This is the first comment I see directing the problem at the parents, where I believe it rightly belongs. Is it not the parent's responsibility to make sure their child gets to school safely and on time every day?
Yes, but not in the way they think... The tech giants capable of running these AIs at scale will soon expand their business into selling "certified human created content" back to us.
Please talk to a bicycle rider in any major city. The problem isn't density; it's the danger imposed by cars combined with poorly implemented (if at all) bike infrastructure.
Maybe when you tell your engineers you need X feature implemented in two weeks, leaving them no time to plan or refactor, and they're building on an already bloated, ancient spaghetti codebase because every deadline has been two weeks under a skeleton crew for the past decade...
I wanted to connect my Nintendo Switch to the hotel wifi, but the captive portal wouldn't load on it. So I just spoofed my Switch MAC on my laptop, got thru the captive portal, reverted everything, and I was able to happily play Diablo 3 :)
Did developers and consumers have a choice? Maybe at some micro niche level, but the capitalistic status quo is driven by mass production and monopolistic forces, by design.
I also use weather.gov, and the notable feature for me is the Forecast Discussion where you can read the verbatim forecaster notes for the current forecast. It's great!
I deeply love tiling window managers. Seems a bit exaggerated, but just an hour of practice with it and a cheatsheet handy really hooked me. Yeah it might be 'ugly' but the sheer speed I can arrange an entire desktop, and also have additional desktops on hotkey was a real productivity improvement for me. Boring is good!
So the Biden administration's stance is what exactly? That data brokers are fine and cool, until the point of exfiltrating the data to 'a country of concern'. Shame.
There really needs to be a chain of custody for any data these companies have. And at any point, a person should be able to follow it back and see exactly where it was collected, and have it removed from every entity along the way. And if there's a break in the chain, the company should be dissolved and its entire leadership sent to prison.
How is that especially relevant? ID.me is just another example in the near endless list of 'public-private partnerships' that have been eroding the public's trust for decades. It certainly didn't start during COVID.
That stance is simply in line with the U.S. State Department, which also does not consider ROC (Taiwan) a country, which just reinforces the point that you're replying to: the NYT, like the rest of the MSM, is just carrying water for the capitalist American hegemonic status quo.
Youtube Shorts, Tiktok, Instagram, Twitter... basically any 'infinite feed' of content is no different from channel surfing of yore, which I think is also harmful to our brain and attention span.
Why would your ideal solution still involve insurance? I think most people want the hospital (they don't care who runs it) to send the bill to the government. That's it. And if the state or federal government wants to set up a system of oversight over the charges, then good.
Well it's not 'clear' when every promotional process I've encountered doesn't reward such forward-thinking preventative maintenance compared to someone who postures themselves as a hero going around putting out manufactured fires.