It sounds like you're saying that ethnically diverse workplaces are killing dating because they produce more ethnically diverse societies while most people's dicks/pussies are racist and would prefer to live in a racially homogeneous ethnostate, am I understanding you correctly?

This is what I like to call the Post-Reaganite/Thatcherite Ruin Loop, it was born in the first world and now plagues all of it, but has spread well beyond that now with many ex-2nd-world and third-world countries having entered it at this point. It goes like this:

1. Hollow out the economy by transferring hefty chunks of wealth from the lower and middle classes to the rich.
2. When people inevitably have less kids due to their good education and access to birth control combined with lack of resources to raise children (reduced in step 1), complain about it and point out that it's bad for the economy.
3. To satisfy capital's desire for unsustainably cheap labor, bring in fresh suckers from poorer countries who aren't up to date on how much shittier things became in Step 1.
4. GOTO 1

Any society with a capitalist economy will be fighting endlessly repeating battles to keep from entering this loop, and given enough time having to fight, it will eventually lose one of those battles, and that's all it takes.

Came here to mention this theory...could it be tested by producing a sci-fi-free variant of an LLM that appears to have a "survival drive?" If that doesn't change anything, maybe it picked it up not just from stories where AIs do underhanded things to survive, but stories where people do?

Discord is only the latest and least of the problems in that regard - Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest locked all of that content up first.

Slop is a totally fair term for any low-quality AI-generated material, and not an unreasonable one for AI-generated content in general due to average output quality.

It sounds like "Graf Zahl" was a not-so-benevolent OSS project dictator and this was the last straw.

Try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Yeah it sucks that they renamed that mountain to cover up the fact that it was named after a guy who massacred a bunch of innocent native Americans. OH WAIT

Sloppy McSlopperson, Attorney-At-Slop

You don't need physical access to install a bootkit, just root access, and full disk encryption would only protect against bootkit infection via an evil maid attack. The bootkits being discussed here get install by just running on top of the full OS with root privileges.

But on the other hand, bootkits are an extremely rare form of malware, likely the rarest type, and I think creating Secure Boot in response to it was a case of whipping a curious little problem into a crisis and then never letting a crisis go to waste.

The reason they can't (even if they have the resources) is that the market rewards brutal worker exploitation, or at least fails to punish it in any way while allowing businesses to reap the benefits. Labor laws that enforce decent working conditions would be a good start towards a solution, and those start falling into place after similar union-negotiated working conditions become common enough that they're a de-facto market standard. Unions make the progress and government just locks it down.

Because they don't have the money to start a business lying around (a $1k emergency expense would be a big ask for the average American, average startup cost is around $20k), they likely have health coverage tied to their employment, and they probably don't like the odds of competing in a market riddled with oligopolies that benefit from massive economies of scale and labor arrangements that can treat workers as consumables and work them to their limits.

HTH

Unfortunately we have an economic system where people who can't get others to pay for their toil become destitute.

Yes, and IIRC in the '90s/early 2000s they recommended a lower grade of AES for civilian vs. military use. And more recently, there was the TrustCor debacle.

If the NSA can get the non-hybrid PQ algorithm to be the standard for future versions of TLS that would be the NSA's biggest ever win in cryptography standards sabotage. The level of danger they're willing to heap on all non-military communications again raises the question of whether they think their foreign adversaries are massively inept compared to themselves, or if they just think that creating this widespread danger is worth making their jobs easier.

Unfortunately you generally can't make electricity cheaper for consumers with cheaper grid power due to how the idiotic regulatory-captured electricity market works (in the UK most notably, electricity prices can't fall until natural gas is eliminated from the grid completely), but until that's fixed, you can shift the money from your local job-intensive renewable producer to authoritarian petrostates with fossil fuels.

So with Queensland having local coal production and politicians on the take from the fossil fuel industry now in place, what they're doing makes sense for people who give zero fucks about the environment.