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People who'd rather win an argument (or just disagree to be contrarian) than be right.
Not surprisingly, it tends to correlate with an authoritarian mindset. Which means those who want to be authoritarian leaders can use it to manipulate those who are willing to be authoritarian followers....because none of them actually care about the truth, they only care about the "win."

"On his way out of the studio Abetz noticed a photograph of Guernica. “Ah, Monsieur Picasso,” he said, adjusting his monocle, “so it was you who did that.” “No,” replied Picasso as he closed the door, “you did.”"

"Here's a collection of free to use sticker designs by Doc Pop, plus suggestions on who to use for print on demand sticker manufacturing."
Includes "Move purposefully nd fix things," a sandwich hero, a BSG quote on military and police, AI boycott, Waymo with a cone, and "Everyone's welcome here" with a bunch of stripes.

Apparently it doesn't check the system's eligibility every time you launch Windows Update, or even every time you boot.
I also found that it checks *per-user*, and it was cheerfully offering the teenager a chance to enroll the box in it even though his account wasn't eligible, but *not* offering it to me on the same box, even though I'd already enrolled the other two Windows systems in the house using the account. I had to use this command under my login to tell it to check again: `cmd /c ClipESUConsumer.exe -evaluateEligibility` I didn't have to do the registry or service changes listed at this link. YMMV.

"On September 22nd, President Trump, RFK, and other members of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) leadership held a press conference that contained false and harmful information about autism, acetaminophen, and vaccines. Read our statements in formal language or plain language below to learn more."
-- Autistic Self Advocacy Network

"An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices"

An XML standard to indicate whether or not you approve of AI uses of your site (or specific parts of it), and under what licensing conditions if so.
Like robots.txt, so the less scrupulous AI crawlers will keep scraping your writing and photos.

"The “debate me bro” playbook is simple and effective: demand that serious people engage with your conspiracy theories or extremist talking points. If they decline, cry “censorship!” and claim they’re “afraid of the truth.” If they accept, turn the interaction into a performance designed to generate viral clips and false legitimacy. It’s a heads-I-win-tails-you-lose proposition that has nothing to do with genuine intellectual discourse."

"China is pulling ahead of the rest of the world in sinking data centers that power AI into the ocean as an alternate way to keep them cool"
Apparently Microsoft hasn't followed up on their own experiment, though they considered it a success.

2017: "Microsoft wants to submerge data centers to keep them cool and to harvest energy from the sea"
I should look up whether this approach panned out at all.