We sure didn’t have this when we were kids in the 60s and 70s. All the doors to school were unlocked. We had drills to hide from tornadoes, with vague whiffs of duck-and-cover from nuclear attack.

94 million of us couldn't be bothered to vote. I will not stop fighting until we blow up 2026 midterms and 2028 election and rid OUR government of the corruption that is Trump and the GOP. WE ALL HAVE TO VOTE! 🤛🇺🇸💙🗳

Fixed your headline "A French supermarket's Christmas advert has captured hearts worldwide." is a heartening story. "A French supermarket's Christmas advert has captured hearts worldwide without using generative AI." taints it with politics.

And to be fair, water related accidents and police officer incidents are extremely rare events. If we should have any kind of national freak out, it should be about heart disease and cancer.

My comment at the time was that Americans give up their freedoms for an extremely low risk danger. You are much more likely to be shot to death by an active duty police officer then to die due to terrorism. 9000 people died in water related accidents in 2001. Swimming and boating…

I live in America and I don’t want to go here. There is some international travel I’d like to do, but then I would have to come back to America, and that sucks.

And I would have to take a look at the terms of service because many services forbid you from sharing your login credentials with anybody. Not to mention that if the government has my passwords, they can impersonate me and put words in my mouth.

Plus I’ve participated in various forms of social media since the 1980s. And I have lots of accounts under students for various reasons of privacy and to prevent being doxxed. Some of the contents might be embarrassing. Some of my social media is truly private and the equivalent of a group text.

I’ve lost track of what random domains I might’ve made over at Google over the years, that had email addresses. The problem is that lying or a mission on immigration forms is usually met with a permanent ban from that country.

When I was in high school and college I had to learn all kinds of symbolic integration techniques and be able to predict which ones to apply to a certain formula… When in the real world engineers use tables of integrals or a computer program to do the same thing.

The real problem is that if they don’t seize the opportunity, then the odds are all the same except that last 5% is somebody else owns the genie. This is why I am very pro the democratization of AI.

Yeah, I was thinking wow, no grandma is trapped inside a language model and knows she’s trapped there. And whatever afterlife she was going to enjoy or oblivion she was never going to experience is now stolen.

There are three women in that poster. At least two look romantically entangled, due to the touching. Given the opportunity to vary, the women are all in skirts. Is Star Trek still in the 1960s? Is this going to pass the Bechdel test?

I’ve got two criticisms of that picture: first off, where are these benefits that Americans are getting? Some of the people from those countries came here, became citizens and contributed strongly to the building of America.

Omar Khayyam. Because we can never underestimate the contributions that the Arab world made to mathematics during what we call the dark ages.