To the best of my recollection they started doing this to pay for cancer treatments. That’s absolutely not an excuse, but anyone who says M4A isn’t needed really needs to think about the kind of desperation needing healthcare creates.
I’m not super well versed, but my understanding was that watching the preview for more than X seconds already counted as a view. At least it was like that a while back after they were introduced.
Also be careful because these ai channels are sneaky and will use generic pictures or stills but the script and voice are all AI.
I mostly watch videos from channels I’m already subscribed to, but recently a few shows I watch have dropped new seasons and I was looking for recaps on YouTube. It was nothing but AI slop channel after AI slop channel. I would click off as fast as possible to not give them the view, but I guess they will all count going forward. It really sucks because we can’t opt out of these channels and many of them don’t even admit to being AI anyway.
I have no idea how this change is good for them. I totally agree that it seems like it’ll encourage low quality content. After a few of those videos I can’t imagine most people sticking around for another, but what do I know. I’m sure they have more accurate stats than I do.
No, don’t you realize that cutting childhood vaccine programs is NEEDED. If we don’t let these children get sick and develop lifelong illness that prevent them and their parents from working and bringing in tax revenue then… wait a second, that doesn’t sound right…
Well, what we really need to do is cut down the IRS. All those agents are just budget bloat. We can go without them investing tax evasion and bringing in revenue… wait a second…
We’ve had empirical evidence as early as the 70s that investment in ourselves is a huge boon to the economy but people still don’t want to see that. If I remember correctly, every 1 dollar invested in early childhood education programs returns 7. Cutting isn’t just bad in the short term, it’s a compounding issue that makes future revenue lower. The military really is one of the few things it makes sense to say we should cut as a blanket statement.
What’s the schtick with .world? I’m unfamiliar.
Ok, but how is doing nothing now going to help at all?
I understand what you’re saying, I just don’t know a single time in history where capitulating to a bully has worked out in people’s favor.
Seizing items that are in your country illegally is not a justification for war. The items do not belong to the US government. They belong to a private company. I understand that the US is in a frightening place right now, but I think they’re using the threat to get more than they actually could. Just giving a bully your lunch money because you don’t wanna be beat up for it only makes sense if they’re definitely gonna beat you up otherwise. Maybe I am more naïve than I think, but I do not see a world in which the US goes boots on the ground over there.
I really think the only language that Trump and this entire administration understand is force and violence. If Denmark/Greenland is unwilling to enforce their own laws now, then I really don’t see anything changing. According to the article this is in a protected area. If they actually start using the machinery and drilling will that be enough? Will something be done then? Obviously, I don’t live there so it might be easier for me to say than somebody who potentially would be more negatively affected if something did happen, but I truly could not imagine us doing anything to actually enforce things over there militaristically.
Great article. Worth the read.
In case anyone else was wondering, the government said it would not be proportional to actually do anything about the things that were brought in for drilling without proper authorization. I’m not super familiar with greenlands laws, but if the government would seize drugs or weapons or anything else they did not authorize upon entering the country, I’m not sure why these people get a pass.
I get that they are afraid of Trump, but it really just contributes to his idea that bullying works. We’re already at war in the Middle East. I don’t think Trump bombs or invades Greenland if they seize this equipment that was illegally brought in. They have laws and have a right to enforce them. What happened to countries having a right to defend themselves?
My layman’s understanding is that manufacturing like this needs to be run constantly due to the cost associated with the production. Apple would have to sell their stuff to competitors at that point to have the foray make sense. Current manufacturers can make things for lots of different companies so they can ensure their line is always fulfilling an order. I’m not sure if Apple would want to do that.
It really only makes sense if you buy a new phone or computer every year/lease term.
This is good though, so it might not be that bad of a deal if you could use the credit anyway:
Buy the iPhone outright by paying an amount equal to the device’s retail price minus any lease payments made.
I don’t generally click on random YouTube videos unless more information is provided, but I give this one a gamble. It was pretty well done and I appreciate the creators overall point and evidence. For anyone else in the comments, I think there are two couple of second long clips of Hank Green that are used to make a larger point about what are essentially attempts at normalizing AI.
I don’t browse Reddit since I switched entirely to Lemmy the day the API migration happened, but I did still reluctantly have to reference reddit on occasion. Now I can’t even do that for niche issues I run into. I am so upset that millions of people donated their time and energy into making Reddit the place it was just to have all of that entirely gated off. I know we’re likely all in the same boat, but there really are no words for what spez did. He ruined a really great place for community and knowledge and turned it into a slop fest.
James Baugh, of San Jose, California, who was eBay’s senior director of safety & security, and David Harville, of New York City, who was eBay’s director of global resiliency, are charged with conspiracy to commit cyberstalking and conspiracy to tamper with witnesses. The other former eBay employees charged are Stephanie Popp, former senior manager of global intelligence; Brian Gilbert, former senior manager of special operations for eBay’s Global Security Team; Stephanie Stockwell, former manager of eBay’s Global Intelligence Center; and Veronica Zea, a former eBay contractor who worked as an intelligence analyst in the Global Intelligence Center.
Seems like senior managers and directors. I don’t think these are fall guys. They seem like they were personally responsible for these things. I know corpo speak invents fancy job titles, but I don’t think it’s a situation where someone’s personal assistant is being used as a scapegoat. These people should have known better and had other options. I did see that one upper exec had to pay but I didn’t see any outline for what exactly they were charged with. I wish the articles did a better job of going into the details of punishments vs charges but I was just pointing out that actual time is being done since the title doesn’t mention it.
Company doing this:
Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing — the owner of the 330 MW AI data center
Lawyer heading the project:
Sebastian Rucci
From a different article linked below:
Rucci has so far sued government officials, the local utility, an activist and a public television station over the dispute. Several of those legal claims have recently been dismissed.
Prior to joining the data center push in Southern California, Rucci was charged, though not convicted, of money laundering and promoting prostitution in relation to his former Ohio cabaret; he ended up serving 30 days in jail for selling beer without a license. Rucci was not charged in the rehab center case, which prosecutors said focused on Medicaid billing issues.
“Just give me my damn data center,” he told the Journal.
https://therealdeal.com/la/2026/07/21/southern-california-data-center-project-faces-opposition/
Most of the defendants pleaded guilty to charges including conspiracy and cyberstalking and were later sentenced to prison terms or home confinement.
The above includes several management and director positions. Glad individuals are being held responsible. Hope they are radioactive to companies going forward. As pointed out below, execs at the highest level are not doing time for this though.
Edited for clarity.
If you sandbox anything it’ll be safer than otherwise. Not really sure what you’re suggesting. I would still want the code reviewed regardless of the safety measures in place.
I wrote a program that basically auto organizes my files for me. Even if an AI was sandboxed and only had access to the relevant files and had no delete privileges, I would still want the code reviewed. Otherwise it could move a file into a nonsensical location and I would have to go through all possible folders to find it. Someone would have to make the interfaces/gateways and also review the code. There’s no way to know how it’s working, so there’s no way to know IF it’s working, until the code is reviewed. Regardless of how detailed you prompt, AI will generate something that possibly (currently very likely) needs to be adjusted. I’m not going to take an AIs raw output and run it assuming the AI did it properly, regardless of the safety measures.
While I personally don’t like AI, I do think it is changing things. I don’t think it’s ever safe to run code without oversight from an actual programmer, but AI will likely affect the number of programmers being hired in a non negligible way.
I’m not a lawyer, and I did mention in my above comment that everyone deserves the best defense possible, but I’m pretty sure you can say “this is an injustice”, “my clients and I will appeal”, many other things which are not explicitly stating that they are innocent after literally watching one of them rape an unconscious child. This was not in court, and I understand the court of public opinion plays a part in cases, but you’ll have to forgive me if I think this is beyond what is required of a good defense attorney.
Also, I’m pretty sure there are cases (like diddy) where there is a reliance on at least some admission of guilt, and the presumption is that though you may be guilty of a crime, it’s not as severe or deserving of the punishment the prosecution is seeking.
For those also curious, these are not the property brothers who were prominently featured on HGTV.
Also, there is apparently video evidence of a rape of an unconscious underage girl and their lawyers still had the gall to say:
“We believe in our clients’ innocence,” Marc Agnifilo, a lawyer for Oren Alexander, said after the verdict. “We’re going to keep fighting.” U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni set sentencing for Aug. 6. The brothers, incarcerated since their 2024 arrests, face up to life in prison.
I believe that everyone is entitled to the best defense possible, but that is a ridiculous statement to make given the evidence.
People give money to streamers. There’s plenty of data to mine there regarding what the streamer was doing or saying vs how many donations they were getting. You can correlate that across different kinds of streams or streamers and get a good idea of how to maximize extraction from a given population.