That's because React2Shell *is* the exploit. That's what it's called. It's exploiting something called "React", which as near as I can tell is some sort of web server thing.

Linguists happier than a pig in dictionaries.

Ukraine is doing something like that... Ukrainian computer game-style drone attack system goes ‘viral'

A BBC article, Kill Russian soldiers, win points: Is Ukraine's new drone scheme gamifying war? notes:

Google: Ukraine earn points

I think people in other countries generally buy their phones outright, rather than via provider payment plans, often at a discount, like in the U.S. and I think SIM locking is to prevent people from switching providers before those phones are paid off - and so the providers don't have to sue to recoup that money. That's probably reasonable, but doing it to just make it harder for people to switch is not. Of course, most phones smartphones probably aren't paid off after 60 days, unless providers have another avenue to recoup the money for the device, so I don't know how a policy works in that case.

From Cell Phone Unlocking:

As for me, I bought my three successive cell phones over the last 26 years. unlocked and in full.

We already fixed overpopulation. Birthrate is at 1.7 and falling, 2.1 is replacement.

Turns out "1st world lifestyle" is plenty effective birth control. As the world becomes more prosperous, birthrates fall.

Do you live in a city?

Except the workforce doesn't become optional in any case. It becomes absolutely redundant, and it will be eliminated.
In a globalized capitalist society without any guardrails, it can be assumed that if there is a way to optimize something to provide greater shareholder value / CEO pay and bonuses, it will be done. Just as if something was cheaper to produce in Asia, virtually all of that work will be done in Asia; if AI does something, anything less expensively than a laborer, that work will be moved to AI. That is not to say that some workers may be kept around as tokens, or objects of abuse--bullying robots just doesn't have the same feel.; they will be like the caucasians employed in Hong Kong. Look at us! We are doing well enough to employ a useless white guy!

In this world, It's a constant race to the bottom, consequences be damned. If AI cuts the legs off the working class, and ultimately the whole economy topples as a result, they will not care, so long as the financial quarter before the collapse was the best, most profitable quarter ever.

It is very different in the bar. There you can have a debate, question and clarify. With a podcast, you cannot.

Many of the lower court decisions seem pretty solid, reasonable and thought-out, but SCOTUS, especially Justices Alito and Thomas, is seemingly just making stuff up, or misinterpreting things from Medieval England, to support their agendas.

Alito's Roe attack betrays a medieval ignorance of ancient history
Google: alito medieval england roe

Many of their rulings that specifically favored Trump seem like stretches, like the near-total immunity for the President and limiting the application of the insurrection clause for presidential candidates. It'll be interesting to see how they re-interpret things when a Democrat is in the office - I'm guessing 3-6 will then see things differently.

That's gotta really torque Trump off. :-)

Sure, but companies only have to wait 3 more years ...

Then it's convenient they're all sitting on a girder, from which they can be strung. :-)

Ironic that they chose this image as if their work compares, at least in effort and danger, to the iron workers building skyscrapers in the original b/w photo: Lunch atop a Skyscraper. None of those "AI Architects" would ever have lunch there.

This is a false comparison. ISPs generally don't (get to) pick their customers and don't select, edit, and curate those customers content, publishers do both. Publishers have a direct hand in who and what gets published and when, ISP generally don't. Granted, ISPs could be (more) selective in who they signup, like publishers, but that would be hugely labor-intensive and not cost effective given the scale of ISP customers vs. publishers. Even then ISP wouldn't (generally) get involved in their customer's content - as that would get them into trouble under Section 230 (if I understand things correctly). All subject to Terms and Conditions, your mileage may vary, etc ...

It's so weird that when I was a kid the Left had "Save the Whales!!" bumper stickers and now it's the Right-Conservationists.

They even dedicated Star Trek IV to the cause.

Maybe if the whale killers get reinstated we'll at least get case law to prohibit permitting denials for Integral Fast Reactors and that can at least clean up the Boomers' nuclear waste to protect the ecosystem long term.

Honestly I'm surprised. With the amount of hot air he and his administration generate there should be turbines at the White House ... :-)