I'm leery of professional practice as there has been numerous document cases of abuse by both practitioners and government. Can't say if that aspect has ended or is just more well hidden. I doubt the quest for a mind control drug has gone away.

That said, the benefits of psilocybin are well documented. I just don't trust the current regulatory environment.

Ryan Grim has made the argument Trump has done more to advance a leftist agenda than the democrats (yes yes yes, Republican lite) in the past few decades.

Trump will be a complex historical figure in that his monumental failures have changed the stagnation that defined the start of the 21st century, maybe for the better.

Of course he will still try to take credit for it as some pan-dimensional chess he was doing all along.

Euphemism as ID is essentially a passkey for access, and a further passkey to verify the ID. Not much different than the Swiss bank accounts of yore.

Which, duh, it shouldn't be centralized, and no information needs to be stored once authentication has been made the first time. Just a passkey.

My sense is that organizations do things in this manner because it is convenient and they are not liable for the costs.

Ya, I have a few official releases from that era recorded on professional walkmans.

Some studio cleanup and they sound like the times. Surprisingly good given the source.

And here comes the pedants.

Since there was an executive order issued in 2014 to the NLRB forbidding retaliation for discussing your salary, kinda implies that maybe there was some forbidding going on, no (I distinctly remember the whining)?

And why would employers demand that?

It's market manipulation that distinctly changes what your job is worth.

Fair, but there is also the asymmetry of forbidding employees from discussing their salaries or delving into the business' financials.

If it is labor for hire, then an efficient market demands every player access to data to determine price.

If not, the market must account for this asymmetry through regulation and law, and watch business whine like babies when the shoe is on the other foot.

Expecting any manner of consistency or (hold back the laughter) leadership (remember when that was the buzz from the management class?) is like wishing for for ponies. I'd settle for boring competency at this point, but here we are.

Annnd since no one seems to have a five point plan to improve things (or at least try something new), we'll keep on this trajectory until we go over the cliff or die waiting for cosmic justice.

Ya, I am finishing up a stint at a very large organization and the experience has been eye-opening at how disposable staff is, especially when the sins of management is on the line.

And knowing what I know now, I would have tried my fortune elsewhere. It's not quite Kligon promotion (I've manage to survive and I only have a modicum of social skills), but there is no doubt any continued employment isn't based on skills, aptitude, or even need but whatever astrology management is using this month.

Get it while you can, but know plan B isn't a matter of if but when.

Ya, don't really see the point beyond IP branding. I mean sure, sexier than throwing money at the homeless and watching them battle it out, but it's not like you'll be battling rad-scorpions.

Maybe it will allow someone their 15 minutes, but unless you are deciding whether to exile someone because disease, how is this Fallout?

Will be on shaky ground to copyright anything derived from AI.

Even the inference of AI is enough to send some IPs into unknown regions of law.

Distrust has been growing exponentially prior to the rise of LLMs, and video is little more than an added piece of propaganda people must wade through.

This is just a symptom of a larger problem of the decay of institutions, news in service of money, and people too willing to believe anything that fits their biases.

Algorithms certainly don't help, but I'll be damned if anyone really wants to fix anything beyond if it helps their side.

Fuck 'em.

Maybe a Pollyanna view of the world but it is a mark of the degeneracy of government (and maybe of the country) that laws like this are required instead of a sense of shame or possibly the threat of tar and feathering to keep the most egregious abuses in check.

Any high-mindedness has fallen. We are a nation of whores.

Errr, yeah.

Noticed with the advent of the web peculiar interpretations of history, and there are supporting documents- but none of them are digitized and searchable on the web. I lament the huge swaths of history that will be lost as online becomes more the de facto Oracle.

And while it doesn't raise to the level of Stalin altering photographs; you still probably want to preserve original documents, or at least make copies where it is readily apparent they have been tampered with.

Ya, I tend to trust the SCOUTS to nip this brand of idiocy in the bud when it crops up every generation, but nope, ignoring all the precedence of least infringing, privacy, and the increasing amount of data breaches... fuck that as long as states can virtue signal they are doing something to protect the kiddos.

And this will certainly not be abused, not have any creep, and upends decades of juror's prudence.

Fuck this court and fuck this government..