Now it's "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns", which is a little vague.

I think so. I'm more comfortable with China having access to my data than the US, at this point.

But Flock is happy to see them installed that way. They are collaborating and all responsible.

I don't understand this argument. How is Flock "collaborating" by selling their product? Sure they're happy their product is selling. How does that imply collaboration?

I mean, you're welcome to buy an Apple Vision Pro, but you making poor decisions with your money doesn't make Apple responsible for that.

Mine was similar. I thought it was pretty shocking that I was in the top 0.90%. Surely I don't really post a lot here.

Global Rank 6948 / 774235 Word Count 63,737 Percentile Top 0.90%

I would be surprised if a day went by without someone, somewhere, predicting a crash.

That's something a bit odd about Douglas Adams's reply. Arthur Dent isn't heroic, but he's the hapless protagonist. The protagonist doesn't have to be a hero. I'm not sure in what way he has "non-heroic heroism".

As GP pointed out, "hero" is a word with overloaded semantics. I think Adams was using different semantics for different occurrences of "hero" in that phrase. Arthur Dent has a "heroism", as in a kind of courage that people would want to emulate, without being "heroic", as in performing great sacrifices for a noble cause.

I also believe Adams was trying to point out, very gently, the same cultural difference I called out in the comment I replied to, i.e. that the American culture attaches certain expectations and connotations to the word "hero" not because they are intrinsic to it, but because of American bias.

Fictional textual descriptions of 16-year-olds having sex are theoretically illegal where I live (a state of Australia.) Somehow, this hasn't led to the banning of works like Game of Thrones.

They seem to have so much bubble money at the moment that the cost of scraping is probably a rounding error in their pocket change.

So the cost of caching should be a rounding error as well. If The Internet Archive can afford to cache vast swathes of the web, then surely the big AI companies can do so.

Exactly.

It was published in 1925 and expired in 2021.

The US only switched to the life + 70 system in recent decades, and it doesn't retroactively apply.

I think if you add a child as a coauthor, the copyright will last longer. Nobody seems to do that, probably because it now lasts long enough for just about anybody.