Automatic Number Plate Recognition is, as you point out, a pernicious form of government overreach. But at least in the UK the two aren't related.

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I suggest a watch of 'The Grapes of Wrath' or some of the documentaries about the period; calling the present period 'depression' is absurd. Yes, housing is far too expensive. This is caused by three factors:

1) Nimbys refusing to allow new housing
2) High building costs
3) High land costs

Only the third is blameable on the quantitive easing post 2008.

If the product is an easily read, accurate website, that's a good outcome. Is writing website content a job we ought to worry about protecting? Next you'll suggest that writing user help screens that said nothing of value was worthwhile (yes I'm still resentful about that 35 years on).

Are you needing to make less and less interventions? If so, you may be redundant soon...

The fact that the bump in the road of the 2008 financial crisis didn't result in a 1930s style depression is because economics has found out how to prevent that outcome. Ignoring that fact is foolish.

Given the vast numbers killed on the roads in the West, especially in the USA, and the clear evidence that slower cars do less damage in accidents, there is a good case for installing them aggressively. Near where I live a freeway comes to a sudden pedestrian crossing as it enters the suburbs of my city - and enforcing slower speeds in the approach to that crossing is clearly worthwhile. By contrast there is sometimes a camera on the way OUT of the city, beyond the crossing - where there is no further stops - and that makes no sense.

...because they merely expect AI to replace existing tasks. Whether it actually does is more nuanced. For example, many employees pressured to use AI say it makes their tasks harder by creating AI slop that needs cleaning up. They have to deal with mistakes that wouldn't be in a human draft or in existing time-tested templates. If and how fast employees will get better models or learn to prompt better is unknown.

It's essentially management's gamble. Those in the C-suite often don't spot or are slow to understand front-line patterns, as nobody likes delivering lackluster news to higher-ups. They'll typically hear, "There are a few learning curve hiccups, as expected, but we're making progress" even if the productivity ship is taking on a little water.

Yes, there is legitimate concern that all consumers will have to pay more for electricity. Fair enough. So ensure that the new consumers pay all the costs of their arrival, by requiring that electricity prices will not rise faster than inflation as long as the data centre is active. That's a condition for building the centre, otherwise electricity will not be provided.

I never activated Sirius, but twice a year they have a free week or so of music as a promotion. I don't do anything with or about that, but "weather alerts" start popping up. It's naturally windy in my neck of the woods so I get bajillion alerts that require pushing Dismiss while driving, but often cannot turn the alerts completely off because the Weather Alert "Off" feature is only available some of the time, but I cannot tell when without going into the menus, which present music options first. If it's not stealth spamming it's crappy UI coding. Either way, it sucks. I contacted Surius once and they said it cannot be fully deactivated. I may have a mechanic cut the antenna wire to Sirius but am afraid it would break GPS also.

but I can't track it down. Memory usage and disk/SSD look fine. I suspect either GPU or some weird OS stack gets full or confused. Windows 10 has a secret bladder that needs a diaper.

Yes, I know XiWare is likely snoopish, but so is GoogleWare. At least make the jerks compete.

Executives can't resist shoving a new spam channel into your face. Even if they can't use it immediately due to regulations etc., the possibilities make their greedy marketing glands swell with giddiness.

SiriusXM is already spamming my older model vehicle using tricks to get me to poke around in their music menu by pretending to malfunction. Long story, but here is similar behavior.

No evidence was given that math skills are atrophying because of AI, nor was that even claimed in the op-ed, which criticizes slipping testing standards.