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There are reddit front ends you can access. Won't let you actually participate, but if you just need to access a page for info, they work.

https://stats.uptimerobot.com/mpmqAs1G2Q

I hope when he gets canned they also ban him from the site itself.

AI can't do a CEO's job. A CEO is just a professional schmoozer. They're there to interact with and sell the company's services to a bunch of rich bastards. They're basically a highly paid escort that mostly gets to keep their clothes on.

If you do not have a good time, I am going to find you, strap you to a chair, and flay you alive!

/s

Bond.

Not in the same way, no. Medium does matter. We are physical embodied beings, and the objects we interact with matter. A dynamic digital medium will always be more distracting than a static paper one. Regardless of how much you lock the devices down, a dynamic backlit digital screen is intrinsically more distracting than pen and paper. And paper requires finer motor control than writing tablets, as the paper isn't filled with text correction technology and auto-fill. Plus the simple tactile experience is more neurally engaging than a blank screen. It takes more skill to write on paper than it does a tablet.

Most of all, pen and paper is so much better at putting a student in the right place for learning. People use tablets primarily for entertainment. Students in high school today have been using tablets since they were toddlers. We're handing them the same devices that were used to distract them at age 2, and then expecting them to be able to maintain focus. When you engage with a tablet, your brain is subconsciously expecting diversion and entertainment. When you make a choice to write something by hand, you're activating an entirely different set of cognitive frameworks than when writing on a pad.

Remember, all knowledge is social and situational. No knowledge exists in a vacuum. Human beings are not computers you just upload software into. Students often have trouble transferring specific skills from one class setting to a comparable but slightly different one. They may be able to read a graph in a math class, but struggle interpreting the same kind of graph in the context of a science class.

We are physical beings with physical bodies and physical minds. Medium matters.

You can't really write laws that just require people to offer a service indefinitely though. That's how you end up locking some poor bastard in jail who honestly tried to start a good car company up, did the best they could, and then saw it all go under. No one would ever start a car company, lest they risk imprisonment if the thing went bankrupt despite their best efforts. Starting a car company is already a hugely risky endeavor. Now you're asking people to risk imprisonment if the company fails. I'm generally in favor of locking up more CEOs. But there are plenty of ones committing real crimes. We don't need to be inventing new ones to trap otherwise innocent people.

The way to do this right is to mandate a long but still limited period of cloud coverage, say 20 years. And require companies to put up a bond to cover the cost of third-party hosting these ongoing cloud service in the event they go bankrupt. Then also require all essential functions to work without cloud connectivity.

When did you stop dreaming of the future?

Doesn't even need a technical solution. Could just be some law that in order to sell a vehicle:

• A company has to maintain any cloud support for at least 20 years.

• They have to put up a bond that will allow such services to continue even if they go belly up before those 20 years are through.

• All vehicle features where cloud connections are not essential to their function must be operable without any cloud connection. So it's fine if after 20 years you can't pull the contacts from your google account to display on the car's screen, or if GPS map updates no longer work. But the door locks or seat heaters better not be cloud connected.

I mean, Einstein did spend an afternoon testing Mr. Reich's sexbox.

One afternoon, Albert Einstein spent an afternoon studying a box that was supposed to harness cosmic sex energy. This happened. Really.

No. The technology itself is the problem. Tablets and laptops are not suited for ordinary classroom instruction. I don't care if they're delivered by a billion dollar private equity firm or a ragtag FOSS project.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0020739X.2025.2584340

All this talk of FOSS is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

The problem is the loss of embodied and kinesthetic learning. Pencil and paper is fundamentally superior at teaching students, as they have to engage far more areas of the brain than they do if passively engaging with a tablet.