There will be tears in America for one or both sides. They wider world outside of the US will be scratching their heads how we possibly could run a country this way.

Staying out of the public view is how surveillance startups will weather the storm. Once the public becomes complacent again then it is back to usual business.

In the late 90's a Christian group near my town setup a drug-free and alcohol-free (and I guess Satan-free) "rave". I didn't go, but reports were that it was pretty lame and "too many middle schoolers". Without drugs and people wearing whatever (or sometimes topless), it was just kids dancing with outdated trends like pacifiers and Cat in the Hat hats.

Blocking DNS is like preventing illegal raves by taking the street numbers off the buildings.

You won't like how civilization fairs to a massive shift in climate, precipitation, and ocean currents. Far less has collapsed civilizations before.

Crack open a history book, start with the 1947 Shubaki family assassination by Zionist paramilitary. And then work your way forward through the back and forth reprisals, the UN Partition Plan for Palestine, and the 1947-1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine.

Once you're caught up, reread your diatribe on Hamas. It is okay to be naive and have myoptic opinions initially, as long as you can also grow and learn.

Amazon has peaked, they have fully saturated multiple markets. They are not going to add any more customers in the US. This cannot be considered a growth industry anymore.

Let's hope that few of them interact with their vehicle like its a person. Because if you're having a two-way conversation where your motorcycle tells you how smart and clever you are, that's almost certainly a mental illness.

The interface of chatbot LLMs is ultimately what differentiate it from calling your nation, battleship, rifle, car, etc. a "she". And we should tread very carefully in assigning human qualities to a machine that was trained to imitate and manipulate human beings.

And like I recommend time and time again. We have to regulate these chatbot LLMs because of the social costs to the psychological manipulation that is inherent to their very design.

And here I thought geeks and hackers prioritized freedom and technical superiority over popularity. I'm fortunate you are here to correct my faulty assumption.

Simple, we should make it illegal to represent an AI with a gender and pronouns. How illegal? Fines, injunctions, etc. Make it expensive to be wrong.

Why? Because it's a goddamn machine and a whole lot of problems go away if we stop anthropomorphize it.

That's not what "directly involved" means. Its tourism as best, and at worst: just Seinfeld being a shill.

Yes, that's generally how it works. Although my family mainly gets called communist and anti-Semitic these days.

Most comics play both sides. In a semi-public social setting, they'll participate with a "yes, and" when it's racist, anti-woke, etc. And claim it is comedy. When you make light of the ridiculous positions that Bill Maher or Jerry Seinfeld have to their face, it's suddenly censorship or "evil" (Seinfeld's words LOL).
If you want an example of a comedian that is both funny and a decent person, check out Stavros Halkias. He might seem "woke" because he's not willing to play to decades old stereotypes for cheap laughs. But it turns out you can rip on people and poke fun and be "edgy" without using the nearest trans person as your punching bag.

tl;dr - old, washed up comedians aren't worth anyone's time.

We've dealt with machine proofs before, that's been a thing in the field of mathematics for decades. And the proof's value hinges on if it contributes to the advancement of human knowledge. If humans eventually understand the proof, great. If we have yet another proof that a human can't peel back to find broader principles, then the contribution is of minuscule value.

If someone were to say that 1% of the techniques were novel, I would be surprised that it is so high. So yes, "mostly" is the correct qualifier here.

Wars are too profitable to end without immediately starting another. Oil nations and Islamists are a never ending wellspring of fear to feed to the masses.