My best friend was a scout and my older brother was, too. I never joined, I’ve never been a joiner. I never heard a thing about any abuse.

I did learn a lot from my friend and brother, and I read parts of the BS handbook (or whatever it was called). Learned about navigating with a compass, building a lean-to, building fires, first-aid, etc. from that book. It was all interesting because we used to go camping for summer vacation.

I bought a plywood kayak kit from the scouts, and built it, as did my friend. We had fun paddling around a reservoir with them.

I can only hope this is true. Most voters aren’t paying a bit of attention to where the money comes from.

They’re using AI. They think it’s wonderful, they’ve barely heard about the controversy around data centers, and think “data centers are where the internet it, yOU lIkE thE inTErNeT, Don’T yoU?”

The Top 10 AI Uses in 2025 (none of which it does very well):

• Therapy and companionship
• Organizing my life
• Finding purpose
• Enhanced learning
• Summarizing content
• Generating ideas
• Generating code (for professionals)
• Improving code (for professionals)
• Creativity
• Visual art and design

I hope when he’s showing them off someday, the dogs attack and maul him. Bonus if it happens on stage with hundreds of cameras filming him and people laughing.

I’d rather, and I do, donate to apps like Blender, LibreOffice, Wikipedia, and Lemmy, etc. Free to use for people who can’t afford to donate. I donate monthly to those because I use them a lot and I can afford it.

For only 300 searches, that’s 10 searches a day. I do probably 50 to 100 searches per day.

So, it’s really $10 a month.

I might pay $5 a month for unlimited but I’m not sure about that. Because, you know they’ll raise the price if they get successful enough. And, then it’s just a constant march to more enshittification.

Only 50 center per hour, you say? I mean it’s only 75 cents, that won’t even buy a soda anymore. Who wouldn’t pay a dollar an hour to play the games they love?

Half Life Grabbity Gun. More useful than just a weapon and no problem finding ammo.

The Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator, if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.

God forbid he man-up and liquidate some of his assets. Pay your fair share, asshole!

Billion is officially the new million.

In the future the poor will only have access to garbage AI which will end up killing many people through unreported mistakes, while the rich will still be using human doctors. The same way that the rich send their kids to private schools that teach the traditional way, while the poor are left with the mess we have now.

Also, the idea that “no one thought of this” is just ludicrous.

I predict it gets canceled.

I suppose if the AI bubble pops, and memory and CPU prices crash, then maybe it will happen. But, that’s going to be very hard on the entire economy, so maybe it will be canceled for that reason, instead.

All those loans are getting hot. They’re starting to toss them around and trying to hide them.

I have strong doubts they can ever make this particular approach to AI work at all, let alone in time to cover their bets.

This path looks like a dead end. But, I don’t know jack about shit.

Not “my culture”, but the region where I now live. Green chile on everything.

Chicken green chile stew:

Chile relleno with red chile sauce:

Pepperoni green chile pizza:

Green chile ice cream, it’s very chilly:

And, here’s what you get if you ask for chile cheese fries. Because “chile” sounds like “chili”, but they’re not the same thing:

Hope. Because, they’ll need it.

GNUnet provides privacy-by design

Money doesn’t want us to have privacy.

Hurried right over after dessert, then?

No one would miss the top net worth CEOs (I carefully avoided the word “earning”, because we all know they do nothing to earn the pay) if they disappeared right now. Except we might notice how much better everything quickly became.

If she were a he, and he were white, they’d quietly hire him back later or he’d be hired one county over.