Yes. Even though mass media reporters do not seem to have obtained object permanence, and therefore cannot remember Trump consistently contradicting himself, most of the rest of us have. Trump lies a lot, and in this case, has induced "data center companies" to do so as well.
We just need to change Earth's rotational speed and orbital period so that the number of days in a year is congruent 0 (mod 10). If we had 1000 day years, then maybe we could have 10 months of 10 weeks of 10 days. Or with 100 day years, we could skip months and just have 10 weeks of 10 days.
Somewhere between Mercury's and Venus's orbits, we could have a year with 100 days of our current length. It would be nice for our existing circadian rhythms but a bit on the hot side...
A bit further than Mar's orbit, we could have a year with 1000 days of our current length, but pretty chilly.
Maybe we could take Mars's orbit, since we think it had liquid water and we've go a greenhouse going anyway... That is about 690 of our current day lengths. But maybe we could spin Earth up to have 1000 rotations per orbit, and each day would be about 16.5 of our current hours.
Given the utter climate chaos we'd get from this, it might be more realistic to move everybody underground and then we can just program the lights to give us whatever decimal time units we want... ;-)
I loved the idea. However, the main issue was that it completely ignored the date.
While it worked fine in Western Europe - as i.Beats were based on the “Biel Mean Time” = GMT+1, people in the US would e.g. wake up at @584 on March 7 and eat dinner @125 on March 8.
Which is why we're not gonna get it. There's reporting that AI companies are firing staff opposing using their tools to create nudes. They're not gonna ban AI from impersonating humans... like ever!
Word of mouth, independent websites, newsletters, blogs, community organizations, religious organizations, political organizations, amateur radio broadcasts/transmissions, neighborhood meetings, festivals, conferences, meetups, cultural traditions, leaflets, town criers.
Every single one of these has been effectively used to organize at geographic scale within this most recent century before "non-technical" even existed as a possible descriptor of a human being.
Many of them necessitate going outside, which may present an imaginative hurdle.
Imagine electicity in the home is made availiable but the deal is you can have it only if you don't use said electricity to exercise freedom of speech against the government, e.g. use a lamp to help you write the speech. And they have a way to track you if you do. And the alternative is no electrcity.
Online services like email and social media even are utilities.
It's literally "computer fraud and abuse" in every sense of the word, so one assumes that an avenue of potential prosecution and possible conviction would be under the CFAA act. This does not, of course, guarantee that a conviction would be made and upheld at appeal, but this community is quite familiar with the dire harm that federal prosecution for misuse of computer services can impose on individuals, no matter how misguided that prosecution may be. Prosecution can be wielded as a form of persecution that does not require a conviction as outcome to be successful, and that is the a pressing risk now faced by whoever did this.
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