You see this collapse in people in cultures (religious, isolated, etc) where they only study received knowledge, only "what the ancestors knew", etc, and do not research or innovate themselves. After a while, they start acting like a poorly anchored LLM and less like an actual thinking creature.

We're back to Vizzini's claim in The Princess Bride: You are trying to [take] what I have rightfully stolen

Chinese Government: we will mediate and control all your online communication and make you work so long each day that you have no time for intimate personal interaction.
Also Chinese Government: Please be more intimate so you make more workers.

Sorry guys (and you are all guys, too). You can't have intimacy and relationships without the time to have them and no fear that Big Brother is watching you and waiting for you to say something wrong.

You also can't have actual innovation (rather than incremental improvement or implementation of known ideas) without free communication either. These have always been the weaknesses of authoritarian governments.

We all know this is not possible. This information will be identifiable by correlating with other information, including public information.

They're not teaching an LLM how to manage airline commercial strategies. They're teaching it to write text, read text, understand spreadsheets, etc. You can do that fine on airline's internal communications, even an airline that went bust.

... he was the Fall guy for the Administration?

I'm shocked, shocked to find that manipulation is going on here in this gambling establishment.

This entire article reads like someone hysterically trying to claim that installing some software on your machine when you ask for software to be installed is illegal, unethical, unprecedented, and an environmental catastrophe.

No, that's what happens when you install software. Installing an LLM weights model specifically happens when you install MacOS, iPadOS or iOS too, and plenty of other software too.

Is it an illegal catastrophe when software installs a language pack or an extension you don't use but others do? Hardly so, and nor is dropping LLM weights for you to use if you want.

... yet supports the easy implementation of bad policy beforehand. Technical choices are policy choices, Lennart. You can't get away from that.

This is all in line with the systemd attitude: more monolithic, less extendable or modular. More like Windows, less like UNIX.

US residential buildings already have air conditioners all over them.
Stop complaining.

Needs the Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man meme, wearing Larry face-masks.

The music labels - the copyright owners - are barely mentioned in this article at all, yet they are where all the money is going, incrementally, for every stream played.

They're the rentiers sucking it out of everyone else. Spotify does make a profit, but not a large one, because the costs of paying the copyright holders are so large. Yet the share of artist money from the copyright holders is tiny, so the big labels end up rich while artists end up screwed (especially smaller artists, as the article correctly points out) while the record labels end up on top.

It's really not Spotify sucking everyone dry here - it's the record labels, and it always has been.

(I have nothing to do with Spotify, I'm simply pointing out the vampire squid behind the mere octopus this article is blaming).

How about putting the airplane mode switch behind the device lock so a thief can't grab your phone and immediately put it in airplane mode to stop it being tracked?

Standard on Samsung phones, inexplicably not on Google Pixel (I have both).

That's a pretty amazing spin on actual proof that the BBC does not have a "left-wing" representation bias.

What's next, re-introducing smallpox?