In Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash -- which introduced the word Metaverse from which Meta got its name -- the people wearing connected, cameras, sensors and AR-goggles on their heads were the ones who got paid for spying on people left and right.

So, does Sony think that SSDs will be affordable again in 2028?

Read-only optical disc media still haven't been hit by an AI-boom induced price hike RAM and NAND Flash has, AFAIK.

This. And configure the containers so that it takes regular snapshots, so that you either always start from the same snapshot, or are able to roll back after a crippling Window update or malware outbreak.

I would say that recent developments have made Godwin's Law obsolete.

I can recommend also Andrew Hulshult's cover album IDKFA.

Climate change allows mosquitoes that carry diseases to survive further north than they did before.
This is not doing anything against the root cause, only mitigating a side-effect.

Then they wouldn't be cooperating on marketing with Microsoft.

If you have a NVidia GPU that is no older than five years then it already contains a number of RISC-V microcontrollers doing various tasks, and so will this chip.

Her contribution to Star Wars must not be underestimated.
George Lucas' original edit of the first film was a mess. She and the other editors moved things around and fixed the pacing.
Do watch: How Star Wars was saved in the edit.

She did edit Empire Strikes Back, even if she did not get a credit. (Star Wars.com did not forget it though), and then The Return of the Jedi.
She was also there behind George Lucas all the way during the production of all three movies in the original trilogy.

Unfortunately, Marcia and George had a messy divorce in 1983, and she had no part in later Star Wars productions (which explains a lot of the prequels...).
However, George Lucas famously sold Pixar to Steve Jobs to pay for the divorce ... and that company then became legendary.

The parent poster was a parable. Whoosh!

What makes you sure that these billionaires don't take vaccines themselves?

The anti-vaxxing movement was created to keep the pleb population from over-spilling. /s

They must have spent most of the marketing budget on the Superbowl ad ... which I can't remember anything of.

They had invited Adam Savage's YouTube channel to visit sets, props and costumes with Jon Favreau. But I'd think that channel already caters to the grown-up superfans anyway.

They had been inviting some "influensers" to see the first twenty minutes early, but the reaction was pretty "meh".

Laugh and say that we should use our Actual Intelligence.

The James Bond stories, as written by Ian Fleming were set in the Cold War and economic expansionism that he lived in.
The sexism was also a product of that time.

The franchise has made less and less sense since Goldeneye, IMHO. Spoofs have felt more like Bond than the official Bond movies have.

I think that if you are going to reboot it (again) at all, then it should again be set in the height of the Cold War.
We see that era in a different light now in retrospect, and there are aspects of that era that I think could be interesting to explore: aspects that the people of the era were blind to because they took it for granted.

Otherwise, what new could you bring to the franchise? Nobody would be interested in some generic spy movie that is James Bond in name only. Or would they?

I am more concerned with: what is Meta intending to do with the data in the end?

I would never allow an AI agent developed by Meta, ... which is is probably part black box ... to interface with my system as a user.

There are too many opportunities for abuse here.
And we pretty much know that Meta us going to abuse their users -- because that is what they have always done.

Don't underestimate the number of Chewbacca cosplayers there are out there. I know a few.