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Though in this case the kid was walking all in a gated community.

They charged the mom with delinquency of a minor to get around this. Usually reserved for teenagers that commit crimes.

We don't really know all the facts, and we only get one side of the story here. So we all need to keep that in mind too.

I would say if you're in a neighborhood where there's just like 1-2 kids, it may not be that typical. The kids parents might do more scheduled playdates.

Unfortunately in the US there are people that get annoyed about kids playing. And they are also the same kind of person that escalates things to the authorities / complains a lot about trivial things.

There's a Netflix documentary about one such sad case https://www.netflix.com/title/82018736

And in particular, the conviction here was delinquency of a minor. That's usually used to convict parents of teenagers whose kids do serious crimes.

I caveat to say, we don't know the full details. But it all seems pretty weak sauce.

That said, there may be details we don't know here. This particular article is written from one bent, and the officials didn't comment on the case as is common in child-related prosecutions.

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I write mine all the time. Enough people seem to engage with it. Traffic seems fine.

I probably write less for capturing Google traffic, but instead as a signpost of something cool I worked on or learned. That I can send to people I meet as a reference. Impress my friends. Or refer to myself. Or show an agent (I often prefer writing blog articles to skills).

There’s a pretty massive competitive advantage to having your own voice that doesn’t sound like slop. IMO it’s never been a better time to be a messy, slightly unpolsihed human writing on the Web.

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.. which in turn causes my AirPods to connect to my laptop

I have to go manually hunt to connect everything correctly Every. Single. Time.

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Yes it’s incentives - but why these incentives exist and not others is an interesting question to study.

In the 2010s we pushed everyone to learn how to code and maybe lost some of our higher standards. Maybe we’re doing that now with AI?

Maybe broader social and economic incentives have had a lot of short term thinking of late? It’s hard to organize society or a company to go in one direction very long before incentives completely change everything. Who knows, maybe that’s a feature, not a bug.

It’s worth asking though why we have this software industry and not another one. I’m not convinced it’s for legitimate reasons.

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It’s naive to think politically motivated surveillance can’t happen in the UK and elsewhere. Or to assume that only the “right people” will be the ones able to break encryption.

That’s one reason electric cars are a bit of a luxury item right now.

They have a toy, they’re increasingly abusing it, then trying to dodge from it being taken away.

The thing is nobody has to comply with 1509 summons, DHS has to go to court to enforce it. A lot of the fault is on a company that complies without just ignoring it.