Maybe they're looking for the heat signature of crypto mining.

People are already being entertained buy the unending revelations from the Epstein files.

And shocked, though not particularly awed.

Interestingly, in one of the Gnostic Gospels, Jesus is quoted as saying when he departed that he had to go visit "sheep of other folds, that you know not of".

(paraphrasing from memory)

Which isnâ(TM)t necessarily a bad thing. Consider systems still using software written in COBOL that are still running today with minimum interference.

With node.js if you sneeze you are out of date. There is a balance between keeping things up to date, and not creating new breakages and risks while doing so.

There's is only one side to the Moon

So the orange guy called it?

Correction: "It's hard to talk them into giving that up."

People like having a powerful local democracy, resulting in NIMBYism. It's hard to talk them out of giving that up. If the state legislators vote away local power, the NIMBYists have enough political power to elect different state legislators.

Democracy is not always fair and balanced. Maybe try carrots instead of sticks?

...on the far side of the moon. Prove me wrong!

Genius Donald invented a time machine and went back to build LIGO in the early 2010's! Obama tried to stop him by throwing a tan suit over his head, but Donald's Super-Tie whipped commie Obamie away and saved the day! Donald knows the most about gravity because he makes so much.

(LIGO actually kind of happened in stages, I'm oversimplifying for trolling purposes.)

Now my luggage and my spleen will get lost.

= NIMBYism

The AC's pronoun is "it", so it was just projecting. One theory is that all ACs are eunuchs. That would explain most ACs on Slashdot.

And feeding them is one of those tricks that never works.

FTFY?

Quoted against the censor trolls, but I actually think the offensive adjective applies to the speaker thereof, both morally and socially. Still think your FP was kind of a waste...

However, as is (too) often the case, it reminds me of a book. This one is called Feeding the Machine by Muldoon, Graham, and Cant and the machines in question are mostly generative AI systems. Still trying to digest their description of the mess we've gotten ourselves into, but one of the sad examples of human abuse involves the annotation and moderation of abusive and harmful content. It's already clear to me (though they haven't gone there yet) that the problem involves perverse incentives disguised as "protected free speech".

The fundamental philosophy is that freedom is good, though that might be an excessively common projection, but there are supposed to be limits on freedoms that harm other people. (Which actually loops back to the evil speaker of the offensive word--or higher in that food chain.) If you choose to use your freedom to harm another person, then you can be liable for the harm. This gets complicated quickly, though it's more clear when it's an action rather than a failure to act. But speech acts are also actions that can cause harm.

Now the content moderation discussed in the book involves policy guidelines that are supposed to reduce or prevent harms, and this is where the incentives become perverse. (I could blame FDR and the FCC, but that would take a bit of history, so I'll only go there if someone asks.) The key is that they get money by selling ads and that means they want more eyeballs for the marketers. Thus arises a dirty alliance between "external" providers of engaging content and the webservice providers who profit by selling the ads that "support" the "publication" of the content. Compounded by the perverse incentives of the marketing experts who love the "uneducated" consumers (AKA suckers) who are easiest to sell garbage to.

Funny business model with all sort of "free" stamped on it. But it doesn't seem sustainable to me.

Oldie but a goodie and yet the story had more potential for Funny...