omg, nailed
07.03.2026 22:58
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omg, nailed
Every lengthy write-up on "lessons learned" after someone lets an AI process delete their database or all their emails reads like this to me
me in ~2006: "I'm a computer science major, why do I have to take a class on ethics?"
me in 2026: "ah"
fuck.
Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI
A senior level manager forwarding emails containing both P and not-P as guidance without reading them. Minmaxing that value add any% speedrun hard.
Just another day at the office.
I've been trying to make the distinction between "soft problems" and "software problems" at day job and ultimately failed. The thing is technocrat conmen don't want to deal with addressing the issues if they can dream of overlaying some automation over that surface and calling it a day.
Screenshot of headline: Microsoft gets tired of Microslop, bands the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash
Lmfao this is so fucking sad 😂😂😂
Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.
Important potato technology.
The richest man owns X.
The second and third richest men control Google.
The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.
And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
You can fix it with a day 1 patch. Plug them in and start hypercare support with the vendor. It would be irresponsible not to, China probably already did. DO IT YOU COWARDS. /s
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Yes and don't even look in the general direction of Ghost in the Shell franchise (?)
Jupiter's south polar cyclones as seen in infrared by NASA's Juno spacecraft.
This is fucking evil. Ban "A.i." Seriously. Just fucking ban it.
Issue #27805 on anthropic/claude-code GitHub repository: Claude Opus 4.6 hallucinates user message, then responds to itself
is this good chat
El Reg doing LLM boosting now? Yikes.
She: But WHY are you breaking up with me? Please tell me honestly
He (sigh): Ok it’s… your “signature sex move”
She: Judgmental Corpse?
Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel.
“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”
you made me pluck til your feathers were gone
In this game one that blinks first - wins. www.axios.com/2026/02/20/a...
I could write for days, months, years.
I could read decades of sci-fi from the most annoying Golden Age authors.
I could peruse the most cringe things on TikTok.
And still, I could never come up with the deeply embarrassing things Sam Altman says on any given Tuesday
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO
I was disappointed to read Cory Doctorow's post where he got weirdly defensive about his LLM use and started arguing with an imaginary foe.
@tante.cc has a very thoughtful reply here:
tante.cc/2026/02/20/a...
A few further comments, 🧵>>
a cat in a tie sits outside of a factory. the cat says "Hope no one is weird to me." The factory is labeled "Being Weird Factory" and has the bluesky logo on it
Sounded familiar. Checked. It's been on my spotify favs for more than 5 years.
"A little touch of anonymous function can cure that Microsoft Formula.Firewall paranoia."
(Friendly neighborhood Excel wizard.)
