Let us not admit to possible crimes on teh Internet. :-)

What the article should have said is todd, by expanding the shadow docket, the Supreme Court got to make itself more of a political figure. The Republican members wanted to gain power in the short run, and they did.

But this actually comes at the expense of quality, and clearly they don’t care about quality, because normally cases that go to the Supreme Court come up through the appeals courts. So the factual matters are settled. In other words, everyone is fully briefed, and all of the facts are on the table. But when we have the Supreme Court stepping in early, they have created a situation where they can ignore the facts on hand because those facts haven’t been entered into record yet, and they can decide the case in favor of the Republican litigant. And even if the facts would have turned out to be different, now it kind of doesn’t matter because everything is already over.

In the medium run, the United States democracy is falling apart, but if it somehow holds together, then a lot of these emergency decisions are going to be reversed by future Supreme Courts for the reasons mentioned above. You just can’t reliably create good law if you don’t have all of the facts on hand.

On a related note, I’ve had trouble finding high quality 8" tablets in the last few years. They used to be easy to find, but maybe with the flagship smartphones getting larger, sales on smaller tablets died off? Unsure.

Don’t believe the lies. He’s going to keep his hands in the pot as long as he can because there’s too much power and money. He can live wherever he wants, but it’s not like his access has gone anywhere.

What a shit headline. Yes we should care about people saying fuck it. But not this colored pill horseshit.

No. Because kids don’t get to choose. And what you describe won’t help the poor. Also, freedom to … checks notes … fuck up your teeth? Egads.

It’s not an upgrade if the system doesn’t work better. And the new Windows is simply worse than the old one in every single way I can see, having been forced to run both of them on different machines at work.

Judges know full well how to utilize the legal system. If people are threatening them, they can easily contact state police or the FBI. If Trump’s lackeys are violating court orders, they know exactly how to initiate contempt proceedings.

If judges aren’t doing those things, but they are still scared, then their cowardice is the worst kind, because it’s both selfish and self-defeating, but much more importantly, it’s screwing over the rest of us who rely on them to regulate the Executive Branch.

I felt it was a great answer. We can listen to all the news we want about that site, but because it has these massive flaws built into it, the news is just kind of boring. We know where it’s going, we know it’s going to get there, and the only question is who how long, but nobody cares.

God bless Florida.

That’s true, but it actually feels worse than it is because if it was Windows you couldn’t fix it anyway, so you still needed a second computer so that you could keep doing whatever you do on your computers in your life.

If AI is stealing our jobs, can we lock AI up in El Salvador? After all, it’s not paying its fair share of taxes. It’s stealing from us. It’s a danger to women and children. It eats cats and dogs.

American exceptionalism is only in Americans’ heads, the patriotic suckers out there.

In reality this is about rich assholes trying to figure out where to stash their dough, and they’re hedging their bets. Good for the world, to some degree.

Pop the bubble already. Fuck all the investors, they are gambling on snake oil and that’s their problem.

There is plenty wrong with generative AI as a tool if you think of it in those terms.

I would say that if the depth of analysis is limited to “AI” or “genAI” then use of it in schools is overwhelmingly bad. If that’s the limit of our ability to frame the issue, then banning AI would appear inevitable, and any graded assignment that might encourage AI use should be banned.

But if you want to break things down, you can find specific tools (i.e., calculators, grammar checkers) that could be labeled as AI or specific uses of genAI (i.e., brainstorming) that have use. And it is this latter approach – clearly identifying positive uses – that is difficult for students, media writers, and apparently policy makers to do.

Yes and no. Remember that rich kids could always hire ghost writers. ChatGPT made that available to the masses, but that particular problem goes back centuries.

What we have seen is that the curriculum is often decided by a distant committee who actually doesn’t understand life on the ground. In reality, there are easy ways for teachers to undercut the utility of ChatGPT, if they have the freedom to make changes. But that depends on teachers having control and the time to make changes to how they teach.

The lawsuit claims it based on very good evidence, including witness testimony.

No. Algorithms do not decide. People implement algorithms. People decide.

Well yeah, the whole idea was bullshit to begin with. Everyone knew they would censor as much as possible the minute they had the chance.

No. She didn’t struggle. She got it totally wrong. Bad headline.