Arola

Reminder that 80% of people don't read past the headline - most people will believe the lie even if they only see it here. News outlets know this, so the headline should be "Trump breaks the law and commits election fraud with false claims about payments to voters" or whatever.

Yeah, but: AI is important and valuable to millions of people... But only as a search engine. And only because Google ruined their own web search engine on purpose. Governments are making AI data centres part of national infrastructure (like rail or roads) when we should have forced Google to do the right thing with similar laws and protections against the enhshitefication of it. Give us back a good Google, and the use case for AI disappears (along with the threat of humanity destruction) overnight.

Richard Branson is on a big AstroTurf PR tabloid inch buying jaunt following several recent exposé on apparent similarities between Branson and Jeffrey Epstein. This might be why he keeps emerging from his nonsense island to do photoshoots and hunt virgins enemies (like Eurostar)

Pfft. That's not saying much. Seems like they suddenly leapt straight in to action after barely a couple of years of justifications and excuses. I would piss my knickers if they got a certain human rights expert with relevant government experience to be involved in the lengthy "legal process" to determine if anything bad happened during the genocide

I saw Eli Computer Guy on YT yesterday describing how "you don't allow the intern full access/permissions/privileges to delete the production database". Swap "AI" for "intern" in the marketing material and the real culprit is clear - it's the person who left the door open without any foresight or common sense. You can't blame the intern.

It's a literal $50b pay day for OpenAI (and the sole motivation for why they keep announcing it, attempt to change what it means, or try to claim it has been reached)

Fictions? It's easy to make a mistake isn't it. We could all be victims in the right circumstances. We can feel compassion and demand more severe punishments for banks that facilitate it (like in my industry) where everyone in the chain has to give the money back and/or give up the id of the party they gave the money to until a culprit is exposed - the victims bank refunds the victim, the bank the money was transferred to returns it to the victims bank, and so on. Where there is a will, there is a way.

One of the three hit a fire hydrant and a tree before the battery ignited. The flaming prison cell on three wheels is not the expected behaviour following a minor road traffic accident either: "In this total nightmare scenario, the doors would not open, and the driver couldn’t break the Cybertruck’s “armored” windows from inside"

Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/9/7/robots-protest-in-poland-over-ai-regulation-concerns

Rickyism 101: "supply and command... you need supply, I command you not to"

True. Although I like how the headlines referring to the product as "pervert glasses" combined with headlines like this one leave little room for nuance. I hope the next logical step is for users to be forced to say "not all pervert glass wearers are sex offenders". Embarrassment, shame, and ridicule is a better enforcement tool than any government action or restriction.

This is a great single-button arcade game. I played the fuck out of this addictive game on Switch when I broke my thumb. It's worth it for this price whether you have accessibility restrictions or not.