We were never bored because we were never being boring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnvFOaBoieE

Directed by fashion photographer Bruce Weber. A tremendous artifact of the late 1980s transitioning to the Nineties.

Official HD version is available too:

https://youtu.be/NVC-jusXGno

> Protest is popularly considered a spontaneous, organic outpouring of popular sentiment

It is sometime this, but it is also popularly known as an organized struggle against an oppressive power. Examples being, Ghandi's independence movement in India, the suffrage movements for the right of women to vote, and the civil rights movements in the 60s. These were all highly organized, premeditated and engineered to achieve specific objectives.

> increasingly protest is being used by hostile forces

Here you'd have to define 'hostile forces', because it sounds like you are defining it as 'anyone who disagrees with the current power structure', which would be all protesters because that what protests are.

"Exercise has at least a "moderate impact" on symptoms "compared with no treatment or a control intervention,"

I mean, yes, but we already knew this. So good that this is a finding that passes replication.

The thing is that the university admin are not going to apply this in good faith. We know this because the current conservative movement is a steady stream of bad faith actions. From deportations, to free speech, to corruption, to weaponizing the DOJ, to DOGE, etc. etc. This policy WILL be used to censor anything even a tiny bit to the left of hard right and will NEVER be used to censor anything on the right side of hard right.

For the university disability question, an answer could be to give everyone the same advantages like more time on an exam, or give no one any. The current situation is almost designed to incentivize pretending to have a disability. This is what university is now teaching; lying works.

It also hasn't gone well for the non-rich folk either.

People will build AI 'quality detectors' to sort and filter the slop. The problem is of course it won't work very well and will drown all the human channels that are trying to curate various genres. I'm not optimistic about things not all turning into a grey sludge of similar mediocre material everywhere.

Is there a way to have a social media platform with hand-written letters, sent with ravens? That's AI proofed... for a while at least!

I worry that the focus on AI proofing will lead to a deanonymization of the internet. If we force every interaction to be associated with a real world id, we can kill a lot of the bots.

> deanonymization of the internet

This is going to happen anyway because 'the powerful' want to track what everyone does and says. AI is going to accelerate this because now they have a much more efficient means to filter and identify the people that are doing and saying things that the powerful don't like. The powerful will also be able to get real world ID credentials for their bots if they wanted or needed them, so this will not stop the problem of bots.

Exactly, and we will have those who will "game" the "detectors" like they already "game" the social media "algorithms" :\

I believe that a history of written work verified by stylometry will be a viable reputation system.

I've often wondered what the prosecutor was thinking when they bring a case like this to trial in the first place.

When I've looked into these cases it often seems that there are additional issues at play like harassment/stalking of ex's. So the prosecutor is thinking they can get an easy plea deal on the "real" case by piling on additional charges.

To mean this would be like saying furniture companies can claim their products are made of 'solid wood' when it is in fact just particle board, mdf, and cardboard because those are all made from wood and are all solids.

or what 'passive income' is.