Well, now you're asking a definitional question. What counts as "AI"? If I use OCR to help grade multiple choice tests, I've saved hours. That's AI, isn't it? What about spaced repetition for flashcards or dynamic question selection for quizzes? Do they count? ... So then we're back to the same old story. People want to sell weird fancy useless shit (that counts as AI), so you ask if AI has value, and then they reply by giving you more traditional examples (that also count as AI), and then the whole conversation leads nowhere.

Anyway, let's focus it. Let's go with ChatGPT as a generative tool. Then still there are some real gains that can be made. Small but real.

• If I'm brainstorming ideas for a lesson plan and use ChatGPT to come up with 10 ideas that I use for inspiration, maybe that's OK.
• If I need a graphic to illustrate some concept to the students and I use genAI to create it, could be useful.
• We can come up with dozens of things just like this. Teachers using generative AI in small ways for specific tasks to speed up their workflow.

Well obviously. AI is a bubble, which is mostly vaporware. The point was always to sell it, and what better place than a school? The administration will force it on the teachers and students, and that's that.

The technology itself is simply irrelevant. All you need to know is that it's a bubble and the purchasers don't care what the users think, and then failure is guaranteed.

There is anti-foreigner sentiment for many reasons, only one of which is the (laughable) claim that foreigners are the sole cause of over-tourism. The fee increase is scary because it's a precursor for other anti-foreign measures that the current PM would love to impose. Will she succeed? We'll find out.

I have a lot to say about Gates. He realized that he was an evil POS and decided to create his own foundation to push his own views on various things around the world. His work had some positive effects, some negative effects, and if he actually valued human life, he would have campaigned to raise taxes on the ultra-rich or paid his workers more.

Let's not pretend Bill has much humanity in him. He's almost as bad as Elon. That's better than nothing, for sure.

Well no. There was a program that gave people food. It also did other things. He cut the food, said he wouldn't allow people to starve, and then they did... Did he expect them to die? Yes. Did everyone predict that they would? Yes. Did he have control over all of it? Yes... That's on him and his underlings.

And he's wrong. We don't want people to murder him. We want him to decide that he's going to personally settle Mars and go on a space mission and live out the rest of his days in outer space, or inner space, or at least on another planet, far from us.

If he gets to Mars, great. We still don't have to deal with him. If he doesn't get there, then at least he'll have some kind of ironic ending.

Also, if you look at the impact that cutting USAid has, he's one of the good biggest mass murderers in human history.

So the the test of capitalism is whether any of the executives who pushed the AI roll out have gotten fired or had their bonuses slashed... My guess is none of them.

If this were actually about competition, then people would be punished for not paying attention to all of the naysayers who predicted this exact phenomenon. If accountability were a key feature, then corporations would have set up their bonus structure to look for 5-year or 10-year benefits from the AI push because of this exact issue.

Of course we haven't seen that anywhere because AI was and always is a bubble and everybody knew it and the only goal was short-term profits for whoever can claw them out of the employees or the minor shareholders fingers.

When Flock refuse to follow take-down orders on their cameras, they are the criminals. The so-called "vandals" are actually agents of justice.

The police already screwed it up. They have massive chain of evidence issues, some evidence has been excluded, and more of this will be brought up during the trial.

We also have a massive issue where the lead investigator has admitted to wiretapping without consent which is a felony in Pennsylvania. Yet he has not been charged with a crime.

This puts the police departments in a bad position. They don't want to take corrective action now to fix their policies or to punish their employees because that would weaken the case against Luigi. But if they don't take corrective action then there's a conspiracy to cover up wrongdoing, and that could make the case against Luigi even weaker.

And I use the word conspiracy but actually it's not very hidden. If there's plainly evidence that the cops did the wrong thing and none of the city or county or state level prosecutors, or their superiors, take any legal or disciplinary action, then that's sufficient to show that they are cooperating to cover up bad actions.

You say stigma I say quality control issues.

Oh my friend, that really does depend on which Americans you're talking about.

Oh Donald Donald, nobody believes a word you say. You're impotent!

While it's true that Donald is directly responsible for this horrible loss of life, it's also true that the world will hold the US government responsible long after Donald is out of office or even alive.

A war is not fought by one person. In a democracy, or at least a country that passes for one, national level leaders are all responsible for such actions.

The lawyers can write that, but all they have done is make the judge issue a new order requiring them to get moving. It's another "delay and deny" tactic that won't work, because this judge already sees the gamesmanship. Congratulations to them?

Don't pretend it's a thing of the past. Many of them still do and he would if he wasn't too old. After all, how many people are in prison because of the Trump Epstein files right now? ... So the consequences for getting caught are low. At least right now.

know that people cannot actually be described as perfect; it's a type error.

Well he doesn't have to die. He just has to be removed from power. I think we're not too far from that.

At the very latest a month after the midterm elections unless he can successfully pull off his coup, he'll be done. If he doesn't retire then his current supporters will force him out because as a lame deck president, he'll be the worst possible thing for the Republican party.

No... It will mark the end of some of them in Chrome. Not in general.

What actually happens is that some people move away from Chrome, because ads suck.

I would say his extreme age and bad health are evidence. Evidence but certainly not proof.

Hahahahahhahaha you can't negotiate with terrorists (i.e., Mr. Orange).