He keeps trying to pass himself off as a smart man, and there’s just no way to keep up that act if you’ve got an actually smart man talking to you.

Even if the Windows voice experience put Jarvis to shame, I wouldn’t be interested. I don’t want to use voice control on my computer. Just about the only time I actually need voice control are when I’m far away or my hands are busy; so it’s nice for turning lights on and off when I have my hands full, or controlling timers when I’m cooking, or turning music on without getting up from the couch. Sometimes I’ll use voice-to-text if I have a lot to say or need to think it through. But I almost never want voice control (even if it were completely perfect, which it is not!) for the same reason that I listen to podcasts on earbuds: I don’t want to bother other people! Certainly not while I’m working, and definitely not when it’s liable to take agentic actions for me.

Buttons, knobs, levers, sliders, keys—all of those are better than voice control 999 times out of 1000. I don’t even like touch screens that much, and I’d prefer them over voice control.

The Microsoft executives inhabit a different reality than I do.

Yep, agreed. If that specific company is so critical that we as a society can’t operate without its survival, it should be a government function anyway.

Criminals don’t typically announce their motives, no.

Loomer figured it out? Loomer?! This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts.

Sure, and we don’t have any receipt to support that the Five Guys gave me a cheeseburger yesterday because I paid them to do so.

That may well be suspected, but to claim it as fact is propaganda.

/s. Yes, post hoc ergo propter hoc is a fallacy. But consider the timeline: the Trump organization had made some deals about projects in Riyadh and Jeddah, but the big new development in Diryah, owned by the Saudi government, was still not on the table even after Trump toured it and expressed interest back in May. Now, suddenly, the deal is going through and the Saudis are getting the planes they want in the same week?

Honestly, if you don’t believe this, what kind of evidence are you looking for?

Hypocrisy is one thing, but the ability to actually print stuff is another entirely. They are, fortunately, still bound by the laws of physics.

Sounds like Indiana doesn’t have the votes for redistricting, for now. Cheeto Mussolini is big mad about that. He posted on Tr*th Social and got one of the Republicans opposing it swatted.

Pritzker in Illinois was going to push forward a redistricting for that state, too, if Indiana went ahead. The map looked hilarious and would’ve essentially shut the GOP out of politics in Illinois altogether.

My desire for the people on Epstein’s list to go to jail has nothing to do with who they are.

“Dwigt”

Interesting. They didn’t have enough fun making Colbert and Kimmel into martyrs, now they have to go after another member of the Strike Force Five?

This is the second time in as many Trump terms that an Indiana Republican has been responsible for defeating a Trump power grab by actually doing his job and demonstrating that he still has a vestigial spine.

If I weren’t so disgusted with everything else that Pence, Goode, and Bray have been up to over the last several years, it would almost be enough to make me feel a tiny glow of pride for my home state.

Depends on when you load it. They refresh every minute. In the first one I got, Deepseek’s was almost functional, but Haiku had one that was surprisingly good.

I’ve never seen any of the OpenAI models come up with anything that was more than completely broken.

Cool. Honestly and unironically, I hope so, whatever her reasons. Now go prove it.

I assume it’s not, but are you thinking of the end of the first part of Bohemian Rhapsody?

This wouldn’t be a problem if they left the seats where they were from the factory instead of squashing them all as close together as possible.

The suit doesn’t say that they paid extra for a window seat, it says they paid extra to pick their seat (that is, to not have it randomly assigned). So they paid extra to select their seat, but the selection they made did not include all of the relevant information.

Sometimes “what would you have done differently?” is a valid question.

Me: “ugh YES we can all see your screen, stop asking”

Also me: “ugh YOU FORGOT TO SHARE YOUR SCREEN idiot”

This. It might be financially difficult, but you know what’s harder financially? Mental breakdowns, hospital stays, divorce cases, jail time. All of those are on the table when you work that much. Quit your job if you can, take as long a vacation as you can afford, remember why you enjoy your family’s company, and then ease your way back into working—at a reasonable schedule.

It’s not a cure-all. You probably still need therapy (there are places that offer grants and assistance with counseling). But a good work-life balance makes everything else feel like something you can handle.