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.

Right on both accounts.

Does Trump’s lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch not count? https://www.npr.org/2025/07/17/nx-s1-5471583/trump-wall-street-journal-epstein-files-bondi

I am having issues finding a followup.

An aside “Just Security” (I cannot vouch for this site) has a litigation tracker for the Trump Administration, but not for the Trump person. https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/

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.

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.

A war against our biggest trading partner. One where many of their nationals, and decedents live legally within our country. One we share a large land boarder with. A country that has voluntarily held migrants that want to enter our country on their side of the boarder. A boarder known to be porous.

This can only go well.

I get the prices are going up, and DDR5 is hard to get. There are still many computers on the shelves locally.

Why is this specific company in Japan failing to get computers when so many others are doing an decent job of it?

I am out of the loop and the article didn’t provide the answers. I get the limited supply, but what PC shortage? Is this only impacting Japan? I see many advertisements in the USA for new PCs.

There are a few northern Germanic languages that are deceptive to English readers. They almost read correctly in English, if one assumes the speaker is drunk. Sadly, they can also give the wrong impression. The spoken version tends to be harder to handle in this way.

Clearly, there must be a name for languages that share this sort of property.

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

Like you, I only replace when there is a major problem. When there are repairs I can do myself, I do them to extend the life of the phone. My previous phone had corrupted internal memory or storage, and that was that.

I have run into issues where newer software runs poorly. I solve this issue by not running that software.

I have never purchased the exact same model, but they tend to not be offered at that point. I have purchased the same model line. I had really enjoyed the Motorola G line, especially the extended battery iteration.

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

Europe may need to end the Russian invasion fast so they only have one front to fight on.

Good. This will force more competition into the market.

Use whatever you have currently or free castoffs from family/friends. If it has specific issues, then upgrade to fix those issues.

I am using a 10+ year old desktop computer with new hard drives to host NFS for my Jellyfin. Installed FreeBSD with ZFS. 8 GB RAM (any video I play will be smaller than available RAM), 4 cores. My TVs are NOT 4K. Zero issues.

Highlights from the very short write-up for visibility. Bolding is my own. Read the full ten paragraphs.

… A working knowledge of data protection, in particular the GDPR, is essential. In practice, the workload has been low: the team handled four requests in 2025. Additional proactive work, such as improving the privacy policy or advising teams on data-handling workflows, is welcome but optional and can be shaped by the interests of the volunteers.

This is a role which requires trust. An established track record within the Debian community is therefore important, and it may be difficult for someone who has only very recently become a Debian Developer to take on this role immediately. Since formal delegations can only be made to Debian Developers, this status is a requirement for the role."

Threatening to do something similar to Mexico is likely not helping.

Maybe threatening to annex your neighbors and biggest trading partners will negatively impact national security? Nah…

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.)