The story and headline are pushing a narrative that hides what is happening.

The FTC made sure we didn’t call it “surveillance pricing” and shifted from prevention to disclosure.

https://prospect.org/2026/08/21/ftc-says-it-will-enforce-surveillance-pricing-it-wont/

At least in the US, you have a very narrow window to cancel and then you’re stuck with it, unless you pay a huge premium for a refundable ticket. But I agree, practically-speaking, the only solution in a late-stage capitalist marketplace is to create some crowdsourced pricing information to identify pricing outliers. Which, truly, isn’t a good solution.

If we had a functional government, this would be regulated/prohibited on an emergency basis, since in theory government is supposed to represent people and not corporations. Unfortunately, in 2026, we’re livestock to herd and fleece.

“Not Found” error. From the link, I assume you’re deeplinking to a temporary/personal tokenized download.

This doesn’t seem sarcastic.

/s

What is the x-axis on this chart? Time?

Help! I’ve shot myself in the face on purpose! How can I reassure investors that I am still a capable CEO!?

According to the article, the data is not clearly lost. It’s that their provider, OSS, had a subcontract with Iron Mountain to host the data storage. When OSS abruptly went defunct, PBS had no direct legal path to access the data in Iron Mountain, and no assurance Iron Mountain would preserve it. It filed the lawsuit to make sure the data was preserved and affirm a legal basis to recover the data.

So the headline’s use of “loses access” is accurate but a little misleading. That said, it is a great argument for reliable data preservation.

Well, if you were a billionaire who owned AI system trained to influence and extract money from humans, and there’s no humans online, what would you do?

And so that brings us to how robots actually will become a reality…

Well… Okay. But only if I can keep paying the subscription fee for the rest of my life in order to maintain access.

No, you don’t get it, Musk has a plan.

• Step 1: It fails utterly and completely.
• Step 2: Musk goes on Twitter/X, and says, “Had to add more math to training data.”
• Step 3: CSAM and MechaHitler for some reason.
• Step 4: Musk demands to speak to Grok’s manager.

After that, it’s basically a straight line to success.