I think my small public library was donation-based. Very few interesting books there, and no way to browse for and request specific books. Maybe university libraries did that.

Meanwhile in 2025:

• User: ChatGPT, tell me about $OBSCURE_TOPIC.
• ChatGPT: Sure, I will explain. You see, $CONFIDENT_EXPOSITION.
• User: Hmmm. That doesn’t feel quite right, but I’m too lazy too fact check it. That’ll do.

My town library was ridiculously small. Not everyone has the same opportunities.

But we do used books anyway, they were usually the encyclopedia, the dictionary, and text books.

Home PCs are so powerful these days that a return to thin clients makes sense in many use cases.

AMD used to be the shit on Linux a decade ago, much better support than Nvidia. It looks like something changed, but I only use discrete intel GPUs so I’m way out of the loop.

The stars are for slingshotting through time, not for landing. You’ll be sent to remedial seasons of TNG.

Summary: Newfound evidence indicates that conscious experiences start as early as in late pregnancy. The study suggests that an infant’s brain is capable of forming conscious experiences that shape their emergent self and environmental understanding.

I agree that being capable of having experiences is a requirement for being a person, but it is not what defines a person, otherwise pet turtles would be persons.

Newborns are humans, and they develop into persons given time.

Newborns are not even sentient enough to be persons. Humans are born prematurely, because our heads are so big we can’t be born fully developed, like most mammals, without risking the mother’s life. Their brains are not there yet.

Newborns are undercooked persons.