Mixing AI and Comms is just a way for tech companies to obfuscate the product enough to make it look it is delivering some value when it reality, it is just doing Comms.

A lot of tech companies are doing this in one form or another to inflate the value of their product or service.

Speaking of enshittification, in the past few months, it seems to me that the UX has deteriorated. I have to kill the app and start over occasionally, because of hangs, and microphone input that gets muted sometimes. They seem to have also gotten rid of all the characters in the lessons except for Lily and Falstaff which is strange.

Remember East Germany?

What do you think that they want to build that Southern border wall, and the take of building a Northern Border wall with Canada.

If that northern border wall ever starts to get built, you will only have a short time to leave.

which prohibits State governments from banning flock cameras if the federal government is a customer for the data. This would essentially bypass the will of the voters attempting to use Initiative and Referendum to ban flock cameras.

Of course, such a law would get tested in Federal Court.

I'm not advocating for such a law, only pointing out how the government tramples all over the 4th amendment.

It isn't the hardware cost, it is the lack of having something equivalent to a blanket search warrant taken away from the government's crime solving toolbox. The government sees this data as more valuable than the cost of the hardware as it saves them on gumshoe salaries and makes policing easier.

Destroying surveillance camera contracted out to the government by private corporations carries a mandatory $250K fine and 20 years in supermax federal prison for the first offense and for the second offense, death.

I find it concerning that the Federal Government is using private companies to make an end-run around the 4th Amendment. This needs to be shot down by the courts. This is effectively the same as a blanket search warrant against the citizenry. The government should have to specifically name the party that they want to track, and the rest of us should not be tracked.

An even better source of DVD's: Your local swap meet (usa) or car boot sale (uk).

Even though you still technically don't own the work.

But, you don't have to worry about: "I'm altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it further".

Plus you are not a recurring revenue source for some big corporation.

With DVD's being cracked encryption-wise they're just a flexible as audio CD's, although ripping them is still currently illegal due to the DMCA.

The point is that someone is going to attempt it. This is been what has been missing for 54 years since Apollo. Even though I hate Trump and his minions, and I am not impressed with the Commercial space launch companies not delivering on stated promises. The act of attempting and doing this [turning words into actions] is really what counts.

The real problem comes with Artemis 3. Right now, I don't see any way we could beat China to a moon landing given the half-assed proposed fusion of the SLS with a commercial lander solution using orbital refueling (which is unproven). We should have had a backup plan using a refreshed Apollo LEM. Yes, this is just repeating what we did in the 60's and 70's., but having a LEM would increase the odds of landing on the moon's south pole which is where the water [and He3] is.

Seals. Why did it have to be seals?

Going back of the history of Apollo, the Space Shuttle, and now Artemis. Seals for LH2 have been an ongoing problem.

With the small size of the H2 molecule, and the extreme cold (20K) finding reliable materials to make up these seals has been very challenging.

Additionally, the profits won't show up in your stock or retirement portfolio, they will be spent on Executive Compensation and dubious stock buybacks/s

1. Get congress to give him the authority to implement any tariff he so desires. This would probably be attempted by reconciliation, or by filibuster reform.

2. If #1 fails. Then ignore the supreme court order. When the court issues an injunction, ignore that too. When the US Marshalls get directed by the court to arrest Trumps minions, trump fire everyone in the US Marshalls service. When Congress wakes up and tries to help the court by filing articles of impeachment against Trump, Trump sens in a hand-picked national guard units to inter both Congress and the Supreme court.

Guys, this evil person won't stop until he is physically removed from office.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Production_Act_of_1950

If enough critical systems can't procure RAM because AI is gobbling up the lion's share of the supply, then It seems to me that things will start crashing down around us. Think medical diagnostic machines such as MRI's, Control electronics in farm machinery for food production, etc.

So the question is, who will dominate if the Defense Production Act is invoked?

The pooled money interests will lobby congress for laws which protect the entrenched players. They can't shut you down for free speech, but it might become difficult to release your self-created movie to the movie theaters or online venues like Youtube. They will also file frivolous lawsuits in order to wear you down. Their survival is at stake, and they're going to use every trick in the book to protect their business model.

This is the problem with a business-state nexus. The state and business is too tightly coupled and the rights bestowed on the content owners are onerous. The state records who owns what (copyright registration, and patents), and the state enforces these property rights (at gunpoint, if necessary) as the owners of the property see fit. The state is really just acting as the enforcement arm of the private property owners.

Looser coupling is the solution. The state should still record who owns what, but leave the enforcement of the rigths to the courts as a civil matter.

who are Reverse Centaurs. Definition: A reverse centaur is a machine head on a human body, a person who is serving as a squishy meat appendage for an uncaring machine.

From: https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-12-05-pop-that-bubble-u-washington-8b6b75abc28e

Now, because the AI is a statistical inference engine, because all it can do is predict what word will come next based on all the words that have been typed in the past, it will “hallucinate” a library called lib.pdf.text.parsing. And the thing is, malicious hackers know that the AI will make this error, so they will go out and create a library with the predictable, hallucinated name, and that library will get automatically sucked into your program, and it will do things like steal user data or try and penetrate other computers on the same network.

And you, the human in the loop — the reverse centaur — you have to spot this subtle, hard to find error, this bug that is literally statistically indistinguishable from correct code. Now, maybe a senior coder could catch this, because they’ve been around the block a few times, and they know about this tripwire.

But guess who tech bosses want to preferentially fire and replace with AI? Senior coders. Those mouthy, entitled, extremely highly paid workers, who don’t think of themselves as workers. Who see themselves as founders in waiting, peers of the company’s top management. The kind of coder who’d lead a walkout over the company building drone-targeting systems for the Pentagon, which cost Google ten billion dollars in 2018.