8 was worse. At least Vista looked like Windows instead of being some weird phone OS hybrid where I couldn’t find anything until I installed a third-party start menu. A start menu!

The problem with violence is that the bad guys are usually better at violence.

TikTok also was and still is acting like the law is in force - the law does not require it to shut off. They aren’t taking any legal risk.

Note that the law does not prohibit TikTok from operating. It prohibits companies like Google and Apple from distributing it, and according to this article, they are in fact not distributing it.

Even as TikTok was flickering back on, it remained unavailable for download in Apple and Google’s app stores.

TikTok shut off voluntarily and that appears to have been an excellent PR move, but we won’t know for certain until Trump does or doesn’t do something about it in the next few days.

It’s an own-goal for Biden - an unpopular law that starts being enforced the day before Trump gets to stop enforcing it.

Neo-Nazi madness

Wow, that is savage. Doubly so because it’s coming from a man who chooses his words carefully. Lemley is doing the exact opposite of the obsequious grovelling that Zuckerberg and others are performing for Trump.

I think that putting in the hours to be very good at PoE2 is more embarrassing than being an amateur who only played a little bit. I say that as someone who looks forward to playing a lot.

The story about selling to Musk is coming from Bloomberg. Meanwhile the “pure fiction” quote comes from TikTok’s reply to Variety’s request for comments. Variety is unlikely to have access to anyone at TikTok senior enough to know the truth and willing to talk about it.

The purchase of valuable assets by someone in the president’s inner circle after the government forces their owner to sell them is the sort of thing that usually involves Russian oligarchs. It would be a shameful act by the US government.

Did they correct for the amount of money left after paying rent or is this just replicating the well-known finding that wealth is correlated with lifespan?

I think this is just OpenAI marketing.

“Insane thing: We are currently losing money on OpenAI Pro subscriptions!” he wrote in a post.

The problem? Well according to @Sama, “people use it much more than we expected.”

Oh no, ChatGPT is too useful to customers! Altman isn’t going to be telling any real problems that OpenAI has to the whole world over Twitter.