Kirk

We should care about clickbait and spam

It was clearly about how marijuana makes your children communist

IIRC those updates were a series of bugfixes after a major update, which seems to be how they prefer to work.

Your vent was good and justified

No love lost for IBM but I still wouldn't expect to see casually mentioned alongside Palantir.

Wow I went to fact check that claim and it's actually no exaggeration. Here is the AP article.

Google and Amazon provide cloud computing and AI services to the Israeli military under “Project Nimbus,” a $1.2 billion contract signed in 2021, when Israel first tested out its in-house AI-powered targeting systems. The IDF has used Cisco and Dell server farms or data centers. Red Hat, an independent IBM subsidiary, also has provided cloud computing technologies to the Israeli military, while Palantir Technologies, a Microsoft partner in U.S. defense contracts, has a “strategic partnership” providing AI systems to help Israel’s war efforts.

Crazy to see Palantir, Google, Microsoft mentioned alongside ...Red Hat.

Anytime someone anywhere on the political spectrum uses the word "woke" without also defining what the fuck it's supposed to mean I just cannot take them seriously.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/39828-i-ve-come-up-with-a-set-of-rules-that-describe

S-tier satire of the conservative "Trekkie" (please Gene, I hope you're being satirical). Real comments like that always make me think of Douglass Adams' "rules" on growing old:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

Anytime someone says Star Trek's progressivism was never "hamfisted" I usually just point them to the after school special that is Let that be your Last Battlefield:

I have an adjacent vent and that is I hate how companies put so little effort into the UX of their mobile web pages. Privacy concerns aside, I would still prefer not to have 100 apps on my phone and just use web pages; but my bank's web page suuuuucks and so well, I have the app.