Well, Boeing finally did it, and by “it” I mean something. Saturday, the failure-plagued defense incumbent finally landed their Starliner spacecraft without incident (also: without the astronauts they were supposed to be carrying home). Then on Sunday, the company narrowly averted a union strike by promising a 25% pay increase, over four years, to 33,000 of its employees (for their great work, presumably). A couple big wins! That basically just means Boeing gets to keep existing. Honestly, at this point? I’m kind of rooting for the unions. Unreasonable demands for inferior work is the recipe for a doomed company, which — in this one case, I think — is actually totally fine. I’m ready for the new class of aerospace companies who don’t suck. Dear Boeing union members, do me a favor and ask for a four-day workweek next. China’s getting more aggressive by the day, so we should probably speed this collapse along.

According to a new Stanford study, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a continued “recession” in Americans’ dating lives, with a spike in singles that arose in 2020 only increasing, even as COVID wanes. The study’s author estimates 13.3 million more Americans were single by 2022 than they were before the pandemic, with younger people especially impacted by the historic dry spell. But… ? Sorry, this kinda feels like cope. Yeah, COVID sucked, and so do our elected officials for making it worse, but a 5-year-old respiratory illness is not the reason that you’re single. I might take a look at male Fortnite addictions, however, or TikTok-induced psychosis among young women. Or what about the mysterious ailment that reduced young men to like a fifth the T levels of their grandparents? Honestly, idc what the scientists say, our smartphones are probably killing us. Turn them off, kids, and do your patriotic duty: start f*cking.

Yesterday, at the Responsible AI in the Military Domain Summit in Seoul, 60 countries signed the “Blueprint for Action,” a non-binding agreement to keep AI applications out of nuclear weapons deployment. China (and 29 other way less important countries) refused to sign, Russia wasn’t invited since they’re busy doing war crimes in Ukraine, and the Dutch Defense Minister said we “will never have the whole world on board” (duh). So, besides a bunch of bureaucrats getting stuffed full of bulgogi, we’re left with 60 rule-following countries that promise to follow this unenforceable rule, one criminal powerhouse opting out, and another cast aside because of their belligerence. So… ??? Our most highly-decorated Karens all signed a “No Crime” pact while the most dangerous men alive pretty much pointed and laughed. Okay. You know what’s scarier than AI-nukes? Pretending we can regulate away an AI-nuclear holocaust with a piece of paper.

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