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Wow, reality is worse than I thought.

Good thing the AI did not generate pro-Palestine videos or TikTok would have been banned already.

Confiscating money held by a (private) clearing house to pay your debts seems iffy at best.

62% in Belgium, kind of surprising as the minister of Defense, a Trump admirer himself, is quite popular in the north.

Haha great solution! I only have cats that have no interest in reading.

It just won't break. I've been waiting for years to replace it with a newer Kobo model, for just one single reason: USB-C.

This was briefly touched upon during the Nexus conference, which I was reading about in an article just before browsing Lemmy and coming across this post. Although it offers no answers, it seems relevant as it might deepen the understanding of the problem:

The people financing the AI revolution were already responsible for the expansion of social media, which ruins many lives, says Leahy. Permanent online surveillance via social media makes young people afraid to even dance at concerts, says the 30-year-old software developer. The algorithms of dating apps have also turned the dating scene into a messed-up place. None of his friends have children, and everywhere he looks, he sees “dejected” peers. “My generation realizes that the promise of ‘let technology run free and everything will be fine’ is not true.”

The original article was in another language, no other paragraphs were relevant, so source has been omitted. Feel free to ask though, I'll share (a translation of) the article.