This is a must watch every day.

Buzz Aldrin's defence in court:

"Your honour, that video of me punching that guy is totally staged and fake, and I was never there."

Firefox Focus anybody?

How do you have two extra spare tyres to use?

This creates an immense chilling effect on all climate protests in Germany.

Unfortunately, the chilling effect needs to be applied to the climate, not the protests.

Let's not forget this is all driven by people with the right skillset, in the right place at the right time, who are hell-bent on making vast amounts of money.

The "visionary technological change" is a secondary justification.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_population

This is what the 3rd party access to API was really all about.

When API access was allowed , all reddit content was effectively free: They needed to ban 3rd party apps so they could sell the accumulated content. I expect using content to train AI also factors into it.

It can be helpful to see these attacks of grief over the sudden memory of now passed family, friends, and pets in a different way:

Which is how incredibly lucky you are to have had those experiences and memories in your life as opposed to not having had them at all. Which is something to be grateful for.

Et tu, Brute?

NTS

Amazing video, now thirty years old. By now, you would expect this analysis of population, economic & consumption growth would be essential learning in schools. My feeling is that the world today caries on with even greater ignorance of the consequences of this exponential growth than it did back then.