My theory is: free publicity. Just like the fashion industry comes up with ridiculous clothes that no one would ever wear, attention whores will constantly do outrageous things so that people will talk about them. The number of electrons spilled over this stupid mouse port placement over the years is uncountable. But the repeated conversations keep Apple in the public consciousness as a fashionista.

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In my experience, groups of people will ignore inconvenient but correct answers until the problem explodes into their collective faces.

“The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.” – George Orwell

I confirm that mine has not increased in size over the last 30 years. Maybe I’m in the control group?

I just tell them I don’t have a phone. Even if I’m still holding it in my hand. Most don’t want to engage. They likely figure they’re not payed enough for that.

Why does the Hellboy in the still remind me of Liam Neeson?

My bowels have been questioning a lot lately, so it’s not entirely without precedent.

Foreign nationals, let alone foreign governments, are not allowed to give money to political campaigns in the United States. Actually illegal. Bill Clinton got in trouble for it

Don’t forget the Trump Hotel during his presidency that took huge “bookings” from foreign nationals during his presidency. The “Law and Order” party naturally jumped all over this as a violation of the Constitution…, oh wait.

Sam Altman is demonstrating the power of AI. He’s showing how a single CEO can fire the entire company and continue to develop the product to be even better than when humans were involved.

“OpenAI. No real humans involved!” ™

Easy.

The dog on the right is wearing pants. Two covered legs = Pa(ir) + nts = ‘Pants’.

The dog on the left is wearing quants. Four covered legs = Qua(d) + nts = ‘Quants”.

Two different clothing items.

What Trump needs is a Good Guy With A Gun.

Has he tried hiring a security guard? Did he try Duck & Cover? An armed school teacher maybe?

Sure, Microsoft is happy to let their AIs scan everyone else’s code., but is anyone aware of any software houses letting AIs scan their in-house code?

Any lawyer worth their salt won’t let AIs anywhere near their company’s proprietary code intil they are positive that AI isn’t going to be blabbing the code out to every one of their competitors.

But of course, IANAL.

No, this can’t be. They took all of our personal information so they could use AI to tailor ads to exactly what we wanted at any given moment.

/s

Someone create a GoFundMe so we can buy him tickets.

1 I had assumed votes were private 2 If I don’t hear soon that votes are private, I’ll simply stop participating and return to lurking. I’ll eventually just wander off to the next thing that doesn’t expose my votes to potential bots and/or abusive actors.

What’s Putin worried about? He’s sure the Ukrainian invasion will be over in only 3 days. /s

B.O.U.S.

Not too unusual. There have been a lot of new vulnerabilities announced lately. A few months ago they announced one that exposed all (?) mainstream CPUs, even Apple’s new chips.
Some of the vulns are serious, but many require very specific circumstances to actually work.

Musk is really upping his asshole game. He’s alienated 50% of the US, a good bit of Norway and now Britain.

Republicans worry Trump is having a ‘public nervous breakdown’

No, Trump is just preparing his insanity defense for when he loses.