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If they’re thinking of making “style” something that can be copyrighted, then the effects on AI will be trivial compared to the general creative apocalypse as giant corporations lock everything down and go to war with each other.

Aha! You were the hacker known as “Four Chan”!

Canada and Mexico are part of North America and are not drifting away. The opposite.

Regardless of how you feel about it, you’ve now discovered something very important; your wife is the sort of person who would lie to you about something very important. I’d recommend contacting a lawyer to make sure that you’re ready to protect your interests just in case some kind of escalation happens. Her behaviour hasn’t changed now, while she thinks you don’t know, but who knows what could happen if she finds out you do?

I’m not saying you should do anything vindictive preemptively, just things like making sure the titles for your property are properly registered or your pension plan is fully in your name, that sort of thing.

I thought I was used to “WTF moments” when it came to America’s sudden descent into madness, but here’s one I wasn’t prepared for. WTF?

That’s not really true, though. That region has undergone numerous cycles of fragmentation and reunification over that period of time, with different cultures and different dynasties taking over from each other.

Again, that’s not forcing anything. That’s even less so - you have to deliberately go to an AI application in that case.

Nobody’s forcing you to use it. I didn’t even know it was there until this article pointed it out, and when I tried it in Notepad it turned out to need an Office 365 subscription that I don’t have. So by default I can’t use it even if I want to use it.

Ooh, now’s their opportunity to come back as a Fediverse instance!

That conundrum already exists with the current system, though.

All well and good until my mom’s wifi printer stops working again and I need to fix it over the phone. I’d rather like to have an AI agent figure that out for her and fix it itself.

Google recently opened their ecosystem up to find-my-device tags like this, they’re available from providers like Chipolo. Last I heard they weren’t very good yet because despite there being tons of Android phones around for them to work with they’d put some restrictions on them that made them ping less frequently.

They’re also not GPS tags, they ping nearby Android phones via Bluetooth and the Android phones report their location to Google. But if you’re worried about a bag being stolen (as opposed to, for example, being located if you’re lost in the wilderness) then that might be enough.

Yeah. It’s disheartening when obvious jokes like that are missed by so many.

Think of all the astronomers he put out of work. :(

Those aren’t exclusive or contradictory to each other.

Amazing Grace is always a good one. The story behind it helps with the impact, IMO; it was written by a former slave trader who had an epiphany and realized just how irredeemably evil he was, and was doing his best to turn it around.

I’m also a big enjoyer of Simple Gifts. It’s a Shaker song and I find it very soothing.

It is possible to dislike something without believing it should be erased from existence. This is really extreme black-and-white thinking that isn’t remotely realistic.

There was another comment in this thread about exactly that situation, a female police officer that noticed a creepy guy following her around during her patrol. But there’s lots of other potential negatives to having open immediate police comms, like criminals monitoring to see whether there are police around before doing whatever criminality they were planning on doing.

Same goal of body cameras, but we all see how that turned out.

Sounds like “we tried it once and it didn’t work, therefore we should never try again.” Instead, we should take into account how the body camera situation has failed and modify the approach to account for it.

Mandate that the buffer be operated by an independent body the police have no control over, for example.

Same here. There have been tons of technologies coming out recently where my main reaction is “awesome, I can’t wait to use the heck out of that.” If anything my biggest sigh comes from “but I bet the comment threads are going to be littered with tedious doomers moaning about how it’s going to enable the awful stuff they’re imagining instead.”

The issue I’m taking is with:

Louis doesn’t want to improve the show, they want something else entirely.

I don’t think he’s trying to “improve the show.” He’s saying the same thing you are, that he just doesn’t think Black Mirror is a good show.