Social media is always changing, and it will change more. Whether or not those changes are the result of any court case will never be clear.

millions of devices that are not getting updates to their tzdata will switch back to standard time and on November 1 lots of people will not be sure what time it is

Stargate SG-1 responded to these things with machine guns.

I have low hopes for regulation of AI because its output is indistinguishable from the word salad produced by politicians.

I believe I saw these movies when Ant Man helped the Avengers defeat Thanos.

We are all going to need defenses against what the AIs tell us is real. We already need them, but we will need more defenses when we are surrounded by many voices whose motivations are not in our interest.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. The colors and intensities which were possible to display on CRTs are not possible with LCDs. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

strongly recommend deleting this post and starting over

Looking only at current climate change is tunnel vision. I can name ancestors who moved from one place to another because of war, volcano, epidemic. Obviously they did not give up on children.In fact, I can name ancestors from whom I am a product of a third marriage after the demise of earlier spouses.

Note to self ... Bloomberg articles are not written with me as the audience.

The virtualization of DMV activities is partly motivated by state mandates for jurisdictions to build more housing. The city with the DMV nearest to me is already at build-out, but is required to build more, so they are set to re-zone the land with the DMV office and demolish it to build the mandated housing.

I have seen a variation of this movie

Looking for a sliver lining, I hope a preponderance of output from large language models might evoke classroom education on recognition of personality disorders so that the general population becomes more aware and immune to misleading information from machine and people. Alas that will take a generation to realize.

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The UCSC blog is down. The API URL at the company is down. Slashdot and Techcrunch are the only open evidence that this ever happened, but the API is loose out there. The lack of response for a period of months suggests that there can be no fix and that the deployed hardware now has net negative value which CSC is contractually obligated to keep running in order to service the needs of the users at each site.