It’s Howdy Doody Archie Andrews!

Here’s another page from that issue to compare:

Wow. The popups on Forbes are bad. I had one covering the lower third until another ad popped up, covering the whole screen of my phone. I literally had one ad blocking another ad.

They literally turned 50cent into millions.

I guess Ye was trying to get her to be his black Kate Moss tonight, to play secretary, Ye’s the boss tonight?

The best part of the article (if you can call it that) is that it gives you potential information

“Regulation Z, which is part of the Truth in Lending Act,” Kelly said. “It requires that monthly statements be sent if there is interest assessed on a mortgage.”

So if they did not send monthly statements, it throws the homeowner a potential lifeline.

By violating Regulation Z, Kelly says, “they then open themselves up to serious legal consequences and provide consumers the leverage they need to stay in their homes.”

This is just one strategy, but Kelly has been using this approach to help homeowners in dozens of cases. She just resolved a class action case where she was able to get the names of nearly 300 homeowners from one company and help them all.

I suspect there will still be online interactions with humans, just more interactions with bots. Unfortunately, it’s we humans behind the mess. Even if we pass laws to stop it (or even forced labels of “I’m a bot” on bot accounts), some people won’t play by the rules. So the change is going to happen. We can try to persuade the public, but we know how well that works:

So what do you propose be done about it?

So change means “dying”? So every time a tadpole evolves into a frog, a tadpole dies? Should we have protest signs that read, “FROGS KILL TADPOLES! DOWN WITH FROGS”?

Bots are increasing. But the Internet is not dead/dying, just changing. Many of the “The 10 bots are posting a total of 1000 times a day.” are repost bots merely parroting human generated content.

I wonder, though, if this will cause the scrapers to be impacted by the reposters or other AI generated content.

But is the Internet dying? The thing it doesn’t say is if the human participation is dwindling.

To keep it simple, I’ll work with small numbers. Imagine there are 10 humans online. Now imagine 1 bot on online. Bots are 9% (1 in 11) of this imaginary online community. A year later, those same 10 humans are still online, but there are now 10 bots online; the bots are 50% of the community. This statistic can lead you to think there is less human participation when nothing happened to the humans. The difference is the raw number of bots. This is what I believe is happening, about the same number of humans, just an increasing number of bots, scraping, posting, etc.

X/Twitter is dying because of mismanagement.

“Don’t you think Trump looks tired?”

To paraphrase for this specific situation. When the Doctor says to Alex, “Don’t you think she (Harriet) looks tired.” It’s planting the seed in Alex to question if Harriet is fit to continue being Prime Minister, or if she is ‘too tired’. These 6 words spoken to Alex, Harriet’s Sr. aide, inevitably leads to Harriet’s downfall

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/193743/how-did-the-doctor-take-harriet-jones-down-in-the-christmas-invasion

“Hi! I’m Clippy! It looks like you’re trying to play Halo. Let’s take you to the Store so you can purchase more DLCs…”

But I just want to play Halo…

“Yes, but the DLCs will make it better!”

But I’m happy with what I already have.

“Oh, look, here’s the store!”

A factual, “You snooze, you lose”. I suspect they lost (or will lose) their jobs.

Good to note, “None on board - including 153 passengers and four flight attendants - were injured during the flight, and there was no damage to the aircraft.”

“Windows 7 appears to still be running on at least 100 million machines, despite Microsoft ending support for the operating system a year ago”

–Tom Warren. Jan 6, 2021.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/6/22217052/microsoft-windows-7-109-million-pcs-usage-stats-analytics

Maybe the landfill won’t be overstuffed as quickly as expected.

See also

“Monthly market share held by Windows operating system for desktop PCs worldwide from January 2017 to November 2023, by version” https://www.statista.com/statistics/993868/worldwide-windows-operating-system-market-share/

It’s a dwindling effect, not just instant abandonment.

Insulted? Vines videos were mostly portrait. 2013-2014 were most-likely its hay day. Vines is dead now, but cell phone videos in portrait were posted to Vines a lot.

Now if you mean music videos or cinema, yeah, portrait would be odd.

Lotus Notes. I called it Bogus Notes. I do not miss it.

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" As long as there is organic carbon in the soil for the microbes to break down, the fuel cell can potentially last forever.”

It’s also a stationary battery

“Although the entire device is buried, the vertical design ensures that the top end is flush with the ground’s surface.”

You ever sit on a plane and wonder, “How sturdy are those wings? Maybe I should just pop out there and check them. Let’s see if I walk out there, if they could support my weight.” He was obviously testing their durability.

Since they are treating them as others (foreigners/strangers), Israel is messing up, even from a religious view:

Leviticus 19 (KJV) 33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. 34 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

Or if you prefer NIV 33 "'When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. 34 The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.