The problem here is that people cannot seem to understand that "private" and "privacy" are related but not the same thing. Private is what happens in my house that nobody outside should be privy to. Privacy is the illusion that everything we do is private. I liken this to being photographed and filmed in public and the Karen's crying "don't video me". No Karen, I can and WILL video you in public and there is nothing you can do to stop me.

One has no expectation of privacy in public. None. Social Media IS public. Everything on the internet is public. Some things offer more privacy than others, but if its on the internet, it can and likely WILL BE exposed.

Act accordingly.

Bonnie Blue it is!!!!!

Privacy is an illusion at best. Your data is already public. Already exposed.

That nobody cares about you enough to DOX you ... yet isn't "privacy" it is obscurity.

"Don't Be Evil" - Google 30 years ago

"Be Evil" - Google now.

IMHO the fact that we have to, under criminal law, to testify against ourself is a violation of our Constitutional Rights, to not incriminate ourselves.

I'm sure there is some weird legal theory that the government uses to get around this.

Things of value are usually rare. The amount of "entertainment" is ever increasing, and thus becoming cheaper and cheaper. Creating MORE isn't going to help.

And with AI starting to be used in the Creation process, that will lower the costs of making it, and start making it widely available to more people in the creation process.

This ends in a death spiral of more and more "entertainment" with less and less perceived value, chasing diminishing returns. I suspect that places like OF will make quick end once AI girls are able to do everything by prompts on the fly for their "users".

"I have altered the deal. Pray I don't alter it further" -Darth Zuck

Maybe they can hire SpaceX to launch their satellites. Better than failing completely.

Leave politics out of this. Hate people on your own time. I'm looking for VIABLE options to get there. The other option is to cut losses before they just end up being space litter.

Wow. I'm amazed anyone who's spent any time looking into the lives of people in Europe and Asia could believe this. Oh wait, you've never done that, have you?

Please keep sharing anything you observe as it happens.

The last thing any of us should want is for OpenAI to take over from Google.

I really don't understand this decision that Google should be broken up as though its 'monopoly' in search isn't entirely based on skill and talent. But if we *are* going to force companies to break up into components, can we make sure new monoliths aren't just created as a result?

This, entirely this.

I am not a capitalist. I'm free enterprise, the free exchange of goods and services kind of guy. Subtle but distinct difference.

If one wants the protection of Patents (which I'm 100% okay with), one ought to pay for that privilege, in taxes. 100% completely voluntary with the benefits of patents expiring when nobody wants to pay the tax. Mutually beneficial Exchange being key component.

As a Libertarian, I don't suppose to support tax payer funded research. Mainly because such research leads to patents and other protections that are held not by the public for the public good, but rather commercial for profit corporations.

IMHO, the best case for solving THIS issue is tax patent holders for their patents they enforce, as a TAX. Make it steep. Stop paying the tax, the patent goes public domain. This solves a whole bunch of abuses. Make private research funded patents less taxed, and those discovery/inventions that had public funded (tax payer) at the highest rates. Tax the rich, but make it avoidable, just release to the public domain.

The protection of intellectual property ought to come at a cost.

Documenting Stuff? NO WAY! /s

That is the hardest part of IT for me, is making sure that NOT ME (and sometimes me) can figure out what I did.