My kid's high school just implemented Yondr (after successful trials at other local schools.) It's a joke; collecting phones at the beginning of class in a cardbox box is more effective.

Kids have bought the unlocker online. Kids have figured out how to "close" the bag without it actually locking. Initially the bags were unassigned (you just picked up one at the entrance to the school) but kids would cut open the bags and/or never return them. So the school had to assign everyone a bag in order to charge for damage or loss. Even then kids cut the stitches and use tape to make the bag appear sealed. Burner/decoy phones are common. And so on.

Not having phones between classes means kids cannot coordinate clubs, e.g. notify of time updates, if someone can't make it, communicate issues, can only communicate after school gets out, etc.

Another fun problem is that a lot of kids use their phones to pay for things at the school's cafe. Because the phones are locked up when they enter school, the cafe has seen a drop off in morning customers.

Overall my high schooler says the "collect phones in a box at the start of class" is far cheaper, more convenient, faster, and more effective than Yondr.

Or, and hear me out on this, 'LA Fitness' can "do business" with Trump about how to make the FTC case go away. It worked for Intel and Apple after all.

LLMs are like the game Mad Libs except you know the sentence and then try to fill in the blank with the most fitting word/phrase.

Twitter/X is 76% bots. So...

So we're now fixing the grades instead of fixing the actual problems?

russia's casualties in its continued invasion of Ukraine have also been a contributing factor in the decline of world wide alcohol consumption.

The upgrading for upgrading's sake mentality might still prevail, but is there a real reason to upgrade to a faster, more powerful personal computer nowadays? You can only run Office or a web based office suite so fast, and most PC games are designed with consoles in mind which means gaming PCs don't require extreme power for most games.

"reducing the need to walk around the store to change paper tags by hand and giving us more time to support customers in the store."

Translation: Less employees are needed to keep the same level of customer service.

Given Texas' power grid issues, building a reliable stock exchange may be tricky...

How long until this comes up before SCOTUS on First Amendment grounds?

Nah, just refreeze the blob. It's not like Child Services carries a microscope around for doing health checkups.

And then you sue the fire department for letting the flask thaw out. Free money!

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Given that Russia is going to be a pariah for a long time with sanctions on high-tech equipment, plus whatever tech Russia does acquire will first be grabbed up by the military, I can see Russia launching a steam powered space station controlled by analog computers.

I have no idea if the Steam Punk cosplayers market can support tourists trips to the station.

It's more likely that Musk is bluffing and is instead hoping that TWTR will decide to reach a compromise settlement (take the one billion dollar back-out penalty) instead of taking the chance that a judge/jury will rule that their 5% claim isn't accurate or accurate enough. Of course, in that case, I can see TWTR's shareholders suing TWT for not getting the full buyout offer value.