when defined by a human its education, what do you call it when someone without such clear interests is in control of what you read?

When you pick up a book and read it, it's because you chose to read it. You had to physically make the decision to get up and get the book and read it, whether from a library or your elsewhere. Reading and writing on a smartphone is partially controlled by you, but there's an aspect of it that involves algorithmic decisions about what content you consume, especially if someone participates in any of the social media platforms which curate content for you, which is all of them.

So your statement is true, but a book will never seek you out to target your brain and person with an intention to program you with ideas. Smart phones are a direct brain tap whose control of what you consume is not entirely in your hands. This is the aspect of control that is most easily lost in the smart phone age. Certainly you can own a smart phone and intentionally avoid the worst of it, and even consume intelligently some social media -- but the traps are ever present and evolving.

whats the point of automating making more documents? i already didn't read most of the garbage created by humans. If we amplify the garbage by 10, how is that helping produce anything useful? if anything, work requires less words, not more of them. the last thing we need is more useless time wasting documents.

i haven't seen this level of global delusion in my entire life. the executives of every company are absolutely insane. they're blinded by the promise of a jump in efficiency, but dont know enough about the underlying technology to really understand how it can be applied, so they're all just blindly walking off a cliff.

this is insane to see and very illuminating about how stupid all of these PHB's are.

its a symbolic ordinance, its not a law or regulation that's intended to be enforced. its just saying hey, this is a good idea and a reminder from your city leaders about some things you might want to think about.

its not meant to be enforced, its a symbolic ordinance meant to communicate. read the article and don't overreact

Once again drinkypoo goes to great lengths to expose his stupidity for the world to see with another uninformed, idiotic Slashdot post.

The 90s and early 2000s was the peak of automotive engineering in the USA, and Cash for Clunkers destroyed a shit ton of good, reliable automobiles from that era, which have now been replaced by more expensive late model shitboxes. It was nothing but a gigantic waste of resources and sabotage of this nation, which is exactly what it was intended to be. Any fevered imaginings of 'benefit' from this travesty is only an example of the Broken Window Fallacy.

Please tell us more about your individual brand of brain damage in your sure-to-be-entertaining followup post.

In future slashdot posts I suggest sticking to The History of Teletubbies or whatever else it is that you are actually qualified to comment on, i.e. not 99% of the subjects you run your mouth on.

> 'Governments should be intervening on behalf of their people at this point'

Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook, OpenAI, Anthropic, Netflix, so on and so forth, all share one thing in common: they are the creation of US intelligence.

Everything in the western world today is owned by these people. None of this is just organically happening, it's all planned and carefully choreographed, and no, the government definitely isn't your buddy here.

Make no mistake, this is a war, and it's for all the chips. Start hoarding old computer hardware, and build your own OS to run it.

It seems like this is just some research group noodling on advanced rocket concepts, not whether they are practical or not. Any increase in SPEED to destination results in an EQUAL need to decelerate at the destination. Deceleration can occur through gravity assisted capture or aerobraking, but none of the more complex strategies for getting rid of velocity at the destination is really used because they're very inaccurate compared to a capture burn.

That's why I'll always be skeptical of these sort of promises of extreme performance being beneficial. There are very few cases where a doubling of velocity in space travel is important. You can always exchange speed for time.

Indeed it isn't. They doing it all day long, every day here in the USA and around the world. It's called "geoengineering", "weather modification" or "chemtrails" depending on who you're talking to. It goes far beyond just making a rainstorm or two here or there.

Now there's a sensible idea.

Lucifer is great at solving problems. He has to be, as he's always causing them.

Hopefully the massive widescale weather experiment we are all unwittingly or helplessly a part of won't have any devastating consequences years or generations down the line. "What could possibly go wrong?"

All this is theater exactly the same way that Microsoft anti-trust thing years ago was theater. Just bread and circuses.

All of these companies have one thing in common: they were founded by US intelligence. They are proprietary fronts. None of these "companies" organically arose due to "capitalism" or "free market" or whatnot. All of their founding myths are bullshit. It's intel dollars at work.

Look up who Jeff Bezos' grandfather was. (Preston Gize was his name.) Big shot at DARPA. You think it was a coincidence this guy ended up as head of Amazon? Just a really smart guy who happened to be in the right place at the right time?

The world we've built is built for our shape -- bipedal, upright. While specialist shapes can be useful in limited circumstances, a bipedal human-shaped robot would be adaptable to the world that already exists.

exploring the anecdote, I have 5 kids, so yeah -- no European vacations here!! Only saving so they can have some access to opportunity I didn't have.

I have not kept more than 2 months worth of cash in my bank for 15 years. I find it hard to believe many people keep significant amounts of cash in banks anymore. Are there even balances that could outflow to stablecoins? Who keeps piles of cash in a bank while you could hold stocks, mutual funds, bitcoin etc. Stablecoins aren't a threat at all, unless a new kind of bank appears that replaces trad banks in utility by using a stable coin.

tokenized securities are not comparable to mortgage backed securities.