“He was screaming out, ‘I want my mom, I want my mom. I’m dying, I want mom. I’m dying, I want mom,’” Billy recalls.

Aiden’s mom listened helplessly as he hadn’t hung up the phone yet.

I pity the poor woman who has to live with that moment in her memory for the rest of her life.

That’s the thing with nihilists: If you try to prevent them from destroying everything around them, they’ll fight you, grind you down and they’ll sow destruction anyway. If you let the destruction happen, they love it and revel in it. Either way, they win.

That’s not Stephen Miller: this guy is flamboyant and he has balls - not to mention, hair.

he grows frustrated with authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro’s reluctance to relinquish power.

Pot, meet kettle.

That’s because Shitler is obsessed with her, and you hear a lot more about him that you want to also.

Just a reminder: Taylor Swift is a billionaire. Maybe she’s just as principled as all the other billionaires.

opensource can’t be monetized for advertisements.

It can!

That’s what Google did with Android: Google literally made a free open-source operating system everybody could copy, use and develop for for free, to create a wildly successful ecosystem.

Once the ecosystem was fully developed, slowly, year after year, Google moved features out of the open-source AOSP project and into their proprietary stack. Look at AOSP now: it’s a shadow of its former self.

And now they’re killing off AOSP and AOSP-derivatives and turning Android into their own Apple-style walled garden.

I’d say Google very successfully used open-source to its advantage. Google sure knows how to play the long game.

And how long is it going to work?

Do we really want to play cat and mouse with Google? I don’t.

Just as long as there’s never any MAGB bus…

Same reason why gays aren’t called bumholesexuals.

Yeah for sure, but there’s always something off that screams fake.

I find it interesting that AI writes very high level, which is a trait that seems to be valued by upper management (VP, CEO level).

I think at some point someone will figure out that AI would sound more natural if it didn’t write so perfectly, and they’ll try to make AI sound hip and casual, and I’m almost certain AI will still fail to be convincingly casual.

I don’t worry about that. There are other markers of AI that are much more reliable:

1. Extreme verbosity.
2. Low S/N - i.e. lots of words to say not much at all.
3. Perfect grammar.
4. If you drill down into the subject, often completely incorrect - but you don’t know without having to read a whole bunch of tedious text.

And here’s how you recognize AI:

• High-schoolers turning a paper on a subject they know nothing about often fluff up their paper - at least when students still wrote their papers themselves - and hit 1. and 2., but rarely 3.

• Good writers always hit 3. They can be terse or verbose, and they may or may not hit 1., but never 2. or 4.

• Internet writers don’t write like journalists. Only journalists writing for a journal that happens to also publish on the internet write like journalists. Internet writers don’t quite hit 3, knowledgeable ones don’t hit 2., and almost none of them ever hit 1. Or said another way, when you read something about Linux networking that looks like an Atlantic op-ed, it’s AI.

Only AI hits 1., 2. and 3. AI almost always writes in a tone and form that doesn’t befit the venue.

As for 4., if you want an example of this, try to search “NFC unlock” on DDG or Bing (same AI-laden Microsoft trash search engine): you will find scores of perfectly-written articles that explain in painful details how you should buy NFC tags (they don’t say which), program them (they don’t say how), then present the tags to your device (they don’t say what devices) to program them to unlock upon presenting the tags.

If you know anything about NFC, you know this is all shades of wrong. But amazingly, each article on the subject is many pages long, perfectly written, and there are countless such articles.

It’s totally butthurt.

People around the world are genuinely pissed that the richest country on Earth is threatening their right to not have to go through another world war because 77 million dumbasses reckoned electing a fascist felon pedo in the White House was a-okay.

My company has stopped selling to American customers, so that they wouldn’t pay tariffs and fund the fascist state each time they ordered from us, and I can tell you the business we picked up in Europe just for deciding to do that is well worth the loss of income from American customers.

did the reviewer really have to rub the “European” aspect of it throughout?

It’s become a very important feature for a lot of people who can’t stand fascism, and a selling point for non-US companies.

If you want this to change, kick the orange utan out of the White House, and maybe in 10 to 15 years, the rest of the world will get over the butthurt.

(no consumer is going to pay for extended) begins to really push people to Windows 11

Consumers aren’t exactly ecstatic about throwing away perfectly serviceable computers just so Microsoft can push their spyware-cum-advertising platform down their throats either.

I’d say this is a great push towards Linux for anybody who knows anything about computers and isn’t a corporation with a dumbass MCSE jockey as an “IT” guy.

The dementia is really starting to show…

What next? It’s available at your local Sharper Image?

What better accessory for your Trump Med Bed than a Mike Lindell MyPillow.
All you need for a restful thought-free MAGA night.

As long as sideloading is a thing, I don’t use the Google app store. And I don’t install malware like Instagram - not that it’s very likely to work on my deGoogled Android cellphone.

Of course, now that fucking Google has declared war on deGoogled ROMs, what I’m saying here is pretty much a dead-end. But as of today, it’s still an option.

Fuck Google.

Also, in case it bore repeating: fuck Google.

And finally, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that Google can go fuck itself.

Yeah well, Finland has a tradition of shamelessly using unsavory regimes to keep the Russians at bay.