Ironically, Apple has some of the best odds of coming out of this reasonably healthy. “Apple Intelligence” follows the trend of most Apple services products, in that it is really intended to lock people into their ecosystem and keep buying iPhones. I’m just waiting for someone in the big 7 or whatever they’re called to publicly bow out of AI. I suspect the first one to do it might benefit a lot.

Does Voyager work with it?

I’m wondering if the Frost family involved in this scam has any relation to the Frost family who started Frost Bank in Texas.

There’s a decent Wikipedia entry on them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones?wprov=sfti1

Tl;dr is they are a secret society at Yale comprised of legacy kids (I believe both presidents Bush were members, for example) that has initiation rites that are supposed to be humiliating which creates a bond. Apparently they have changed quite a bit from their heyday in the first half of the twentieth century.

To be fair, there does seem to be a real tradition of “we get together and do things that are embarrassing and possibly illegal to have mutually assured destruction by way of blackmail.” Skull and Bones is supposedly based entirely on that framework.

Reading the article just refines and deepens that sense of horror and disgust.

Maybe not, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe’s_law?wprov=sfti1

Netanyahu lies as much as Trump but with more consistent evil. At least Trump’s lies are sometimes just absurd.

Some scuba gear and creative use of concrete could probably manage exactly that.

That’s an impressive deep dive.

I mean, can’t judge a book by its cover but you can judge it by its veneers and sociopath glasses.

I think you mean that Community episode.

This post is directly under a post about the breach in my feed.

Is MacOS no longer supporting terminal apps? I imagine you could use neovim in macOS.

The article actually shouts out Apple as doing things really well, which was surprising considering he’s focused on Linux which is only barely an option on current Mac machines.

I grew up in Hawaii, I got called a haole by everyone. It wasn’t hateful.

One of my favorite anecdotes is about a class at UH-Manoa taught by a haole woman who had moved to Hawaii in the late 60s. A student complained about being called haole, and the professor responded “if you’re white in Hawaii you can be one of three things: a haole, a dumb haole, or a dumb fucking haole.”

What are the stretch goals? I mean, we have a whole slew of shitbags the world would be better off without.

It’s not about waiting, it’s about enticing people to use Amazon fresh rather than the other grocery options they typically use.

My guess is that Amazon fresh makes its prices even more absurdly low to get more people buying.

That’s literally how “AI agents” are being marketed. “Tell it to do a thing and it will do it for you.”