...consider their motivation to make age verification seem to be impossible to implement.

They don't want to do it. So best to have a few "accidents" along the way.

My autistic son's mental health has suffered terribly due to c.ai and similar AI chatbots.

They are all blocked at home now but the damage is done.

The lack of concern for child safety in their design is shocking.

Exactly my experience after I challenged the admin of a hobby-themed masto server for posting unrelated political stuff.

First he shadow-banned my account, then when I wasn't sufficiently repentant (i.e. still causing trouble) he booted me.

Masto is only "free speech" if you host your own instance, and even then other sites may block you.

If they don't want AM because of interference from the EV itself, then they are skimping on their RF shielding and choking.

As a ham radio operator I don't want millions of RF noisy vehicles further polluting the airwaves.

When will this nonsense theory finally die?

“As I’ve written several times before, it’s crazy to think that historical WSPR data could be used to track the course of ill-fated flight MH370. Or, for that matter, any other aircraft flight I don’t choose to waste my time arguing with pseudo-scientists who don’t understand what they are doing.”

— Joe Taylor, K1JT (creator of WSPR and Nobel Prize winning astrophysicist)

“As I’ve written several times before, it’s crazy to think that historical WSPR data could be used to track the course of ill-fated flight MH370. Or, for that matter, any other aircraft flight I don’t choose to waste my time arguing with pseudo-scientists who don’t understand what they are doing.” — Joe Taylor, K1JT (creator of WSPR and Nobel Prize winning astrophysicist)

It's not possible to track aircraft using the method he proposes. No one who understands HF radio propagation believes this theory.

...have mercy upon your machine spirit.

Am I the only one that's going to comment on the acupuncture analogy? It's pseudoscience. Comparing that nonsense to the benefits of an English major is unflattering to say the least.

Sure, fiction is fiction, but for a novel that gets described as "hard sci-fi" I think it's terrible that it promotes these pseudo-science opinions. These comments are just casual asides in the text. They aren't at all central to the story. They are only included because the author wanted to present that message.

Amongst the poor writing it mentions GMO crops as causing "birth defects" and "ecological disasters". There's even some text about doubting a character's gender and "unusual experiences as a child" possibly making them autistic.

Word processor processes your words.