What about underwear?

More likely Vibe-hacking.

Bots and other bad actors thrive in free (as in beer) environments, for reasons that should be obvious. If we want to do anything meaningful about them, sites will need a nominal but real fee to use.

It's not what anyone wanted, but "free" was always inevitably going to lead to the Internet becoming a dump. The free ride is over.

Wonder if Meta has Case's number on quick-dial?

Keith Richards has already lived through the heat death of one universe.

I was lucky; I lived in a Road Runner test market and my off-campus apartment with early cable modem had unreal speed compared to the fractional T-1 the school used.

Oh geez, they've flooded alt.sex.bald.captains with crappy AI / and it's always Q. WTF?!!

Is nothing sacred?

John Brunner has entered the conversation.

Obligatory:

plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

          --Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, January 1849 Les Guêpes Journal

Wasn't one of the first open source scrapes of teh internets (text and images I think) around 80TB to download? Can see smaller IT businesses, labs, universities able to use something in that range. Lost of schools had decent size clusters.

I was hopping for a bobble-head run.

In the US, at least in my state, jurors are not allowed to bring a cell phone into the courtroom and unless you have an issued pass, you can't bring cell phones into the court building.

The decimation

–the buttered toast strapped to the cat's back.

Thinking back, 95% of the films I've seen in theaters the last 20 years have been specticle films (action/sf: marvel, star wars, dune) where it's fun to be overwhelmed by light and sound.

The other 5% are offbeat films like Wes Anderson or Coen Brothers, where I want to support the film makers. Sadly, judging by the almost empty theaters (nice experience for us) is that most folks aren't going to theaters for such films.