Bitcoin doesn't lie on what it is and what it does. AI companies on the other hand ...

It’s almost impressive to hear you complain about “political indoctrination” while your post is a textbook example of it.

Your country (The USA) used to be the leader of science. That is one big reason it was so successful and is now the major power in the world. Seeing you and Trump tear all that down is really frightening. Jesus won't come to save you, you know? It's just a fairy tale just like Santa Claus.

I love ICE wannabees. Show me your papers, DamnOregonian, or are you really in Myanmar?

Dystopian look? Do you ignore what's around you?

Malpractice is more civil in action, and when you're a soulless corp, is the direct route. When people die as a result of stupidity, that's called manslaughter. Is manslaughter a criminal offense? Yes.

Our dependency on connectivity and working platforms follows the rubric surrounding the laws concerning utilities, but Section 230 provides the line in the sand of responsibility for culpability, and the sense of common carrier status provides a metric for service level.

The sense of what is justice should prevail. No one falls on their sword when hundreds of thousands of travelers are grounded when an API causes massive flight cancellations.

Just like train wrecks, outages have consequences. Justice also speaks to injury, even death, with consequences. The sense that the world gets is that US Tech Bros face no consequences. By many metrics, this lack of consequences is real and provable.

The resistance to AI is just another symptom of the problem of trust, and its violation in the tech world, and its immunity from consequences of injurious actions on the part of tech infrastructure holders.

It's a matter of trust, and the trust relationship between the US and EU, as well as the UK, is breaking fast.

Worse, all of US cloud vendors have shown a lack of safety, outages, missteps, and uptime in 2025. As these entities are largely immune from prosecution in the US, it's better to have someone close at hand, whose neck you can wring with actual authority.

I'm an American, and I don't trust these jokers, either. Big does not make better. The bleeding edge requires bandages, especially with AI infections becoming prominent.

Here it is https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmegnut.com%2F2007%2F05%2F16%2F...

Some recipe sites also jumped into generative ai fairly quickly as well. Generative AI is great for recipes. A couple of years ago someone gathered lots of recipes for chocolate chip cookies, took the average in Excel, and won a chocolate chip cookie baking competition. This is essentially what generative ai does when generating recipes, and they are generally decent.

I worry this will result in a "This product may cause cancer in California" sort of outcome. Label it as AI just in case. I've already seen the AI tag on a few videos which were arguably edited only using conventional methods. One of them had only been sped up.

I was taught in university that of you were going to design something and it didn't look a bit like other solutions on the market, you better have good reasons and be able to explain yourself.

Or the money Meta has burned off trying to be something that they aren't, the ashes of failed products needing to be brushed under the rug with fresh revenues.

I use LibreWolf on a couple of machines. It's OK, but it evolves slowly. They deserve the money I donated to Mozilla. But the distros don't include the LibreWolf version; Ubuntu as an example, puts in a godforsaken package island.

If the LibreOffice folks could somehow hug the LibreWolf people, distros could take a turn for the better.

As we watch CoPilot failures, AI browsers no one wants, a change for Firefox users to AI would be plainly a solution looking for a problem.

If Firefox can be successfully forked to a non-AI version, I'll go with that. Libre-stuff would get a great boost by navigating around the inevitable wasteland that Firefox will become.

Strangely, products taking an anti-AI stance are starting to thrive again. I hope their board notices and changes direction towards optimizing Firefox, getting rid of their new mercenary telemetry stance, and gets back to the basics of just doing an open good job.

Paypal was never prohibited from becoming a bank. They remained not-a-bank because they believed it was a more profitable arrangement. They have now apparently changed their mind, and in my view they're many years late in that decision. Other startup financial services companies have been nipping at their heels harder and faster in the last couple years. Recent politics and are mentioned in the same story but it can not be concluded that these are directly related.

I've watched my kids play Roblox for extended periods, and I even join them for an hour every now and then. I didn't see anything particularly alarming, at all. I'm sure it happens but it seems very rare.

You can buy Japanese sim cards on amazon.co.jp which work great. I'm sure some or many of the Japanese telecom companies are rubbish, as most are across the world. However, sim locking in Japan is not required for all carriers.