See also the privacy-invading aggressiveness of most platforms, and the political ads and propaganda inundating people’s feeds. If social media had just remained a way to keep in touch with friends and post pictures, it would probably have remained popular.

Somewhere in the distance, you can hear Sarah Palin yelling “Drill baby drill!”

So is this making “spring forward” permanent, or “fall back” permanent?

Last year Windows 11 was estimated at 400 million “devices”. Thats 16-17 million possible copilot users.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/it-took-almost-4-years-but-windows-11-finally-overtakes-windows-10

And then opens 6000 job positions for AI salesmen. What a mismanaged hellhole.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/microsoft-commits-2point5-billion-6000-employees-ai-implementation-unit.html

Will the 4800 Xbox employees that Microsoft just laid off be rehired into these positions?

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/06/microsoft-cuts-2point1percent-of-employees-as-xbox-unit-plans-to-spin-studios.html

This is like those people who bought Meta glasses and then acted surprised when they got screwed. Did you really not expect something like this from Musk?

Kind of my point. Neighborhoods that aren’t zoned for hotels shouldn’t have hotels in them. Companies are buying up residential homes and basically turning them into hotels without following any of the existing zoning laws.

If the owner doesn’t live on site, it’s not a BNB. It’s a hotel. And it should be taxed, zoned, and regulated as such.

Because they waste the income they have on crap like adding AI, and CEO bonuses/raises.

Until they get sued. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Just wasting your tax dollars.

You can reset the tv and set it up without internet. It still works as a “dumb” tv.

I predict this radically different model will be licensing the Xbox nameplate to third parties to churn out cheap consoles. Microsoft will no longer make their own Xbox.

True. It will be interesting to see if Apple:

• continues to work on the API
• releases the API in other regions (like North America)
• eventually moves their own AI to this API (eating their own dog food)

I think Apple got caught in a hard place where they had to start over and get things up and running quickly to head off any lawsuits about not meeting advertised promises about “new Siri”. Their first try didn’t work in iOS 26. They were aiming for 15 to 18 months to get the API working/tested. Let’s see what happens in another year or two.

Also Apple won’t be the only one in this predicament. WhatsApp is already having the same problems with DMA.

Here is Apple’s statement. They designed an API called “Trusted System Agent “ but the EU rejected it.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/due-to-dma-siri-ai-delayed-in-eu-for-ios-27-and-ipados-27/

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I hope all these employees are actively looking for other jobs. Stop wasting your talents at Meta.

I doubt this. Technology is continually improving. Computers get faster and run cooler every day. HVAC systems continue to improve efficiency as well. By 2030 who knows if AI as we currently know it will still be around. Maybe we will have switched to light-based circuitry by then as well.

Garbage in, garbage out.

Only a couple of species of mosquitoes actually bite human beings. At least one of those species is not native to the United States. We can safely kill those species and it should not impact the diet of birds and other things, sincere will still be plenty of other mosquitoes to go around.

https://askabiologist.asu.edu/mosquito-species