keyboard in the past, but like I said, I'm pretty sure they bought the rights to those designs from someone else. My only problem with Microsoft keyboards have been related to "Pepsi syndrome", i.e. they stop working when you spill champagne on them.

Pretty sure the Holy Bible contains much more interesting hallucinations. The Talmud was originally a compendium of human knowledge, much of it from oral folklore. So a lot of it was based on observation, albeit not on double blind testing.

Now explain why Santa Claus discriminates against poor kids.

Something like "E pur si muove!"

Remember: The Vatican forgave Galileo! It only took them 359 years. "And yet it moves!" (E pur si muove!)

Some of the best philosophers of all time were Catholic monks. For all the harm they have done, they Catholic Church as also been the most prolific patron of the arts. Many brilliant scientists still believe in God. There are links, but they are more tangential than direct.

My experience at Microsoft is that they are much better at buying hardware that works than they are at designing hardware themselves that works. They have better software talent than hardware talent. That being said, I'm not the person to judge how great the Microsoft “butt hinge with butt straps” patent is... (That's a real patent, but apparently it was filed with the wrong company name.)

Pretty sure that there are scientific journals that anybody can buy their way into, just like "Who's Who". The peer review comes from people reading the journal, I don't think there is much prior review of submissions. If everyone was acting in good faith, then not weeding out wild ideas too early would be a GOOD thing. Throwing out lots of ideas an letting the marketplace of ideas decided was a societal good... until we came up with technology that is much, much faster than humans at writing up wild ideas. The flip side is that with that much AI slop out there, any journal that accepts AI slop is going to be flooded with slop. In the interest of remaining in business, they are going to have to do some serious filtering of submissions now... which was probably the point of the original article.

If Amazon wants to clone me, the joke's on them... my DNA _sucks_!

The problem is that Electricity production and distribution are two very different things, but we have assigned monopolies to do both, assuming the per watt fees will subsidize the cost of grid maintenance. We need a mesh-oriented system where people actually pay for the maintenance of the grid. That being said, Coos Curry Electric Cooperative does a great job of working through storms to get my power back on when the lines inevitably blow down in high winds. Usually back on with 3 hours.

AI sucks at stealing office supplies and reading slashdot when it's supposed to be working!

I applied for a job at an Amazon shipping center once. They "drug tested" everybody by having them take a mouth swab. That bothered me at the time, because mouth swabs aren't how people are tested for drugs... it's how they collect samples for DNA testing. So Amazon probably knows my DNA better than I do.

"Solar energy is currently significantly cheaper than coal, with costs for solar energy averaging around $23.52 per megawatt-hour compared to coal's $43.80 per megawatt-hour."

When you see Georgia maga minions accusing a Hyundai battery plant of using up all the Georgia farmers' water, but welcoming data centers, you question if they are on the correct medications.