Holding on to one’s preferred human culture and values is not being ‘left behind’ in any sense … they may in fact be ‘left ahead’.

The sooner EUrope has a firm handle on its own IT ecosystem, the sooner it can tell the US to go pound sand. Macron is spot on.

" … Or maybe it was released by ‘ICE-helpers’ trying to get people to stop all of the well-deserved harsh criticism." Oh wait, the NYT is the holy of holies… never mind …

It might get better just before the next election …

"Reportedly.’

That headline may be true. Or maybe it was released by ‘ICE-helpers’ trying to get people to stop all of the well-deserved harsh criticism. By now that’s hundreds of millions of names to go through. Maybe that will help them burn through their remaining funds faster.

Could be that the shittier sites are using tricks to make people hang around them as long as possible?

Also, sites that are ‘strange and a bit obscure’ are probably more likely to require us to take what they report with more grains of salt. They’re likely to have fewer visitors who can call BS on stuff.

I think it could change, here in the US … whenever it’s clearly demonstrated that that’s what’s going on … and if parents then pressure legislators (if they can find enough willing to fight corporate interests) to control it. In the meantime, ‘saving the children’ will be up to parents who take measures themselves.

Parents will get the behavior they reinforce. My mom, whenever I asked for ANYTHING I saw on TV, NEVER responded. Kids that scream when the phone’s taken away should NEVER get them back.

Very true, I’ve had whole cited paragraphs removed by non-registered users. Of course, IF you’ve got the time, you can look through the article history pages. For recently embarassed subjects, it’s not hard to spot the deletions over the past month or two, as they’re colored in red.

“And … what do you do?”

“Are you sure you’re ready to know?”

Which one of those guys is William Tell?

My only ‘smart’ appliance is a desktop monitor … and I re-pointed its ‘report’ feature to a non-existant URL. Want my data? Maybe, but they’ll have pay for each bit.

Wouldn’t doubt it if they did market to kids. TV networks did it for decades, every Saturday morning, with no FCC challenges.

PBS had services for children as well. Were Bert and Ernie or Mr. Rogers ‘addictive’? I have no idea what YT for children is like, but I wouldn’t have handed my kids over to them to babysit without checking them out … frequently. Corporations exist for one purpose. Will government stop them?

“addiction in children’s brains”

I don’t think these corporations deliberately aimed their content at any age group. Kids are not ready for alcohol or cars or pron. Did the corporations care? Probably not. Would they have at one time, here in the US? Yes, back when legislators were answerable to their constituents. At one time the FCC worried about the lyrics in songs on the radio. The population was more uptight about it. Then.

OTOH: I recall times when parents oversaw what their children consumed. They didn’t need to buy them smartphones or laptops, and they could have enforced rulse on their use. Parenting isn’t for everyone.

LOL well CharlesDarwin, you know, they’re too evolved for prison … they just go hide somewhere until everyone forgets…

But lots and LOTS of people are resigning their jobs around the world. The last one will be the, uh, cherry on top.

From the article:

"A total of 178 out of the 3,078 articles came back as flagged for AI … About half of our staff spent a month during summer 2025 painstakingly reviewing the text from these 178 articles…

Far more insidious, however, was something else we discovered: More than two-thirds of these articles failed verification. That means the article contained a plausible-sounding sentence, cited to a real, relevant-sounding source. But when you read the source it’s cited to, the information on Wikipedia does not exist in that specific source."

This is the guy who bankrupted 4 casinos. Clearly what he’s best at.

Cash they’ve got. Jail time for CEOs will work better.

That’s a classic and welcome comic style. Nailed it!

Profit?

Or, ‘P’ as in trickle-down?