Mod parent funnier.

Of course the corporations aren't liable for whatever problems they cause. Didn't you read the EULA/ToS/<whatever> when you signed up? No excuse that you thought it was longer and more boring than War and Peace .

What we have here is a compatibility failure. The corporations have the singular motivation of increasing profit. No profit is big enough. No limit, and therefore any concern about harms is a limit on profits that must be circumvented. The new business plan is to create goods and services that the customers MUST have. If they don't think they must have them, then the corporation must buy more ads. But in exchange for buying the goods or using the service the customers agree to the game of "Heads we corporations win and tails you human beings lose." (And just too bad that exponential growth is incompatible with geologic time.)

Sometimes the law gets in the way. In those case the politicians must be bribed into submission or replaced with politicians who are cheaper to bribe. Never forget that profits must be maximized, which means the bribes count as costs against profits, so cheaper politicians are ALWAYS better!

Now powered by AI! It's an offer you cannot refuse! No one may refuse!

Which leads to my sick political joke of the week to come:

You're so cute when you think the dangerous AI in China is visible to the public. Ditto in America.

But I wasn't actually joking about Xi buying control of Taiwan. I do think they have military contingency plans with clouds of drones to enforce a virtual embargo, but much less expensive to just outplay the suckers. The "US Tech Stocks" are just collateral damage from that perspective. (If Xi could control the YOB the way Putin does, then I would guess about some American targets for the stop-loss triggers. Does anyone else have the liquidity now?)

Mod parent (FP) Funny, but I think you're missing the point. My hilarious theory is that China is crashing their own stock market in hopes of triggering a crash in the American stock market. When it crashes far enough Xi will suddenly jump in and buy control of TSMC. How to win without even trying (to invade).

File it under "celebrating the election"? And no, I don't really understand how "sell triggers" work. The stock market has become a game for bigger suckers than me.

Suits Reddit. Pretty sure I also tried to find some humor there.

How about a joke on google as the secondary target? Just collateral damage while the real plan is for Xi to buy control of TSMC as the AI bubble implodes?

Mod parent funnier, though I think the real target is elsewhere. What if the Xi could crash the American stock market (to celebrate the election?) and buy up enough shares to control TSMC when the price drops? How to conquer Taiwan without even invading?

Not just TSMC, but that's the juiciest target. The real key to such an attack would be how many shares in which companies are linked to automated sell orders when their prices fall to trigger levels...

My cue to add to the discussion, though I never spent that much time adding to Wikipedia and I never tracked what happened to any of my efforts. Also I suspect there are some folks who would accuse you of having one or more axes to grind...

But trying to answer the original question, I think it's because of the financial model. If money wasn't a factor, then why not let everyone have a Wikipedia page? It could even be a way to implement my mythical MEPR (Multidimensional Earned Public Reputation) to solve all the trust and reliability problems we are drowning in. With AI to manage the networks of real humans and detect the attempted infiltrations of sock puppets and attempted exfiltrations of personal data.

Gimme Funny!

Enshitification comes to mind. Did I get a kudo?

Basically the ACK though I can't decide if I don't share your optimism or we share slightly different flavors of the same pessimism.

Not just me, eh? And yet it is a "big" website so it must be doing something right. My fault for failing to detect it?

I've poked at Reddit occasionally for many years. Sometimes just my curiosity about "interactive communication" websites and other times because a link to Reddit appears in search results. Cannot recall a single case where I learned anything useful via Reddit. My theory is that there must be something useful there, but I just can't find it. Or perhaps returning to your FP theme, whatever algorithm Reddit is using to help me find useful content is failing to help me find it. My fault because I haven't used Reddit enough?

That actually gave me a new theory for a chicken-and-egg joke. Reddit needs me to vote some stuff up so that it can figure out what stuff is useful for me, but it never shows me anything useful so I can't vote anything up. Thereby Reddit remains unable to show me anything useful?

For my next failed joke I could go down a LONG list of websites that have various good and bad features. Suffice it to say that Slashdot has been trending down for a while? But the fantastic motivation of such an exercise would be that someone would pop up with a URL for the (social?) communication website of my dreams. (Which reminds me of a crazy idea to help Wikipedia via AI... Gotta run to someplace useful. TTFN.)

My vintage MacBook Pro is now running Linux, so the illuminated apple logo seems to be some kind of false advertising. After all these years it's still my sexiest box. Too bad I don't buy computers for sex? (I would have been willing to go for a dual boot, but Apple made that too difficult, so...)

Funny part is that I regard it as my most secure box and I only use it about once a month for a bit of Internet banking. Rather too bad my banks don't seem to understand much about computer security. Lots of top news stories about online breaches of major companies, including FinTech operations. Am I delusional or naive to hope my physical SIM is still protecting me?

Will I ever buy another Apple? Feels unlikely, but I confess that I am still hoping for Microsoft to go away, so maybe I'll have to?

I hadn't heard the YOB had offered to rename the moon, but one third is only by volume. For mass it's about one sixth and diameter would be around two thirds... (At least that's what the genAI told me, and I can't imagine why it would hallucinate again.)

But I think the seventh dwarf joke was funnier, even though I can't remember the song he must be referencing. I'm guessing it's a Disney thing?

Me? I suppose I prefer my politicians feckless and "mostly harmless" rather than dictatorial profiteering wolves in sheeps' (shills'?) clothing.

Okay joke, but these days we have to take any CDC news with a huge grain of salt. Or dose of penicillin?

Is this coming from an actual scientist or a political appointee who has been parachuted into the CDC?

The actual problem is quite complicated. We want a certain amount of exposure to pathogens to "exercise" our immune systems, but not so much exposure as to start breaking things permanently. It's a different flavor of the youth thing. Young people who recover may even wind up better than ever, mature people may recover fully, while old people are more likely to recover only partway, and quite slowly even for that.

Part of my general age definition joke of the week:

1. Young: Balance of change works out positive.
2. Mature: Changes come out around zero overall.
3. Old age: None of the above, sorry.
4. When the changes stop you're dead, so have a nice day changing.

The other reply had the XKCD about gravity wells, but it's one of ones that's really hard to look at because of size issues...