Linguists happier than a pig in dictionaries.

Ukraine is doing something like that... Ukrainian computer game-style drone attack system goes ‘viral'

A BBC article, Kill Russian soldiers, win points: Is Ukraine's new drone scheme gamifying war? notes:

Google: Ukraine earn points

I think people in other countries generally buy their phones outright, rather than via provider payment plans, often at a discount, like in the U.S. and I think SIM locking is to prevent people from switching providers before those phones are paid off - and so the providers don't have to sue to recoup that money. That's probably reasonable, but doing it to just make it harder for people to switch is not. Of course, most phones smartphones probably aren't paid off after 60 days, unless providers have another avenue to recoup the money for the device, so I don't know how a policy works in that case.

From Cell Phone Unlocking:

As for me, I bought my three successive cell phones over the last 26 years. unlocked and in full.

Many of the lower court decisions seem pretty solid, reasonable and thought-out, but SCOTUS, especially Justices Alito and Thomas, is seemingly just making stuff up, or misinterpreting things from Medieval England, to support their agendas.

Alito's Roe attack betrays a medieval ignorance of ancient history
Google: alito medieval england roe

Many of their rulings that specifically favored Trump seem like stretches, like the near-total immunity for the President and limiting the application of the insurrection clause for presidential candidates. It'll be interesting to see how they re-interpret things when a Democrat is in the office - I'm guessing 3-6 will then see things differently.

That's gotta really torque Trump off. :-)

Sure, but companies only have to wait 3 more years ...

Then it's convenient they're all sitting on a girder, from which they can be strung. :-)

Ironic that they chose this image as if their work compares, at least in effort and danger, to the iron workers building skyscrapers in the original b/w photo: Lunch atop a Skyscraper. None of those "AI Architects" would ever have lunch there.

This is a false comparison. ISPs generally don't (get to) pick their customers and don't select, edit, and curate those customers content, publishers do both. Publishers have a direct hand in who and what gets published and when, ISP generally don't. Granted, ISPs could be (more) selective in who they signup, like publishers, but that would be hugely labor-intensive and not cost effective given the scale of ISP customers vs. publishers. Even then ISP wouldn't (generally) get involved in their customer's content - as that would get them into trouble under Section 230 (if I understand things correctly). All subject to Terms and Conditions, your mileage may vary, etc ...

Honestly I'm surprised. With the amount of hot air he and his administration generate there should be turbines at the White House ... :-)

But pirates love it ... :-)

... when all those batteries need to be replaced ...

What about all that "beautiful, clean coal" I keep hearing about from someone? Maybe they should try that. /s :-)

Our current President and his followers especially... Usually the smarter (more educated) someone is the more they realize how much they don't know. Sadly, the opposite is also often true. The dumber (less educated) often they know more than they do. See: Dunning–Kruger effect

Trump thinks he knows everything and is the best at everything, which makes me believe this story about one of his former Wharton professors, as reported here:

Sounds like some good learnin', but Republicans, "Conservatives" and MAGA don't really want a well-rounded, well-educated electorate who can think for themselves, especially if it would disadvantage those in charge.

Over the next quarter or five-ten years? 'Cause U.S. companies only really seem to care about the former, while the Chinese seem to care more about the latter.

To be fair, they don't all hoard all of it; some buy really, really expensive yachts - and slightly less expensive backup yachts for those yachts - or media companies, like TikTok and Paramount, a Nth back-up mansion, or donate money to the President for favors, etc...