The humans who review the camera footage will also be keeping any sexy stuff they see in the course of their reviews.

It's not about different or "good" ads. It's about modelling your profile so they know how much they can (over) charge you for the products and services advertised. It's about collecting more information then selling it to e.g your insurance company, so they can overcharge you for insurance on the basis that you spent too much time in the McDonalds app, browsing recipes for donuts or searching for trousers with a larger waist and information about chest pains.

Anecdote time. I was driving in my car when another motorist failed to yield, hit my car, then sped off I nursed my wrecked car to the nearest police station to report the damage. The cop at the front desk literally asked me what I expected the police to do about it. After some prompting, he shuffled out the back to talk to his colleagues. When he came back he said "apparently it IS illegal to leave the scene of a car accident" Then he looked up the licence plate and gave me the other driver's phone number. He did everything he could to encourage vigilante justice except for saying "please take the law into your own hands."

I called the driver who was initially apologetic but then started avoiding my calls. I managed to find his workplace, and had the local court serve him with a demand for payment. It took almost a year but I eventually got him to pay for the damage he caused to my car. My point is the police did as little as possible, and at any point in the saga if I had decided to "relax" or "just let it slide" the criminal would have got away with it.

Yep, that sounds like LLMs all right.

Good idea. Paint them gold too.

If I had a mod point, you'd get it.

I have every intention of driving my 1990 car until I am too old to drive. Hand cranked windows, but it has A/C. It also has AWD and a manual transmission. Real gauges. EFI so the emissions are decent and it doesn't get gummed up with carbon or detonate if it gets a bad batch of fuel. IMHO cars peaked in the 1990-2010 time frame, depending on the manufacturer.

That looks great, thanks for the link. I'll keep an eye on this one.

That thing is cool! I'm looking at a modern DIY equivalent right now: https://github.com/amarullz/pi...

We never had regular "coding" classes when I was at school in the 1980s. But I do remember a hip young substitute teacher who taught us some Logo on a BBC32 one afternoon. The class drew pretty pictures, learned some simple geometry and learned that once you have written a subroutine into a computer you can reuse it over and over. It was a very powerful lesson.

A couple of years later our class got a couple on BBC32s right in our classroom. We spent most lunch breaks laboriously typing in games in Basic out of library books. Again, we learned how to write loops, improved our typing speeds and learned the correct words for brackets, semicolons etc.

I don't think we need extensive formal "learn to code" education for 8 years kids either, and I wouldn't want to let Google or Microsoft run the class. But there somewhere in the middle there is some amount of exposure that will help kids realise "Huh. Computers can do cool stuff."

https://xkcd.com/323/

I'd go further. "hecto billionaire" should be declared a mental illness. As you said, it would take them a thousand lifetimes to run out of money. These guys can do literally anything they want, for the rest of their lifetimes. Swim with dolphins. Volunteer at their kids' school. Scuba dive on tropical reefs, ski year-round. Snort coke of hookers' titties. Instead, these guys go back to the office. They read and write articles about "business." They go to stupid meetings with stupid politicians. They give stupid speeches at graduation ceremonies. Clearly, they have serious mental issues.

Therefore, like any other mentally ill person who is a danger to themselves or others, they should be supervised. They should be somewhere safe where they can be looked after and not pose a threat to other people or themselves. Forget "AI psychosis," we should have a broader policy of dealing with "billionaire psychosis." We don't need torches and pitchforks, just a quiet home with nice gardens and big strong fences, where these people can be prevented from hurting the rest of us.

Don Jr will get his cut either way. He owns a piece of these Enhanced Games and he owns a piece of Polymarket: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/2...

That White House link is crazy.

Oh god, I fear you are right. I can hear it in my head already.