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Apple still has to prove the allegations and show that they justify an injunction against the product itself

There may be real misconduct here, but "some employees mishandled confidential information" and "OpenAI must stop developing AI hardware" are very different claims

They can look altruistic at the individual level while still being completely aligned with self-preservation at the group level

So the colony's "medical staff" are basically the people between jobs who happen to know everyone

Age verification is the visible, easy-to-sell layer. Device attestation is the more structural one...

I am not sure the hard part of direct democracy was ever only the logistics of voting

I agree that it is not always mass public demand for authoritarianism. Often it is more like institutional persistence plus vague moral framing

A lot of bad tech policy seems to come from judging a proposal only by its stated intent

The scary part is not "age checks today, secret police tomorrow". It is that once there is a convenient identity-verification layer for normal internet use, it will be very hard to…

The question is not whether the ingredients are original. They almost never are. The question is whether the synthesis is any good

Most small games are recombinations of existing mechanics anyway

The "world's most dangerous AI" framing is funny here because the result is basically the least dystopian use case imaginable