The book referenced here, “Bullshit Jobs” by David Graeber is a great (if maddening) read, I would highly recommend it. This article is referencing Graeber’s “system” of weeding out “bullshit jobs” built upon in that book.

Makes sense, what if she took the vaccine and it killed her? Oh, wait…

These people should be in prison for murder and forcibly sterilized.

So she can’t promote the book because it will cause “immediate and irrepairable loss”, but this ruling had nothing to do with the publisher and the book is still available for sale (or download) everywhere.

I wouldn’t have read this without the publicity about this case, so if this wasn’t a shady attempt to force a Streisand-effect for a sales boost then I hope it creates one and everyone reads it just because they don’t want us to!

Completely enshittifying Notepad of all things is certainly a decision. Of course you have to be logged into a Microsoft account to produce these summaries, which I would assume are then used to train the AI or sell or some combination. I can’t wrap my head around why anyone needs this functionality in Notepad, though.

“Besides AI summaries, Microsoft is testing the ability to view your recently closed files in Notepad.”

Hah.

It’s highly suspect since they just announced they don’t know if they can continue operations, so idk if i’d trust it lol:

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/irobot-sinks-after-annual-filing-has-going-concern-warning-1034472870

“Google refused to provide specifics about how its control of search supports national security.”

trust me, bro.

As far as flavors of Linux, I would honestly recommend using VirtualBox while on Windows. You can download a preconfigured VM of just about any Linux distro or download whatever iso you want and install in a VM. This gives you some freedom to play around and break things (and you probably will at least once) and get more familiar with the different desktop environments, software installation, command line, searching for how to do things etc.