"No way a million hunter and gatherers had any significant impact other than an occasional wildfire, which we still do by mistake today."

Dumb take which ignores known reality.

Natives in the US managed these lands sustainably for millennia using fire. They both expanded the plains to make room for more bison and maintained the health of forests by clearing brush... With fire.

I think Microsoft did the math and figured out that the money it costs to make a console has been increasing, not least because of security. And then it gets hacked anyway and doesn't achieve its goals as a result. Why bother? Needing exclusives to bring people to your console when you could do cross platform instead and not even need a console... Plus with the EU forcing platforms open it's only a matter of time before it happens to consoles. No console, no problem. Microsoft can simply lobby for the other platforms to be forced open.

Microsoft helped design the Dreamcast, which had only notional security and was destroyed in part by piracy. They then went on to design their own console with stronger security, although that was also completely defeated.

Yes, Sony's lies were relevant, but there were multiple factors at work. Sega failing at designing the Saturn ("pile of chips on a board") also set them up to fail completely without a win on Dreamcast.

"The will shut down the time honored policy of over-producing food and giving away the surplus through SNAP"

That's not really how SNAP works. That is how direct food aid works, like parts of USAID, or USDA food distribution which is infamous for government cheese.

"Thinking about the mega-rich is just yet another way of shifting responsibility."

No, you were doing well until this point, but this is nonsense.

The mega-rich literally decide what our options will be. They sponsor the creation and support of legislation, they collude to set pricing, they destroy profitable companies providing services for personal gain.

People didn't apparently learn anything from any of python's other failings as it is full used everywhere, why learn from that one?

Rust doesn't prevent unsafe code, it only makes you flag it.

AFAICT nothing precludes entirely unsafe rust code...

You must be new here.

Slashvertisements certainly aren't.

However, this news has nerd appeal. It's no more of an ad than saying that OpenBSD has a new CD out.

AI used in writing laws

AI used in writing specifications for nuclear plants

AI used in sentencing

"What if it's always been possible for people to simply not to choose to buy products they don't like..."

It hasn't and isn't always. Sometimes you don't have choices. That's why antitrust law exists, both to protect people who don't, and to try to increase the number of people who do.

One woman isn't the industry. Computer generated porn is a growing market, at least as measured by the increasing amount of it in the wild. To my mind this is caused by an increasing percentage of the customer base being unfamiliar with actual sex, but I haven't done a survey.

Liberal women admit being unhappy, they can do that without anyone blacking their eyes

"Well you can't be very good to have to break laws and still have at least 6 bankrupt businesses."

The bankruptcy laws are designed to let the corporate owning class profit even while destroying profit for others.

Music, movies, and microcode, baby.

It would be good if true.