So... a couple things that might be useful to re-align your head with reality.

Most on-topic, this isn't about indigenous content, and it's a bit of a red-flag that you think it is and that you'd think it problematic if it were. The sarcastic "holy" also strongly outs you as a racist. Just in case you weren't intending to broadcast that, you are. This is about Canadian content. That varies from things like Letterkenny to This Hour Has Tweny-Two Minutes. Yes, Canadian productions can and should include indigenous performers, crew, and topics as part of our culture just as it includes French-Canadian content and Newfies. But CanCon does not mean IndigiCon.

Second, I'm not aware of anyone claiming mass graves of indigenous people in the usual sense. While I'm not super-fluent on the topic because it's grim as fuck, it's about graves, period. These kids were taken from their parents to be raised in religious indoctrination schools and some of them died there. Not necessarily because of abuse or intent to kill, but their bodies were never returned to their families is - as I understand it - a big sticking point. Nobody is claiming this is like the Holocaust with outright mass murder and disposal. It's individual neglect and abuse because of racial hatred. When a grave with "X bodies" is found, the horror isn't that X kids were offed and chucked in a hole at the same time, as I understand it. It's "oh, look, we found another graveyard with X kids that were stolen from their families and died away from home. Again."

Don't care. This both-sides stuff doesn't help anyone. There is a difference between the two sides.

Fiscally, yeah, power-seekers of every description are going to be looking to profit from you. Granted. Corporations are in charge at that level. But first you stomp out the fascist right. Then you keep on voting in the least-evil. Again and again and again. Change what you can instead of worrying about what you can't.

I'm sorry, but the problem is way, way bigger than that. Anything that involves "people would wake up" is missing what's going on.

What's going on is that there are a lot of fundamentally defective Americans. I'm not saying that's unique to the US... don't take this personally. You've got your racists. Your misogynists. Your homophobes. Transphobes. Conspiracists. Vaccine-paranoid. Science-averse. You've got your insular, ignorant, cruel, and cultists. You've got your gun-fetishists, your narcissistic and greedy and your genuinely stupid.

You've got one political party that has united all of those people who range from just genetically sub-average through authentically evil and accepted that a vote is a vote.

Are you in a depression? Probably. Does it matter if the press call it that? Not remotely. Because "bad thing is happening" is not a secret. There's a solution to billionaires. The French used them, famously. But the real danger is your brother, neighbor, coworker or friend who voted for a party because they're offended by pronouns, not by being lumped in with all those other defectives. Convince them their fellow Republicans are the horrible, horrible people they are because of whatever horrible topics they don't like. Divide the racists from the greedy. Sow dissent between the religious and the gun-nuts. Rip apart the union of the evil.

The existence of LLMs apparently makes people stupider.

I reviewed some recent anti-phishing training material last week and - I kid you not - it had a section on "you asked an AI for a company's phone number, but it might be malicious because..."

What the fuck? People do that? AI is linguistic probability based on the volume of materials ingested. Garbage data abounds. Going to company.com and finding the number is always the right choice. And if you can't find the number because the company hides it, find other, related numbers. But asking a language model for a fact is inviting inaccuracy and poisoned results.

I don't think you get it. It's already "illegal" to do things like publish the whereabouts of ICE or Musk's private jet, for varying definitions of "illegal".

Indiscriminate sharing of location information that includes those in power will not be tolerated. And the public has no ability to differentiate between "us" and "them" without capturing the whereabouts of "them".

Everything that is divisive has to be a controversy. It's kind of the definition.

What you're really asking is, "why is this divisive?" It's divisive because some people want AI everywhere in art (the corporations that bankroll and profit from art) and some people do not want AI everywhere in art (most artists, many consumers of art). Nearly nobody is demanding AI to be nowhere in art, just that its use is constrained to where it makes sense. But different people have different tolerances and that makes the topic divisive.

As for your (and the OP's) delightful suggestion that "if you don't like it, don't watch it", disclosure and publicity are precisely, exactly, and solely how such a decision can be made. If you don't know a cosmetic company is testing on bunnies, you can't boycott them. If you don't know a food product contains nuts, you can't act upon your allergies wisely. Point is: publicity and talking about it is literally the first, omitted step in your plan.

For every question "why don't they just", there is usually at least one good answer.

It'll start making more sense when it starts making more sense.

What I mean is that companies do whatever is the most profitable, and you can therefore judge what is most profitable by what they do. Undersea cables will be used where they're used until they're less profitable than overland cables with longer routes. Yes, sabotage plays into that. But so far that inflection point hasn't been reached.

When you're wrongfully imprisoned, jailbreak may be your only recourse.

I mean... at least it's not Slack or Zoom. The competitors had a chance to do better and didn't.

Frankly I'm thinking... whatever it takes to sell bikers on replacing their painfully noisy kill-me machines with silent kill-me machines is worth it.

As for the "it's loud so car drivers know I'm there", sorry but the only times I've ever not known a bike was near me is when they were doing something illegal, unsafe, and unpredictable. People who refuse to wear high-vis reflective clothing don't get to pick how loud their vehicles are.

As it happens, MDM doesn't (necessarily) need that. AFAIK you can use a tablet or a phone with Wifi only. And I mentioned MDM-managed desktops and laptops.

While yes, situations like your anecdote exist, MDM isn't some excuse for capturing employee data.

MFA is - to a certain degree - compromised.

There are real-world exploits for - for instance M365 - that work like this:

A user gets a malicious, disposable link via e-mail.
The user clicks the link.
The link takes them to a carefully crafted web site, and asks for their username & password.
The user has been partially phished.
The web site initiates an logon call back to M365 in the background and harvests the two-digit code that the end-user needs.
The web site displays the two-digit code.
The user's authenticator app is asking the user for the code... for the bad guy's login session.
The user enters the two-digit code they're seeing.
The bad guys are now in, add their own MFA device and exploit everything they can.

The same thing can happen with TOTP. Anything that an end-user can do can be repeated in near real-time. The phishing site asking for your OTP just re-uses it and feeds it into the real place.

We've been shifting our clients to a "compliant device" position. If the desktop/laptop/phone isn't registered in the client's MDM, it isn't allowed to log on. Yes it's got some overhead to it and yes, getting client buy-in is a struggle. But the days of allowing logons from anywhere, any device are dwindling.

Here's a video about how this works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Indeed, we have easily noticed that morons like him quite a bit. They like him so much they can't help themselves from replying to his posts with pointless drivel.

Not to disparage your friend but... that a thing is possible in principle does not necessitate it being possible in practicality.

Worse, it is unhelpful to adopt a position of "yet another restriction will inevitably" be circumvented. Side-loading is more difficult on Android than it has ever been. Jailbreaking on iOS is more difficult on Apple than it has ever been. Piracy is more difficult than it has ever been (since the inception of the Internet). Every time a convenient torrent indexer is shut down, sure, three more may pop up but they tend to be less convenient, have less content, and have more malware and fakes. When a manufacturer does something unpleasant, it is not useful to say "it's going to be okay... it is always going to be okay." It's not.

Good.

These datacenters are driving up electricity and water prices by increasing demand, regardless of there is currently sufficient supply to meet that demand. A community may have enough generation capacity and treatment capacity today, but when tomorrow's development of X new homes happens, the capacity either comes from today's excess or from having to add more capacity... which costs.

Datacenters don't contribute to communities financially the way home or even factories do. There are virtually no jobs, and definitely no secondary jobs. They negotiate bulk purchasing discounts and tax breaks.

The quantity of datacenters is just going to go up, dramatically over time. We need to figure out how to make their owners pay for what they really consume where they're built before there's an order of magnitude more of them.