Gotta keep the demand up so the profits can go UP. Drill baby drill!

The world is moving on from inefficient oil-burners whether we like it or not.

More than that:
- They cannot talk about what happens to them in the future.
- They cannot have lay people (outsiders who are not bound by a religious gag-order) come to the convent as they might report on what is done in the future.
- They cannot seek legal representation, no matter what happens to them in the future.

It is a deal with the devil.

You would need a paid subscription to an actual news service.

There will likely be a few that survive this transition by offering high quality content -but there will not be many of them, and they will not be giving it away for free.

Who cares? The concept is so last century that it is not relevant anymore.

New content is being produced faster than it can be consumed. There is no longer a value to it. The money is made by selling advertising views and by paid manipulation of the narrative. Nobody needs to clone yesterdays work when they can just generate a new work to sell today.

I dislike the idea of people leaving reviews while being to cowardly to sign their name (or pseudonym):
-When a reviewer's ID is attached to their review, their friends and family can see what they had to say: if you are foul-mothed or just rude, your grandma and your potential girlfriend can see it (not automatically, but it is there if they they care to look).
-It can also lend weight to a review. If BobSmith24 says they had a great time, and you personally know BobSmith24, you may actually trust the review.
-You can click on the reviewers ID and see the other reviews they have left and get a feel for what kind of things they had to say about various places. This tells you a lot about a person, and lets you judge their reliability -if you care.

As a small business owner, I do not generally reply to people's reviews -good or bad, what they have to say stands on its own merits. They are entitled to their opinions. The only replies I left were to people who were clearly confused or lying -complaining about physical features not present in my store.

We are blind men attempting to describe an elephant.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

It appears to have worked exactly as desired.

Don't like the results? Oops, lost the key, start over...

Counterpoint: It's the economy.

When the economy was good, companies spent money hiring unneeded engineers because they wanted to keep them away from their competitors. It was not a waste of money, it was strategic spending. It kept resources away from the competition, with the side benefit of allowing companies to throw manpower at any random idea that might payoff eventually.

Now that the economic outlook has changed, companies are scaling back to focus on what is profitable. Dropping engineers that they don't actually need, and the projects that have not proved sufficiently profitable.

It's not even that the economy is bad, worse... it is uncertain. Tariffs, regulations, etc. Businesses react to uncertainty with austerity.

Thanks, mr Kennedy! Your plan is working.

I just bought a new Ford Maverick for my business. It came with built in cellular data hardware -not optional. They say it is for diagnostics, updates, maps, and wifi-hotspot. It comes with the 1st year of data connectivity included. They want me to pay for additional years (no thanks!)

They do not say that they will not continue to use the connectivity for their purposes even if I don't pay to use it for my purposes...

The cost of the hardware is already included in the cost to manufacture the vehicle. In a bulk purchase agreement the size of a manufacturers entire production run, the cost per unit of data is pretty low. They could collect data for very little ongoing cost.

Ban the collection of these types of information about individuals beyond what is necessary for performing a service -and ban keeping any collected data longer than is necessary for performing the specific service. No database = no database searches.

Trying to tell the police not to use the data once it has been collected and correlated and offered to them packaged in a searchable database is like trying to ban a cocaine addict from snorting the line you just cut out for him.

Not in American law. We have a 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech -which includes the right to publish information that we know about an individual. Information belongs to the one who knows it. There are few restrictions on what can be done with that information -and the restrictions are explicitly defined in law.

In the EU information about a person is considered to be their information, and generally cannot be shared without their consent.

It is a fundamental difference.

No. The company offered the information to the government. Paying a fee for access does not meaningfully change the fact that the information was provided voluntarily.

If we want to protect privacy, we need to outlaw collection/retention beyond necessary of the data.

Looking at data-sets and seeing the pattern of money laundering is part of the job of IRS investigators -seeing signs that there is criminal activity going on and then deciding to launch an investigation is something that they should do. There is no need for a warrant to look at data that is offered. A fee for data-access does not meaningfully change the fact that it is offered.

If we want privacy, we need to outlaw collecting (or retaining after necessary usage) of the data. Making it illegal to sell or to purchase will not protect our privacy -data will be leaked. Only preventing the collection/retention will suffice.

Just up the page is an article headlining this type of incestuous investment I am referring to : https://f6ffb3fa-34ce-43c1-939d-77e64deb3c0c.atarimworker.io/story/25/...

Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI-rival Anthropic announced strategic partnerships today that will scale Claude on Microsoft Azure and bring up to $15 billion in new investment to the AI startup. Anthropic committed to purchase $30 billion of Azure compute capacity and contract additional capacity up to one gigawatt. Nvidia and Microsoft -- the largest investor in OpenAI -- committed to invest up to $10 billion and up to $5 billion respectively in Anthropic.