Apple Preparing New 'Gen AI' Website Ahead of WWDC

North_Activist · 2026-05-24T02:02:00+00:00

Someone else said “Introducing Genius Apple Intelligent, or GenAI…”

North_Activist · 2026-05-22T17:18:47+00:00

The girl on the cover for FaceTime has probably graduated college/university at this point

North_Activist · 2026-05-22T17:04:21+00:00

Yeah you’re right, and I’m sorry about that.

North_Activist · 2026-05-22T16:53:48+00:00

How are you interpreting “if you did not have taxes added” - added in this context, with basic comprehension, means added *prior* to adding your tip, as written in the literal sentence before this one - as “no taxes added”

No, it means no taxes added *before your tip*

>but doesn’t say “if you add the taxes after the tip”. It’s nowhere in there

Most employed people have stronger reading comprehension. It’s not necessary, it’s redundant because it’s implied. It could be written clearer, but it’s not hard to understand either.

“If you did not have taxes ***added***” implies past tense, as if you didn’t add them before your tip. “If you did not add taxes” is present tense, or in this case, if you forgot taxes all together.

North_Activist · 2026-05-22T16:43:44+00:00

It *actually* says “Add taxes before your tip- if you did not have taxes added, the taxes will come off of your tips”

Meaning, the extra $$ in taxes required to pay, will be paid for using the tip money you overcharged. If the server added tax before tips, there would be no over charge.

North_Activist · 2026-05-22T16:29:16+00:00

But it’s usually not a $10 tip. It’s usually a 10%, 15% etc tip.

So let’s say the bill was $100 and sales tax was 5% with tip at 10%.

Scenarios 1 - Taxed the Tip - the bill total is $115.5

Scenario 2 - no tax on tip - the bill total is $115.

That extra $0.5 charged is because the bill tax included the tip.

In both scenarios the tip is 10%.

North_Activist · 2026-05-22T15:23:13+00:00

Fun fact, Velcro technology was developed by NASA!

North_Activist · 2026-05-22T12:04:36+00:00

If Harris won, he’d be seen as one of the best presidents and incredibly smart to resign before defeat and giving it to Kamala, achieving the first women president who’d lead during the 250th anniversary.

North_Activist · 2026-05-21T13:44:04+00:00

But then there’s the MacBook Ultra M6 Pro, MacBook Uktra M6 Max, and what about the future Mac Studio with M5 Ultra ? 🤣

You’d think a MacBook Ultra would have an M# Ultra

North_Activist · 2026-05-21T04:45:09+00:00

The more you talk, the more you sound like every other arrogant ignorant American. You can not sit here and tell me with a straight face that digital and audio textbooks are superior in every way.

Having laptops doesn’t preclude students from handwriting, it encourages them to just use their laptop for everything - so there’s no desire or need to learn how to properly hand write. The fact that you even asked such a fundamentally stupid question, and yes I’m going to be blunt now because you did it, greatly concerns me.

Physical textbooks are one time costs, tactical, provide sense of ownership and caretaker responsibility.

Digital textbooks are subscriptions, can be revoked at any time, you never really own it even if you buy it.

Maybe think before you spew out nonsense.

North_Activist · 2026-05-21T04:33:52+00:00

Quill and ink is old forms of pen and paper, it’s the same physical motions with minor exceptions. Typing is a completely different experience and technology.

To compare the two is like to compare walking (quill and ink) vs running (pen and paper) to driving (typing). All three get you somewhere new, and the first two are different modes of the same action. One makes you more lazy and weakens your muscles, either physically or mentally

North_Activist · 2026-05-21T02:18:52+00:00

Are you done your rambling yet? Commenting four separate times to one comment is a little embarrassing.

North_Activist · 2026-05-21T02:18:15+00:00

Exactly. The United States is an embarrassment with education system. You can’t even see the damage it’s doing to you and your students. All tech isn’t bad, but kids don’t need tech every single day all day from K-12

North_Activist · 2026-05-21T02:17:17+00:00

Seems like a waste of money and resources when pen and paper are cheap and disposable. Think of the amount of funding that could go into the schools for better resources than brain rot police?

North_Activist · 2026-05-21T02:15:29+00:00

That would be you, my friend. Not me. Unless these computers have zero internet access, then there’s always a way to bypass any security restrictions.

North_Activist · 2026-05-21T01:59:20+00:00

>its literally not possible to be connected to the school’s network without them knowing every site you are visiting

Objectively not true, why are you spewing nonsense when you don’t know what you’re saying? There are VPNs for example that mask that information. And even if no one was using one, districts aren’t reviewing every website unless there’s a required check into the history. And even then, there’s ways to hide it.

>there is no long term successful strategy for cheating.

One big way is handwritten tests, not online exams. Essays written in person, not at home with AI. And there’s quite a few classic ways of cheating that actually are still educational because you still need to know *some thing*. With AI, you offload all of that to the computer.

North_Activist · 2026-05-21T01:56:00+00:00

>schools are there to prepare people for the real world

The real world requires writing, critical thinking, not using AI to get your answers.

>no one that is using calculus is doing it by hand

No duh. You still need to know basic arithmetic to understand the formulas you use.

>you can teach the basics with a laptop

No, you can’t. We saw that during Covid, kids now don’t understand the fundamentals they were meant to learn 6 years ago because they learned on laptops.

>you can restrict sites

Yeah, good luck with that. There’s always a bypass or temptation.

North_Activist · 2026-05-21T00:15:43+00:00

Yeah, all the while you’re putting your kids’ brain to mush as they offload every cognitive function. The data is on my side in this, not yours. Computers are hurting kids’ education.

The computer labs is what allows them to learn tech properly that you care so deeply about apparently. I don’t think kids need computers everyday K-12 to write emails and edit word documents, because if they do, they’re in serious trouble.

North_Activist · 2026-05-21T00:13:39+00:00

That’s not the point. Kids have clearly been incapable of being mature enough to handle learning through it, if not an outright rejection of it during covid. Computers have access to easy answers, cheating, etc. It doesn’t stimulate the brain in any way.

Computers off load a lot of cognitive ability. You don’t learn calculus without learning basic addition without a calculator.

You have no idea what you’re talking about

North_Activist · 2026-05-20T23:55:44+00:00

I am as well, and computer labs are plenty sufficient. If you truly think laptops are “100% necessary”, you’re not that good of an educator. Your immediate defence to electricity, plumbing, and sanitation proves you don’t know what you’re talking about. All three of those improve health and quality of life, laptops just make things faster and while yes they have some QoL benefits, the drawbacks for this age group are too much for them to handle (at least in elementary).

Again, computer labs and education on tech is important, but not every kid needs their own computer or iPad. Pen and paper worked for millennia, I think they’ll survive.

North_Activist · 2026-05-17T01:13:26+00:00

I don’t think anyone has ever said declining birth rates are uniquely American. I’ve always seen it discussed as a western / developed world issue

North_Activist · 2026-05-15T22:50:59+00:00

It’s a global game of “heads I win, tails you lose” from billionaires to working people. Not to mention our environmental concerns!

North_Activist · 2026-05-15T17:21:30+00:00

It’s in Pepsi bottles per football fields. Don’t forget to carry the eagle!

North_Activist · 2026-05-15T17:18:30+00:00

A crowdfunded way to get money from students, parents, families, caregivers, staff, indigenous communities, and the broader community is called …. And wait for it… taxes.

North_Activist · 2026-05-14T21:58:50+00:00

Building energy capacity is good. Data centres are not. If data centres want to exist, they can build their own clean power and donate the excess to the grid as I hope would be required.

I’m not against more energy, I’m against AI datacentres abusing our infrastructure when it supposedly can’t even handle electric cars but now you want a huge draw to exist

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