Yes. Trump will be holding a gun to the head of the American Economy for the next four years, playing MAGA Roulette. Cycle: make threats, take bribes, time the market and make quick returns, then delay such threats...

When this change was made many Slashdotters said it was ridiculous.

Cayenne8 said: "Yeah, my first thought was WTF would they ditch the very popular and VERY well known company name "HBO" for just Max? Seems like the latest round of marketing folks coming to businesses these days haven't a clue about the job they are trying to do, and how it all works."

Then we piled on from there...

An American dream for the very privileged: Getting paid generational wealth despite messing up so badly.

Will the typical person be able to tell the difference between a human and AI voice reading the stories?

Certainly the best-sellers will retain humans, even famous humans, to read their books. But for the rest, AI could save them a lot of time and money.

Hopefully this technology will spread fast and then every book will be available with narration on many platforms. That would lead to price competition and competition for quality. Let the free market decide if this is a good idea or not.

What prevents one or a handful of IDs from being used by millions of people?

An obvious solution for that problem would be for every ID verification to be cross-checked against governmental registries.

This is also very convenient for the government to 'protect the children' and 'fight terrorists' by knowing every 'sensitive' thing that your ID has been registered to have had accessed. Your personal liberty will certainly be secured by this enlightened system, and no dragnet will ever ruin your reputation and good standing.

Oh, and if things you have already accessed are later deemed to be 'sensitive' then could that blemish be added to your permanent record after the fact - long after you had a chance to decided to click the link?

Bring a sled! This slope looks slippery.

Five years after a major architecture change sounds about right, given Apple's history. M68k was supported up to about 1998-1999. PPC software updates ended around 2010. So 2025 would make sense as the last year of Intel- Mac support.

This seems like a distraction for the driver. Distractions cause accidents. Accidents cost money.

The lucky drivers of these vehicles will pay again in higher insurance rates.

Will this be a 'feature' in rental cars too? I do not want this feature.

Use AI to maximize productivity &out compete your peers: Get a job!

Use AI and lose your ability to handle irregular situations: Lose a job!

Everything will be fine as long as nothing goes wrong in a novel way.

So basically he can claim a 6 million loss on his taxes. It would be nice if regular working people could write off food consumed as capital losses, but our tax code favors the rich, so I already know the answer.

These new rules sound useful for customers on Steam. Since Steam is a heavy weight this could impact game sales across the industry. The other game service providers don't even have to explicitly follow suit in order to benefit from this; cross platform games could meet Valve's expectations across platforms as a consequence of doing this for Steam. Will Microsoft, GOG, Epic, Apple, Google Play, Sony, Nintendo, and others follow suit?

The free market works when there is competition. A similar DLC rule from the FCC might not even be as effective of Steam doing it. Sure the FCC might get around to suing some company for breaking the rule, eventually. But Steam can knock a company down, right in the pocket book, as fast as customers complain with merit.

I look forward to seeing how this plays out with customers of Steam, purveyors on Steam, and competitors to Steam.

Yes, because they'll sell you subscription for extended support and make you think you're getting a great deal!!!

At least he didn't ask you to print his database out.

Protesting is completely possible. If there is a will to make a subreddit unusable as a sign of protest, then invite 'bad posts' and upvote them. When the many lurkers log in and see the same protest pictures & posts filling their feeds, the protest message will get out.

Reddit relies on the uploads, likes, and shares of the masses. The attention of millions of people is filtered through the actions of relatively few moderators. If the mods are mad, then they can allow the feeds to funnel garbage. Without a complete redesign for how Reddit works the ability to direct the attention of the visitors will rest with the mods. That is power; political power..

Reddit can solve their reliance on human mods by investing in robots. Reddit can solve the robot uprising another day; kick that resistance is futile can down the road.

At this point, if you really believe Trump is a businessman, digital pioneer, real estate developer, great President, and that Democrats are evil, want to transition your children at school while flooding the country with migrants while taking away your guns, etc., please just give Trump all of your money right now. Sell your home, retirement savings, car, jewelry, Television, sell everything, and write him a check. Buy Trump's gold "assassination edition" sneakers, piece of Trump's debate suit, The Trump Superhero NFT collection, load up on Truth Social stock, Trump trading cards, Trump Crypto, etc. Do it now before supplies run out! Trump needs your money now to finance his lavish lifestyle, and Make America Great Again!!!

Seriously though, how is a crypto exchange not just another scheme to take illegal campaign contributions from foreign countries, dictators, enemies of America, and launder it into Trump's pocket? What Trump has proven time and again, is he has more conflicts on interest than Hunter Biden has mysterious laptops. Pointing this out to Trump's cult is a waste of time, so please if you're still MAGA, please do yourself and all of us a favor and just give everything to Trump now, and once he's president again, you'll know exactly how much he really cares about you or your family's welfare.