How I picture the AI every time it says "you're absolutely right"
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TECH BILLIONAIRE: Unfortunately the Unstoppable Robot Death Machine we built might kill us all. YOU: Oh no! We must regulate it! TB: No! That will make it worse. Leave it to us, we'll solve this scary problem. YOU: But wait, you built the problem! TB: Hush, go back to sleep now.
Cute error pages, like a whale being lifted by little birds or, say, a stupid fucking pink unicorn, are funny and cute when it's actually a rare occasion in which you get to see them. When the site is a steaming pile of shit with daily outages, it's just annoying.
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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This story ought to be hilarious when they find out why GitHub is down. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-github-is-down-worldwide/
Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide
GitHub is down for some users as a widespread outage is causing errors across the website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and several other services.
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Happy Left-handers' Day to everyone who, like me, suffered the indignity of having to write upside down or endure endlessly smudged writing
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Hoy comienzan a aceptar propuestas de charlas para la JConf de Guatemala 2026.jconf.gt/es/call-for-...
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Incident with Actions - Update We are continuing to work on an issue affecting GitHub Actions. Webhook triggers remain throttled to aid recovery, so many push and pull request events are not triggering new workflow runs. #qcvjkzcs7j74
Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin , of the Northern District of California, described the settlement as a source of "significant relief" for the plaintiffs in her ruling on Monday.
Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to authors for using pirated books to train Claude. - Sinaptica
What happened A federal judge in the United States approved the $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and a group of authors and publishers who sued the com
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They say books won’t change the world. Tell that to every colonizer who burned them. To every enslaved person who was punished for reading. Literacy is resistance. Literacy is liberation. The library is a battlefield.
Copilot's code reviewer is just as good as a senior software engineer. It fails to understand the intention of the pull request and chooses about 5 things to give erroneous feedback about because it's underpaid and tired. It's trying to look busy until 5:00, but for it, 5:00 never comes.
"If these tools are so good, where's all the magic software?" I see more bugs now, in software that was rock solid before. The uncomfortable question: when does that hit something load-bearing? Has it already?
What if I were to tell you there's a way to produce less reliable and less secure software that takes longer and costs more? I can see you're intrigued.
ICE is not broken. It's agents murdering people, taking trophies of victims, using illegal tactics, breaking laws, spreading terror, and leaving death cards are not isolated events, outliers, or accidents. ICE is operating exactly as intended.
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/
"Trying to 'engage' with fascism is like trying to have an intimate emotional relationship with a running chainsaw. The very act of framing fascism as a reasonable partner for dialogue is an act of propaganda that validates and normalizes fascism." Good read on the utter failure of corporate media:
over at the newsletter I wrote about how Tim Cook is an embarrassing coward
It would be an objective good for the world if Donald Trump died tonight and not a second later.