Let's go Slashdot oldsters, with our low-six-figure account numbers, making Monty Python jokes! Maybe 37 is not old, but we are! Hahahaa! Has it been The Year of Lunux on the Desktop yet? Maybe 2026 will be it!

Are we, as a sapient species facing an uncertain prospect of continuence in a world full of rapidly-advancing bullshit going to learn from this catastrophic and absurdly predictable failure of information security, personal and professional ethics, civilian government, market economics, basic common sense, and consumer psychology?

Eight-Ball-Based-On-Cursory-Reading-Of-Literally-Any-Slice-of-Human-History says "no".

What do you say, and why is it also "no"?

A friend once worked in Washington on a defense project, and took classes in Russian at the Washington branch of the Defense Language Institute. He was very proud of himself and after a while, he decided to head to a Russian bookstore in town, walked in and told them in Russian that he was looking for some books on biographies of Russian diplomats. The clerk looked up and with a big smile exclaimed DLI !. Apparently Russians can tell that youâ(TM)ve been trained there.

Does this mean the Martian Council of Elders has finally figured out how to disable our satellites in orbit?

Will our gelsacs be safe?!

What these groups need to do to protect vulnerable people is to make sure we build new powerplants soon. It's so sleazy of them to act like they're trying to protect customers from paying high prices for energy when for decades they basically caused energy prices to get so high by having a problem with basically every possible way of generating energy.

such as breast, skin, testicular, prostate, many others, like liver, kidney, brain, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, remain undetected until organ failure or metastasis to brain, bone, spine etc. Even prostate can be a toss-up until ruled in/out by MRI. This scanning approach, and ones like CancerGuard are on the long tail of cost, still expensive and unapproved by insurance. There needs to be some middle ground, driven by research, cost efficiency or both. Insurers may see such cases as a tiny percentage of outcomes, but for the person who is facing death 10, 20, or even 30 years early, and their families, it is 100 percent of their reality.

Right now, we're noticing that Chinese companies are offering us exploitative deals, and we don't like it, and think that tariffs will fix it. But with tariffs in place, we will find that now it's American companies that are offering us the exploitative deals, but they can charge more now, because they're insulated from outside competition. What I'm saying is that intranational capitalism is just as sleazy and brutal as international capitalism - only less efficient, because it's less competitive.

I agree with you about NATO states paying for mercenaries to defend Ukraine. There are many experienced fighters in Africa and the Middle East, and it's likely that their services could be bought at a reasonable price. Without more soldiers in the field, Ukraine's front is doomed to collapse.

I love AI and I would and could pay for it if I had to, but why would I pick OpenAI to pay? Their product is not really better than their competitors' products, and sometimes it's clearly worse. They have the advantage of being the first mover in their field, and that gives them inertia with low-information customers - the new AOL.com. But apart from that, they have huge debts and not much else to distinguish them. Their best employees had left, and their former partners have become wary of the way they operate. Projections of their future profitability must be based on the expectation that their AI will figure out some better business plan than what the OpenAI humans have come up with!

and on some candidate resume, it says that in their professional capacity they have/will commit some data theft, inject malicious code into the software they are operating, and occasionally hallucinate on the job.

You hiring this person?

Well, we revived the sporophyte after nine months.
Sporophyte?
Mm-hm.
You said you've got a sporophyte?
Uh-huh.
Say again?
We have a sporophyte!

That's not the implication here.

So now China is making too many electric cars and solar panels, compared to domestic demand. Their solution was to export that stuff. Now we want to impose tariffs on those things, so that global demand for Chinese stuff is artificially depressed. But when China loses markets for their stuff, what will they make with their comically overbuilt production capacity? Not solar panels or clean cars, but weapons. It turns out tariffs don't stop the "export" of bombs and missiles and attack drones to Taiwan.

Really good comment. I think I basicallly already thought this, but the way you put it is clearer than how I was thinking about it, so thanks!

Multi planetary species only exist in science fiction stories.
Send robots.
And fix things here that require humans.