This is absolutely bad, and I'm not trying to say otherwise, however I am *curious* about a couple of things.

First, what happens if you pull up "Search Party" and upload an image of a generic ICE officer? Will it show you where they are?

Second, if someone were to be accused of a crime they didn't commit, how hard (or even possible) would it be to get Ring to hand over exculpatory evidence that they were somewhere else? How effective could it be as an alibi? For that matter, has the mass surveillance we already have in place been used this way often, or at all?

It's one of Vernor Vinge's lesser-known books (or at least I've heard less about it), and doing almost *exactly* this was one of the big story arcs.

I simply cannot wait to see the next superhero story of "Captain Fuck You" and his trusty sidekick "Motherfucking Bullshit"

So... now no one from Australia under the age of 21 is allowed in the US?

But, that aside, what does this even mean? Like, putting aside that it's a terrible idea, functionally, how would you do this? The *idea* of the law (so much as there is one) seems to assume that the number of social media accounts per platform that a person has is exactly one. Not zero, and not several. This is false. And how do they want it delivered? Just a link to your public profile? A download of all of your activity for five years? Your username and password? The first seems pointless, the rest seem terrible.

So *is* there a super-rare tulip bulb pokemon?

so now more than ever, "boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider."

The fact that they're named "sus-tech" makes this tech feel strangely... sus.

I seem to recall an issue in... South Korea? where they were becoming a popular destination for plastic surgery medical tourism, and they faced a problem where people would fly in, get facial surgery, and then have problems leaving because their face no longer looked like their passport. Doctors started giving their patients certificates explaining that they'd had facial surgery. The certificates carried no legal weight, but did help people explain things to officials.

I feel like facial recognition based passports would probably make this worse.

My immediate reaction is that this seems much cheaper than other forms of money laundering? But maybe I'm missing something.

I haven't looked at it in detail, or really at all, but I wonder: Is there anything the ORC does that isn't already available under a CC license?

Now imagine this in reverse, a drone with an onboard laser that lurks in the clouds, using static electricity buildup as a force multiplier to rain destruction on ground targets.

Probably completely impractical, but great for a sci-fi war movie.

Honestly, I might not even mind this... if it were easy to switch between accounts on most devices. On a PC, it's not super hard to log out and log back in as a different user, especially if you have a decent password manager. Mostly the same on a phone. But on a TV, it's a pain. Sure it's easy to switch between profiles on a single account, but switching to a different *account* on a TV is annoying at best.

Different people have different experiences. I'm in the US, and I get approximately 40 calls *per day*. I'm pretty sure I'm an outlier.

Most of them are trying to sell me final expense insurance plans. Their script is "I'm calling to let you know about final expense insurance plans that have recently been authorized in your area that can cover up to 100% of your funeral, burial, and cremation costs."

Some are trying to sell me supplemental medicare. "I want to talk to you about new low-cost supplemental medicare coverage. I believe you have medicare parts A and B, right?" (I do not)

Sometimes it will be a blatant scam. "This is amazon customer service calling to verify that you have purchased a macbook pro for $950" (I forget the exact wording on that one) Sometimes I tell them that yes, I absolutely made that purchase. That makes them angry and they start cussing at me. Indian telephone scammers have brought English cussing to an art form. Sometimes I tell them I'm glad they called, I'm from Microsoft tech support and our logs show they may have a virus on their computer.

My phone is basically useless as a phone.

He could be exploring a potential Tinder offer for Twitter.

First off, that guarantees that half of your staff are gone two days out of the week.

Second, if it catches on (which would be great) it introduces new problems... one of the great things about this is that it allows you to simultaneously have a job and also go to businesses that keep what is ironically referred to as "banker's hours", so those businesses will have big spikes of activity on Mondays and Fridays, which isn't efficient or pleasant for anyone.

Third... Wednesdays suck.

I guess it depends in part on your point of view. If a day off is relaxing and lets you return to work rejuvenated, then taking off a mid-week day is great for productivity. If it's disruptive and causes problems when you context-switch, then it'd be better to clump off-days even more, say with a 9-on/5-off schedule, or 20-on/10off.

On the other side of things, this is great if you want to do leisure activities that take more than 2 days, like traveling somewhere kind of far away to do something. It's not so great if you don't have plans, half your friends don't have the same day off, and by the third day of every weekend you're sitting around, bored and listless.