@lookup(client, credit score, marital status, testosterone prescription);

@lookup(sex_right_now_potential, );

@lookup(crowd, enemies(possible armament));

The list goes on almost infinitely. Use JSON, YAML, whatever, and your favorite allied new friend, AI.

Zuck is desperate.

There are 902 pages, insufficient space to drill down here. Let's take a look at the preamble:

1. Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children.

2. Dismantle the administrative state and return self-governance to the American people.

3. Defend our nationâ(TM)s sovereignty, borders, and bounty against global threats.

4. Secure our God-given individual rights to live freelyâ"what our Constitution calls âoethe Blessings of Liberty.â

Seems superficially wonderful, doesn't it? Except it's based on incorrect premise. Using the family as a center of values, it presupposes that families are some atomic structure, the mom, dad, and children. In reality, it's dad and dad, mom and mom, mom and dad, mom alone, dad alone, maybe other parents or guardians struggling to raise children in a world of competing values. There are strong religious factions expressing their agendas for what families should be.

Yet some are very bad at families. Some don't want to start them at all. Financial, emotional, and situational problems are good reasons not to start families, the long requirements understood. Abortion issues tag in here, a woman's right to her future.

The second premise, the abolition of the administrative state is not how it works. Anarchy and Darwinism ensue. There's a reason for regulation that ensures honesty, prevents fraud, and domination by enriched antagonists.

The third premise, defending borders, is a way to prevent immigration after the European white folks arrived and dominated. Brown, Black, Asian people are no longer wanted, even though they've been coming and going and enriching the US for as long as its history. Now entrenched, guarding the loot seems important, doesn't it?

The final tenet, guarding liberty and freedom should be for all, not just the already enriched. It might be freedom, unless you believe in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Or perhaps you're damned by being woke. Or anti-war. Or anti-tech-bros. Or your gender was discovered not to match your birth certificate.

These are gatekeepers who believe they have authority, and they do not. Democracy, broken as it is, has authority, and this rips democracy apart, limb from limb.

Have doge on your mind, do ya?

Read the doc. Understand the source authors of the document. Look at its application within the current Congressional and administrative actions.

This is a power grab, a stripping of rules, defiance of long established law within the construct of "if you don't like it, sue me." This barrage of deregulation and ostensible unraveling of "deep state" memes of distrust and stricture, are sewn and threaded through their tome. Read it. End to end. Think. Then project its consequences, and who those consequences benefit, given current wealth distribution, inheritance laws, and desire to shift power. Think.

I don't know what cave you're living in, but if you're looking for evidence, try sifting the interwebs for all the evidence you need.

It's not paranoia. The US Government has a Project 2025 plan spawned by decades of paranoid white guys, the Heritage Foundation. They see their power crumbling and want to play only by their own rules. Their manifesto is more dangerous than Mein Kampf.

I'll go the other direction.

Cloudflare has saved several of my supported sites from overload, bots, AI crawlers, D/DOS, and a lot of sludge. It doesn't cure the sludge, but it slows it down dramatically, and the data shows this.

The ad model industry is on fire for many reasons, most of them well-deserved. AI-answers (despite their hallucinations) cut through the sheer crap embedded into millions of web pages-- the sort of thing that Privacy Badger, UBlock, and a dozen other plugins try and fail to fight. The web became invasive.

Citing that the industry is changing, and AI is buying/guiding the ad industry away is honest. How does Cloudflare (and others, like Akamai) change its model to suit this?

Telemetry is now embedded in Windows as Microsoft grabs their share of the intelligence industry. Apple desperately tries to corral their clients (and in-app revenues, etc.). AI shakes up everyone's models. AI quality is poor, but makes incremental improvements.

The titans of industry are now trying assess who will be the next Google ad revenue model among varying AI integrators. Someone is likely to win. Money is burning. Someone will learn how to reverse that trend.

Like it or not, he's saying that the iPhone as we know it today is ephemeral. Something will replace it.

My observation is that Apple will want to lead that parade.

Will they be intelligent earpods that can connect with satellites? Will the form factor be different? Will some other factor pull the market into another ubiquitous tech device?

Apple cannibalized iPod sales for the success of the iPhone. He''s not ruling out cannibalizing iPhone sales for a successor product. Will be that product be underpinned by "AI"? He's not saying that, either.

Alexa is a popular crutch, and also embryonic. The iPod was sort of like that, too. In ten years, much will have changed.

NO, wait!

The American Bar Association totally endorses this move. Litigation is at the core of the US Economy! Broadcom is ready.

They double-dog dare you to continue to use VMWare!

This is about Customer Service and Support! Perpetual License? We were just KIDDING!! (did you hear that, Wall Street?)

Did say he did.

But he didn't do this in a vacuum, either.

You move mountains one boulder at a time.

Hatch Act on a worldwide scale? Never happens if there's no Justice Dept enforcement.

Oh, wait...

Lineage OS supports only these phones: https://wiki.lineageos.org/dev... and eventually, these will likely age-off the list.

Or the batteries will become unobtanium.

Open source will be used in the same way: Suggest products for profit by pimping them. People will trust AI like they trust search engines, indeed like Perplexity is becoming a browser.

You wanted truth, integrity, clear unbiased choices? Not when you're the product.

And yet IBM BORG'd their acquisition of Red Hat.

They can spend all they want, but first, I don't believe they will-- they don't have the money and 2) they fear acquistions becoming brighter than their dull star of periodic market dominance.

IBM Innovation is an oxymoron. They want to get metaphorical oil wells, and keep them spouting for decades upon decades. Brilliant in their minds as everyone likes a long return on investment, except that in the middle of that cycle, innovation is lost, clients must move with their markets and supply chain, and the homogenization of their business units makes them stale old milk.

I wish such evil on no one.

Instead, may his business model drive him into bankruptcy, his house repossessed, and his children become landfill diggers after his wife divorces him, and takes the dog.

Microsoft has to sell their stuff.

And.... human employees are great, and they are human.

One fucking hallucination, and there's a delete key waiting.

None of them have been vetted, although "peer review" is performed on the mechanics. Do educators, the people we hold responsible for teaching/learning agree?

Probably not, but I can't speak for them.

Instead, watch the textbook and learning materials industry go into the ditch. Watch teachers thwart AI because 1) it's not linked to chains-of-authorities and 2) they're going to eventually lose their jobs, and AI becomes responsible for imbuing humanity and character, and it has neither.