Readit Newsrolph commented on YouTube steps up fight against ad blockers again ghacks.net/2025/06/09/goo... · Posted by u/nsdfg
I wonder what the end goal is for Youtube. I doubt they have one, and they're just doing this on instinct/reflex. Not to mention they probably wouldn't have seen a need to to this as much if they didn't go down the path of shoving more and more ads down people's throats.
If Youtube stops working with uBlock Origin, I'll just download the videos wholesale and watch them that way instead, and I doubt there's a realistic way to completely block that, and there will be/already is a large community of people who are willing to make that experience as smooth as it can be, if need be. I don't see an end that works out significantly worse for adblockers in the long run, so everything in the short term is just busywork.
ive said this before, when your [x] depends on people watching videos, you have to let people actually watch videos. its a corner youtube painted itsself into long ago, and means only so many ads can be shown, and videos must be of a minimum quality otherwise or the platform will implode.
some people dont use phones with battery health in mind, some use them as an expendable burner tool, and expect to be able to run wide open lips to the firehose, until mission utility is complete.
rolph commented on Banned The 20 books they didn't want you to read theguardian.com/books/202... · Posted by u/andsoitis
these books should be mined for phrases, attitudes/opinions, statements, that are the source of the inflammation, and compiled into an "antiscreed" perhaps for the invidious lolz, perhaps for the real potential to create social movement.
It would maybe be declared a criminal publication.
AI will screwup, humans will screwup.
humans will see that they are screwing up and reformulate the action plan.
AI will keep screwingup until it is stopped, and apparently will gaslight when attempts are made to realign at the prompt.
humans realize when results are not desirable.
AI just keeps generating output until plugpull.
where the trees are geophysically located is at least as important as number of trees. they have to be located where they can work.
keep in mind these practices are for the most part curtailed by the FAANGS, but its a good example of the sort of things that have been happening for a long time.
Quick skim it seems they are saying humans are neglible and the ocean / land cycles / sinks play a bigger role. Do we not impact both those with our industry and even minor changes can upset the balance?
TLDR: yes.
physical processes cyclicaly source, and sink chemical compounds as part of energetic exchange. biology has slewed the balance a number of times; the great oxygenation; the great eutrophication ; the neoanthropic carbonization.
these set a new balance and a new regime of physical processes tied to energetic exchange, and relative abundance of chemical reactants and products.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Carbon_cycle.jpghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle
the physical circumstances make it complicated, the underlaying engine, is chemistry.
consider, millions of years worth of carbon sequestration being released [burned] over a span in the order of centuries.