RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115839163441384816
@rmi My initial comparisons to substance abuse were somewhat tentative and reluctant, back in January. But these have gone from being a few troubling-but-subtle bits of hearsay and implication to a drumbeat of near-daily incidents and I wish I were not feeling so validated in this particular view
Sometimes it's really obvious!
I show that in this video I made. You can see their gasters expanding as they drink. When they return to the colony they share the sugar water with the younger ants and queen. #antvideo #ants #coneants #Dorymyrmex

the only interesting undocumented feature I have found after all that is... what looks like a half-baked Nintendo CIC-style copy protection? it can send some randomly generated bits serially to the cartridge port, read some bits back, apply some manglement to the combination and hand the resulting stew back to the main CPUs
which is especially unusual for a CD based console??
People at work are now using GenerativeAI tooling to send me messages on slack. As in, to replace person to person communication.
It's gross.