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  @adafruit@fosstodon.org Meanwhile the empire of voyeuracracy has gotten a patent on using AI to imitate/automate your FB "likes" and comments after you have died. I have deleted my account. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/13/1929209/metas-new-patent-an-ai-that-likes-comments-and-messages-for-you-when-youre-dead

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  My son and his GF had a cat with kidney problems. It required a daily injection of a large amount of saline to stay alive. They were both working in biology labs and handy at injecting mice....the cat lived five more years

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  with an incubation period averaging something like 12 days, few will feel ill enough to realize they should quarantine. Good thing transmissibility is so low.

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  Populations, movements and interest groups may wish for "regime change", but how often do you encounter a regime seeking to change some other regime without thinking it has called itself out for a thorough house cleaning? [and senate cleaning etc]. In the US, the white christian nationalists and racists got the regime change they wanted.

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  That strikes me as neither a benign nor a greedy species of enshitification but more like Unintended Consequences. The upshot is still a less useful internet.

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  I am getting to the point where I don't attend media or channels that report any statement from Trump. Why does anyone listen to him? Right now I am down to math, medicine and physics journals.