Except for #BBC The nations LEAST trusted broadcaster - who want to know if you are watching their lies and propaganda without a license.

I dont so who gives a shit.

Taken far too long for this to happen.

I know , there is no reason at this juncture that this civilsation is going to last more than a couple of decades before total collapse set against a background of climate chaos and complete economic failure. At best we have about a 5 percent chance of avoiding this fate.
Whats worrying as neglect and underfunding continues apace - when collapse finally sets in there will be nobody looking after these facilities to keep them safe. This again just supports the likelihood of failing to avoid this catastrophic end-game scenario.

But this is ludicrous.
There is nothing smart about a tyre that sheds microplastics into the environment through use,
regardless of its ability to report on road quality.

Once again another reason to accept that this civlisation is on the wrong path with a 5% change of getting onto the correct path.

Bullshit ideas like "Smart Tyres" only lend more credence to this assertion, only a fool would think otherwise.

Why gloomy when our capitalist greed is killing us all. Theres nothing gloomy about people who wont be born into a civilisation thats in its death throws and a runaway climate with a 5% chance of averting disaster.

Rejoice that millions less people WONT be born into a dying world, because the alternative is far mor gloomy.

So the system responded that it was an already claimed serial number and not an invalid serial number? Who the fuck would do that?

Let's say someone put in a claim.

Well what is to stop them from trying consecutive serial numbers to see if they can get even more?

Yes great to mention the linking aspect, that was key to the whole thing being really useful.

Without news sites to scrape, there will be no feeding the AI. With one key exception. When a site is driven by political agenda instead of advertisement revenue.

You have it partially right here.

But the one divergence from the pattern you didn't list is, that because most AI. (and Google's AI specifically) is very left leaning, it will feed you only left leaning news... so the sites that will remain, and keep earring revenue are more right leaning sites since people would have to go to them directly anyway to seek out news Google will never give them.

Of course that merely delays the full effect of what you lay out, when most for-profit left wing news sites fold the AI starved for information will in the end actually make use of right leaning sites as well.

What it does mean is that left wing news sites that remain in the next year or so will only be hyper-partisan info funded by some external source.

Is the ONLY possible respose to that.
A question that of course will not be asked because the answer to it would be abject horror.

You need to think more outside the box,
look at how things have played out historically,
and feed that into the general trends of what
direction our society is going in and who chooses
that direction.

Censorship will be the end result.
What AI isnt trained on cannot be known.
That the truth can finally be silenced or become white noise.

quote ; "At least "Clickbait Journalism" is easy to identify and avoid"

AI tools will make it Harder to identify and avoid.

#KnowThis
People will see this as a good thing, and it is,
but not for those who participate in freedom of truth.
But for those who wish to control it.

Just as Google has gone from doing one thing really well ( Search )
to doing lots of things to a level of mediocrity due to constantly being
poisoned by the forces of capitalism.

This too will be the fate of its offering.

Our civilisation is on a dire trajectory and AI is just another means
to accellerate the thing that is killing us, and the planet - that thing is Capitalism

More confirmation that this is where we are.

Simple solution much easier on the wallet.

Or rather Its an umbrella term for a bunch of different technologies
ranging from deterministic programs to neural networks.
The Atlantic is thick and does not understand the fundamentals.
I happen to have a degree in AI.

The truth is your "Robot Vaccum" is just a bunch of sensors and
some deterministic programming. The code is not that different
from what we experience in video games. Just in this case its
powering a physical object not an NPC. But put those sensors
in a bipedal robot and connect it to a cloud based LLM and all
of a sudden were all going to die.

I repeat the field of AI isnt any thing new , if it was the outcome of
World War 2 have been very different. Consider that . One of the god
fathers of AI invented a machine that could break german cyphers.

The danger of AI is that we will rely on it so much that we only
ever reach a high level of mediocrity. There is a danger of a digital
dark ages - as the data and information we train these models
inherits all our rancid biases and bigotry. If we start to censor
the data upon which AI models are trained - no good will come of
that either because without the full picture AI will never have
the full story.

AI is dangerous but not in the way our vile mainstream media thinks.

Consider the fact that Today, goverment policy is now shaped by its
own lies and propaganda. Consider what it looks like when they introduce
AI in to the mix.

What did HyperCard even do?

It's kind of hard to explain, and honestly my memory of what you could do with Hypercard and how you actually did it is very fuzzy as it was so long ago.

But basically it was a visual programming languages, where the visual bits you drug around were then also backed by actual code that would do things. You would create a variety of cards, and in those cards could store data, move on to other cards, and so forth.

Some people used it to create games, but used it to create an inventory tracking system for a store, and probably some other stuff I have forgotten about.

In the end, it was a way to make programming a lot more approachable to people at a time when programming was VERY low level for the most part!

A key part of it was once you made a stack of cards it was very easy to share with other people as a kind of application (but one you could modify in any way you liked).

You might get a better feel reading this Tribute To Hypercard.

Everyone always talks about Woz but it sure seems like Atkinson deserves nearly as much praise.

Sad to see one of the great ones go, but accomplished so much for so many and that is better than a lot of people manage.