Adobe’s '90s pricing made the definition of “usury” insufficient. Things did not improve.

I still run CS6. I’ve little reason to use it these days, but I don’t have to pay monthly to open an old file. What they did by switching to a subscription model in my case was lose a customer for life.

With all the ATS bullshit, I ended up having to go back to Word because neither LinkedIn nor Indeed could parse my InDesign resume. Both would tie incorrect roles with dates and job descriptions because “PDFs are hard” essentially.

A few thoughts here as someone with multiple suicide attempts under his belt:

• I’d never use an “AI therapist” not running locally. Crisis is not the time to start uploading your most personal thoughts to an unknown server with possible indefinite retention.

• When ideation hits, we’re not of sound enough mind to consider that, so it is, in effect, taking advantage of people in a dark place for data gathering.

• Having seen the gamut of mental-health services from what’s available to the indigent to what the rich have access to (my dad was the director of a private mental hospital), it’s pretty much all shit. This is a U.S. perspective, but I find it hard to believe we’re unique.

• As such, there may be room for “AI” to provide similar outcomes to crisis lines, telehealth or in-person therapy. But again, this would need to be local and likely isn’t ready for primetime, as I can really only see this becoming more helpful once it can take over more of an agent role where it has context for what you’re going through.

Past performance is famously not indicative of future results, but throughout recorded history, the rich and powerful have not liked the idea of ceding either money or power.

Quite the read. There are lots of unknowns with any technological development throughout history, and as the article points out, we don’t yet even know where we are on the energy demand curve from AI.

Something that confuses me is that geothermal is mentioned only once. These companies have the money to site datacenters near EGS plants or even build their own, grid connection optional, and have upfront capex sted power bills for the life of the center.

This would admittedly require long-term thinking, which shareholders are completely uninterested in when infrastructure investments ding their dividends and buybacks.

There is. It’s just not going to happen. UBI in an unregulated economy will simply mean rents go up commensurately, and the money still filters to the top.

In this economy, they’re only hiring junior Heat Transfers.

God forbid adults who enjoy sex talk about it and share consenting media.

Mike Johnson’s going to have to stop talking to his son.

All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online.

… but probably not.

It’s likely for the best I can’t link that GIF from Airplane! here.

If finding out his identity weren’t that hard, it would be in the story. It would otherwise be extreme journalistic malfeasance. There’s an old newsroom saw: “Get the name of the dog.” That’s never relevant. The name of a defendant, though? That’s sort of what news does so long as they aren’t a minor, which doesn’t seem to apply here.

But yes, the whole thing is irritatingly light on details.

Do you mean it’s alright, or Oklahoma?

In addition to the curriculum revisions, a proposed rule approved by the state board of education in January mandates that parents enrolling their children in the state’s public schools show proof of immigration status.

Describing the rule, which has been met with widespread outrage among parents, students and immigration advocates, Walters said: “Our rule around illegal immigration accounting is simply that … It is to account for how many students of illegal immigrants are in our schools.”

Right. There’s no way ICE would get called or just have access to the database.

I never Felt that way.

This is the correct assessment. Name the agent and lay out the grooming, and now you have a story.

My accent and dialect change on a dime based on who I’m speaking with. I can – and do – go full-on Southern, but that’s generally in specific retail and call-center situations.

Otherwise, I use what’s likely the California dialect noted in the story, given my age and the fact that Californians love migrating out en masse, so Phoenix was convenient. As was Ashland, Ore. Californians arriving in Austin in spades is at this point a cliche.

He clearly has no interest in getting to 86.

Things you get with Citizenship:

I’m doing my part!

On Trump pay-per-view.

Woohoo! Not our problem anymore!

That’s a lot of ALL CAPS, even for Trump. Dude’s throwing a fucking tantrum because he got told “no” by people he appointed.

SAD!