Wait, I demand a refund for the joke.

You can cut down on your pencil quota but also adding free FedEx boxes to your furniture.

I know we’re taking about LG, but firmware updates really are as likely to break as to fix core functionality in my experience.

My Hisense TV is automatic, full-on lockdown-until-you-update. You literally can’t use the TV until it updates. And lo and behold, after an update that I did everything to try to decline but couldn’t, we couldn’t connect to the Internet. Cue to 4 months of arguing with Hisense support to get a working TV again - a TV I paid for, to which Hisense applied an update against my will, that broke it.

The only updates I trust at this point and welcome are Valve updates to my Steam Deck.

That’s a nice thought. There’ll probably be at least one mainstream publication that simultaneously reports on the inevitable parties in the streets. That’ll be the one worth framing.

Yeah, there are way too many people here nitpicking about whether it’s functioning as an auto-complete. That is entirely inconsequential to the fact that its results were deceptive - not incorrect or vague or “not actually AI” - and were structured to mislead the authority.

It’s a likely intractable problem because you can’t just give a stronger system prompt or remove deceptive techniques from training data, when it’s specifically contradicting the prompt and the training data is the Internet. That’s the real problem here.

Imagine if you reached the point of Trump exhaustion after a month of Trump’s campaign in 2015, and then learned it was going to continue for at least 13 more years.

Yes, not really better at all. These donations are all symbols, not meaningful except as a show of obeisance. So we should interpret it along the same symbolic parameters.

It’s being framed as a personal donation because Cook is acquiescing to Trump’s pending authoritarian takeover, but wants plausible deniability that that imputes to Apple. But since Tim Cook is the one acquiescing and he leads Apple, it’s indistinguishable from the same thing. It carries the same message: Apple won’t get in your way, do what you will.

It’s strange because we also have an extreme culture of litigation, and so much as an unwelcome or aggressive touch (without injury) could technically support a civil lawsuit or criminal charges for assault/battery.

The difference is that we apply justice differently depending on your political belief, so the acceptable violence is usually one-directional. Any violence by left protestors will be treated akin to terrorism. If you’re a right wing crazy harassing people protesting for a left cause, police will look the other way and you may not even be convicted for murder (e.g., Rittenhouse). Worse, the police are usually the ones being irrationally violent - like the George Floyd protests in which nonviolent civil protest was suppressed with military-level equipment, tactics and violence.