Client side support for a tipping link (Koffee, Patreon, crypto wallet, whatever the user's choice is) that is built in to the UI would go a long way.
ISPs should be regional users cooperatives everywhere. Rural areas in the US have local ISPs structured this way, but corporate ISPs have been trying to use regulation to make them illegal in normal service areas, which is disgusting.
I predict that point to point private fiber (currently used by high speed traders) will become more and more prevalent as issues with AI impersonation and spoofing become more prevalent, we should use this infrastructure drive to push linking co-op and public mesh networks using the same long-run conduit.
Prohibition leads to the propagation of means of evasion. By attempting to ban teenagers from popular means of communications they will incentivize mass adoption of "illicit means" of communications, and create another generation both familiar and comfortable with "illegal online activity" like the Napster generation. Just like Napster, this will also accidentally push youth into online platforms and channels where they are more likely to encounter content not suitable for minors and malware.
The only "truly effective" form that this type of internet control can take is requiring a digital ID verification to establish a connection to the network at the ISP, and that is a nightmare setup we should be prepared to fight tooth and nail.
A pretty good system, the crucial implementation being a robust consent management system for data access, and Metadata tracking to make sure the account identifier isn't being used behind the scenes as a de-facto tracker by the public sector.
To me the risk of Digital ID is two fold, one it gives the government a centralized means of tracking individual behavior and thereby crushing dissent (from a Social Credit System, to straight up Russian style gulagging the opposition). On the flip side it gives private sector actors a central immutable identifiers to associate behavior with that can't be erased by deleting or abandoning an account.
Age Verification is the point where these two concerns are merging into one. Abolishing online anonymity is tantamount to universal surveillance by both the state and private actors, setting up a system of automated persecution tyrants have dreamed of for ages but hasn't been possible until today with Machine Learning making mass data processing automation both viable and feasible.
Fascist population control and the "final solution" weren't possible in the way they were implemented until IBM sold the Germans early tabulating machines / computers. ML is the next phase of that same arc of development.
Use of Digital ID to log internet activity is what makes individual data streams continuous, contiguous, and compileable by default.
The consequences are clear, the question is what we can do to prevent it from happening.
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"The model is named Apertus – Latin for “open” – highlighting its distinctive feature: the entire development process, including its architecture, model weights, and training data and recipes, is openly accessible and fully documented."
Yes, closing your sinuses is a natural reflex response for humans, and people have greater or lesser at will control over it.
The nose holding for swimming is more about how strong that sinus closure is and endurance. People with larger sinus openings have a more difficult time keeping them closed and resisting pressure like water entering from jumping into a pool. Also some people have a hard time keeping them closed for any prolonged period.
In other words, you just have totally ripped sinuses breh.
Could this be the run-up to Apple acquiring Perplexity? I remain convinced that Apple defending their internal AI division shows they are close to a major acquisition and are just waiting for a valuation dip on one of the major competitors. Distribution is a solved problem for Apple, what they need is proven usecases and a competitive tech stack.
That said, search and consolidating multiple model APIs isn't a great match for what Apple needs, and their optics aren't great. My bet is still on Apple acquires Anthropic in 2026.
It is actually an old and well established britishism
Offer him the option to transition Valve to a workers cooperative. Boom, he would no longer be a billionaire.
I remain convinced they have held back budget on AI because they are waiting for the bubble to burst so they can buy one of the bigger developers like Anthropic. Why burn a bunch of cash now just to loose the race when at the end of the day Open Source options might come out competitive or one of the leaders in the space can be bought out once valuations hit a reality check?
If you want to see a lot of real fossils directly, no replicas, go to Dinosaur National Monument and check out the Quarry Exhibit Hall. A huge wall of fossils still in their stone matrix.