Stop using social media then. There wouldn't be 'toxic social media influencer(s)' (debatable) if there was no social media 'hype'. It's the crowd that 'elevates' the speaker, not the other way around.
Yes, I still remember a time when the pinnacle of social media were bulletin board systems you had to dial in to and IRC (which I actively used) was the new kid on the block. It all went down hill from there. And nowadays, with 10 different messaging apps and another slew of group communication systems on my phone (don't accuse me of being old-fashioned. I know Exactly what's going on... and the few relations you DO want to keep contact with (whether for work or personally) all use different systems) and people getting pissed about me not answering 5 seconds after their post, I respond: "I pretty well answer when I damned well want to!". That's how social media should be used.
And for Musks social media posting, he pretty well says what he damned well wants to... and that's fine as well. Because it's the crowd that 'elevates' the speaker.

Yes... but you may be surprised which hardware parts need to be decent. I don't know of any laptop with high-end processing and discrete graphics that can run on battery for more than a couple of hours.
I can imagine a sub $400 Chromebook with fast latency-optimized WiFi or 5G and a fast framerate screen run competitive gaming in combination with a Stadia subscription or a home gaming based desktop in 'server' mode and being capable of doing that for an entire day unplugged.

Steam support on Chrome OS could be interesting, but also flaky if the hardware isn't decent enough. But a Chromebook with mostly low-end hardware but a fast/low latency Wifi, high framerate screen and maybe some other 'gamer' options may be very interesting in combination with a Stadia subscription... and (after a few hacks applied?) as a remote terminal for your own gaming PC 'server' whether that's a high-end gaming laptop plugged in at home or a full tower desktop with high-end gpu.
At home this setup will drive down your family's heating expenses while on the go, you can game in 11 hour straight sessions without the need to plug in.

Yes. No problem GP should. There is a difference between people who are paranoid of surveillance and people who are paranoid of surveillance and tech savvy. The first group should blind their laptop camera with a piece of duct tape e.g.. The second group knows how to write (or at least eyeball) the software to let the camera do exactly what they want. For them keeping their camera active for whatever task they want to have it perform is a totally viable option. Definitely if they go so far as to script something that couples their information storage encryption to something that recognizes their face is present in their web cam recordings.
Unless you imply there is an OS agnostic hardware solution to take control of a webcam. I may have some ideas about how that might be accomplished but I'm not that paranoid (yet :P ) that there are actually working exploits out there that make such a feat possible nor that there will be such a thing in the reasonable future.

That nice water based polyurethan is already getting nibbled for tastiness by newly evolved species of bacteria. And in a couple of decades or maybe a few centuries more I won't be surprised many nowadays common types of plastic will be as biodegradable as the cellulose strains in a fallen tree in the forest. Plastic eating bacteria are all the rage nowadays. Strain-breaking enzymes for PET and PU have already been found in the wild and are being researched and enhanced in the lab. Well, what did you expect with such an abundant new energy resource? Survival of the fittest ;)

As long as there is a fool buying, or a government backing or people trusting... there is a value of exchange. Crypto, fiat, art... But over night it can become random numbers, toilet paper or firewood.

And to be fair, bitcoin is a dinosaur among cryptocurrencies. Nowadays its speculative value is all that's left. Where is its more than a decade old promise of being a fast low-cost untraceable secure medium of exchange? But those are just my ramblings.

So... anyone already building one?

Yes, I did read some Tad Williams recently ;) If you get the reference, a lot of themes mentioned in there are getting uncannily close...

Fixed that for you.

Disclaimer: I do not own cryptocurrency, but I had dealings with my country's IRS. If they have to spend a few 1000 euros in wages and other resources to deprive you of a mere 100 euros due to a fault not of your own making, they hapily do so.

Although it's trinary (dot, dash, space) and electrified, does CW count as a whistled language? I do notice a CW signal carries a lot further and can be picked up much better in noise than 'phone', due to practically the same effects compared to whisteled languages vs. spoken ones. You can also convey a large chunk of the linguistic spectrum with it, because for every Latin character, numeral, mark and even some accented vowels, there is a(n extended) Morse code for.
Also, what I heard from some experienced CW operators, they don't recognize CW as individual characters but as complete patterns of words, multiple words or syllables. Else they can't process the stream fast enough to understand and re-record the message. In our Amateur Radio dept. I know two guys that can consistently record > 100 words/minute.

That depends on the moment that 1 is killed. If that is after its typical procreation period ends, there will be no drop in population.

...And did we tell you the name of the game boy
We call it riding the gravy train.
-Pink Floyd

Guess someone was right a long time ago already. The fat cats like to keep being fat and skim the milk thoroughly before passing the whey on to their slaves.

Mod up parent. ID suggests he's the expert here.

How can you not agree with that statement. Writing code is a creative process. Writing beautiful code can even be considered art (or solid engineering, whatever you prefer - building a solid, well functioning and beautiful bridge is both too). So why can authors of books sell signed copies and not Tim Berners-Lee do someting virtually the same?

If Sun was still Sun and not that other company, I bet they could have made a killing selling NFTs of originally author-signed pieces of the Java API. And nobody would mind that. Least of all Google, to name one with keen interest in that API.

'100% of their EU revenues' ... That's not going to work. There are plenty companies out there that happily bleed millions in a certain market just to destroy their competition first. (Uber comes to mind). If you 'fine' them based on their revenue, you almost have to pay them money in the process. Same for companies that don't generate revenue off of their 'cattle' but instead from other multinationals (advertisement business). Their real clients can just pay in one market completely out of sight from another market where the actual 'product' goes in effect. And then there are various ways to spirit away capital gains before they affect the bottom line (but those tend to mostly be about minimizing profit, not revenue)... if a multinational wants to minimize their financial footprint in a single market while still doing lots of business there, it's trivially easy for them to do so. Especially with products that don't require the transportation of physical goods (digital products and services).

Ways to minimize revenue further: Ask middle-men to absorb most of what would else be your costs and take a large chunk of the revenue in compensation (ex.: gig-workers). Use loan constructions where clients lease/loan instead of buy your product and you 'gift' the loans to company 'B' in that market, while getting compensated for the gifting in another market... ...

And then there is the argument that a multinational can leverage its global market cap to pressure a single market, but there are other /.-ers that already posted about that here...

Infinite life for the majority of people also means money as an exchange for work/effort will be worthless because given enough time you can accomplish all your objectives... so why pay anyone to do it for you? It's not like you can rush through infinite life and you may like the experience. Everything that consists primarily as 'intellectual property', 'digits' or even '(social/political/economic) contracts' will be worthless as fast as it can possibly become so (mostly in seconds).

Physical possessions, now that's another story. For someone with infinite life, the challenge will be to gather enough resources to do the things you want to occupy yourself with, at least into the foreseeable future. You won't work for something as mundane as 'money' or 'society', because society can't offer you something you ultimately can't handle yourself and money can't buy you the things you really need. Although you might do some volunteering if you're so altruistically inclined.
Real Money has to revert back to something with intrinsic value (gold pressed latinum?) to have any value at all.

The research mentioned an immortality pill, which implies to me, limited immortality. Yes, you will no longer age and maybe some medical defects get expressed less. But you may still die in an accident, by being murdered or by not taking care of your body well enough.