Same had a little acer mini laptop in early 2000s I used it for notes, office apps, etc during college and between the battery life and how much more portable it was than the giant laptop I had at the time it was great, it ran BSD without any fuss too.

Yes!

I already did

Code written by software doesn’t mean AI unless you ignore compilers

Executives lie to boost profits and justify their decisions, I doubt MS execs even know how much of their code is AI generated just like the ad sales company exec they were talking to in the article

In all it’s shades of green 💚

I think they mean forward wrt the direction the sun is moving relative to the galaxy, like this:

We hide from the robots during the rain and snow, because they can’t see where they have to go

I’m fairly sure Bethesda released Skyrim, Oblivion, and Morrowind with officially supported mod toolkits shipping on day one. The reason their games have official mod tools is to make it much easier to work with which leads to the huge number of mods in their games compared to other games, and contributes to the longevity of their games.

They pretend education is dogmatic indoctrination when it’s really learning scientific and philosophical methods and methodologies to think critically and evaluate arguments and evidence for yourself, and pretend their childhood religious dogma indoctrination with an unquestionable clergy authority isn’t damaging their ability to evaluate truth by lowering the bar of evidence to faith and personal experience when they deny those same garbage methods for every other religion but their own.

Last time the Justice Dept wrote a report saying the Trump admin were guilty of breaking the law but wouldn’t do anything and leave it up to the Congress to impeach, which didn’t happen because of Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans abdicating their responsibility to the Constitution.

The world would be a better place if Stephen Miller never said or wrote another word. He’s more hateful of the Constitution than anyone in the country. He’s a white supremacist bigot who is scared of his own shadow, and when cornered by his idiocy in an interview the only thing he knows how to do is fake outrage to dodge.

And he also told Israelis in a visit to Israel and Syria in 2009 that expansion into the West Bank is preventing peace, and supported the 2015 Iran nuclear deal against AIPAC. I don’t think his position is as clear as you’ve made it seem based on one debate quote.

TW: Well, I think first and foremost what we saw on October 7th was a horrific act of violence against the people of Israel. They have certainly, and the vice president said it, I’ve said it, have the right to defend themselves and the United States will always stand by that, but we can’t allow what’s happened in Gaza to happen. The Palestinian people have every right to life and liberty themselves. We need to continue, I think to put the leverage on to make sure we move towards a two state solution. I think we’re at a critical point right now. We need the Netanyahu government to start moving in that direction. But I think those folks who are speaking out loudly in Michigan are speaking out for all the right reasons. It’s a humanitarian crisis. It can’t stand the way it is. And we need to find a way that people can live together in this and we’ve said it and continue to say it, getting a ceasefire with the return of the hostages and then moving towards a sustainable two state solution is the only way forward.

https://radio.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2024-09-05/listen-wcmus-full-length-interview-with-gov-walz

Tim Walz gets that you need to humiliate fascists engaging in bad faith and promote progressive policies to engage populist leftist support, hopefully the rest get the message for midterms

The government regulates the credit card industry without holding a monopoly on using credit cards they create, and regulates the airline industry but doesn’t make everyone buy their planes. I’m not arguing against regulation, but I’m also not a fan of monopolies held in public or private sectors.

Maniac Mansion: day of the tentacle includes the full first maniac Mansion game on weird Ed’s computer in the room with him and the hamster

EverQuest /gems and /pizza

Use your blinker, return your cart to the corral, and mind your business

I’m sure I’ve missed it sometimes over the years, but if you make it a habit it’s harder to forget or ignore

Separation of church and state seems to have been a pretty good idea despite Mike’s idiocy in that regard as well. Maybe we also need a separation of economy and government too since their continued mismanagement has destabilized bonds, reduced confidence in US markets due to their manipulation, and an ongoing inability to even create a budget.

corpo translation: left leaning folks in the US are generally more educated currently and are more likely to critically question whether a social media account is a corporate bot and question our bots when they shill products, so we’re going to target the less educated population by appealing to their populist politics of rage bait and xenophobia.

It already is as people become aware of its limitations, that’s why they’re so desperate to sell it to anyone now while there are still people out there in charge of funding shit that don’t understand the boundaries/limitations of the current gen tech.

Genesis Streets of Rage is still one of my favorite soundtracks