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That looks like it would just about hold an old-school Palm Pilot or Psion - I can't see it holding even a small MacBook in that space

Totally unrelated though, and just a coincidence. The word meme in the way we use it today was coined by Richard Dawkins in (IIRC) The Extended Phenotype. I presume it's an abbreviation of Mental Gene, or something like that. The idea was that a meme is an idea or concept that can fight for survival amongst other ideas, just as a gene tries to survive being being a good fit to its environment

One reason I'd like to see Germany held to account is their long-term efforts to push the interests of their car industry, even as it filled the world with overly polluting (and, recently, increasingly over-sized) vehicles

The idea of general intelligence (g) is that you've got some overall capacity that can be turned to any task. Human intelligence is probably much more like a big toolbox of skills, though, and I can't see a version of computer "intelligence" that's any different to that. I worry that people who get excited about AI are kidding themselves a bit as it isn't going to be general - it's going to be a toolbox at best: an LLM for writing, a totally different system for drawing, another for identifying birdsong, and and yet another for maths... And at that point you've not got some special interesting AGI - you've just reinvented the idea of apps

If AGI is made of components, you could argue that it isn't "general". Which would be fine, as most psychologists would say the same about human intelligence

I can't remember who said it, but somebody once framed this as "You can make a place easy to drive around or you can make it worth visiting, but you can't do both"

I loved this game! I'll never forget the time I came back from certain defeat when we suddenly passed a pub in northern England called something like "The Batley Marching Band"

A few years ago I'd have jokes about data ports being the same fitting as power sockets, but USB-C has ruined that

Oh, this looks good! Thanks

It's a very American style thing. UK English media don't do this, and it always feels strange when I see it in US media

Thing is, a lot of these aren't that bad? Making an oxygen mask feels really different to just setting fire to the fossil fuel to shift a 3-ton vanity pickup truck half a mile to Starbucks. And lots of the others can readily be replaced. Clothes, for example: rayon from bamboo can replace a lot of polyester and nylon

Every metric? What about the poor shareholders in oil companies? Have you no empathy for them at all, you monster?