It’s similar to Star Trek when they observe underdeveloped (Pre-Warp) civilizations, but we’re the Enterprise.

It’s “S Hit Just Works” and it’s the slapping car meme.

The “S” is because the car salesman has a slight lisp.

Slaps Instance this bad boy just works.

All humans are vermin in the eyes of Morbo.

“Heihei” translates to “chicken”.

So there is no guarantee that childhood “Heihei”, Moana 1 “Heihei” and Moana 2 “Heihei” are all the same chicken.

Sure Moana 1 & Moana 2 are probably the same. But childhood “Heihei”, probably a different chicken.

Because it’s bad if China has the information. It’s fine if “US entity” had the information. The ban is ultimately fake. No one banning the app cares about TikTok, they just hate that China is getting the information they want. What will happen is some US based company, Oracle last time, but someone like that will buy a sufficient enough stake in the company and the ban will not happen. It will be declared “safe” and the data will go to a US controlled entity, but also still secretly to China. (The later will be revealed years later, to the shock of no one.)

I don’t have an Xbox, but on my Switch I can play the game without updating the game. I may not be able to utilize any online features, but if that server is gone I wouldn’t be using them anyway.

Uh the Internet is wireless, Jen.

As someone who has posted hundreds over on the Simpsons, it’s impossible to get the difficulty right every time.

I’ve posted easy ones for me, which turn out to be hard, and I’ve posted hard ones for me, which turn out to be easy.

I think you got the one right for any huge fan. Regular fans, who knows.

“I love you”

“Shut up baby, I know it”

Bender is in a relationship with the Planet Express ship.

Enforcement is easy, if they post to Twitter they are a parody account. Everything ok there is a joke and not a good one.

I had to look up dynamic lock screens, but it looks like it just changes your wallpaper? That might be neat but doesn’t seem that exciting.

In terms of AI I’m not aware of anything AI on my phone.

Honestly I feel like phones have stagnated. I’ve had the “same” phone since 2016 (if not before). The fingerprint sensor, that’s probably the last thing that made me excited, was that 2016? Obviously screens have gotten better and battery life has gone up, but it’s the same phone.

I’d like to see ports added back to mainline phones. I’ve only ever bought a phone with a headphone jack so it makes my options limited. I’d like to see headphone jacks, SD cards & quickly replaceable batteries come back.

Re verification per AP,

The amendments passed on Friday bolster privacy protections. Platforms would not be allowed to compel users to provide government-issued identity documents including passports or driver’s licenses, nor could they demand digital identification through a government system.

So it sounds like an ID will not be a requirement.

I suppose a face scan is possible, but I find it unlikely. Obviously if it heads in that direction then the law should be amended to clarify that is also not acceptable.

In terms of selling information I assume that just clarifies the status quo and isn’t new. Not that that makes it acceptable, it just means that’s something to tackle.

Oh I agree. I wouldn’t want a stronger law. I’m just not too concerned with this one. I think if there are concerns with social media we should discuss how to solve them for everyone.

We generally say 16-21 you are an adult so fuck it, whatever happens to you is your fault and ignore the predatory nature of organizations.

We should outline the specific concerns and determine what, if any, steps we can take.

As an example, gambling. I think it’s fair and reasonable to allow gambling. I think ensuring gambling isn’t predatory is a reasonable limitation. I expect for most people it isn’t a problem but I think providing help to gambling addicts is also reasonable. Social media should be viewed through a similar lens.

I mean YouTube has educational content, but that is far from its primary purpose. Assuming YouTube is completely unrestricted it wouldn’t be hard for Facebook to add enough content to be arguably educational.

Hell plenty of people use TikTok for educational reasons. I’m not saying it’s right, but you could argue TikTok is educational in the same way you can argue YouTube is educational.

Now if YouTube is forced to classify it’s educational content the same way they classify children’s content (aka poorly), maybe that’ll work.

the rules are expected to apply to the likes of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok, per the Prime Minister.

Sites used for education, including YouTube, would be exempt, as are messaging apps like WhatsApp.

The law does not require users to upload government IDs as part of the verification process.

Sounds like a pretty weak law. It will require a birthday when creating an account and accounts under the age of 16 will be restricted/limited. As a result users (people under 16) will lie about their age.

Companies don’t like this because it messes with their data collection. If they collect data that proves an account is under 16 they will be required to make them limited/restricted. However they obviously collect this data already.

I wonder if Facebook and other apps will add/push education elements in order to become exempt.

It’s not that the deal will only last 60 days, just that they have 60 days to move everyone back and out of the aggressive range.

Realistically it’s just boilerplate language. It’s 60 days to pack up and go home, which is perfectly fair and reasonable.

Of course in reality this might just be a short reprieve. While both sides might be quiet for the next 60ish days (which is good), they might be right back at it for a variety of reasons, including the change in US leadership.

Which, funnily, are probably the bots you’d be fine seeing.

Re turning off bot accounts, keep in mind labeled bots probably serve a specific purpose. So turning off bots can result in a poorer user experience.

For example I have bot accounts that post weekly discussion threads for TV shows or discussion threads for films.

If you turn off all bots then you’ll never see these discussion threads. (I’ve seen this happen, users starting a duplicate discussion thread because they hid all bot accounts.)

I would recommend blocking bot accounts you find annoying vs blocking all bots.

My understanding is that it’s the transfer clause he is focusing on. It’s just not clear to me that violating one part of the clause doesn’t bring the rest into question.

In the cases of POTUS, Tesla, SpaceX, etc it is certainly possible written permission has been given (although I agree not likely).

Classic not a lawyer but the terms of service say,

We give you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to use the software provided to you as part of the Services. This license cannot be assigned, gifted, sold, shared or transferred in any other manner to any other individual or entity without X’s express written consent.

(Emphasis mine)

Twitter accounts are commonly shared by many individuals and I guarantee they do so without written consent. Does that invalidate/bring into question the whole clause or just the sharing part?