As the age verification technology would forcibly deanonymise all EU users, opening a huge new vein of behavioural surveillance data to the zuckerbots.

Bet it’s the Moonies. They’re cashed up and all over right-wing politics across the world.

The CIA developed dragonfly drones in the 70s IIRC, though they had no active electronics and were heated by a laser to guide them (and possibly to measure acoustic vibrations). It’s not clear whether they found a practical use for them.

AI: a cool-looking car, but it’s papier-mache, and falls apart when subjected to any physical forces.

This is my surprised face.

That looks like the Hundertwasserhaus’s evil twin

Much of “AI” is labour arbitrage, delegating the work to workers in countries with lower wages and weaker labour protections while pretending that the machine that interposes between them is doing it. There’s a joke that AI stands for “absent Indians”.

New Pocket: now with blockchain and AI.