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This is a crime against all of humanity. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

A university professor charted the results when students had to take a final exam in person, after the mid-term exam was take-home. Scores plummeted (except for one heroic struggler!) for obvious reasons. Then an AI which interprets and sums up charts gets the description exactly backwards!

FIFA are a disgrace. If the USMNT had any integrity Balogun would sit out the next game, but Pulisic's gleeful comments in the article indicate that won't happen. The United States national team are as big a disgrace as FIFA. Disgusting. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Sons of US and Bosnian leaders Donald Trump and Bosnia Milorad Dodik, Donald Trump Jr and Igor Dodik, greet each other in Bosnia to make corrupt deals. If I were the son of a corrupt despot I hope I'd have the integrity to have nothing to do with my evil father. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Good post from Campos at LGM: starts with an essay by Orwell complaining about bland writers, then relates this to modern use of LLMs. The closing bit is worth stealing: "Large language models are at the centre of an ongoing mass cultural suicide." www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/05/the-...

This smug, arrogant prick tells us plebs to flush our livelihoods down the toilet, that in the audience here haven't even begun. We see the SLOP AI makes; we hate it. But owners and bosses, billionaires to petty tyrants we report to, say use it, fix the slop, and take the job/pay cuts that result.

For Christ's sake, can we just write off all this AI crap? Get rid of it. No-one wants it. It demonstrably makes the whole world, not just the internet, but every aspect of life, worse. digbysblog.net/2026/05/08/a...

Andreessen, though moronic and not understanding the first thing about how chatbots work, is a highly malevolent, evil and malignant piece of shit. Dawkins (see my post quoted here; the Andreessen post is within a few minutes) on the other hand is just cringeworthy. I actually feel bad for him.

unherd.com/2026/05/is-a... Paywalled, but you only need to read the paragraphs that are visible. Jesus Christ how much of a moron is Richard Dawkins.

Holy crap but Marc Andreessen is a moron.

physicsworld.com/a/word-wave-... At the risk of giving away a hint, the puzzle itself links to a story about patents in the quantum economy. So I thought "qubit" would be an excellent starting word. "Qubit" is not a word according to the puzzle on PhysicsWorld. It appears 3 times in the article.

Another dumb decision from the dumb people who rule us. Leave single-trip ticket prices as they are, and heavily reduce prices of season tickets of at least three months. Lock in the new users, don't just give them a freebie while petrol prices are high. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/w... @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social and please forward to Richard Marles, Minister for Defence: Are you going to submit a formal protest to the US for making Australians a party to a war crime? Or will you keep on being your usual gutless selves?

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social you gutless worms. If free people of the world defeat Trumpism, genocide, & Israel, where does that leave you two, having supported it? But if evil wins you will have helped it. You are failing in this moment of history.

@prospect.org You guys will like this (long!) article about the rise, spread and nefarious influence of neoliberal thinktanks in Australia and around the world. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

@slowhorsesappletv.bsky.social The latest episode set off my misophonia. Please don't ever do that again.

www.abc.net.au/news/science... This will be just like the classic Six Million Dollar Man episode where a rogue Soviet probe to Venus lands on Earth.

Lol what a low-rent crook Elon Musk really is.

Sergey Brin is nothing more than an arrogant moron. 1) AGI is a scam. AIs are computers programmed to find a statistically likely output for some input. There is no "intelligence". 2) Knowledge workers are productive for 4 hrs/day. The rest of the time is busywork. arstechnica.com/google/2025/...

Schneier states: "Software supply-chain security is an absolute mess. And it’s not going to be easy, or cheap, to fix. Which means that it won’t be. Which is an even worse mess." Big Tech would rather spend $100 billion on a huge AI boondoggle scam. www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

Finally some good news concerning that damn Nazi Elon Musk. If he manages to get control of OpenAI then he'll drive it into a ditch, just like he did to Twitter. Where it belongs. www.bbc.com/news/article...

1. Tech VCs are amoral ghouls trying to appeal to pro-violence fascists by rewarding an actual murderer. 2. They are morons with their heads up their arses but think they're geniuses because they got rich by being in the right place at the right time; this hire proves it.

On the Nazi site is this post about AI doing maths. twitter.com/deedydas/sta... If you know that neural networks are just brute force statistical inference calculators (and don't understand anything) you realise the computation must be colossal. Is it really worth the extra global warming?

Pubs like WSJ and The Economist parrot the common wisdom of why the rich get everything while the rest of us just have to lump it. The Prospect reports the truth about lobbyists, scumbags, and scoundrels. Biden chose The Prospect to explain his legacy, prospect.org/economy/2024...

You don't need a WSY subscription to see the salient point in the first line of the story: Musk's own executives see him as a drug-addled security risk and treat him like a giant baby. www.wsj.com/tech/musk-sp...

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... This is such a gross double standard from New Yorker magazine, and everyone else that is sane-washing this nutcase. When Michelle Obama tried to get American children to eat more healthily people went BATSHIT.