“I don’t know if I would have done it. Unless nobody was around, then I’d give you a yacht ride to my friends island.”

Having everything open, on and available 24/7/365 sounds nice until you realize the human toll for things which aren’t that necessary and can be planned around. Down time is a good thing.

In totally unrelated news, there is a trend of students starting to use older phone models.

I was on dial-up internet well after most people had moved to dedicate higher speed connections. It was very obvious then that websites were just piling more crap in and I was thinking about how much of a problem that trend was going to be for our hardware. That wasn’t even considering how much those companies would be dipping into our time, sanity, and privacy.

None of the people who hated DEI/affirmative action could ever tell me what it actually is. None of the people who say “let the market decide” understand or recognize that there are serious financial benefits to diversity based practices.

My friend hit a black angus bull that had wondered into the road at night. The farmers insurance had to pay for it and this is something that is well established. There should be zero difficulty in saying that the AI company has to carry insurance for what their software does. Mining companies are supposed to have a fund set aside to fix environmental damage and recover the land, AI data centers should have to do the same. A lot of the retail use violations are already covered by other laws but things need to be expanded and updated. However, some tools like Musks kiddy porn need to be shut down hard and the blame put on the guy who keeps turning the model to reflect himself.

“Doesn’t affect me, don’t care.”
The fact that they will be nickeled and dimed even harder by profit margins and get less back from tax services will go right past them. Try to explain it and their eyes will glaze over before you get two words out.

Currently private users and enthusiasts. As networks grow, there will probably be universities joining. Eventually corporations will start marketing plug and play equipment while selling access to server space and long distance connections. Other businesses will join and finance their services by selling subscriptions, advertising, and user data. Various government agencies will add hardware they can also use to track traffic. Someone will inevitably bring in bots, AI models, and internet connected devices. After that someone will coin the term “dead mesh network theory” and all the nerdlings will start developing the next knitted network or something.

So if they don’t release it we can assume they were in the wrong. Now we need the media to start reporting like that’s the case. “ICE refused to release the video because it will make them look bad or show guilt, per their own statements”. Then the courts need to start ruling that way as admission of guilt when video and other evidence is withheld or destroyed.

Axon, the boot licking company that invented the “excited delirium” fake medical diagnosis as cover for cops killing people with their Tasers.