More female systems run automated systems. This is a long-standing association, from airport announcements to "Bitching Betty" in a fighter plane.

This is an extension of same, for better or worse.

Unity isn't necessarily a bad engine but its use rules and cost sure promote a huge amount of slop games mostly from Eastern Europe. Now that it can generate slop without even needing to understand how to program it is only going to get worse. Steam is overrun with such games. They go into those cheap A$$ bundles that no one needs or wants but you see on Humble...

You are going to be able to heat your house with this, just in time for the next massive heatwave.

My 2nd gen Kindle and my old Fire will still allow me to assign stuff via library management. I can't go to the store or god forbid the "experimental" browser but I can put stuff there and on my old Kindle Fire. I use my 2nd gen in my car at lunch time or before shift at the humane society.

With permanent DST we won't get the stories twice a year.

They'll need the money to settle all the resulting lawsuits.

You are looking at it wrong. To eliminate the woketards you would have to eliminate the actors. The personality that makes up most actors is wholly left by nature. They're sensitive and aware of other people and their feelings, unlike most on the right, who are convinced they are the current center of the universe and correct with God's backing in all things.

PaperWhite is a game changer. I can't stand reading the Kindle app on my phone, and my really nice PC monitor sucks too. PaperWhite is a different thing entirely. No eye strain; you can read it in the sunlight. You can read it in total dark. I honestly HATE Amazon, but I've been using KindleUnlimited as a library card for many years now. I've 3 kindles in 3 places. I picked up the Ericson Malazan Omnibus in hardback and it was so heavy, and the pages wouldn't stay turned, and I couldn't read it in the dark. That was the point at which I realized how fsck'n lazy I'd become.

@%#&^@ FTC not FCC..sigh Today is my birthday, I'm really old and beginning to feel it...

No not at all but the FCC is not the straw pumpkin to be leading the way. This should be FBI/NSA led and criminal in nature. The other folks are correct though, it's all hype and talk, our Orange President is all for AI and he couldn't care less who else gets hurt in the pursuit.

Well, it's been a good run but if the US military is going religious it's soon to be all over.

Don't have to be a profit^w prophet to see that coming.

"Google is reportedly testing a program that pays around 100 publishers based on how much their content contributes to its AI-powered search features."

That's like me reading a book and paying for based on how much I enjoyed it. I don't see publishers going for it. I guess it is better than the current alternative which is nothing for getting your entire catalog fed to an AI. I wish I could get away with what the AI's manage. Operating in total denial they have everything but aren't responsible for anything.

I came to post this but you did it well. Nice sense of history there.

IQ measurements keep going up.
Autism diagnoses keep going up.
The price of food keeps going up.
People get a year older every year.

Something fishy is going on.