this would be balanced for both players.

If course with magic the lands pile would have to have rules like no lands that turn into creatures or something.. maybe even just basic lands .

but each person gets a land each turn - been thinking that makes the game better.

My ability to run ads, and to work for about half the places trying to hire me to run ads, was perma banned by an AI with this message:

- "Our technology found your ad account doesn’t follow our Advertising Policies. As a result, our technology took action."

Or maybe people knowing of the layoffs set it up this way. Hmm. That would hit their bottom line many times over.

Either way, being struck down in the crossfire is terrible.

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Not sure if there is a blocker from youtube in some way, but making backups of public playlists would certainly come in handy for a lot of people.

Seeing the articles and youtube videos and other articles about how to find your YT profile URL and searching the archive - obviously it's a thing bigger than I thought, and not something I ever considered.

Many of the workers in call center IT, sales or customer support I do not think will find a lateral move in any workplace - which will put pressure on the no skill job market like uber and similar, which is already being displaced by waymo for rides and the 200 new delivery robots deployed in LA (and already taking jobs in Chicago)

Finance support jobs in NC, call people in Arizona and Vegas and others will be hit hard.

I have a bunch docs I may turn into a movie on this soon.

AI customer service is already better than many of the call center employees and depending on needs may replace a worker for under $100 / month, right now.

Only thing keeping these places afloat is contracts already in place, and that it may take a few months to ramp up the knowledge bases.

As far as fast food goes; Bojangles a block from me has AI voice bot that handles orders, questions, substitutions, different accents.. I tried to trip it up - and its better than most humans I have at the speaker box.

The inside kiosks at McDs started replacing humans long ago, if they took cash they would be better than humans today.

Replacing humans with cooking or cleaning? There are so many poor people in the US that it will likely just be cheaper to have humans doing that sort of thing.

Other commercial cleaning will likely replace 2 of 3 (or 1 of 3 if they are using child / other limited labor) workers with floor bots not too long from now.

When robots are skilled enough to clean chickens is when I worry about the impending desperation around my local in the US.

It's the 'rook' playlist that got deleted, ( when trying to edit playlist to change not so great thumbnail. )

searching for 'recovery my deleted youtube music playlist' basically says find the url and go to internet archive and pray. Mine was shown in two IA pages, but clicking to view list was some 404 type error.

I know they have added additional services and you could say that they offer a type of hosting and domain names and other such stuff.. but generally when place get kicked from cloudflare, it is not their web host.

I would also say that they know pretty well when they kick someone from the dns protection that they are going to be bombarded with ddos and other issues that will take them offline more than likely.

1 - hold the parents accountable for putting a dangerous weapon in the hands of munchkins without supervision.

2 - phone manufactures and or internet providers that sell and connect them, must include a bouncer bot system like a locked phone. The parents get to choose and change which set of bouncers filter the phones.

These can be simple like 18 and over content according to your jurisdiction block.. but I would hope they would spend time to choose multiple bouncers that block different things for different values and offer ways to request access to blocked things.

I have posted more details previously.

at least after spending a half hour researching how to recover one - everyone says find the url, go to the internet archive and hope.

Youtube has terrible ux for edit playlist (one desktop anyway)

Luckliy I had a google takeout from not too long ago, and I have been using the YT music much less, so the loss was not as devastating.

recently while trying to decipher why computer was at 98% memory and 65% cpu

one of the culprits is https://li.protechts.net taking 2GB ram and 8% cpu.

DDG searches say this is something for linkedin. - I had two tabs for linkedin open but left behind as I opened other tabs to research.

So I had not reopened these tabs in over 9 hours and they are still just humming along sucking down almost 10% of cpu and a couple gigs of ram for what?

This is firefox with ublock origin - quick searches saw malwarebytes browser guard considered it (protechts.net) malware for a bit and then took it off the list of things it blocked / warned about.

Not sure this is related to the scan mentioned, but it may be related to the overall concerns about data and unknown usage of resources.

I'm considering blocking this at the dns hosts level at this point.

repost of my comment 28 days ago

Anecdotal for sure, ymmv.

The problems with meta ads is that the rules are complex, opaque, and that's likely to just increase. I've seen businesses lose their ad account and have their fb page banned with no recovery options.

Meta is not handling the scale very well, and is likely to lose many advertising customers for life. Comparatively, google has recently announced a new system to help people understand and change ads that run into rules issues.

I myself spent hundreds of hours prepared campaigns and systems to deploy meta ads, had a set of ads run for 8 days and was perma banned from running ads.

"Our technology found your ad account doesn’t follow our Advertising Policies. As a result, our technology took action."

I must say the process was a terrible experience, no one wants to be treated like that. I still don't know why. I do know that 'support' for this is mind boggling.

They are doing outreach for small businesses? Many will try and give up with this kind of support.

Now I have a meta bulk ads generator system I created, and this is funny, an ad compliance checker system I built to help businesses create ads and run them through a checker to learn about things they may be outside the rules.

And now, I can't run ads offering to help people, and I can't run ads for other people / businesses.

Half the jobs that are sent my way have 'manage meta ads' in the requirements. Though I have been trained for it and done it, I can't ever again.

Looking at the chat logs with the different meta systems it too seems confused about the reason. ( https://steveiscritical.com/04/eight-days-how-meta-banned-a-... )

I see this turning into a situation where only agencies that have dozens of pre-created burner accounts are able to do ads for people who want to run ads but can't, which will be tons of small businesses. This will raise the cost, and for many small businesses it won't be worth it.

My experience with similar 'some things are okay, we know it when we see it' - is that support is extremely hostile if it responds (vimeo) .. non-existant if you are banned (google, meta / facebook)

and most often "sorry everything is deleted, your content, friends list, messages - all gone." (all of the above including tumblr)

So yeah, building content and friend's lists on other people's farmland is a thing of the past. with censorship that costs you friends and data people are better off self hosting and doing the fediverse thing, or going to places that explicitly allow almost all explicit things.

There was a time when flickr was very cool for sharing and making friends with people in niches that was to hard find in many places, same with tumblr and it was ruined in a similar way.

It's fine, and I completely understand, it's just not what it once was. Many things are not.

I've had interesting chats where it explained that it's choice of tailwind for example was because it had a ton of training knowledge on it.

I've also had it try to build more in one chat than it should many times.

For some reason openai codex handles building too much without failing better - but that is total anecdata from my particular projects and ymmv.

I've had these things try to build big when a little nudge gets them to change direction and not build so much. Explain which libraries and such and asking it to change the tech stack and the steps to build at once seem to make things much better for my use cases.

Also running extra checks and cleanup later is a thing, that sure a human might have seen an obvious thing at time of build, but we have bigger memory context comparatively imho.

I seem to recall a buyout and some kind of 'certain things are no longer allowed' changes.

Similar thing happened with tumblr, then they semi-reversed a little but not a lot I think.

Stopped using both because losing content and accounts with no customer support is the internet way apparently.

I recently turned a couple things on in google cloud and I was under the impression that the budget was a hard limit, not an email notify system.

If this is true I must seriously rethink my plan for marketing, and throttle on my own website somehow.

so bizarre having a chat bot representing a business we are doing business with, say things like:

"Our technology found your ad account doesn't follow our Advertising Policies. As a result, our technology took action."

"Since my internal checks confirm that the review process for this specific ad account is complete and the decision to maintain the restriction is final, I am unable to assist you further with restoring access to this account. I know this is not the outcome you were hoping for, and I understand how challenging this is for you as a new advertiser."

- There is literally no way you can understand 'how challenging this is' for me.

Hilarious: "I know this lack of specific information is frustrating when you're trying to resolve the issue for your business."

- The AI bot really actually understands, I feel so heard and understood:

"Would you like me to help you check the status of any other ad accounts you may have?

no, if I can't run ads for this business then it will fail, I will be out of business and need to find a regular job somewhere. I can't believe this is a final decision. I firmly believe either the reviewer was mistaken in the action they selected, or Meta has bigger problems in that they have a policy that permanently bans a new business / advertiser within a week and there is nothing that can be done. This really seems abusive and improper. Is there someone else I can file a report about this with?

I can certainly understand how frustrating and impactful this situation is for your business. I hear your concerns about the review process and the impact a final decision has on a new advertiser.

While my internal checks confirm that the review is complete and the decision has been upheld, I can connect you with a support agent who can further investigate your specific case and discuss potential next steps with you. Would you like me to do that?

Yes

Our support team is currently experiencing high demand and is unable to connect right now, but I can continue to assist you here. I understand how critical this is for your business. To move forward, would you prefer to: A) Try the fastest fix B) Walk through diagnostic steps together Which would you like to try first?

I've already done all these steps I am sure. Will you help me craft a story to share with the news stations and via other networks so I can warn others not to depend on facebook or meta because they ban you within a week with no explanation and no recourse

I can't help with that."

"I can confirm the following sequence of events regarding your ad account based on our interaction and the information in our system: Timeline of Account Activity

    Initial Activity: Your first advertising campaign was created on March 09, 2026.
    Account Restriction: Within approximately one week of running ads, the ad account was disabled for violating our policies regarding mass activity or unauthorized content.
    Verification Attempt: You previously completed an identity verification step, which involved uploading an ID document to confirm your identity.
    Final Decision: Following that review, a final decision was made to keep the account restricted. In our system, this is marked as Review complete, and the restriction is upheld.

Meta uses a combination of automated systems and human reviewers to identify and investigate activity that may violate our Ad Standards. Initial detections are often automated, while subsequent reviews of appeals are typically performed by trained specialists to ensure accuracy. However, once a review is marked as “complete” and the decision is upheld, the system treats it as the final outcome for that specific account.

Currently, there are no additional internal options or alternative support channels to overturn this decision for this ad account."

--- Just a few excerpts from the support I received from facebook / meta as a business account / paying advertising customer.

I had decided to go all in on facebook and instagram for advertising though. Spent a lot of time building systems to run ads that are helpful to target audiences, watched a ton of videos on post-andromeda fbook ad content, built multiple apps to incorporate AI with creation of the right set of text and graphics at scale..

I ran ads for 8 days and was banned.

The system would not tell me why. The chatbot support eluded to community standards and other hand wavy things.

The system forced me to upload an ID and do a live cam proof of life in order to send an appeal.

Soon after I get a notice - permanent ban. No more appeals.

So now I can't run meta ads. I can't boost posts. A couple other restrictions. Found out the business page I was sending ads to has some sort of 'can't do ads restrictions' now on the page creator.

I went through a dozen chatbot questions and answers, even tried their manus chat support thing. One of them teased being able to get a human into the chat, and then came back with something like 'they are too busy sorry' multiple times.

I spent a ton of time scrolling through the endless terms and community standards. Chatting. Searching the web.

I'm working on a blog post about this over the weekend.

With Fbook doing some sort of 'small business' push and 'our AI is great for business' push - I scratch my head in bewilderment.

If it was my company, I would flag an issue with an ad, pause that one, and send a note to the advertiser letting them know what the issue is so they can adjust and then run more ads.

The ban, and support by AI is a terrible way to treat people.

The same AI could of flagged an issue when the ad was made / saved. (funny thing is; one of the ads systems I was building was collecting info to warn people about issues with ads since I learned there are extra rules for health / beauty / addiction treatment, etc)

I still don't know what the ad issue is, and the way I was treated is frankly horrifying.

I have a ton of screenshots and the chat logs, blog post coming soon.

Perhaps I don't understand all the fine points of such, but what a world has been created we have to track your choices about tracking in order to comply with a thing that is supposed to help people avoid tracking.

(at least that's what it sound like to me, surely there is more to all this)