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- Comment on Countries that do not embrace AI could be left behind, says OpenAI’s George Osborne 4 days ago:
Holding on to one’s preferred human culture and values is not being ‘left behind’ in any sense … they may in fact be ‘left ahead’.
- Comment on ‘Pure bullshit’: Macron slams tech giants’ claim they are defending free speech 4 days ago:
The sooner EUrope has a firm handle on its own IT ecosystem, the sooner it can tell the US to go pound sand. Macron is spot on.
- Comment on Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online 1 week ago:
" … Or maybe it was released by ‘ICE-helpers’ trying to get people to stop all of the well-deserved harsh criticism." Oh wait, the NYT is the holy of holies… never mind …
- Comment on DHS Orders Tech Giants to Unmask Anti-ICE Accounts 1 week ago:
It might get better just before the next election …
- Comment on Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online 1 week ago:
"Reportedly.’
That headline may be true. Or maybe it was released by ‘ICE-helpers’ trying to get people to stop all of the well-deserved harsh criticism. By now that’s hundreds of millions of names to go through. Maybe that will help them burn through their remaining funds faster.
- Comment on You Can't Trust the Internet Anymore 1 week ago:
Could be that the shittier sites are using tricks to make people hang around them as long as possible?
Also, sites that are ‘strange and a bit obscure’ are probably more likely to require us to take what they report with more grains of salt. They’re likely to have fewer visitors who can call BS on stuff.
- Comment on 'This case is about two of the richest corporations who have engineered addiction in children’s brains' — lawsuit against Meta and YouTube could decide the fate of social media 1 week ago:
I think it could change, here in the US … whenever it’s clearly demonstrated that that’s what’s going on … and if parents then pressure legislators (if they can find enough willing to fight corporate interests) to control it. In the meantime, ‘saving the children’ will be up to parents who take measures themselves.
My mom, whenever I asked for ANYTHING I saw on TV, NEVER reinforced that behavior. Kids that scream when the phone’s taken away should NEVER get them back.
- Comment on Epstein details scrubbed from Mandelson’s Wikipedia page by shady paid editor— As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tried to downplay his history of support for Jeffrey Epstein 1 week ago:
Very true, I’ve had whole cited paragraphs removed by non-registered users. Of course, IF you’ve got the time, you can look through the article history pages. For recently embarassed subjects, it’s not hard to spot the deletions over the past month or two.
- Comment on 'This case is about two of the richest corporations who have engineered addiction in children’s brains' — lawsuit against Meta and YouTube could decide the fate of social media 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t doubt it if they did. BUT … PBS had services for children as well. Were Bert and Ernie or Mr. Rogers ‘addictive’? I have no idea what YT for children is like, but I wouldn’t have handed my kids over to them to babysit without checking them out … frequently.
- Comment on 'This case is about two of the richest corporations who have engineered addiction in children’s brains' — lawsuit against Meta and YouTube could decide the fate of social media 1 week ago:
“addiction in children’s brains”
I don’t think these corporations deliberately aimed their content at any age group. Kids are not ready for alcohol or cars or pron. Did they care? Probably not.
OTOH: I recall times when parents oversaw what their children consumed. They didn’t need to buy them smartphones or laptops, and they could have enforced rulse on their use. Parenting isn’t for everyone.
- Comment on Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025 3 weeks ago:
From the article:
“A total of 178 out of the 3,078 articles came back as flagged for AI … About half of our staff spent a month during summer 2025 painstakingly reviewing the text from these 178 articles…
Far more insidious, however, was something else we discovered: More than two-thirds of these articles failed verification. That means the article contained a plausible-sounding sentence, cited to a real, relevant-sounding source. But when you read the source it’s cited to, the information on Wikipedia does not exist in that specific source.”
- Comment on Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native 3 weeks ago:
This is the guy who bankrupted 4 casinos. Clearly what he’s best at.
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- Comment on Google will pay $135 million to settle illegal data collection lawsuit 3 weeks ago:
Cash they’ve got. Jail time for CEOs will work better.
- Comment on AI Unlocks Hundreds of Cosmic Anomalies in Hubble Archive 3 weeks ago:
Richard Stallman sez we should call it ‘PI’ … pretend intelligence.
- Comment on Milky Way is embedded in a 'large-scale sheet' of dark matter, which explains motions of nearby galaxies 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Milky Way is embedded in a 'large-scale sheet' of dark matter, which explains motions of nearby galaxies 3 weeks ago:
Headline suggests that this is an observed fact, rather than the result of a simulation based on a model created by several EU scientists.
Furthermore the article asserts that “The observed motions … can only be properly explained with this “flat” mass distribution.” That premature assertion, based on this paper
www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02770-w
will have to stand up in the court of opinion of scientific peers. I hope to see Sabine go after that headline.
- Comment on Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC' 4 weeks ago:
Profit?
- Comment on Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC' 4 weeks ago:
That’s a really fancy way to say ‘dumb terminals to the mainframe’ … only without wires.
- Comment on A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate 4 weeks ago:
The link says ‘zero-emissions-cooling’
The article sez: “It relies on the temperature change of materials called shape memory alloys (SMAs) when they are stretched and released.”
How do you stretch something without producing any emissions?
- Comment on Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days 4 weeks ago:
Hmmm. And this is the work of the ‘Genius at Davos’, you say? And where was the electricity generated … that state that ran out of electric for weeks a few years back?
- Comment on ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died | Futurism 4 weeks ago:
The bot shouldn’t give lethal advice The person or company that runs the bot that gave lethal advice should be charged with homicide.
- Comment on ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died | Futurism 4 weeks ago:
A LOT of fraternities have gotten in BIG trouble for hazing practices that led to the death of a ‘candidate’.
- Comment on ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died | Futurism 4 weeks ago:
I asked an AI to describe itself and it told me: “I am not a sentient being; I’m a program designed to process and respond to text based on patterns in data. I don’t possess consciousness, emotions, or intentions, so I can’t be held accountable in the same way a human would be.”
The other day an AI replied: “If you have more thoughts on best practices or specific measures that could enhance clarity and safety in AI, I’d love to hear them!”
That last phrase contains the words ‘I’ (suggesting it’s a sentient being) and ‘love’ (suggesting emotion).
These ‘programs’ have clearly been designed/allowed to create a fraudulent impression that they are sentient, conscious, and emotional.
The words “I can’t be held accountable” also suggest that SOMEONE should be.
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 5 weeks ago:
nobody important cares And you’re sure of that because …
In most fairy tales, it takes more than one blow to kill the dragon…
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 5 weeks ago:
Since the beginning of human history …
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 5 weeks ago:
Because he knows his shit.
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 5 weeks ago:
Not to mention all the adverts after all the stories … including anti-capitalism stories
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 5 weeks ago:
He’s been writing a lot lately … ever since enshittification hit the fans
His blog: pluralistic.net
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 5 weeks ago:
Pretty sure a solid writer like Cory chose those words for a reason - to make it clear that a human is becoming a slave to a machine.