Edit: "civic religion" aha. Sorry, I should have guessed you were trolling. Can't wait to see what kind of revolution you cook up.

Disagree.

Iterated prisoner's dilemma leads to cooperation.

They could "protect the children" at will. They simply choose not to.

Why this kabuki?

  "Yes, please, regulate us" while making any formal regulation moot?

  Directing attention away from the bot plague?

  Pushing age verification to protect their algorithmic hate machines?

  Monkey motion to avoid talking about true privacy? (Specifically, all data encrypted *at rest* using translucent database strategies.)

Whenever I hear about this new fangled AT protocol all the kids are jazzed about, I get all wistful for the BBS era.

FidoNet & PC-Relay were pretty fanfastic. For the time, obv.

Source: Was sysadmin for a hub.

Yes. Focus on outcomes.

Pick a target amount of inequity. Act to hit that goal. Adjust as needed.

For example, I advocate restoring our gini coefficient from the current 0.48 (?) back to 1970s era 0.35. People smarter than me will figure out how to best measure inequity, ideal targets, and implementation details.

Arguing about all the misc tax rates, purposefully ignoring the macro, is an obfuscation strategy to prevent taking any action at all. Straight out of the CIA's field guide on sabotage.

Thanks for sharing.

Apologies, my google-fu is weak; I couldn't find more details. It's SON's building? I couldn't find that roof top at that address (using Google Maps).

Here's as far as I got: https://gemini.google.com/share/bef19f2b145c

All software should be placed in escrow, made available at end of support.

Said another way: push vs pull.

The pnly unforgiveable sin in USA politics.

Raises the floor at the expense of lowering the ceiling.

And another thing...

Sierra says:

> Transform phone support with AI agents that speak naturally, reinforce your brand, and take action—across inbound and outbound calls.

Reinforce one's branding? For the better? Really?

Seems unlikely.

I've LARPed in most roles around product development. Tech support, sales, QA/Test, tech writing, marketing, etc. Enough to appreciate that engineering the entire lifecycle is important.

A comment elsethread states customers HATE these support robots. I believe it; me too.

Before adopting agentic CX (of whatever its called), I'd worry about alienating my current and future customers.

Penny wise, pound foolish.

Yes and: Gatekeeping megacorp's profits continue to rise, while creators are screwed.

The original intent of copyright protection in the USA was to encourage production of culture. (Ditto patents for knowledge.) That sounds fantastic. I support that.

I've just started Darknet Diaries podcast. So great.

When I worked on electronic medical records, I assumed it was just a matter of time until we were hacked (too). All the most banal reasons: many vendors, shared passwords, root/admin access, etc.

I imagine things haven't improved much since.

Aha: "identity". You nailed the misgivings I couldn't articulate. Thank you.