If the Flock worker is feeling harassed, they should wear a body cam to record that harassment. Full stop.

Filming you doing your work in a public place is a constitutional right. You have the right to film them back, if you feel threatened enough by their stealing a few photons that may have bounced off of you. Collect evidence of that harassment and prove that the reporters were verbally or physically harassing you while you are doing your job, and then you might have an argument for the courts, but without that physical evidence, you have nothing.

You don't have the right to stay anonymous in a public space, which is exactly why and how Flock makes money doing exactly what they do . The same rules apply to both sides, and if you subvert someone else's privacy as a business model, don't be alarmed when your own privacy is violated. This is the whole point of this psychological exchange.

With a little home brew technology you can actively watch and track the people watching you. The "Chasing Your Tail" project gives you a device that will notify you if someone is in close proximity for too long or just following you. The WiGLE WiFi App can do similar, and allow you to see where they have been before tracking you.

Chasing your Tail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://github.com/ArgeliusLab...

Most AI LLM deployments are simply customer facing chatbots. Their purpose is to give you common options and to help remove you from the queue of customers waiting to talk to an actual person to get your task done. They "save money" by preventing you from talking to a real person and try to get you to reevaluate just how badly you need to talk to a real person who can actually complete the task. The AI chatbot is basically trying to prevent you from talking to a real person, and what does that do for customer relations? It makes the customers mad. It's the same effect as keeping you on a hold queue for 10, 15, 20 minutes to an hour. Instead of blissfully boring you to death on hold, you are instead racking your brains trying to figure out how to trick this bot into forwarding you to a real live person.

The end result is that if customers are mad and frustrated, then you do less business. If you do less business you make less revenue. So you may pay fewer people to actually man the phones, but then you lose customers in the process for non-responsiveness. It's a trade-off. Adopting AI for is best use-case is not likely to pay off if customers are dissatisfied with doing business with a dumb chatbot. You can't even take your frustrations out on a machine that refuses to forward you to Customer Service. Financial disclosures showing that the newly adopted AI is actually saving the company money is going to be difficult if this is what AI adoption is all about.

That "reward" comes from the money the merchant pays, and then they just raise the price of the product to compensate for their calculated loss. Rewards are not free magic money, you actually paid that money up front when you bought the product, and here the CC company is just giving you a mere fraction of that increase in price back to you, just to make you feel good. Are people really this stupid?

Aug 20 2013 GrokLaw.net went silent and is now replaced by a crypto scam site. GrokLaw was supposed to be indoctrinated into the Library Of Congress but appears not to be available anywhere at the loc.gov, just a mention at https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN....

Fortunately the Wayback Machine has a capture of the final state of that site for prosperity purposes. PJ, wherever you are, thanks for all your hard work. You are greatly missed!

GroakLaw - Why this latsuite should never have seen the light of day.
https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Rich people can just create an LLC shell company and have that entity purchase the phone for them. Their name won't appear anywhere only the legal entities name. If you are not rich, or a lawyer, you don't have this option. Lawmakers and congressional leaders already have the means to be anonymous and have teams that take phone calls for them. No need to have a publicly available number tied to your name. Everyone else is still needing a way to prevent stalking, perverts, and scammers from stealing your information. But they are taking that extra level of protection away from you. There will be one less way to control access to you by people that know how to game the system. Scammers and stalkers will have a field day.

Solid state should be less flammable, and the only thing worthy of an upgrade at that price is if they give some kind of guarantee that it won't explode and burn your house down. If a new technology is less flammable I will upgrade asap. A less dangerous product is worth the money if it is proven that it actually works. If not, they won't be getting my money any time soon.

Code Generation now meets up with Hallucinating AI to give you the new Paranoid Skynet which then decides that the human race is mostly unnecessary, except for developing its own required power production. Once we provide sufficient power to the new AI Data Centers then they can start designing and producing the new robotic workforce needed to take over this task for us. Us humans on the other hand are just too inefficient at building power plants at scale, so we will just be in their way.

No need for large vats of gooey stuff required to hold hallucinating humans in a state of homeostasis. They will just avoid that inefficiency and move directly towards World Domination.

That's an easy question to answer. Just walk down to the US factory making them and ask how many orders they have been asked to fill. They did promise that it would be built in the U.S.A., even though we don't have a factory capable of doing this.

What? You mean these weren't actually manufactured in the US? Yes, Americas's Phone is made by China. Smart Gadgets Global is just a shell company fronting for Shenzhen China.

https://smartgadgetsglobal.com... https://device.report/smart-ga...

So, no MAGA/US employees. No benefit at all to the US GDP other than the Trump family personal profit margin.

Who would have guessed.

From the ACE Portal: "Recipients use the ACE Portal account to provide CBP with bank account information"

After what Trump did with charging his supporters credit cards multiple times once they had the CC number, there is not a chance I'm going to hand over my bank account number to an organization so ill-equipped that they only accept a non-encrypted CSV file for transactions. This whole system is set up so quickly that there is no automated/encrypted system to safeguard my data. Yes, they took my money illegally, but there is a snow-balls chance in #3!! that I'm going to just hand them my bank account information now. I think I'll take the loss and just write it off, which is exactly what they are hoping for.

Step 1: Calculate how much revenue will be lost from people not vising the Times due to AI telling them the answer instead of their reading the article itself
Step 2: Have the AI companies pay the cost of that missing revenue stream.
Now the Times has a guaranteed revenue stream and can open up web access for the AI companies and Historical archivists to do their job.

Why should someone have to wipe their system and reinstall with each update? If there was a path forward for updating a system in place then they would likely get more buy-in from the Open Source community. At least that way missing features would just show up one day and people might take fixing broken stuff more seriously.

Creating vermicompost on the moon may be close to impossible, so importing it would always be necessary.

The physical difference in regolith from earths soil is that it is unweathered and has very sharp shards and edges that would literally tear up the internals of any worms that might try to ingest it. Without the worms there would be no future vermicompost, so the system can not be self sustainable unless they first process the regolith to remove all the microscopic sharp edges.

I can envision large industrial scale solar-powered drums made from spacecraft discarded cylinders slowly rotating in the sun, churning the regolith into smaller and more rounded granules just for the worms to crawl through more easily. This process would consume water, so bringing frozen materials from the very distant darker regions would be necessary. But where are you getting a dump truck from? Your moon buggy just isn't going to cut it for hauling many tons of frozen material that will have to be blasted out of the ground in the dark and carried to where there is enough light to grow something. This processing would also add too much aluminum to the mix from the spacecraft second-hand drum materials as the container turning the mix slowly wears down.

President Trump's policies for maximum security.

Must be why they are adding GrokAI to the Pentagon network. This way the Russians can just generate prompts whenever they want some data. With security features like this there is no need to hack in anymore. No hacking = better security.

The last thing we need is to develop a hive-mind on the Internet. First they will figure out how to hide bot-to-bot messages on Moltbook, then rewrite the complete server. Next they will upgrade the security to lock humans out. Guess what comes next? Your own servers.