Agreed. I get that the mission of Wikipedia is to make information available to everyone and purposely cutting off a whole nation from their information goes against their mission. But sometimes Wikipedia should play hardball, and if the UK elected a government that wants to block Wikipedia then the people of the UK shouldn’t get Wikipedia. The people of the UK will need to elect a new government. Or get a VPN. Or both.

Wow yikes. I couldn’t even get through a few minutes of one of them. I assume the prompt was “generate the most annoying video possible using random clips of humanoid cats and a soundtrack that induces aneurysms”

This is actually a problem for people in rural areas where broadband has not reached (and won’t because it’s not profitable). Cellular will be the best option they have left.

As long as the previous collections of archives are still intact. We probably don’t need all of their new spam posts in the wayback machine anyway

The “outsourced labor” is the most concerning part here. People who won’t have a voice and can’t protest the poor conditions

His building in Seattle is really wacky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainier_Tower

WTF is a “crime city” in your mind? It’s a low income city (avg $51k compared to US avg $79k). Does poor = criminal now?

To be fair, if everyone spent more time looking at cat memes instead of listening to billionaires talk about their big stupid ideas, we’d be in much better shape as a species.

Is Google solely responsible for earthquake notifications? For a system they describe as a safety net it’s pretty concerning it’s being relied on so much.

May it wither and die. I would post my ID on the bathroom wall at Heathrow before I would submit it to what remains of Twitter.

Very low and yes. They work great for IoT, as long as it’s not mission critical stuff as messages can get dropped or arrive out of order sometimes. But for something like monitoring a remote sensor station that’s within the Lora range, without needing a cellular plan, yes.

When I was in high school there was a guy in the class below us that ate a slice of pizza every day for lunch and every day brushed the box onto the ground in the outdoor seating area and walked away. We started collecting them and when we had a few dozen we filled his locker with them with a note not to be such an inconsiderate asshole. Enough people saw them come tumbling out of his locker that shaming him for littering became a popular meme for a while and he was really self conscious about it after that. It felt soooooo good.

How long until the Internet is so full of bots and AI spam that it becomes impossible to even find our fellow humans amid the noise?

Thorium.

Yeah it only felt like it wasn’t a big deal because it became a big deal early enough for there to be plans made. And because good people doing hard work to prevent a problem wasn’t newsworthy after the fact.

I like the logo. That cat looks appropriately suspicious.

Thruple?

Because it will only fix it for AI and not for the inefficient meat puppets.

A good attorney could argue that drilling a hole in the side of the carton does not constitute opening the package.

It would be a terrible shame if someone used their own AI to spam this form with applicants.