Engagement.

Every web algorithm now is curated to maximize user engagement. When users stay engaged, the advertisements get delivered, and the website earns revenue. When you disengage from the service, they stop making money. So stay engaged, and enjoy your soma.

When they could nix novels in Nepal next?

Corporations and governments have been collecting your data and using it to facilitate their operations for at least the last twenty years. It's just recently that they've begun openly admitting it with impunity.

When I moved to my current domicile eleven years ago, I signed up for "Basic Cable", just ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CW, Fox, and the "rerun channels". $30 / month. I thought about cable, but at $80 / month, I didn't think I'd get my money's worth.

Today my basic cable's $60 / month, and regular cable is $150. Double the price and half the value in 11 years.

Don't forget, the same companies are trying to control both cable and streaming. They're all working hard to consolidate the market as much as possible to drive up the price even further. Do you really think Sinclair and Nexstar want to merge just so they can kick Kimmel off the air?

I wonder what we should do about that problem...

Seriously, editors, not even 12 hours before you repost the story?

Well, as of right now, the OG posting only got 12 comments. I'm thinking maybe the dup is to try and generate more comments than the original, even if most of them would be about the duplicate posting.

These abuses didn't start with Trump. The US Government has been mining citizen data long before Trump got his hands on the White House. Edward Snowden taught us that much. Don't tell me you've forgotten about PRISM already.

Where is it in the public interest where corporations can sue a nonprofit organization into oblivion over the attempt to preserve a public work from a historical figure that the corporation has itself abandoned? And where in Hell on Earth do these corporations think that the damages incurred are valued at $621 million dollars? Do they think they're losing out on $621 million dollars in shellac record sales?

It's in the public interest to preserve these works. If corporations aren't doing the work, then I would consider them abandoned to the public.

This is an administration that is trying to keep a convicted felon child rapist suffering from dementia in the presidency, who let the richest man on earth walk right into the White House and gang-rape every department he could get his hands on. There is no competency left in this rotting carcass that was such a powerful country.

Besides, all he cares about is wining and dining his billionaire buddies. He's doing nothing about record high ATM fees. Why would he give a damn about Pharma Advertising? I'm sure they've been also sending him and his campaign tons of money.

Now release the Epstein files.

"Hey! Look over there!"

Works every time.

msmash probably asked Google Gemini, "Has Slashdot posted this story yet?", and it hallucinated the wrong answer.

Here's to hoping that this success inspires other lawsuits to follow. I'm so sick and tired of these damned settlements; every one of them carries the line "Plaintiff alleges ... as redress for these grievances, defendant will..." meaning that no one is found guilty of wrongdoing, and it can't be used to determine guilt in any other court proceeding.

Fuck our corporate overlords.

Man, I miss the old Slashdot culture.

Trump's said he was going to ban TikTok in 2020. Then in January 2025. Then in March 2025.

Until something actually happens, I'll just keep calling our commander-in-chief a TACO.

I have a long-haul flight booked on a 787 coming up in two months. I'd like to get some definitive answers.

Me too...in three. And I'm not worried one bit. Do you know why?

Because there's over a thousand of them being used by airlines every year, and hundreds flying above your head as you read this. And there's not a single report of any of them having engines that flame out.

Furthermore, I've not seen any reports today of anyone dying in a commercial airplane crash. Meanwhile, about 3,260 people die every day around the world in road vehicle accidents. If you're not afraid to get behind the wheel, stop all the fear mongering with commercial aircraft.

When American companies finance their own "utopia" cities, I can't help but be reminded that the ruling class loves to design and build their own cities to protect their power and interests.

What can I say, other than let us welcome our new plutocrat overlords.