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I don’t think California intends to act in bad faith and try to kill the 3D printer industry (or community). I think this is due to misconceptions similar to the notion that one can create encryption with a backdoor that only the good guys can use. It just doesn’t math.

And that’s exactly what is going to kill the law in the courts, much the way that they’ve upheld strong encryption and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. Allowing the law to come into effect will cause too much damage to industry and the economy.

Granted I can’t be absolutely certain of that. We’ve had a lot of incompetent (or corrupt) judges get confirmed in recent decades, so really anything can happen. But the thing they don’t want is what happened after they tried to criminalize printed gun designs in the first place, and see the already-robust 3D printing underground get another growth boost.

Given they’ve postponed the standards until 2028, I am skeptical our legislators will be able to develop a viable benchmark. And then I don’t imagine it’s possible to enforce it.

This is likely to die in court.

To be fair, a child safety claim is blatant bullshit if the state doesn’t bother to confront actual children’s welfare matters like food insecurity, home insecurity, family insecurity, failing education districts and so on.

As the federal government showed when it past the OBBBA budget reconciliation omnibus in 2025, they give not a single fuck about kids working class or lower.

There’s no use in protecting kids from exposure to porn or social media addiction when they’re literally starving.

Yeah, the birth rate is tanking mostly because Zoomers are not bothering to date at all, let alone having sex and risking pregnancy. They are the generation of abstinence that purity culture always wanted.

It doesn’t help that it costs $200 for a traditional date (dinner and a show), and that they have no hope for an actual future, such as home ownership, retirement or continuing to survive in a stable society.

The ongoing spectre is the black maternal mortality rate, at 50.3 deaths per 100,000 live births (2023 figures from CDC) compared to white (14.5), Asian (10.7) and Hispanic (12.4).

I don’t have numbers for 2024-2026 but can only imagine it’s gotten worse and more disproportional as access to maternity healthcare deteriorates further in the US.

Compared to the rest of the industrialized world, the US sucks when it comes to maternity mortality and infant mortality.

Verifying you have a phone doesn’t verify that you’re human.

More Perfect Union did a video on Google’s descent into evil. I think it’s this one

TLDW: Once Google pivoted from being a search service to an advertising agency, it was motivated to keep users from hyperlinking away from Google, and so offered summaries and alternatives controlled by Alphabet that allowed it to keep offering you ads.

So this AI service is just a natural iteration.

December 7, 1941.

How to tell the techs you’re lying without telling the client

The bosses win if winning is continuing to manage the company poorly.

The shareholders lose since cruel treatment reduces productivity and weakens profit margins. It depends on how seriously the business controllers want to actually do a capitalism and create a product and turn a profit.

In actuality, yes, their job is to maximize productivity for the dollar spent, hence maximizing profits, and the best way to do that for most job pools is by improving the QoL of the workforce.

They likely do value control over productivity, but that’s not the job of upper management. A lot of jobs (the bullshit jobs ) are to fulfill a personal need for an entourage, the illusion of business activity. That is a – human – trait.

Our c-suite execs might believe it controlling the workforce is their job, though, if they’re inadequately educated about the current state of the art. Hopefully, their AI replacements will be more current and won’t be interfered with by the BoD or shareholders.

Disappointed this is a parody.

There are actual AI-based services to replace company upper management, and take it seriously, since AI in its current iteration is strong enough to manage companies even when its art is quotidian.

Mr. Whipple’s days are actually numbered.

Crunching does not work!

Instead, it reduces productivity to a fraction (often 10% of normal), countering any time added.

You want to improve your productivity, you make your workers happy. Make sure they can eat, have good healthcare, have adequate family life, etc.

We now have studies that counter the crunching myths and time theft myths.

Because upper management is less checked, they make a lot of human choices, such as keeping a lot of bullshit job positions open as garden hermits (there for scenery, to look busy).

AI tasked with actually increasing profits may run the business better than their human counterparts.

This was the ironic outcome of the Twilight Zone episode The Brain Center at Whipple’s ( @WP ): After the labor was replaced by automation, the upper management was easily so replaced.

I thought phrenology was still a science at the time of the German Reich, only made defunct later. Now I have my doubts.

Social darwinism was disproven in the 1900s and supply-side economics died in the 19th century so it’s not like pseudoscience does not spring up like weeds when rich people want to sponsor it.

Copyright maximalists pretty consistently are glad to pirate stuff that isn’t theirs when it is suddenly expedient to do so.

As with when the studios and labels push for legal anti-piracy measures, I call shenanigans.

This is not our first rodeo: when a ten-year-old girl downloads the latest release in her favorite literary series because she’s too poor, and we no longer support our libraries to have current selections, no-one is going to want to prosecute the little girl who wants to read.

Well, maybe some billionaires might, but the media would have a field day with it.

Regicide.

A feline queen reigns over my apartment complex. It’s a fair regime.

The seas of purple / red / gold juxtaposed really does put into perspective the contrived sycophancy and camaraderie that comes with spectator sports. Artificial unity for its own sake, rather than for a common principle or a common goal.

It’s community with artificial colors and flavoring.

This all could backfire on the advertisers hard, especially with some well-placed counter-advertising.

I’m pretty sure (not absolutely) this has appeared in court and even click-wrap licenses, where one clicks to agree to a license with a higher word count than King Lear are not valid due to the end user high administrative burden (reading 20K+ words in the middle of a software install).

There was a period in the 1980s where end users automatically were assumed to agree to licensing, but also licenses were extremely lenient and allowed unlimited use by the licensee without any data access rights by the providing company. 21st century licenses are much more complicated and encroach a lot more on end-user privacy.

It doesn’t take AI analytics to figure out I’m as far left as they get and come pre-radicalized. I’m the ANTIFA overlord they’re looking for.

I’ve practically invited them to breach my door.