Agent is a term lawyers use for some entity delegated to do a task for another agent. That's what I meant by "legal agent". I'm not a lawyer, so I don't want to be too definite about just what it means, but delegating a task to a agent doesn't relieve you of responsibility for how they do the job. And I don't think you can assume that maps precisely onto the way agent is used in the context of AI, though the meanings are clearly analogous.

That's a mix of meanings of agent. (Not a total disconnect, though.)
An AI agent is something set in motion by the AI to complete a task.
A legal agent (IIUC..not sure) is a separate legal entity that is accomplishing a task for the delegating legal entity. In that case the delegating entity is legally responsible for the means that the agent used to accomplish the task.

So there's a close connection, but I'm not convinced that the agents used by the AI are legal entities. (Actually, I'm not convinced that the AI, itself, is a legal entity, but the point I was making was that even if it *is*, the delegating entity is still responsible.)

OTOH, if you claim that "The AI did it", then the AI was acting as their agent. So they're still responsible.

It's their website and their property. They invite you to store some of your data on their webservers, and they provide the terms under which you can do that.

If you don't like the terms they are offering, you can not store data on their webservers.

Facebook isn't life-and-death.

I don't have a facebook account, I've never had a facebook account, and I'm still here. You can do it too, if you choose.

By time an hour would be needed we'll have to factor in the relatively different passage of time on various colonies and have a standard that accounts for timekeeping in different reference frames at least throughout the Solar System.

Hopefully ... if we don't allow politicians to kill our civilization first.

Somebody who works that out now and proposes a correct mechanism will have their name remembered.

The "leap hour" will just never be implemented. There's no need for it. Just avoid returning to Standard time from Daylight saving time one year, and switch the labels.

Unfair. If you actually rely on what he is reported to have said, rather than what others have added, he comes off as a good guy (outside of a few lapses, like that fig tree incident).

I happen to think he's as fictitious as Adam Selene, but that's almost irrelevant.

No, but *do* blame the Israeli government and their supporters.

I've heard from a guy involved in the bond market thst the economy is in major recession outside of the Mag7 and AI stocks.

Apparently secondary markets, insurance reinvestments, private credit, pension funds - they're so heavy in AI stocks to just beat inflation that when Sam said tokens aren't selling fast enough with the decreasing cost of generating them to turn a profit they started bracing for an Everything Crash.

Like insurance companies failing, CRE going into foreclosure, pension funds defaulting, bond-issuing companies liquidating equity to meet obligations, etc.

Treasury would have to hyperinflate to bail them all out, transferring massive wealth from the People to the Corporations, yet again.

That's gonna get spicy and probably stabby.

Shout out to the few folks here who remind us that they block just about everything on the web that could cause problems - the only ones of us who are probably safe.

I bet a few don't even allow stylesheets.

Yes, check out the Business Reform Youtube channel - he reviewed a couple of sonic jammers recently.

Also "Bee Gone" from our friend group if somebody tries this. Might be more effective.

Congress has exercised Inherent Contempt powers as recently as a hundred years ago but they turned the Congressional Jail into a speakeasy/conference room which roughly reflects their sense of duty.

Which, to your point, they now refer the DoJ to the DoJ for prosecution.

But also that illustrates why prior Congresses held the power to be essential.

It would have been grand if "The Dow, the Dow is over fifty thousand!" landed Bill Barbie in jail until she had time to think abour her duty to respond truthfully.

I've reminded Paul about his duty but they're all weak on such matters.

If only Alan Watts had known about the biological processes tied to the Schumann Resonance, 1G of gravity, and the Circadian Rhythm ... he would have come to the same conclusions.

Deep Space explorers are going to have to create mini Earths if they want to stay healthy.

This is very disappointing to the Platonists and Transhumanists.

Yes, but that's not a legal argument.

It can very occasionally be a pain in the butt, but I use a throwaway google account for my phone, and nothing but my phone. The only data I allow it to back up is my contacts list (even that is a stretch for me, but I got tired of re-entering all the names and numbers each time I bought a new phone or doing a manual local backup process). There are no other google accounts added to my phone. No gmail (I use a third party IMAP client for a non-google email, only two weeks of emails are kept on the server before being downloaded to my local PC and deleted.)

Depends on how much you want to sacrifice convenience for safety in terms of someone potentially having access to your entire digital history / footprint by getting a hold of your phone.

The idea is to keep a reasonable amount of stuff local-only and off the device that is easy to steal / confiscate / hack.