Because you need to meet the platform's goals.

On a for-profit one, that's being somehow profitable to it, whether by paying directly or through ads and content placement. Otherwise, you need a philanthropic platform, where either someone or you indirectly supports it, like a P2P one.

Instagram is of the former kind.

Now we know how they'll get from serving coffee, to this prediction from 2006:

Didn't this happen in September 2025?

This one seems to be more up to date, from 27 March, 2026:

https://evanstonroundtable.com/2026/03/27/flock-removes-final-two-license-plate-cameras-from-evanston-after-roundtable-inquiry/

I have serious doubts about any voters, anywhere in the world, repealing any laws like this:

• Most people like laws that let them avoid responsibility
• Most people are, or have been, parents at some point
• Most parents will offload the responsibility onto "the government" instead of admitting to poor parenting

This kind of act of insubordination, the way it is framed, I'm afraid is likely to meet the opposition of most people.

In whose eyes? They have lobbyists backing them, and a general public who doesn't know any better, or care to know.

Exposing the stupidity is a great goal, running headfirst into the "Who will think of the children!1!!" wall... not so much.

AB 1043 passed the California Assembly 76–0 and the Senate 38–0. Not a single legislator voted against it.

1798.503. (a) A person that violates this title shall be subject to an injunction and liable for a civil penalty of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per affected child for each negligent violation or not more than seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) per affected child for each intentional violation

This device does not collect, store, or transmit the age of its user. This is intentional.

Is there any reason to believe they won't want to make an example out of intentional violators?

Yes, I get that they may want verification with government ID... but unless they do it at a firmware level, anything above a FOSS Linux kernel on my own unlocked hardware, is fully under my control.

So far, it sounds to me like "age verif theatre" as applied to single user "jailbroken" systems. If they added this on a locked down Android system, as a requirement for network access (note: this is an actual proposal being floated around) then that would be of some concern... but systemd? 🤨

QUESTION: if I run my own system with local accounts, full root access, and no remote accounts... why should I care about whether systemd "MAY BE ABLE" to store someone's date of birth?

Sounds to me like, for all I care, they could add fields for ethnicity, religion, d size, political orientation, colonic maps, or whatever else they want.

If it's to build systems shared with underage family members, schools, or other public system... I personally DGAF.

(Skipping the AGI buzzword BS...)

How do the dream cycle and memory consolidation work?

(I find it a bit intriguing though, that people would have time to both write novel-length responses on social media, and do any actual work 🤔)

What are those dream cycle and memory consolidation it's using?

AGI sounds like BS (by definition)... but what's behind the buzzword? This guy is supposed to be smart, might as well have built some stuff around an LLM that makes it leap forward.

Poisoning what? Intentional poisoning doesn't work, and self-consumption only works when it's the exact same model feeding its own next version.

There's this:

• https://www.popsci.com/technology/billionaire-freedom-city-greenland/

Breaking NATO also has a chance of destroying the USD, which could be related to these:

• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/14/trump-crypto-conflict-interest
• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/18/trump-financial-products-conflicts-of-interest