Thanks to Ars for including the lullaby. It is incredibly bleak.

Just to draw it out a little more.
A company intentionally made a product that is more than capable of killing its users. The company monitors the communications, and decides to not intervene. (Beats me how closely communications are monitored, but the company can and does close accounts as told in other articles.)
This communication went on for months or years. The company had more than enough time to act.
Sam Altman is a bad person for choosing not to.

A number of the the troll farms and ai bot farms are paid work. Cut out of pay, and the employees will do other things.

How does one do that? Take out the sources of money, of which there are likely a few.

reading education isnt prioritized in any meaningful way

Sorry, the point is not that it is not prioritized. Reading was very much prioritized.

The point is that a mistaken idea and its resulting training curriculum were introduced and championed as a way to improve reading. This mistaken training curriculum had the effect of *reducing reading ability.

The intention was to teach weak readers the skills used by strong readers. Instead they trained unskilled readers with the skills used by weak readers. The impacts took a while to become obvious and sometimes well intentioned people are wrong.

How horrible. I hope the BBC is also publishing this in Arabic (apparently the primary language of Syria).

From “the monitor goes dark”, it would be helpful to split monitor issues from computer issues. When the computer becomes unresponsive, do any “non-monitor” functions still work? Does the DVD-drive tray eject or does audio continue to play? Any other details? Do any other lights on the computer stay on, like keyboard and mouse lights?

If the issue is primarily the monitor, then splitting between the physical monitor and the video card would also be helpful.

How old is the hardware?

When you say “nothing is logged”, is the hard shutdown logged or anything after the time of the event? Or does “nothing is logged” mean the normal items are logged, but nothing of interest is logged? Some issues, especially hardware ones, stop the computer from logging.

Story: I once had a 15+ year old computer do something similar. The screen would go dark, but the lights on the keyboard stayed on. I had to hard power the system off and sometimes on boot the monitor wouldn’t work. A monitor swap didn’t fix the issue, but a USB video card did. The video card had failed. (Looking up what I think the interconnect was, the system may be 20 years old at this point.) NOTE: The system was not functional long term with a USB video card due to how the BIOS in the system handled the two video cards.

Not even a fucking made up sentence. That was a real developer expressing a real problem.

I dislike it.
I have been surprised at the coworkers with that stream their daily activities.
Seems to be a symptom of a failing economic system (i.e. too many people have access to too little money). The minimum wage needs to go up.

You asked a question, let’s see if we can all work on an answer.

Is there any research about this phenomenon?

I don’t even know what journals would publish such research. Starting with Google Scholar to get an idea of where to look for more information.

Just looking for reddit:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C24&q=reddit

Adding some search words:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C24&as_ylo=2025&q=reddit+manipulation

The top, for me, result is: “Debunking a politically motivated rumor on Reddit: the context of the 2024 U.S. Republican presidential campaign” from “Journal of Documentation”, which sounds fake (not my field).
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/jd-02-2025-0052/full/html

Clearly, one should not restrict themselves to the first journal that seems to touch on the subject. Please attempt both a depth and a breadth search, switching as personal energy and interest levels shift.

Searching the Journal of Documentation for reddit:
https://www.emerald.com/jd/search-results?page=1&q=reddit&fl_SiteID=1000445

And now one can engage in weeks of reading and reviewing papers.

It is my hope that others already have the knowledge to shorten this search.

Edit: “Understanding Reddit” by Elliot T. Panek looks interesting, but is a whole book.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003150800/understanding-reddit-elliot-panek

First one, then adding the other. Might grab the remaining after.

Good. This will force more competition into the market.

Looks like the USA is running it pretty well so far. Lots of videos of violence in Venezuela.
Maybe we should make Venezuela a territory and its people citizens. Then at least they could have rights. (USA running it like Iraq and Afghanistan were run by the USA will cause more people to flee, possibly to the USA.)

America First doesn’t include running other countries.

That is a cool workaround. I have not encountered it personally, but I am glad someone has.

Local news covered it in MN. Multiple of the identified day cares were inspected this year. A few haven’t had licenses are not known to be operating. (All daycares are inspected annually.) No one knows what the fuck the YouTuber is on about, and they did not share any methodology. (I.E. Could have filmed over a weekend. No one knows.)

Edit: Daycares are now being broken into and records of children stolen.

So the Trump DOJ is inoculating Disney from future complaints on the same issue for chump change?

(Because this cannot be re-litigated by the next DOJ, or citizens.)

No, slobs for the pro-leaving EU.

Pretty AI girls for staying in EU.

Also, maybe pretty AI girls for equality and fighting Russia.

Actually, flood the zone with pretty AI girls. Make them so unremarkable as to be useless.

It is low, but no country votes based on intelligence.

Likewise, I burned a Debian install DVD about 6 months ago. A FreeBSD install disk about 9 months ago.

Building codes, at least the ones I am aware of, require the light switch inside the room with the light next to the door, similar to how nearly every room you have ever been in. (Everyone knows of exceptions.) This means either corners have been cut, at those switches should control things within the room with the switches.

As the interviewer if attention to detail and following build codes and specifications is important at this company. Is there a culture of safety, or are corners cut that put my life at risk.

How are you handling random 2-Factor challenges to email? (CGP Grey has a story of the DMVs sending codes to his email while physically at the location.)

How many people have a story of needing email while out in the physical world? (Email adoption is still not 100% in the USA, 92.4% in Nov 2023.)