In whose eyes? They have lobbyists backing them, and a general public who doesn’t know any better, or care to know.

Exposing the stupidity is a great goal, running headfirst into the “Who will think of the children!1!!” wall… not so much.

AB 1043 passed the California Assembly 76–0 and the Senate 38–0. Not a single legislator voted against it.

1798.503. (a) A person that violates this title shall be subject to an injunction and liable for a civil penalty of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per affected child for each negligent violation or not more than seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) per affected child for each intentional violation

This device does not collect, store, or transmit the age of its user. This is intentional.

Is there any reason to believe they won’t want to make an example out of intentional violators?

Yes, I get that they may want verification with government ID… but unless they do it at a firmware level, anything above a FOSS Linux kernel on my own unlocked hardware, is fully under my control.

So far, it sounds to me like “age verif theatre” as applied to single user “jailbroken” systems. If they added this on a locked down Android system, as a requirement for network access (note: this is an actual proposal being floated around) then that would be of some concern… but systemd? 🤨

QUESTION: if I run my own system with local accounts, full root access, and no remote accounts… why should I care about whether systemd “MAY BE ABLE” to store someone’s date of birth?

Sounds to me like, for all I care, they could add fields for ethnicity, religion, d size, political orientation, colonic maps, or whatever else they want.

If it’s to build systems shared with underage family members, schools, or other public system… I personally DGAF.

(Skipping the AGI buzzword BS…)

How do the dream cycle and memory consolidation work?

(I find it a bit intriguing though, that people would have time to both write novel-length responses on social media, and do any actual work 🤔)

What are those dream cycle and memory consolidation it’s using?

AGI sounds like BS (by definition)… but what’s behind the buzzword? This guy is supposed to be smart, might as well have built some stuff around an LLM that makes it leap forward.

Poisoning what? Intentional poisoning doesn’t work, and self-consumption only works when it’s the exact same model feeding its own next version.

There’s this:

• https://www.popsci.com/technology/billionaire-freedom-city-greenland/

Breaking NATO also has a chance of destroying the USD, which could be related to these:

• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/14/trump-crypto-conflict-interest
• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/18/trump-financial-products-conflicts-of-interest

Women using sycophantic chatbots that they 100% control, is stil about power and control. One is about bodies, the other is about minds, that’s the only difference.

Is it a majority stake? In the video, he makes it sound like they’re co-owners… which says nothing, and the “our brands” wording is also common as a hyperbole.

If they earn money from pushing quality content, adding similar channels, adding Patreon financing, backer-only specials, merchandising, placing content on other platforms… “the other shoe” could be simply making a profit.

Whether Electrify will eventually sell out in turn, is a separate question.

When one has 20 million subscribers who get notified of the videos, those few cents per Ad, add up quickly. He’s also worked his ass off on the quality side of YouTube, which has earned him a lot of good will and supporters.

Goes to show that quality content, can also be profitable. It’s not all about the bottom dwellers.

I’m sorry to say this, but it sounds like you got duped, hard.

When estimating support numbers, remember the 90-9-1 rule. In opinion creating spaces, most of the Creators and Contributors are interested actors. What you thought were large numbers of “fellow people”, were most likely opinion creators, grifters, and a small number of genuine believers. The bulk of real people, were most likely the lurkers whom you never saw or heard from, and who likely held all sorts of different opinions.

Your one vote was barely relevant, the important part was to plant a series of messages in the minds of those silent 90%. Once the goal has been achieved, and the opinion space no longer needed, those genuine believers get discarded, and the next opinion creation space is spun up with the same formula.

Depending on how much is “too much power”, people might still want to purchase them at a discount for self-hosting purposes. The future is most likely to go through a decentralization of AI services, with spme higher efficiency large providers, combined with lower efficiency edge nodes for less demanding usage… at least, until the next order of magnitude technological shift.

Check the history of ReCaptcha: it started by helping digitize booksxfir the Gutenberg Project, then once it got acquired by Google, it switched to house numbers, street signs (auto driving?), and is now helping with object identification.

Strictly speaking, math gets proven from scratch by every math student. Software is slightly different, since most of it never gets a formal proof at all.

Me. Tiny strong magnets, are good for reasonably strong attraction at short distances. Uses so far:

• Magnetic latches for small parts drawers (2 per drawer, 50 drawers)
• Press-fitting a bunch, into molten plastic holes on the back of a digital thermometer (heat makes them lose strength, so the stronger they start, the better)
• Signal for a hall effect sensor (1 sensor, n magnets)

They should always be securely glued in place, though.

I’ve seen people use thinner ones, inside the lid of a gift box, as a latch. Also as a magnet for a LED throwie.

The problem, is stupidity like this:

Science for Kids: DIY Magnetic LED Lights

Don’t let dumb kids anywhere near them! 🤦

I can answer the “let alone 100” part: they get sold as cubes of 216, 512, 1000 tiny magnet balls, or as packs of 80, 100, 200, etc. tiny magnets.

Why would anyone swallow them… the sale is restricted to 13+ or 18+ in most places, but some (including parents) are unaware of the dangers, and they go for like $2 for 100pcs.

Well… Magnemite

No… Google’s 😆

This is what I get:

Using a complex GPT-4o prompt, they sought to pull out tweets that focused on “superficial topics”

Wait a moment… They asked an LLM, to tell them what was “junk”, and another LLM, trained on what an LLM marked as junk, turned out to be a junk LLM?

It talks about model collapse, but this smells like research collapse.