White king’s bishop to black queen lunar lander

Everyone: NO MORE FUCKING AI

Microsoft: we put it in your breakfast cereal for, y’know, reasons

Google: we painted your rooms with it so it can be . . . fun

Amazon: looks around shiftily, mutters and scurries away

Take a lap

I’m sorting by New and it’s in there 10-15? Times. I’m wondering if it’s spam or a scam now.

Mm hmm.

In them days Linux was even more about messing around with configurations and finding workarounds. It came on floppies, and as it loaded it made these kind of grinding, farting sounds. We would install it with an onion tied to our belt - which was the style at the time.

Back in the day, using Windows was essentially a long series of fucking around with configurations and trying different workarounds to get things to "go". The actual using of the computer was, in a way, secondary.

Nothing has changed. Many many years ago I bought a used Apple to try it out and was just - astounded at how little I needed to mess with things to get them to do what I wanted. It was all in settings. That's it.

Watching Microsoft leap headfirst into full evil is just like watching the seasons change.

It's funny cause no he didn't

AI Defenders! Assemble!

Well the firing’s happening so, i guess let's hope you’re right about the other part.

Is it any wonder these businesses are SO successful

All that notwithstanding, Google cutting the check is a concession to the merits of the Antitrust Division’s case. As Lee Hepner put it, “If it wasn’t clear already, Google is acknowledging that actual monetary damages, even if trebled, are an insufficient deterrent for a trillion dollar entity to illegally maintain a monopoly.”

There are a couple of things going on here. First, Google has an unlimited budget for its antitrust defense, and it also does an immense amount of product testing. It’s quite likely that it did mock trials in front of test juries, and found that the outcome probably wasn’t good. The judge in the case, Leonie Brinkema, has been pretty annoyed at Google, so it’s not a promising outcome if they go with a bench trial. But they will bet on the judge than a jury. Second, circuit courts are usually more reluctant to overturn a jury than a judge, so Google wants Brinkema to have to author an opinion that they can then try to overturn.