Was not to support local news.

It was to support the politicians complaining about Google search eating local news. So they would stop pushing an even more costly legislative solution.

Simply supporting local news wouldn't have achieved that goal. Because no amount of support would solve the problem that people just aren't reading newspapers and watching local news anymore. They're getting their news through social media. Which, other than YouTube, is something Google is kinda terrible at. See Google+. Or more accurately, don't.

Where nobody cares about whether a problem is actually solved. Only about who gets control of the millions of dollars allocated towards solving it.

And actually, it's better if the problem *isn't* solved. Because then we clearly need more money.

No. Or at least, if they want to, switch to the field of science which studies it.

This seems like the academic equivalent of, "Sales of sugary drinks are down. Should Coca-Cola start building self-driving cars?"

And totally unsurprising.

What will the teens do? Find out and f*ck around...

Compared to the amount of abuse sea life endures at the hands of Florida tourists at the beaches, basically zero.

I've implemented linked list traversal f*ck-all-knows how many times over the last 40 years, in a dozen languages. I'm sure similar or identical code exists in hundreds of open source repositories. And millions of CS homework assignments over the decades.

If you compare my code with enough projects, I'm sure you'll find matches. Not because I copied them or Stack Overflow (I was coding long before that was a thing). But because there are really only a few sane ways to implement most algorithms. Which is also why most software patents are stupid, but that's a different can of worms...

Just got back from Indonesia. Photographed on the way in and out. Fiji, too. Philippines. And so on.

Honduras has taken fingerprints for at least 10 years. Their fingerprint readers suck; you really have to press on them to get a good scan.

Even in the US, SFO airport has been taking photos on the way in for US citizens for years.

What's the news here again?

Gavin Newsom signed a first-in-the-nation law on Monday that will "force" major artificial "intelligence" companies to "reveal" their "safety" protocols.

FTFY.

Because of our planet's axial tilt, and the updrafts from burning trees in the northern hemisphere.

But that's not news. We've known for decades that Earth Wind & Fire are most prominent in September.

I'm sure anyone can look at the globe, or even their region, and come up with at least 30% they'd be happy setting aside for nature. I sure can.

The problem is that we're going to disagree over which 30%.

Ranchers: the 30% which isn't suitable for grazing.
Oil barons: the 30% which doesn't have oil underneath.
Miners: the 30% which doesn't have useful ore.
Fishing fleets: the 30% which we've already depleted of fish.
Developers: any 30% we don't own and want to put houses on.
PG&E: the 30% we don't need to run power lines through.
Normal folks: anywhere is fine, but housing and gasoline and food all cost too much, so it better not raise the price of any of those.

It's like housing the homeless. Even here in California, where the vast majority of people agree we should build supportive housing, nobody wants it built in their own neighborhood.

Hopefully total world IQ will drop more slowly than total world population.

Meanwhile, all those ecosystems we've been pillaging to provide food, clean water, energy, waste disposal, etc. for a growing population can start recovering, if we manage to avoid hitting a tipping point in the meantime.

Came here to say exactly this, but out of mod points.

Seems like every wildfire now, aircraft with humans in them get grounded because some idiot flies their drone into the wildfire area in search of viral video. Either because there's an actual collision, or because a drone was spotted and it's not worth risking a human pilot in that area.

Like this: https://www.cbsnews.com/losang...

If the firefighting aircraft are also drones, we can keep them fighting the fire while we go after the human idiots in the loop illegally flying their drones.

You mean, like this?

https://www.reuters.com/sustai...

"Google has signed agreements with two U.S. electric utilities to reduce its AI data center power consumption during times of surging demand on the grid, the company said on Monday, as energy-intensive AI use outpaces power supplies."