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Presumably somebody didn't get paid.

IAAS, but IANYS

2019 was their last year.

Conway’s Law strikes again.

Even better, closing it pays for eight rounds of golf.

The purpose, if you want to call it a positive, was to be one of many revenue increases designed to offset the cost of the income tax cuts that were the primary focus of that legislation.

…of the 63% who bothered themselves to vote.

Prediction: We'll hear that magically Truth Social has sourced sufficient funds that will enable it to make an offer for TikTok.

Just lock the screen and you’re good to go for keyboard cleaning.

When you start up a business from scratch you quickly become familiar with bank requirements for a personal guarantee. The LLC will not protect you from personal financial exposure in the full amount of all your business credit facilities, loans, leases, etc.

Just plain whelming seems to fit the bill.

Radio Paradise is good for this.

"We love the red line concept! Can you please work that into the rest of the design?"

They'll still have Atlas Shrugged.

Adversarial built-in AirTags.

The cyclist’s epitaph: “He had the right of way”.

It could be even worse — you could have a “good morning, sunshine”er among you. Yes, just that, followed by three or four minutes of a few crawling ellipses, on and off. Then, at last: “Got a minute?”

Sadly, this is one of those things that, soon, if not now, only the olds will know about.

Ah, but it has a replaceable battery.

It means they’ll frequently be seeing the phrase “as an AI language model…” in their daily strategy sessions.

This does happen. Some planes, like stretch 737s, have preventive tail-stands ground crew can attach to the back of the plane at the gate.

Ah yes, the "soft" Roko's Basilisk.

The Roads Must Roll.

Distribute the costs among the many, concentrate the benefits among the few.

Sounds a lot like Vonnegut’s Granfalloon.

Don't put it past them to mandate that all phones must have a physical port, and that it must be compliant with a blessed EU standard.

The fact of the "vouch" could provide the validation without identifying the people from whose circle overlap it was derived.

Luck indeed finds you hard at work. But also, if you’re not sitting at the table, you’re on the menu.

Way back in the mists of time, we set up our first corporate website. We were using Website Pro, and the box was under a desk. There was an option to make the machine beep with each hit, and for a while it was thrilling to hear those beeps — once an hour or so, maybe a cluster of a few in a row. The physicality!

On the positive side of the ledger, this slightly decreases the likelihood of Google shutting it down.