I looked at both of those.
The first is conflating Sex and Gender. As I said, sex isn’t defined by chromosomes and specific genes. It is partially determined by them, and other factors, such as in you temperature dependent example. But again Male and Female are terms used throughout all sexually reproducing lifeforms. Not just Humans. The terms are defined by the reproductive role of the animals gametes; not their genes or anatomy or anything else.

The Beyond XX & XY chart you provided shows a whole host of genetic disorders that can result in a range of outcomes that mix male and female traits in humans. Then it tries to assign genders onto those mixes of traits. But gender isn’t determined by genes, or anatomy. It’s determined by society and social convention. Do you see what I’m saying?

The statement “She is male” is consistent with a separation of gender from sex. It does leave an open question as to the use of Man and Woman. I’m torn on that one myself. Traditionally Man and Woman are terms of sex, while Masculine and Feminine are terms of gender. My first impulse is to maintain that. But calling her a man, seems different than calling her a male. So I can see changing man and woman to terms of gender, while keeping male and female as terms of sex. I’m not sure we really need a separate word for “human male” anyway. Most of the time there’s plenty of context to indicate if we’re talking about humans or other animals.

Biological sex isn’t defined by beards or breasts.
It’s defined by the reproductive roll of an animals gametes. They apply through all sexualy reproducing species on earth.

You can’t in one place, say sex and gender are unrelated; Then another place use them as synonyms.

I’m all in favor of trans rights. And I believe seperating sex and gender is great! But it needs to be consistent. This inconsistent selective misuse of terms is infuriating. And I think it’s a big part of the hangups otherwise liberal people have with this movement.

I’m not sure I understand why they don’t.

I thought bringing chiplets to GPUs, meant they’d be able just add as many CUs and cash dies as they needed to get on top. Even if it’s $3.5k and 1000W, they should be able to. They could sell 100K units as some limited edition special thing, and pull mind share away from nVidia by having the undisputed top card.

But they don’t. Which is why I think they undervalue having a halo product. They don’t think it’ll push units further down the product stack. I think they’re clearly wrong about that. People buy cards that fit their budgets. But they buy brands they know to be the best.

I think they underestimate the marketing value of a halo product.
That, or it’s just spin to account for the fact that they don’t have one.

comes with their school districts’ decision to install AI-powered monitoring software such as Gaggle and GoGuardian on students’ school-issued machines and accounts.

That’s kind of standard practice on any company issued devices I’ve ever used.
Unless they’re being given for the kids to own. If they have to give them back at the end of the year, then they don’t belong to the kids.

Hypocritical for sure.
Not really unexpected, so not ironic.

they say giving their biometric data to an unaccountable company crosses a line.

The company is unaccountable‽
That’s some projection.

Not really. One can be dealt with if needs be, since they’re US companies. The other can’t because it’s the Chinese government.

Nobody cares because they are US companies.

First, it’s not a TickTok ban. It’s a ByteDance ban. ByteDance could sell TickTok to another company outside China and TickTock would be fine in the US.

Second, it was never about protecting user data. It was about preventing China from tweaking the algorithm to try to subtly influence public political opinion, instead of maximizing generic rage and political polarization, to exploit for ad dollars.

Have you tried the “Stealth” protocol option ProtonVPN has?
It’s intended to bypass VPN blocks. Sometimes it works.

As far as I can tell, looking into her, she’s a standard politician. She tells anyone whatever she thinks they want to hear.

So we just have to hope, and wait to see what happens.

Commercial monitors or digital signage displays are out there.
B&H has a good selection.
They are a bit more expensive, but not crazy.

90% chance it was some kind of user error.

That sounds like a way for it to kill you slowly. Or eventually maybe.

“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”

It sounds like you’re reminding people, the primary thing to keep in mind is that you don’t actually die.

All 4 of them are cheaper than the launch price of their 7000 series counterparts. That’s quite good really!

Monopolies don’t require 100% of a market. Just enough to effectively manipulate a market.

One firm might only be 10% of a market. But if every other firm is only 1-2%, that 10% will have an outsized monopolistic ability to manipulate that market.

It depends on the details of how the program is implemented.

Every hour you spend helping someone load a moving van, cut their grass, represent them in traffic court for free, you get 1 Sameritoken (my word). You can pay for things with it, the seller can then exchange the ST for $. The government can change the value of ST whenever it likes. During the holidays they might be worth 2x. Or the local government might give you an extra Sameritoken if you help at the local food-bank or whatever.

It’s more flexible than regular cash. And doesn’t cost anything for individual people you may help. So even if they have nothing to actually pay you with, they can always give you Sameritokens.

Kind of. Not in the way you think. His not at all advocating that people should be buying Bitcoin for investment, and Monero to replace cash transactions.

His ideas are around using it as an alternative form of currency that can be given to people for charitable volunteer work. A way for the government to reward people for being good neighbors and helping their community.