“Micro chips” cost almost nothing in bulk. They are like a barcode sticker, but sub-surface. Even the scanners are affordable. Plugs right into USB and emulates a keyboard that sends key strokes for the chip ID. Full-size Parmigiano wheel can cost a pretty penny.

I spend a lot of time wondering what “independent media” is supposed to be

Regulation. Where I’m at, a device capable of making phone calls, must allow emergency calls by any user. Data is all you can get

A rumor of plans??! Tell me everything!!!

This is so wild. I really don’t miss Flash, but since Steve killed it with the iPhone, Web development has spent more than 10 years to reinvent the ActionScript3 environment and make the entire web depend on it. And who solely prevented AS3 as a web standard from happening? Chris Wilson, Web Standards Tech Lead at Google, in his former role at browser monopolist Microsoft.

Today, every single piece of the web is designed by Google to further their business. And all these fucking Electron applications…

Social Media, just like all media, does not exist to “earn money with ads”, or even profile you. It is about being able to influence you through controlling the availability of content you don’t even realize. It doesn’t matter if you interact. All the other bullshit is intentionally published to distract, on media. Chat bots have a bias. They don’t exist to help you. They exist to control the responses.

Hmmm that refreshing smell of holocaust trivialization in the morning…

Marketing play to grab the money off of rich parents. There are still teachers, they are just proxied by “AI”. And there will also still be teachers monitoring. And there will still be teachers for certain topics.

So it’s teacherless, but with plenty of teachers.