Let's stick with Kennedy's definition of the original moon race: "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."

The web is so heavy now. My phone is 3 or 4 years old and even with ublock origin some pages just bring it to its knees. I don't even blame the browser, the pages are just very long, complex, and content-rich.

Perhaps it's time to zone farmland as farmland and forbid it from being used for anything else without regulatory review.

That's been the process for the last 80 to 100 years. The reason so many of our cities are nevertheless built over farmland is because what can be zoned, can be re-zoned, which is generally what happens when the difference between the value of the land for agriculture vs development becomes too great.

None of which has the least to do with AI in particular. Some people have always chosen not to sell their land for development.

Here's a case in which Disney chased a piece of farmland for around 40 years before getting it:

https://www.sfgate.com/disneyl...

You have to draw the line somewhere. Can I hire a taxi to drive me to the airport without being financially liable for life if the driver has a heart attack or can't find another fare to pick up after I'm done with them?

We're just endlessly alternating between stories accusing AI of taking all the jobs, and studies 'proving' AI doesn't produce anything.

LSD is being studied for medicinal effects (and has been for a looooong time) and Marijuana is outright legalized anyways - or at least can be approved for medical use - in the majority of the US. Some see some beneficial effect but if they were miracle drugs we would know by now. A big new study on microdosing came out just a couple weeks ago, finding only a little benefit unfortunately.

https://www.wired.com/story/mi...

It can be argued. But in any case, at present the US does not have a Department of War. It has a Department of Defense. Hegseth playing along with the President to call it something else does not change that.

Slashdot comments on the issue of IP have certainly changed, but then again napster never threatened a post-truth world.

This particular AI fake is really of the less offensive variety. It shows two actors portrayed in a manner that is typical for them. And even when getting the big paychecks they still use CGI. Whereas the existence of factual / political fakery is really problematic. And then there's "non-consensual intimate imagery."

Are the stealing the style or the specific characters? I know trademark can protect the former in some circumstances, but this Cruise / Pitt video certainly passes the second line as well.

yes the whole scene is very much one that occur in a real film. Just not without paying a whole lot of $$$

And if it does happen, I suspect the AI's prediction of heightening will be prescient : )

Essentially it works against whoever is on offense, since they are the ones planning a "surprise." In this case the bet was "related to when Israel would launch an attack on Iran," so, Israel.

Israel isn't operating polymarket, so it still wasn't Israel working against itself.

It's a double-edged sword. You're in effect bribing your enemies to divulge their secrets, which is good... but you're also going to end up giving them money, possibly to fund the very terrorist activities you're fighting which is not so good.

About the time you start asking ChatGPT how to find and change a setting in your phone instead of hunting through endless menus, you realize that AI will totally change mobile. But I don't think anybody has come close yet. Apple could still be the first to have a truly working AI assistant that does most of what you would expect and eliminates a lot of the tedium of menus and swipes and tap-and-holds and gestures.

Leading to this interesting statement: "Household stock wealth now equals almost 300% of annual disposable income, up from 200% in 2019."

So many people are paper multi-millionaires now. I wonder if all this 'wealth' will be worth anything when we all go to spend it.

But Eton has flying broom sports and Muggle Studies