No it wouldn't, because you'd be blocking your visitors too.

It's impolite to ignore robots.txt, but it's not illegal. It's up to you to block the bots if they're bothering you.

It's not just AI. If I have a conversation, and later learn that the other person repeated parts of it, I don't punch him in the nose and accuse him of stealing training data. Because I acknowledge that all conversation depends on prior conversations.

I've never heard of him but even a stopped clock is right twice a day as they say.

I don't think this is culture war, I think it's legitimately about protecting kids.

The comparison to Facebook and Twitter is not great because those platforms aren't for kids (but I'm all for lawsuits against them as well).

And as for 32 lawsuits being cash grabs or not enough: ok if you say so, I'm not going to worry about your kids if you're not.

32 families have lawsuits against Roblox over failing to protect children from predators. So clearly they are misrepresenting their platform if they market it as "kid-friendly" or safe (which I don't think they even do anymore). My take is that lawsuits like this to keep them honest are probably a good thing.

Huh, so America really *is* run by lizard people? I guess I owe some apologies.

Coming from a guy named Sacks.

The only internet connected anything outside of my home office and people's phones is an android TV box that never gets used. There's some cheap solar lights that come on at night but I'm pretty sure they're not on TikTok.

I might be willing to use it, assuming I trust the corporation I work for more than Google / OpenAI / Anthropic (I don't). Oh, and also if it was at least as good as those 3.

The people betting the No on this are aware that this can happen or else they should be.

All right already, we get it. You don't like Jews.

Settings > System > Clipboard - adjust to your preferences.

Apparently I'm insightful, funny, *and* a troll. So I guess I win.

Ah but DEI polices equality of outcomes, not equality of opportunities. If what you really want is diversity in your job applicants, well, I don't know what that would even be called but it's not DEI.