They've been removing physical buttons since I was a young person and I haven't stopped complaining about it.

I tested papers I wrote over two decades ago. 7/8 of the papers were flagged for AI.

This isn't performance art. The tools used to make a product are irrelevant, the quality of the product is the only thing that matters.

A bad table made with only hand tools isn't better than a good table that was mass produced.

The problem is that this decreaes the quality of inference while it also increases token cost.

Quality stands on it's own. I don't care what tools anyone uses for anything; this isn't performance art. Slop is slop and it's nothing new. No one gets a pass because their slop is handmade.

Israel has been known to abuse the ss7 network in the United States and spying on our own government personnel. I doubt Iran did this. I'm far likely to believe it was an Israeli attempt to get the United States to strike Iran.

This only about surveillance. This is digital ID and social credit system. They are building all the new data centers and enforcing identification in order to store and track every bit of data about you.

This is like getting a job at slaughterhouse and then complaining that it isn't a vegan-friendly workplace.

Notepad-plus-plus.org was compromised. Or Notepad++ website was compromised for brevity's sake.

Wind and solar have yet to be proven to be net positives, and the further production is from the consumers the worse it is. All current battery tech is terrible as well. People compare theoretical 'one day...' stats of solar, wind, EVs, etc against not even current combustion and nuclear tech.

The major component people are leaving out is that the reason solar, wind, batteries, etc appear cheap is that they are heavily subsidized and incentivized.

If people want to talk about the finances of energy they need to study the Blue Economy starting at the top. They are all WorldBank and other central banking entity initiatives, they don't come from any gov.

Carbon Credits are a World Bank initiative, they come from global banking system itself, not a any government. That's why all environmental efforts focus on carbon and direct pollution and habitat destruction, which will kill us all faster than even the most pessimistic Climate Change models. Carbon Credits are an economic weapon, not an effort to save the environment. They are also tied to actual Carbon capture/avoidance about as tightly as a stock price is to the performance of a company. Many Carbon sequestration projects actively damage and pollute the environment, because the entire CC agenda puts Carbon Credit $$$ over actual environmental concerns.

It's all money magic. There's zero tether between a companies tech or it's performance and any stock price, gov programs, WB initiatives, etc. The only reason for any of these projections is to steer public perception of markets, so that there seems to be justified and dudiligent allocation of funds to these projects/initiatives. 'If ai doesn't succeed...' isn't a projection, it's a threat, a signal, a command to throw more money at this or else.

Perhaps the real malware were the state-sponsored services we used along the way.

100% this. The quality of pizza has plummeted while the cost has soared. I can buy a nice steak for the price of a mid pizza.