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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

But hourslong calls with a Scottish lass? Would you turn down the opportunity to have that in your ear?

I mean, tell that to my ex-fiancee where it took us a year to get engaged after meeting on Reddit. Then Covid hit and we couldn’t meet. We still talk, years later, but now we’re in “old friends” mode.

“Can’t be done” and “That’s not a good idea” have been job-killers for me in the past. I’m not paid to stroke my boss’ ego, and if that’s what they want, I’ll put them through the conversation of needing more money if that’s been suddenly added to my job description.

And then quit. I don’t countenance that bullshit. We really don’t need this at the federal level.

Isn’t that corporate structure overall?