Mity Cheese
@mitycheese.bsky.social
Lover of gorgonzola. Playwright. Producer. Photographer. Defrocked programmer. Occasional adjunct. Cat person. https://rosspnelson.wixsite.com/playwright
The love of money is the root of all evil. I believe that's written somewhere.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Dammit, Janet!
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterdayin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
This apparently happened underneath (and maybe because of of) a sign she had hung on her house that said: "National Guard Stop Being So Embarrassing."
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · yesterday"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."
The Trump admin has been trying to get its hands on everyone's data to help them go after immigrant communities, opponents, and dissenters. Now, the Senate might give them more power to spy on us, under the guise of stopping shoplifters. Congress must block CORCA.
Opinion | A new shoplifting bill obscures a dangerous loophole for ICE
CORCA empowers DHS to collect sensitive personal information from retail shoppers and share that information with agencies including ICE.
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LoL. The guy who said he'd have people on Mars by now? You think?
The Associated Press@apnews.com · yesterdaySpaceX shares are down by half from their June peak as investors worry Musk may have oversold them on its future prospects.
"ritualistic observance of the dominance-submission relationships of the military hierarchy"
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · yesterdayOn the Psychology of Military Incompetence, by British psychologist Norman F. Dixon, has long been considered a must-read, even within US military circles that relentlessly cull their own reading lists. Dixon sought to answer a question that had long bedeviled the British military, most especially
More like bring your child and we'll squeeze a few dollars work out of them, too.
McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 2d ago"You will have the opportunity to showcase your daily routines for the edification of your little one in hopes it will instill a desire in them to remain living here and work for us when we need to obtain fresh humans." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ann...
State officials are proud of the deal ... tens of millions of dollars in tax revenue. Whether Louisiana gave up too much, including tax breaks that could be worth as much as $10 billion. So Meta got $10b in tax breaks and LA only gets $10m+ in revenue? Not sure what they're "proud of" there.
How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal
A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.
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Top down demands to use AI miss the point that if it were actually useful, people would use it without being directed to do so.
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 6d agoWelcome to the resistance: meet the workers dodging (and sabotaging) their employer's AI mandates: aftermath.site/ai-resistance-...
AI psychosis in the boardroom -- mainly FOMO and fancy demos that only work sometimes.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d agoSuresh reports on his experience talking with hundreds of executives (and, more importantly, their subordinates) about what (if anything) AI is doing for business in an essay entitled "AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking": hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani... 11/
Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Holy crap. Level 3 (GO NOW!) zone now includes urban Spokane, south of Francis to Wellesley. Level 2 (GET SET!) zone now extends east of Division. Not to be alarmist, but at this rate, it’s not inconceivable that the Old Trails Fire merges with the Fairview Fire.
Like any other computer algorithm, AI is susceptible to GIGO (garbage in, garbage out). But we rarely get to see the input side.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d ago“Ex Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel to infiltrate A.I. chatbots… Clock Tower X holds a $46.5 million contract with the Israeli government…”
You think web ads are bad? Wait until you can't start your car until an ad plays. BMW, enshittified.
BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat - The Autopian
You know what would be terrible? Terrible in a sort of dystopian, capitalism-run-amok sort of way? Imagine buying a brand-new, fancy, premium-grade car. From an automaker with a respected name. Like, ...
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The Interior Department provided additional documents to the U.S. Attorney’s Office “indicating that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor."
Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”@ryanjreilly.com · 5d agoBREAKING: The Trump administration has moved to drop its felony Reflecting Pool case against a former Olympic canoeist, admitting their allegations against David "Davey" Hearn don't hold water.
As you canvas everything the war in Iran is fucking up, I bet you never even thought of this one! The ships idling in the strait are undergoing "biofouling," picking up all kinds of invasive organisms that they are going to spread everywhere once they're released.
Ships stranded by war could cause marine ‘superspreader’ event, study warns
Scientists warn of unintentional risks from idle ships sitting for months in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Every meal becomes a rescue mission. “How’s it looking?” You tell me. You’re the one opening my drawer every thirty seconds like a detective examining a crime scene. buff.ly/lEN2gxU
I Am Your Family’s Air Fryer, and I Have Seen Things
Every meal becomes a rescue mission. “How’s it looking?” You tell me. You’re the one opening my drawer every thirty seconds like a detective examining a crim...
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“.. We are not ready to suggest that the SpaceX IPO was the top of the market for big tech, but it seems like a strong signal now,” Gilbert said. @bloomberg.com $SPCX www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Tons of peoples' Claude chats are exposed on Google. Cryptocurrency keys, API keys, login credentials, legal discussions, more. This happened with ChatGPT last year. And Claude too. There's clearly an ongoing issue with search engines indexing peoples' AI chats www.404media.co/tons-of-peop...
Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google
Claude users are creating public share links, but probably don't realize that means their chats are now ending up in Google searches where anyone can dig through them.
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How do you expect a poor corporation to survive if it can't sell every damn piece of information it gets its hands on.
404 Media@404media.co · last wk.404 Media has mapped out this supply of data by reviewing U.S. government procurement records and internal documents. It highlights the sometimes unexpected ways ICE is gaining access to peoples’ personal information. www.404media.co/you-opened-a...
Final bracket for the apocalypse: AI vs "an elite herd of super-yaks".
What’s horned, fluffy, and ethically dubious? Yak clones | CNN
On the high-altitude plains of Tibet, ringed by snowy mountains and buffeted by harsh winds, scientists are hard at work creating horned, fluffy clones.
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