Large language models #LLMs hallucinate websites and domains that sound plausible, but aren’t useful. Criminals are setting up malicious websites under those domains, in a new scam called “slop squatting.” spectrum.ieee.org/ai-cyberatta...
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Occasional Mechatronic engineer, games adjacent, apparently can’t stop starting companies. COO 👉 @turbotem.com Also 🐝 buildbee.com Also Also 🖨️ me3d.com.au 🇦🇺 but in 🇨🇮
AND TIM CURRY?! Fucks sake, 2026. Start hitting some of the shitty 80+ year olds.
"AI will speed up development!" "AI will liberate creative tendencies!" then why has it been 4 years and all we've seen is wildly unpopular wet dogshit
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 6d agoIs this all you can conjure aftermath.site/google-ai-vide...
Professor Ray Wills knows a thing or two about electric vehicles, renewable energy systems, the grid, Australia and of course, China. Well worth a watch/listen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mcea...
Has China saved electrification & is Australia a canary in the 'clean' coal mine?
YouTube video by Everything Electric TECH
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Pretty wild as microbio papers go! Precision RNA editing to correct a mutation causing muscular dystrophy. Positive indications in primate trials and already has first-in-human treatment results. Fingers crossed, if it works it’ll be the first real and lasting treatment for a truly awful disease.
Shicheng Guo@shihcheng.bsky.social · last wk.A groundbreaking study reversed Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) using LEAPER 2.0 with circ-arRNAs for exon skipping, restoring muscle function in monkeys & humans! PMID:42269605, Cell 2026, @Cell https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(26)00589-1 #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪
That headline is brutal, first time I've seen a big business publication say the words "data center boom go bust" with its whole chest. Also a line in there has a supplier saying "when the market turns." The clenching has begun
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last wk.Wow. SIEMENS EXEC: “.. We are actively working to not be wholly dependent on data centers. .. We understand at some point there could be a bubble and we’re racing to pay back the investments as quickly as possible.” @blsuth.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
NEW: Flock has said for years that its cameras "cannot track individuals." We found the code for its new AI tool. It's preloaded w/ prompts like "Find me witness" & "find relatives." One tracks visitors of multiple hotels, another if you visit banks after midnight. www.wired.com/story/flock-...
Carnival allegations prompt Anti-Slavery Commissioner calls for cruise crew protection www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Senator blasts 'floating sweatshop' cruise ships
The Anti-Slavery Commissioner is calling for change after Carnival cruise staff alleged conditions one senator called a "floating sweatshop".
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As a pilot & a game dev - I think looking for gamers in this is a great idea but I gotta say that "streamlined hiring process" and "quicker than any class before them" are not words I want to read about the people whose diligence, precision, & training literally keeps me & my passengers alive.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3w agoAmerica’s air safety is apparently now in the hands of gamers
To quote everyone else in this thread of reposts: huh.
Jason Andrade@jasonandrade.bsky.social · 3w agoI also have very little feel for what this is trying to convey..
Saw The Oddysey. Cracking good movie that takes three hours to explain how men will piss off the gods, go to sea endlessly raiding and plundering, turn into pigs, go to actual hell and spend 7 years getting stoned on an island rather than going to therapy.
debuting as part of @aftermath.site's hater week, here's my list of (so far) over 50 video game studios that are rejecting generative AI, each with their rationale for doing so
![D-CELL Games
Games: Unbeatable
Steam page
“Even if I’m just looking at this in the cold mercenary MBA freak way—the ‘I want to generate income as much as possible’ way—you can’t make a thing people want to buy if the thing you want to buy is the same thing everyone else has. And that’s what you fucking get with AI models. It’s definitionally part of how they work.
So all using [AI] will do is make you compete worse. You have to do laps on a hamster wheel to arrive at the opposite conclusion. Because the only way to actually make money on this shit besides a pump-and-dump is to be the guy selling the shovels. And even the shovels are starting to rust.
Even the stuff that sounds good or looks good for a given value of ‘good’ (i.e. it convincingly looks at a glance like it wasn’t generated with a machine, it’s ‘professional’) is only capable of spitting out inputs that existed before. You can feel it in the ‘choices’ it makes, because it doesn’t make choices; it chooses a value with a weight given by a model patched from every work at once on fast forward. The nutritional value of AI work is approximately identical to watching a 2000s horror movie trailer compilation at 4X speed while second-screening Maury transcriptions. It might be fun to look at, but it will kill you on the inside."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5gdejlhcswjbzraadoltdpps/bafkreigiufrt3kp7efextkls2lz25nctkkjrso6ya4vbap7y72wkytlkem)
Aftermath@aftermath.site · last mo.All the video game studios that refuse to use generative AI aftermath.site/video-games-no...
I think @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social has come up with a solid Ignobel prize paper here. youtube.com/shorts/oiQ2X...
AI POWERED DICE
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“The President who was buddies with a notorious pedophile and sex trafficker has a son who is buddies with sex traffickers” seems like a big story to me idk
Salon.com@salon.com · last mo.The manosphere influencer has lost the president's support — but he could pose a threat to Barron.
Just waiting on the quadruple whammy of Grok does something worse than usual > tank SpaceX stock already saddled with bad debt > margin call on all the stock collateral dingus has been borrowing against so he doesn’t pay tax > has to liquidate stock > decades of capital gains tax.
God@thegodshow.com · last mo.More, please.
Since July 2022, the Australian Government is estimated to have missed out on more than $73 billion in potential revenue from a gas export tax. ✍️ Join the call for a national plebiscite to introduce a 25% gas export tax ⤵️ https://theaus.in/44Nrn7l
I’m sick of “opt-out” toggles for automatically enabled generative AI features. It’s past time to make “opt in” the default setting for sensitive features. www.wired.com/story/please...
Please Stop Making Me Opt Out of AI
I’m sick of “opt-out” toggles for automatically enabled generative AI features. It’s past time to make “opt in” the default setting for sensitive features.
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The recent KPMG scandal can be summed up in one earthy Australian phrase: “Same shit, different bucket” Join Director of Corporate Regulation Josh Bornstein as he explores what went wrong, and what the government can do to fix it. #auspol