Well, that would be a form of Justice.

Offer me a local or rented-tenant isolated clone of ChatGPT that is under my control, then we'll talk.

Oh, and my agents, be they human or computer, should only get "read" access, which means my financial institutions will need to provide a credentials that only have read access.

Bottom line:
* I don't trust AI not to try to make changes to my account, but I do trust my financial institutions to not allow a "read-only" login to make changes.
* I don't trust ChatGPT or the other big-name AI companies with my data any more than I have to. Maybe someday, when there are laws in place that have been tested in court, but until then, not so much.

That way I can guarantee that it won't be "connected."

ChatGPT, look at the proposed ArXiv submission and identify anything that looks like "AI slop."

I'm eleventy-ten percent sure someone will try this and twelvity-ten-percent sure it will actually work. /sarcasm

Those are two very different questions.

Once you decide that "at all" is okay, the selfishly-ideal location is "In my neighborhood" so I enjoy the tax and economic benefits, but not "in my backyard" so I don't have to deal with the drawbacks.

"Neighborhood" would be same city/county/taxing district or within reasonable commuting distance for work. "In my backyard" is close enough to be bothered by its presence.

... down his student debt.

It varies. Each city or water-supply-company decides how to bill its customers, within limits set by law.

The next major ransomware victims will sue Instructure for encouraging ransomware attacks.

This sounds like the video game version of the MadTV sketch Apple presents the iRack from a couple of decades ago, spoofing the war in Iraq.

"Bureaucratic slip-up allows facility under construction to delay paying for water bill for several months. Coincidentally, facility happens to be a data center."

In principle, I can send your phone arbitrary unlimited data using just SMS, subject only to rate-limiting and management of dropped, delayed, or out-of-order SMS messages.

If I have your public key, I can send it to you encrypted.

In practice, I don't know if such a thing exists.

Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/...

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh yesterday that demand for AI infrastructure is creating a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to reindustrialize America and restore the nation's capacity to build."

Why it matters: With many college grads fearing AI could obliterate their career dreams, Huang pointed to boundless opportunity as a "new industry is being born. A new era of science and discovery is beginning ... I cannot imagine a more exciting time to begin your life's work."

Nvidia, which makes AI chips, is the world's most valuable company. Huang told 5,800 recipients of undergraduate and graduate degrees that the AI buildout will require plumbers, electricians, ironworkers, and builders for chip factories, data centers and advanced manufacturing facilities.

"No generation has entered the world with more powerful tools â" or greater opportunities â" than you," he said. "We are all standing at the same starting line. This is your moment to help shape what comes next. So run. Don't walk."

"Every major technological revolution in history created fear alongside opportunity," Huang added. "When society engages technology openly, responsibly, and optimistically, we expand human potential far more than we diminish it."

Full speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Back in the 20th century, you get student/teacher discounts through university/school channels and possibly from other authorized Apple resellers, but you had to show ID.

In 1998, 1 Mbps of bandwidth cost $1200 per month. Today it is about 10 cents.

I feel your argument lacks merit. In 1998, the average size of an image file on the web was between 2k to 12k, and the average web page was around 100K. Today the average web page is 3M.

1Mbps is certainly cheaper today, but it is also certainly less useful.

... for the low low price of a quarter peta-buck.