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Case Study: Ready Player Me

Technology.
RPM (Ready Player Me) used to be a character creation, or avatar creation, studio. You'd select properties (boy or girl, hair style, clothes, etc) of your character, click a button and download a reusable 3d asset.

The Government is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts

Government surveillance centers are monitoring viral anti-Flock Instagram posts, warning local police about upcoming DeFlock events including one scheduled to start next week, and have told cops to “increase patrols around ALPR [automatic license plate readers]” as backlash to Flock grows, according to government intelligence bulletins obtained using public records requests. The documents also warn about devices “that could be used to identify the locations of Flock cameras.”

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Federal Court Dismisses Musk's X Lawsuit Against New York Law Forcing Platforms To Define Speech
So basically, this is a fuck-you hiding in court. No freedom of speech for you, buddy.
Federal Court Dismisses Musk's X Lawsuit Against New York Law Forcing Platforms To Define Speech
So basically, this is a fuck-you hiding in court. No freedom of speech for you, buddy.
ICE Awards $16.7 Million No-Bid Contract For 6,000 Pairs Of Electric Shock Gloves
That's $1,392 per glove, for those counting at home.
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Ukraine’s biggest steelmaker halts production
Steel industry requires a lot of energy. With continuous attacks on energy infrastructure, the steel (and all mining) industry is non-existent.
Newsom Signs Laws Banning Shock Gloves And Taxing Immigration Detention Centers
What's a "private detention center"?
States Sue OpenAI, Claiming ChatGPT Gives Young Users Dangerous Advice
...of course, there is no difference now between these AI's and regular search. Literally, the regular search wants to talk about yours feelings. We're stuck, there is no way outta here.
Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought
I actually think this is not a bad idea, if the pricing is reasonable. I always wondered: you can't stream copyrighted music, you don't have your own 3d engine to stream, but when you stream a game (with in-game music), that is okay.

Game engines are excellent 3d environments, pleasant to look at, and so forth. Are you renting that environment to show it to other people, did you get it for free? Even if you paid to own a copy of your favorite song, you can't stream that song for free (or for profit) to millions (or dosens) of other people. Why can you stream a game, even the one you paid for, without giving daddy a cut?

And again, my rationale mostly centers on how excellent some game engines are, how marvelous it is to look at them. So charging streamers for displaying it to an audience seems reasonable, especially if reasonably priced.
From dust to dirt: Australians to become compost after death
> the method uses less land and energy

> could ease the... environmental burden

Yes. Basically, humans are just meat bags. Human flesh is part of the carbon cycle. There is no intellectual existence to talk about, there are only industrial processes of growth and decay. That is where, conceptually, this politics is headed to.

P.S.: just wait for this to turn from optional to required.