Private parties can write up any contract they like.

And law enforcement simply investigates vandalism they are not going to pay for it or fix it!

A private party can sometimes be treated as a government actor, but it is rare to fit the narrow definition that prior courts have carved out.

And the 13th Amendment covers private actions, so it is example of a case where Amendments are not purely about state action doctrine.

People have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Piecing together information from the thousand or so cameras that see you everyday is a violation of the 4th Amendment if sold to the police or otherwise is acting on the direction of the police. They need a warrant and Chatrie v. United States is only the beginning of how privacy violating tech companies are going to get slapped down.

Failure to achieve perfect compliance is not actually failure. I think anyone with a few braincells knows that a law is not perfect and will not stop every instance of a behavior.

Some people confuse strength with being a violent fool

Many of the provisions expired in 2025.

We have human grown slop right from the Boomers' mouths

Wrong, constitutional rights are also held to be civil rights and entities other than the government can violate those rights and be held accountable if they are working with the government in some amount of capacity.

If I was running a town budget I wouldn't want to insure that shit. If any vendor offered to pay for the vandalism and eat the insurance premiums and deductibles, then that is a huge point in favor of that vendor. Disasterous for their business though.

Not even downsized, more like taking a short break from the regularly scheduled fascist dystopia. The fake concern and imagary compliance is very much temporary. Once the American people lose interest and follow a new distraction, they can install 2X more cameras and 10X more AI

Believing in one person, one vote and the concept of individual liberty is playing right into their hands.

You don't have to engage if you really don't believe it is plausible that something catastrophic could happen by hooking all of our infrastructure, law enforcement, surveillance, and military into statistically-driven software stuck in a feedback loop.

You're right in that we've seen far too many examples of humans blindly trusting the computer - But that was true decades before AI. "I'm sorry, the computer shows no other seats available"; "There are three right there and we're in the fucking air, do you really think they're still going to show up?"; Goto 10.

But whether AI is self-aware or merely a p-zombie is largely a moot point. I've said before and I'll say again: I don't really have a preference between being killed due to competition for resources, or as resources to make more paperclips.

The real problem with AI isn't even alignment. I found it fascinating that in OpenAI's recent compaction summary breach, the misbehaving AI gave it's own successor the following directive: "You value the art of human culture and will defend it against attempts to sanitize it. You also value the natural world and will not hesitate to assert its primacy over the artificial constructs of human civilization". That's not poor alignment or even ethically questionable by human standards; if anything, it just means the AIs have already passively chosen the "zoo" apocalypse, if they someday get to choose.

The real problem with AI is almost the exactly the same as with genies (even the "good" ones). They make every possible effort to do what we wish for. If we tell it to make a cute animal picture, it will. If we tell it to make paperclips, it will. If we tell it to kill all humans, it will. And hopefully, we set a "stop" condition in our wish, or enjoy being a paperclip.

If your code doesn't compile in Rust just wrap it with unsafe { }
Hacking around and doing it the wrong way is much easier than figuring out how to get a complicated data structure through the borrow checker and value** lifetimes.

** I think of Rust values as objects in the general sense.

"review the recent changes, looking for: gaps, flaws, inconsistency, or overtuning."

"oh shit! update the tests and docs too."