The person in the image above reported and repeated the claims about AI’s potential to wipe out humanity without irony or sceptism on a recent video. I used to watch her but found her tangled neverending analogies tiresome… Always something like “XYZ is spending money like an ABC, with an QRS sized hole In the money bucket while DEF does ZZZ to scoop up the dropped pennies… we all know what that is like, don’t we?”.

The caveat at the bottom is telling. It strikes me that this incarcerated men knew they had to caveat the donation or it would get spent on SUV maintenance or something.

I think magazines (like newspapers) are sale or return. If they sell, the distributer collects some $ from the retailer. If they don’t sell, they have to come and take them back. It would be bad for business if people carried one around the store while they shopped, but changed their mind before they got to the checkout.

Maybe the bill will get an amendment. Maybe a 2nd amendment is required.

I have found that if I hug the kerb, the overtakers driver side wheel barely kisses the centre white line. If I get in the middle of the lane, they generally wait until it’s safe to pass and then get both sets of wheels over the line. Added bonus of some room between me and the kerb if I need to take evasive action.

Work is an interesting point. Maybe working with a computer (a till, a barcode scanner, a stock checker, a multimeter) will be the thing that gets people scooped up and compliant first - even if you are using a work device, on a work network, on the business premises. If you want the $10 an hour: “gotta scan your ID, or you can’t activate the wafflegrill”

It’s annoying that Cloudflare is basically facilitating / enabling the proliferation of the “zero click” internet that a handful of the worlds richest people are so keen on… And while they are encouraging site owners to hold the door open for AI, Cloudflare continues to punish actual human website visitors with their “are you human” barriers to entry. It would be nice if some of the people running it actually valued the internet a little bit ffs.

Reminder that 80% of people don’t read past the headline - most people will believe the lie even if they only see it here. News outlets know this, so the headline should be “Trump breaks the law and commits election fraud with false claims about payments to voters” or whatever.

Yeah, but: AI is important and valuable to millions of people… But only as a search engine. And only because Google ruined their own web search engine on purpose. Governments are making AI data centres part of national infrastructure (like rail or roads) when we should have forced Google to do the right thing with similar laws and protections against the enhshitefication of it. Give us back a good Google, and the use case for AI disappears (along with the threat of humanity destruction) overnight.

Richard Branson is on a big AstroTurf PR tabloid inch buying jaunt following several recent exposé on apparent similarities between Branson and Jeffrey Epstein. This might be why he keeps emerging from his nonsense island to do photoshoots and hunt virgins enemies (like Eurostar)

I saw Eli Computer Guy on YT yesterday describing how “you don’t allow the intern full access/permissions/privileges to delete the production database”. Swap “AI” for “intern” in the marketing material and the real culprit is clear - it’s the person who left the door open without any foresight or common sense. You can’t blame the intern.

It’s a literal $50b pay day for OpenAI (and the sole motivation for why they keep announcing it, attempt to change what it means, or try to claim it has been reached)

Fictions? It’s easy to make a mistake isn’t it. We could all be victims in the right circumstances. We can feel compassion and demand more severe punishments for banks that facilitate it (like in my industry) where everyone in the chain has to give the money back and/or give up the id of the party they gave the money to until a culprit is exposed - the victims bank refunds the victim, the bank the money was transferred to returns it to the victims bank, and so on. Where there is a will, there is a way.

One of the three hit a fire hydrant and a tree before the battery ignited. The flaming prison cell on three wheels is not the expected behaviour following a minor road traffic accident either: “In this total nightmare scenario, the doors would not open, and the driver couldn’t break the Cybertruck’s “armored” windows from inside”

Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/9/7/robots-protest-in-poland-over-ai-regulation-concerns

Rickyism 101: “supply and command… you need supply, I command you not to”

True. Although I like how the headlines referring to the product as “pervert glasses” combined with headlines like this one leave little room for nuance. I hope the next logical step is for users to be forced to say “not all pervert glass wearers are sex offenders”. Embarrassment, shame, and ridicule is a better enforcement tool than any government action or restriction.

This is a great single-button arcade game. I played the fuck out of this addictive game on Switch when I broke my thumb. It’s worth it for this price whether you have accessibility restrictions or not.

Gross. I see what you mean - has to be bait

Thank you for the translations. My mind still boggles. Is it accurate to sum this up as…

“Willow (human) received a thread of messages from their partner (human) who is dehumanising them by referring to them as a bot / claiming to be having a separate relationship with a bot that they created (based on Willows attributes) while intimating that Willow is also in a relationship with someone/something else?”