You clearly don't understand what I'm saying. The President should not appoint the chairman to.the FCC. Congress should.

Recent heads of Congressionally-spawned departments have taken it as their job to do what the President tells them to do and let the courts worry about the rest. Meanwhile Congress takes no responsibility for the problem they've created.

Ideology vetos reality, news at 11.

A lot of people behave pretty ghastly when it comes to money.

That was my first thought too. (Assuming the article is correct - all kinds of stuff gets published that doesn't hold up in the longer run.)

Remember that time is also big. Suppose that there have been 1000 interstellar civilizations in our galaxy during the past 5 billion years, and that each one lasted a million years before collapsing. How many would be active right now?

Frankly, I don't consider it a paradox at all. We've explored approximately 0% of our galaxy and found nothing. That doesn't tell us much.

They did when they created the FCC and gave the Executive the power to appoint its chair.

Doesn't he know he's supposed to play the fiddle while he destroys his country?

I'm skeptical about that second part.

As for trolls, I wonder if some anti-vax propaganda is being pushed by hostile foreign powers as a way of hurting us.

The summary did say Meta debuted their first AI agent to "take on" OpenAI and Anthropic. What better way to do that than to hack the competition?

Did they find Smashmouth?

It's just a story about Meta and AI.

Oh, nevermind.

For extremists of all flavors, violence is always preferable to the voting booth.

Surely they're not going to cut off the data centers just so ordinary people can have electricity?

Some, maybe, but I think the point is that it doesn't bias students one way or another....of course, they all run web browsers, so, yeah...doesn't matter really.

Is that a good thing? It's one of the advantages of a Chromebook, iinm...well, it was before they added android support.