Stated briefly: Kurzgesagt isn’t what it once was.

I played Doctor totally wrong in the dorms, it seems.

That dovetails nicely with the mental state of an undergrad. In my case, I did actually know everything back then.

At least they didn’t first hear about it in someone else’s sociology class?

He always looked so laid back.

I heard he was retired and living like a king in Patagonia.

Is 2006 coming back? I’d prefer that, but MySpace as it existed then wouldn’t land the same way now.

I have a hard time equating “the LLM did what we told it” with “hacking.” But hey, let’s throw “escaped containment” in just to make it Serious™.

Always my goal.

Cats excel at this. I’m not sure I could pull it off at work.

Where I have to go …

Because a cat adopted me. Again.

Gold would disagree. That’s not a full forex explanation of everything, but about the time gold hit $5,000/troy ounce, selling my inheritance at $285/oz in the '90s for a ski vacation started to look short-sighted.

There’s also been a good job stateside of hiding the fact that the dollar has gotten weaker for decades. Some of the cost of an imported cheese can be tariffs, but when the dollar loses 50% of its value against the Swiss franc, Appenzeller is going to become more expensive.

Ethics?

It’s the sort of thing we’ve been dealing with for years in newsrooms, and the display copy here violates a hard rule: Never claim universality. In the '80s, you could say “everybody likes pizza,” and it was accepted as “most people like pizza.” But now it has to be a production. “Celiacs don’t!” “The lactose-intolerant don’t!” “Vegans don’t!”

Which is all well and good, but really? On no world did anyone on the editorial chain think “well, this will piss off vegans.” But I suppose we’re predisposed to pizza. How else can we tell it’s election night?

That is suspiciously close to “Nowhere” spelled backward.

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Oh, someone’s getting hosed.

I trust Steam thus far. But music, I buy and download. Between my computer, my phone and a backup drive, I feel pretty good that I’ll be able to listen for the foreseeable future. Movies and TV, I also donnload.

Embrace, extend, extinguish has a long and storied domestic history. But when China does it, it’s bad. These days, we copy them at least as much as they copy us.

I’m far more worried about what our own government is doing with advanced tech than China, which largely seems content to let us implode on our own without them having to spend any resources.