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Pure conjecture on my part but I think…

When these first came out, Google approached them in full venture capital mode with the idea of building a market first, then monetizing it. So they threw money and people at it, and it worked fairly well.

They tried making it part of a home automation plaform, but after squandering the good will and market position of acquisitions like Nest and Dropcam, they failed to integrate these products into a coherent platform and needed another approach.

So they turned to media and entertainment only to lose the sonos lawsuit.

After that the product appears to have moved to maintenance mode where people and server resources are constantly being cut, forcing the remaining team to downsize and simply the tech.

Now they are trying to plug it into their AI platform, but in effort to compete with openai and microsoft, they are likely rushing that platform to market far before it is ready.

According to Yale’s website their operating budget is about 6 billion of which 2 billion comes from the endowment. That seems a bit low, but they are probably putting some money back into the endowment to grow it further.

I’m not saying they couldn’t afford to keep this one class (surely they could) but funding the whole operation with just the endowment would fail in the long term.

A third term implies the constitution is still in place and don’t see them passing an amendment without doing something ridiculous like creating a bunch of extra states.

Far easier to just never end the second term. Claim a national emergency and suspend elections/the constitution.

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Despite all the effort spent prosecuting it, there’s virtually no concrete evidence that retail theft — organized or otherwise — is on the rise. Data on retail theft provided to law enforcement and lawmakers comes exclusively from corporate retailers, or organizations funded by them, and is not independently vetted. Last year, the National Retail Federation was forced to retract its claim that organized retail theft cost its members “nearly half” of the $94.5 billion in lost inventory in 2021. One researcher put the actual figure closer to 5%.

https://www.businessinsider.com/americas-war-organized-retail-crime-target-cvs-victorias-secret-2024-9

I misread that as TikTok banning looming and spent far too much time wondering what looming is. Some sort of viral textile meme …

I enjoy botw/totk for what they are, but agree they are not “proper” zelda games.

Echos of wisdom, however, feels to me like a solid spin off from the links awakening remake. Proper dungeons with plenty of puzzles. It has rough edges (too many echos, too easy to “cheese” some challenges, accessories, outfits, smoothies, and automatons feel tacked on… ), but i think it could be a good foundation for a spinoff series.

It looked wrong when I first clicked it, but then sort of restarted and corrected itself, almost like it started with the wrong data cached.

Millions of leftists who somehow secretly make up the majority of the US population yet never vote like it, would suddenly appear at the polls and usher in a socialist utopia. Climate change would immediately stop. Everyone would drop windows and install Arch. Unix socks would replace stockings on the mantle this Christmas, the major broadcasting networks would replace all their content with star trek reruns, trains would sprout up like weeds replacing cars and somehow take everyone where they need to go despite how spread out much of the country is, veganism would go mainstream with people meeting each Sunday to discuss more ways to avoid meat while cows, now liberated would stop burping and start dancing in exchange for tips, every copy of mariah carey’s christmas music would vanish…

I think of them like planets.

The Ford Maverick looks like the larger trucks in style but is unibody, so it is Pluto. Looks like a planet, considered by many to be one, but technically a “dwarf planet”

The Santa Cruz is Ceres. Round, definitely planet like, but harder to call a planet.

The Cybertruck is Arrokoth. Few would mistake it for a planet. Weird looking, misproportioned, and way out there…

Almost makes me wonder if this is a mechanical turk situation.

Conservatives seem to hate mail in, drop off, and early voting. In states with questionable election officials, I’d worry the might find some way to disqualify those votes.

I worry that she actually is “middle class” and the wealth disparity has moved to the point that those of us who cannot spend $150 on pet insurance or drop $750,000+ on a house or $100,000 on a truck are effectively “poor”, at least as far as the market is concerned.

Settings itself has been around in one form or another since at least Win95. 29 years…

Settings in Windows 11 is close. I rarely find myself going to control panel when it was about 50/50 in Windows 10. Still more clicks than I would like but workable.

Companies don’t even have to pay people for the time spent going through their own required security checks… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrity_Staffing_Solutions,_Inc._v._Busk

I was planning to see a movie this weekend, but this story just reminded me how greedy and anti-customer that whole industry is.

They’ve overhyped the hell out of it and slapped those letters on everything including a lot of half baked ideas. Of course people are tired of it and beginning to associate ai with bad marketing.

This whole situation really does feel dotcommish. I suspect we will soon see an ai crash, then a decade or so later it will be ubiquitous but far less hyped.