Prompts can be the new data compression. Just send your friend a prompt and the heartfelt penpal message gets decompressed at their end.

I regularly drive what I thought of as a quite winding road. Visitors drive it cautiously. It was funny one time looking at the satellite view and thinking "Wait, where is the tight bendy section?" Everything looked like very gentle curves; probably closer to straight lines.

Writer: AI, please flesh out these bullet points into a business book.

Reader: AI, please summarise this business book into a set of quick-to-read bullet points.

Further, some low effort bots can be quickly handled with CF by blocking specific countries (e.g., Brazil and Russia, for one of my sites).

I work for a publisher that serves the Chinese market as a secondary market. Sucks that we can’t blanketly do this since we get hammered by Chinese bots daily. We also have an extremely old codebase (Drupal) which makes blanket caching difficult. Working to migrate from Cloudfront to Cloudflare at least

I don't know for sure, but from his CV, I'd guess I am similar in age to the author. He described remembering the venue (possibly separately to it being the meeting's venue) but not the meeting itself. I would have similar selective memories of business events from 10-15 years ago, amongst years of many meetings and opportunities. Sometimes I have a strong memory of one aspect, but no recollection at all of another. And I can identify with finding that email phrasing (about someone's "situation") being something that might prompt me to send it to people close to me as a sort of "look what happened to me today" thing.

It's seemed to me that he was a habitual/obsessive networker. Someone up-thread described it as an urge to collect smart/impressive people, with the advantage being as you described. I suspect if you took away his horrible other interests, he'd still have been extremely sociable. Maybe aspects of blackmail/control are near-inevitable at the conjunction of criminal behaviour and power?

Sociable if you’re dumb like prince Andrew. Steven pinker the Harvard professor thought him an idiot. Said he was inane and a fraud who could only respond with stupid adolescent comments. Maybe somd like that sort of person and think they are fun. No doubt lots do, the guy down the pub who’s a laugh. Appeals to similarly dumb folk.

The US president just today said that Republicans should "nationalize the voting" in future elections.

It certainly gets us to keep talking about him. Which seems to be his primary skill. It does not have any basis in reality, however.

This is what people keep saying until the administration does something and then dares the courts to stop them.

Reality check is that he has actual track record on delivering or trying to deliver on his anti-democratic impulses. In terms of personal monetary gain, he is the most successful president of history.

He is also actually successful at making Project 2025 reality. He is on the way to cause very real harm (economic, physical) to blue cities too.

> In terms of personal monetary gain, he is the most successful president of history.

And in terms of legislative impact he is the least successful president in history. I don't like the corruption one bit, but on balance it is probably the less damaging of the two.

> He is also actually successful at making Project 2025 reality

Not at all, though, on any kind of permanent basis. He is showing that you can make the executive branch do shitty things with executive orders. What he isn't managing to do is codify any of this in law. There's a reason that the universities and other 'elites' knuckle under and cut deals with him -- they know that these deals are informal and temporary, and go away with the next POTUS. If Trump took this agenda to Congress and got it enacted into law it would persist for many more years.

That sounds like a call to get rid of the electoral college...

It's a call to have his ICE goons (armed to the teeth and trained to escalate to violence of course) operate voting stations because of all of the "illegal" voters and for DHS to administer elections instead of leaving it to the states.

He also said his polls are the best they've ever been today. Trump works hard to cultivate an aura of inevitability, but he simply does not have the power to make false things true by declaring them so.

Well that's nice (i.e. an impeachable, despicable offense), but it doesn't actually change how elections are run.

I think the 12 was great, and the main driver when I upgraded to a 14 was much better stabilisation when shooting video. Otherwise I probably would've stuck with it.

If this individual pulled funding because of a political perspective, is it possible that these recipients lose their future funding if they speak about an issue or act in a particular way?

I think that's a safe assumption. Even if I google instead of use ChatGPT, I'm often still taking the info AI surfaces above page links and running with that (assuming it's a low-risk thing the AI is likely to get right).