I was going to go with the cost of gas, but it's the same joke...

Just reverse the intent of this:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/artificial-intelligence/this-font-looks-perfectly-normal-to-humans-but-wreaks-havoc-on-ai/ar-AA29QLmf

It's actually quite clever "ShieldFont works using ligatures, the technical term in typography when two letters next to each other in a word are combined into a single glyph."

Also, it occurs to me to wonder why you're worried about farmers. We'd still have chips and ramen and all the packaged goods - right? I'm also with the "80 percent support a mandatory label for food containing DNA". Just so long as someone's keeping brown cows - I like chocolate milk. (OK, I'm done. It's depressing to look up these statistics)...

We should be horrified that a meteorologist would even need to clarify that, but one of the recent US presidents made pretty much that argument for reducing funding for the NWS, so we're way beyond that. That I don't recall which, also suggests that I, at least, could imagine it coming from the mouths of a number of them.

Why do we still have NOAA and the NWS when I can get the weather on my phone? It even has tornado and hurricane warnings!!

Wait what? Search in Windows has always been totally borked - it didn't work on XP. That there are third party, my favorite is "Eveyrthing" https://www.voidtools.com/down... that do a so much better job should be an embarrassment to MS, but it seems not...

Few things are universally good or bad - despite the desire of the press and politics to simplify. For someone looking to pick up a little extra income (school hours, evening, weekend) it's probably good thing (almost certainly better than any of the driving gigs). For anyone who is doing this because they just can't get full-time, with benefits, work this truly sucks.

A significant part of the problem is that the US, pretty much alone amongst first world countries, ties benefits, particularly health care to employment. Break that connection and this doesn't suck quite as badly.

It's a slippery slope. What's next, universal healthcare?

Or that we all just missed the opportunity to create and then pump & dump the meme coin misantropi4

I feel you missed the "one sided". If the companies really cared about their users and software they would encourage responsible disclosure by acknowledging the issue and paying the bounty. If enough zero-days emerge perhaps they'll start doing this.

More recent references: https://chicago.suntimes.com/n... https://warehouseworkers.org/a...

$15/hour is $600/week (15*40) or around $2500/month. Depends where you get your data, but the average rent in the US is somewhere in the $1650-$2000 range. Even at the low end, that leaves $850/month for all other expenses. $19/hour is better - around $1500/month for all other expenses, but that's still not a lot for, say, a family of 4. If you need a car, the average cost of that is around $1000/month. Presumably if you only earn $19/hour you can manage lower than the average but cars are still expensive and the US has fairly systematically dismantled other transportation options often making them a necessity for commuting.

They pay so little that many of their employees qualify for government food assistance: https://thecounter.org/amazon-... - a pretty much direct government subsidy and something that Amazon should be embarrassed about. So we are, indirectly, subsidizing Bezos space ambitions by allowing him to underpay workers.

They also do get subsidies in terms of things like tax-break to build warehouses, etc.

Or Douglas Adams

When confronted with the Sirius Cybernetics elevators ("Happy Vertical People Transporters").

Problem is, no one is hooked. This worked really well when Microsoft could sell at a loss and put all the competition out of business (Word was a classic case - that's how they dominate the document market).

In the AI coding space there are many alternatives. And, as reported, this is a huge change- from $10/month to $10 a day. They're not boiling the frog - creeping prices up slowly so no one quite notices.. Watch for the unsubscribes - mine included...

One other thoughts is that educational institutions are doing a very bad job of managing the\is transition. When an entry level candidate says "I don't know much about LLMs because I wasn't allowed to use them in my classes" that's a huge red flag.