Previous comments have been drawing analogies to Black Mirror, but this "idea" goes back much further...

...This is an episode of Max Headroom (US version).

Specifically, S02E02: "Deities." A company claims to be able to bring past loved ones back to "life" as an AI, for a modest recurring fee. But Bryce (the creator of Max Headroom) opines they can't possibly have the compute power to do it, as it requires a large mainframe just to run Max's highly flawed, glitching bust.

Wouldn't surprise me if the "visionaries" behind this saw that episode, and saw an opportunity to fleece gullible rubes.

My failure to do the listening you prefer is due to my lying eyes and what they actually see. I see the vast swathes of farmland and forested habitat frictionlessly pencil whipped into subsidized solar doom, paved over with silicon, because I live where this has been happening, as opposed to some 500 sq ft. downtown bedroom+laptop pod. I see energy cost explosions in every state that adopts the anti-fossil fuel jihad you demand. I see California back-peddling as their anti-refinery policies create havoc and exploding costs, as all the predictions about EVs come up fake. I see how you've made vehicles fabulously costly and unserviceable out of warranty. I see your 10,000 lb electric tanks. I see the ro-ro fires and the electric storage facility fires and their clouds of hydrogen fluoride. I see the dams you blow up that have been delivering renewable hydro-power for decades. I see the damage you do, outsourcing the composite manufacturing and battery mineral recovery and panel manufacturing to foreign shit-holes, so those costs don't appear in your domestic schemes as you feather your own nest.

I see the future as well. In ten years or so, after the subsidized profits have been actualized into the pockets of corporate subsidy grifters and their bought-and-paid-for government mouthpieces, and all those fields of silicon have decayed and the giant windmills need overhaul, you'll be back for more and more money. But you won't get it, because people see now what you intend. The folly and gaslighting has finally become obvious to even the hoi polloi, and that clarity will increase when your solar fields are breaking down, and your windmills wear out and fail, and the subsidy profiteers have vanished, and the lawsuits are flying, and the media is filled with stories about the cleanup we'll need to undo all this stupidity.

So good luck with that. Maybe I'll indulge one of these fear monger threads some future year. Or maybe not: the die is cast and nothing you or I might write about it actually matters.

I normally don't see or pay attention to these climate "science" stories, much less comment on them. I think that a lot of other people are ignoring these as well. It's been up about 15 minutes now and, as I'm writing this, there are zero comments...

But do keep yelling into the void. People could not be more indifferent to this, but they need to be reminded that there are still plenty of climate nazis out there, perfectly willing to resume shitting on everyone if they get the chance.

Climate fear mongering isn't a road to power now. It was, but people have seen enough of how that looks to understand what you intend. They've had enough of your "experts" and their establishment funded and approved "science." They've had enough of backdoor communism by way of climate. They've had enough of your self-righteous, myopic plans. They might start listening again if you ever start offering solutions that don't involve being made poor and subservient, but until then, you and your obsession are fucked.

Not necessary. I could clearly hear Gene Wilder's voice as I read it.

Alfalfa and Spanky had the he-man woman-hater's club. We have these two atrocities.
bleah.

Thankfully, he was mostly wrong...

Um, when was the last time you stayed at a hotel?

There's a microprocessor in every doorknob.

And have it shut down/removed from dns with no transparency or due process?
No risk of abuse here, nope not at all.

Nope, it was in Australia.

IIRC, it was in Canada. There was a lawsuit because the babies produced from the embryos would inherit an estate. anyhow, here it is...

I'm self-hosting Vaultwarden on my LAN, a Bitwarden-compatible backend written in Rust. I have it running inside a jail on TrueNAS Core (which, alas, is now end-of-life). It hosts its own Web interface, but also is compatible with Bitwarden's Android app and browser plugins.

So far, it's worked out pretty well for me.

NYT robot filter blocks the article.

This.

They'll all be gone in a few years. The market for these had already vanished before Airbus even started developing it.

...Because no one uses Edge.

Clearly you have never worked in a large corporate environment that has shackled itself to the entire Micros~1 ecosystem -- Office, Outlook, Exchange, OneDrive, Teams, Engage, SharePoint... The whole ball of earwax.

Many people, including myself, know perfectly well what would happen when Washington, with then president Clinton, sold out the US industrial base to China in the 1990s. So fuck you and your "hindsight."