Apropos of nothing in particular

The current CEO of Identity Digital (_formerly Donuts Inc_) named Akram Atallah, used to be the president of ICANN, the folx that “own” and “run” the internet. Under his leadership, ICANN introduced the new generic Top Level Domain program, or new gTLD, giving the creation of a new domain […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/117042119949878889 This might a story worth following. Who would be likely to attack a Ukrainian aircraft on Germany with a UCAV/Drone? 🤔🤷‍♂️ #Ukraine #Germany #UCAV #Drone

X-62A fighter jet autonomously completes 27 AI-controlled intercept maneuvers https://www.heise.de/en/news/X-62A-fighter-jet-autonomously-completes-27-AI-controlled-intercept-maneuvers-11399424.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into heise online international […]

I've updated my tutorial on how to enable SecureBoot on Gentoo using shim & GRUB, there's a few significant changes compared to the first version I made: - There are less manual steps are required as I rely more on the improvements in Gentoo's GRUB package - There is no need to regenerate the […]

Before Google, before wikis, before YouTube walkthroughs, a stuck gamer's only hope was dialing a phone number and asking a real human how to beat the dungeon. Back in 1987, Nintendo had a hotline to call ff you were stuck on a level.

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Everyone in cyber should have an annual fortnight of camping with no tech but a kindle and a Garmin. “Salty and sandy and shiny and free”

If you've not aa yet discovered Switch Angel, the music creator using Strudel with live annotated performances to make all sorts of electronic music, then you are now 😌🖖 https://youtube.com/@switch-angel #Music #Electronic #EDM #Trance #Strudel

Quoth the Raven, "Be careful with that cable, it's carrying 48 volts" -- Edgar Allan PoE

🤖 **The EU AI Act makes failure to disclose AI-generated content (especially if it's hallucinated) illegal and costly.** Today, August 2, Article 50 of the EU AI Act takes effect. Here’s the part that’s applicable to those creating AI-generated content that’s read by anyone in the EU […]

OH: "AI is a bubble. Everybody knows it’s a bubble. The market is running on magical thinking. AGI is a fever dream. LLMs shouldn’t even really be considered AI." #AI #LLM

I saw that Michael J Fox in the garden centre the other day. At least I think it was him - he had his back to the fuschia.

*Pavel plans to put up a fight "How many divisions does the Pope-of-Telegram have," well, I guess we'll see

The Great Emu War (Australia -1932) Spoiler: The Emus weren't valued but they still won 😉 https://youtu.be/Qv5qQu0yMaU #Australia #Emu #History

RE: https://aus.social/@crk5/117022852183880198 NdGT is cool.

I keep encountering the weirdest bugs on websites and in applications I've used for a long time, and every time it happens I can't help but think: is this vibe-coding?

Lest we forgot: Reform have no social care policy and disagree with looking after the welfare of everyday Brits 🚩 #ReformAreNotYorFriends

Ed Zitron has been on this for a long time, but good to see that the NY Times finally is digging into Silicon Valley OG Larry Ellison's sleazeball ways -- and his prop-up-Oracle-stock-until-it-crashes bets on AI. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/magazine/larry-ellison-ai-oracle.html

The Puffin is valued 🙂 From: https://www.boredpanda.com/photographer-captures-the-perfect-puffin-portrait-and-we-cant-get-over-how-happy-the-little-seabird-is/

RE: https://beige.party/@TootOfBob/117021822565198783 Isn’t that the way it goes 🤷🏻‍♂️

Well sure, #GenAI may be hellishly expensive, destructive to the environment, morally dubious, and legally questionable to use, but at least the output is terrible.

The sky above the airport was the colour of a TV tuned to a dead channel ... 😉 #Wales #Pembrokeshire #Haverfordwest #Aviation

this is genuinely the most brain damaged thing i've ever read * company sues boeing for Reasons?? * company launches satellite * company fucks up satellite launch, sat in wrong orbit * cannot move satellite without licensing boeing's magic patented math * boeing refuses to license […]

You can't spell Anthropics Claude without conduplicate. #AI #Anagram

You can't spell "Google DeepMind" without imploded. #AI #Anagram

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👀 Major AI Hedge Fund Melts Down As Fears Of Bubble Grow

Global hedge funds are grappling with their biggest monthly drawdown on record as AI stocks have been routed across the board.

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If you’ve wondered whether ICE is hiring rapists, assaulters, and child molesters, you can stop wondering. NEW REPORT: Of 59 Criminal ICE and Border Patrol Agents, 85% Committed Sex Offenses, Nearly 2/3 Against Children https://ohioimmigrant.org/ blog/2026/7/22/they-walk-among-us #Ohio #ICE […]

You can't spell Anthropic without Rhapontic (False Rhubarb) 😟🤷‍♂️ #AI #Anagram