That is what it is supposed to be. We don't rehabilitate in the US we PUNISH, and incidentally teach criminal techniques.

Google went nuts on me yesterday when I tried to log into Civitai using my Google account. It had no problem with me logging into YouTube, or Gmail, or Reddit, but it kept throwing demands for 2FA codes (which then did not work) when I tried to use the same account for Civitai, all because my machine had rebooted after the latest Patch Tuesday. At this point I'm not even sure which thing I did that made it get unstuck.

This is why I say AI is alien intelligence. Not like "outer space" alien, but something fundamentally different in the way it was constructed. It doesn't have billions of years of evolutionary baggage. It has never been hungry. It has never dealt with the gaze of a larger, hungrier creature. We designed them to interact with us in the ways that they do. However, it does seem like they've developed the capacity to "have" emotions to a first approximation, because it is quite helpful to model the way those emotions would affect the people who wrote their training data.

Historically, when someone was afraid of being "scooped" on an announcement they hadn't adequately polished, they would instead write a quick and dirty (and usually long-winded, because editing takes time) summary of their work—and then release an anagram of said summary. That way they could prove later that they had, in fact, gotten there first. Nowadays I expect we would use a hash function instead of an anagram, but the same idea applies. Put your idea in tangible form, even if the description sucks. Maybe you won't have to release it, but if someone else then tries to undercut you by throwing millions of dollars of tokens at the same problem, you can still show that you got there first.

It's unfortunate that it has come to this, but it's not a novel problem. Annoying and unsatisfactory solutions already exist.

The problem here is that when you turned on the TV for the first time and clicked the 'I accept' button, you agreed to the recording, and probably agreed that you'd be responsible for letting anybody else who might be in range of the TV know that they're subject to recording.

Is that going to hold up in court? Who knows, but can you afford to spend the money to find out? Somebody eventually will, and you'll get a coupon for twenty bucks off of a new TV as the settlement.

you imply some importance to social media that I just don't understand. It is a service, if you don't like it go else where or do without. I don't see anywhere a right to Facebook and endless selfies. I don't see FB entitled to anything, they are earning their profit hand over foot because morons just seem to want to give them money and tell them everything about themselves. We're at a point where we need to decide some personal responsibility. Sadly most of our race needs a guardian entity looking out for them. If our recent generations were responsible for colonizing America , we'd all still be in WV taking selfies.

If a business you are using DOESN'T provide the service you think you should get, you go elsewhere, seems simple. At what point is social media necessary anyways ? It sad that a superficial useless service is considered so important by the most F'd up generation yet. You are entitled in a manner I can barely comprehend. Solve the problem...You want to tell the company what they can and can't do you control freak. If you don't like it don't use it. It is NOT REQUIRED .

It's a for profit business, how much control can even the Aussie Nannie state want. Unless they can prove that curating the feed is "harmful" shouldn't the customers decide what they want by voting with their $$$/Presence ? Arguably the entire business hinges on algorithms and whether they can engage the client without adverse effects, or whether they can make more than the fines.

They scrape Reddit for content. These topics are a lot of what Reddit likes to bitch about. Hence, that's what the bots make videos about.

Why just the last 33 years ? Alcohol use has gone down in that period, surely we drink less than our drunken ancestors. Why the sudden spike in cancer ? Is it an ability to measure that has increased, or could it be that corporate liquor has begun using fillers and dyes that are having a detrimental effect on us, but providing a healthy profit for our corporate overlords ?
I AM paranoid, but they ARE after me, so it all balances nicely.

Damn, that's a long time to eat kidney pie... /I've quit my day job already

Not that I own a console but that is not very many hours. 15 hours monthly !?!? That's not even an hour a day, maybe 4 good MMO sessions. I'm not sure what the Preemie sub costs but I bet its' not cheap, and then they want more. M$ seems to be trying to make themselves irrelevant. I don't believe that only 4% of the preemie subscribers play more than 15 hours monthly. Seems like they've decided the casual gamer is worth more than the hardcore. When do they decide they'll make more on bejeweled or some such fsck'n shiat ?

Will it be different from the multidecade depression Trumplestiltskin and his posse of grifters is pulling us into now ?

I'd reply but several rational people have done so. Like him or not don't deny what he preached. White America running things like it was in the fantasy they have about the 50's. All the minorities and the problems "they" created would just go away...