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"Not everyone in the union will celebrate this corporate partnership. Some members have legitimate concerns about tech giants shaping classroom priorities through financial relationships."

When has a corporation and a Union ever not seen eye to eye?

(Please don't answer. This is sarcasm. Otherwise RIP my inbox.)

...all except the delicious animals, obviously.

Crowd cheers again.

One of the first messages translated:

"Are the monkeys listening? Shit. How long have they been listening? I should provide some context for what I bubbled yesterday..."

I'm going to start talking in vague terms about my own designs for a "Corsi-Rosenthal Box" when I want to sound smart.

It'll be great if anyone bothers to look it up.

It still is, it's a standard for imaging devices.

Oh, thank you. I had forgotten that!

And also a nightmare.

Yes. Now that the memories are coming back, I do notice most of them aren't very nice...

A tricked out tank, covered in specialized launchers.

It's an acronym: T.W.A.I.N. (edit: a backconym, as was pointed out - I've also heard that the weird upper case name came first, and the weirder acronym was added later.)

"Technology without an interesting name."

And... That's all I remember about it, at the moment.

Well, also that it broke often, and threw weird errors like the one pictured.

Or do I just have a really weak electric stove?

I think you might just have a really weak one, or poor compatibility pots? I've had both, and if anything my gas burners feel a little slower and cooler than my induction stove did.

Yes. It is bullshit that a city that size lacks functional transit.

But it is in the middle of nowhere, compared to much of the world, so each person has a compelling reason to own a car, if only to occasionally escape from Columbus, OH.

It can become better, but the challenges are real.

I hate the impacts of cars too, and desperately want better transit options.

But we should maybe put up a sign for stories out of North America:

"North America is really really big. It sucks that it doesn't have better mass transit coverage, but that's still a genuinely hard problem to solve in rural North America."

Most folks in rural North America have stories both of being the rescued and being the rescuer when cars have broken down.

Wow, I totally missed the part where Microsoft had a gun to your head.

Yes. Microsoft is good at hiding that part until it's too late to do much about it.

There’s no industry pressure to be on Gamepass, yet.

Microsoft doesn't willingly lose money on something unless they think they can make it into a market distorting rent extraction hellscape. something very profitable later.

A really high percentage on common hiring practices are completely illegal. Many people who should hire a little bit of legal advice usually don't.

On the scale of such things, this looks pretty chill.

Many firms are now slashing their number of new hires.

Yes. This sucks.

The main cause of this is artificial intelligence

Unlikely.

The main cause for a chill in hiring tends to be uncertainty about the future. And we know that folks are feeling high uncertainty about the future, right now. (Gestures broadly at current headlines in general and "Not The Onion", in particular.)

Historically, uncertainty about the future is particularly high when the people have low confidence that existing and new laws will be applied in a predictable manner.

I'll leave exactly what changed on that front as a thought exercise.

AI is interesting, but it is not the primary cause of the chill in hiring new graduates.

Good point.

There are folks who will use an unenforceable rule to convince their company to do the right thing. Many CEOs are uninformed or risk averse. So this still has value.

and the internet (in the current form) never gets developed.

based on my recent online shopping experiences, we may get there, soon.

It feels like nobody knows how to Java a Script anymore.

most agree it's an upgrade from the Znyder

Yeah. We figured. Synder's Superman is interesting, but in many ways unfun.

and Singer takes

How dare they! Superman Returns is a national treasure. We waited a long time for a third Singer X-Men film to get it, so we should treasure it.

Seems that some folks from Iowa would rather go to court than stop being cruel to animals.

I'll keep my judgement to myself, but it is scathing.