I actually love my foldable Razr. I never could afford one as a kid, and the smaller form-factor is actually really nice.

Basically yes, a chatbot and the ability to do simple actions (agents). So in their fantasy universe, instead of clicking on Firefox and typing a query in the search bar, you’d ask the desktop to search for something, and it would do those steps.

That’s all just an excuse though, to explain why they need to collect all your local data. :P

I think it’s important for groups of people to be able to choose to ban propaganda and misinformation, because propaganda is not simply information being imparted, it’s an entire ecosystem of deceptive methods to disseminate information and to alter your perception without you realizing.

If it were calling for the EU banning X solely because they don’t like Musk’s shitty personal opinions, I’d agree with you, but they cite the disinformation, misinformation, and outright propaganda that the platform is being used to spread, and I think that’s perfectly valid.

Take 2 scenarios:

5 million actual people telling you that ‘x’ political view is common and popular, causing you to doubt, or at least temper your own personal beliefs.

500 thousand actual people, plus 4.5 million bot accounts telling you that ‘x’ political view is common and popular, causing you to doubt, or at least temper your own personal beliefs.

In reality, you don’t even need the bot accounts to outnumber the real users if you control the algorithms that determine what people see, which is exactly the situation that X is in right now.

tl;dr This isn’t about banning the viewpoints themselves, it’s about banning a platform that deceptively alters visibility of viewpoints to manipulate people.

Banning things you don’t like is not a solution

Tell that to Musk; X bans TONS of people over their viewpoints.

2 minutes or more, which is an eternity on the web

To quote a criminal: “Sad.”

Not according to the article:

Per “former employees on the Alexa shopping team” that WSJ spoke with, however, the amount of shopping revenue tied to Alexa is insignificant.

Consumers didn’t themselves have, or pay Amazon, the $25b. Amazon had it.

It’s a great idea, but I’m very skeptical about how ready it is for ‘production’, looking through their repo.

$25 BILLION dollars wasted. Imagine how many people that could have helped. Fucking travesty.

I’m not against private commerce, but these companies sure are working hard to change my mind.

But most people seem to be content to remain on Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit, regardless of the amount of abuse they are being subjected to. I honestly don’t understand why.

There truly are a LOT of people who don’t interrogate the world around them. They don’t know or care about corporations harvesting and selling their data. They don’t know or care about the harms of algorithmic manipulation via social media. They don’t really think about privacy. And they don’t try to educate themselves.

There are plenty of people for whom Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon are “the internet”, just like the AOL desktop app was “the internet” for many non-technical users back in the day.

I had a family member remark that they had tried to use Reddit, and it was “too busy-looking” and hard to understand, and they are in their 40s.

Overpriced and underperforming, so definitely military-grade.

Anything to justify running over even more pedestrians than they already do…

“valued at” != “worth”

Every time I try a vim alternative, I get frustrated and just end up back with vim.

built from the ground up in Rust with a GPU-accelerated renderer

I don’t want GPU-accelerated rendering, I want a renderer that has a solid 5 second lag, to make it look to anyone around like I type faster than 20 wpm.

Or it’s a roundabout way of saying he cheated: “I finished the marathon in 22 miles!” :D

No reason to assume malice just because they’re not listing out identifying information. I don’t list my schools or company names online either. It’s not as though we could (or would) validate it anyways.

Awesome, thank you.

Out of curiosity, (given that in another comment you talked about home schooling) when you call yourself an educator, do you have a teaching certificate in your state, or other professional teaching certification?

I’m not trying to be rude, but since you began by invoking the title of “educator” as an appeal to authority in this area, I think it’s important to clarify that you are in fact such.

Home schooling is never the correct answer as a societal solution for education.

Special needs education is a field that requires specialized training. This is something you need a degree for, not something parents can wing from self-study. It’s great that there is public funding for some people to allow them to get their kids specialized tutoring, but that is not common, and isn’t a substitute for actual school systems with IEP or other Special Education-trained professionals.

I agree with the conclusion of the article:

“School’s the same for 120 years, where kids go nine to three, have long holidays, sit at desks and have to regurgitate what the adults tell them to learn, basically all over the world. We’re blaming kids for falling academic standards, we’re blaming the rise in mental ill health, we’re blaming the rise of cyberbullying. Oh, well, it all must be the fault of the mobile phone,” Marilyn Campbell told Al Jazeera.

“I mean, what a simplistic view of how we are educating our children in a different world and taking away that main tool that we’re all using in society and saying, ‘No, the kids can’t have it now’.”

A balanced approach, involving regulated use and clear guidelines, may be the most effective way to harness the benefits of smartphones while minimising their drawbacks, experts say.

The general recommendation of Campbell and Edwards, who carried out the scoping review in Australia, was to leave it to individual schools to determine smartphone use and to focus on helping children to use smartphones positively.