Surely its not sending backup camera footage, chair recline position, turn signal usage.

OTOH Id verification for every adult website is extremely invasive and lets random verifiers get all kinds of PIID. But the OS attestation exposed with a browser hook means a parent can say "this computer user is under 18" and every adult content provider can restrict their content without having to ever touch even a birthdate.

Thats not to say there isn't ambiguity in these laws but the principle is sound and the idea is better than alarmists have made it out to be.

If this becomes "every OS has to ID verify with the government", the slippery slope anti-attesters tout, then I'll join the protests, but as long as it's age attestation, I'm for it.

To me, this looks like a lot of pro privacy energy being totally wasted on something that is not actually invasive.

I had to look it up.

My brother bought one. I challenged him to find something that actually used the AI chip on the laptop. He couldn't - it always read at 0% in task manager.

As a consumer, I'd rather have that much more graphics card, hard drive space, or RAM for the price than a specialized chip thats almost never used and, when it is used, only saves you a little electricity.

Trump is stretching the definition of those circumstances to the limit, in my opinion, especially because protectionism is the fundamental policy being pursued. If we want general protectionist tariffs than the law should be passed that enables the executive to do so, but that hasn't been forthcoming.

How effective are tariffs as a trade negotiation tool if your counterparty believes its likely the courts will take away the big stick?

It's Congress who has the power to tax. If Trump wants tariffs he needs to propose a bill that creates them or gives him clear powers. The legal scholars in his cabinet know this, so why has he not proposed a bill?

I did not use any AI. I had a couple conversations with agents while mulling some approaches, but they never edited my work nor did I have any chat open while I wrote. Every word was my own.

I notified my other stakeholders - "here's my analysis, none of it was written with ai". It sounds silly to say, and I worried others could take it as an attack. But I needed to communicate "This is a long document but its actually worth reading".

I liked what I wrote. The final author of the proposal liked what I wrote. All of my ideas made it in to the proposal. We landed the contract. Its a nice chunk of $ for us.

Its still worth putting the hours in.