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Walk softly and carry a big EMI interference device! I'm waiting for the sci-fi utopia where the AI AR glasses replace all the physical ads with something nicer, ublock: eyes

You gotta get to the Fortune 10 before the real leverage kicks in! On the other hand the fortune 200 company I worked for briefly had many signs of deep seated corruption. I couldn't stick around for a multitude of reasons, but the "follow the rules wink wink" attitude was flabbergasting, I'm sour on publicly traded companies ever since, how do you know you're not investing in Space Balls?

In my best impression of the slapchop guy:

First you take your Blendtech and "will it blend" your engineers, then upload the result to the cloud inside what is called an S3 bucket (don't forget to set access permissions on your buckets kids!) to be digested by the clankers, sit back and profit!

Dark humor aside I think disconnecting a bunch of problem solvers from their computing equipment could really enhance the world, putting that analytical power into the world in person could move a lot of cogs, rather then marshalling JSON.

Adults who introduced me to tech when a i586 class computer was snazy were preaching about tracking on the internet and modding host files, complaining about doubleclick etc. The internet would be a much nicer place if everyone installed ublock: oragin and woke up to how yucky most ads and ad tactics are, instead we spend our time looking forward to the ads during the superbowl™

Thirty something years ago I got access to my first TV with rabbit ears, my kids have access to a lot more productive and informative content then I did, it's just the other 99.9995% of the internet I worry about. I believe in people highlighting the good stuff and denouncing the bad while keeping the door open for the slop and the haters, how do you know what's good without some bad to compare it to?

As an aside I worked in a drug users support center as an IT admin for a few months in my 20's, I don't feel like I have any insight into actual crack, other then Ewan McGregor said it best when he says choose life.

Kid slop is real and it pre-dates LLMs, sometimes nanny brings books without checking for taste and it's rough.

You have time for you kids? That's why you're a hobo and not an exec ;-) and good on you!

My local library is almost as much a homeless support center as a library, it's its own cultural experience, but we still go.

Setting boundaries is also part of parenting, is "the crack machine isn't despencing right now" better or worse then "time to take a break from the crack machine" I know putting a foot down can be hard, but I'd argue that it's good to practice on low stakes stuff like a show.

Another angle on this is the tope that curriculum is so out of date your AI completed assignment may be ahead of the class subject matter. The real teacher is is having a motivation or need to do something and learning about what you need to learn to get the goal accomplished, AI can be a great companion for that journey, weeding out the sycophantic slop and getting to truth is the new challenge. There are a lot of elements to school that discourage curiosity (asking a stupid question in front of class) or being picked on for being a keener or other anti-intellectual "cool kid" mentalities. In the end we need to make the line between learning and success more obvious for young people, maybe that doesn't work when the definition of success includes fitting into a burocracy and letting the singing key be "4".

I've been seeing more FOIA request costs going up, justice for those wealthy enough to pay for it, as per usual!

I think reciprocity would be in violation of the 4th amendment, and why don't Canadians have protection in the same way!

I wonder why the Canadian government would share citizens data with the u.s. while all this 51st state talk and terrif stuff is going on, does Canada get access to Americans data in return?