Jesus I can't think of anything I would want less than a Teams metaverse. Although I do have a macabre fascination as to how they could make the product even worse.

Let's add solar!.... People never ask questions at night when they're sleeping. Sounds pretty ideal to me.

Why don’t they use AI to replace human AI developers?

I wouldn't go quite as far. This is just breacrumbs falling of the corporate table.

AI is so far from being the main problem with our current US educational system that I'm not sure why we bother to talk about it. Until we can produce students who meet minimum standards for literacy and critical thinking, AI is a sideshow.

I was always surprised by that (t9 dialing). Surely there was some legal reason for that. It felt so - primative.

That is bullshit, the economy is created to force you into the labor market. This is just a symptom of capitalism.

For future readers: Freetube currently works. Using it right now. Invidious works too, granted some instance do not. One needs to look for ones that are currently active.