Oh, absolutely–but back then it was just normal, ordinary platform decay, not the sparkling AI hellscape of today.

Office has been Microsoft 365 for five years now. They added “Copilot” to the name at some point last year, but it’s been M365 for a while.

I don’t disagree that some articles could use better information hierarchy. Headings could make that experience way better. But to say that the info shouldn’t be there at all is short-sighted and ignores the point of an encyclopedia.

That’s what the info boxes on the side of the article are for. They’re the simplified, just-the-facts version. If you want to know more, you read the whole article, or look for the section that contains the info you need.

That’s a good one. I was thinking, stop trying to make it seem like you’re helping agents improve, and just go with something like “HOLD THE LINE.”

I mean, it’s an odious slogan for an odious government org, but at least it’s better than suggesting the opposite of their stated mission.

Wait-- their slogan is “go beyond?” That’s so parodic I can’t believe it’s true…

… WHAT.

NOPE, IT’S TRUE.

How is this government so completely and entirely inept?

Musk is well-known for bringing a project to a close way late and way over-budget. He’s the king of overpromising and undelivering. After a couple years of “next quarter, I promise!” they’ll be wishing they’d bought the bulldozer.

Yeah, lol. All the robots need is any actual robotics, and then they’re good to go!

they can do “policing” even more effectively than ICE.

A bulldozer with a brick on the pedal can do “policing” more effectively than ICE. That’s not much of a flex.

He desperately wants people to think he’s cool.

You’re not crazy, but it won’t be Elon who does it. The Tesla robots are nowhere near ready for production. This is vaporware, just like the Roadster.

• Meaningful character development (not necessarily advancement, but at least exploration)
• Motivated decisions made by at least two people in the story: the protagonist and the antagonist (or just the protagonist if it’s a PvE-type movie)
• A challenge that challenges the protagonist(s)
• Dialogue that sounds at least plausibly like human speech
• Reactions that seem at least plausibly like human reactions

A plot that doesn’t have many holes is a nice bonus, but as long as everything else is present, not a deal-breaker.

Because Microsoft owned Skype at the beginning of the pandemic, had 100% mindshare, a practically genericized trademark, and an install base of a gazillion users, and yet still managed to somehow fumble the ball to Zoom.

There are not only two categories for things. Possible categories are not just “moderation” and “censorship.”

These equivalences and wild bad faith arguments and accusations are getting really old. Sure, Viacom getting fined 1/1,000,000,000,000 of their annual revenue is totally the thing I was worried about, definitely. Yep.

Anyway, you go ahead and have a great time believing that you getting banned from lemmygrad for being a jerk (or at least while being a jerk) is exactly the same thing as a political dissident in Russia getting poisoned for speaking out against Putin. You’re such a hero. How do you do it.

"It’s called socialism. I need a society to do it. You like baseball? Why aren’t you playing it right now?

Strong Badia. There’s probably lots of chocolate.

Now who’s being semantic? But, ok, I’ll give you a couple of notes.

“There’s not necessarily a threat of violence!” Of course there is. In the US, it’s called “police brutality.” In other countries, you get disappeared or have an “accident.” Hexbear can make those threats, and they should probably be defederated for them, but they don’t necessarily have the power to carry them out. A police state by definition does.

“If you’re censored in one country you can still say that stuff in another country!” Sure, if you aren’t thrown in prison. And if you’re legally allowed to leave the country. And if you’ve got the financial means to do so. And if the country you go to doesn’t have an extradition treaty. And all that assumes you even survive the initial censoring.

Anyway, you’re trying to draw an incredibly spurious connection that isn’t merited. “Not having a Nazi bar is bad, actually, because then you can’t have an anti-Nazi bar!”

Honestly, amazingly straightforward and simple, if somewhat slow. My partner wanted to get a master’s degree anyway, so she applied at a few universities down here and was accepted. The process from there was just one of chaining together all of the visa stuff, and everyone we’ve talked to has been kind and helpful. It was one of the easiest parts of the whole endeavor, and everything they asked for made sense.

I don’t mind. I’m in New Zealand. It’s pretty great; I’m sure that it has its own problems, but so far they’re different problems.

No. There is no threat of violence, and the moderated are still able to make their statements on other, equally-federated platforms.