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Rage against the machine learning
- OpenAI currently spends $2.35 to make $1, but they'll make it up on volume.
- Google AI brings you the poop fart podcast.
- AIs are now being used to interview job candidates. And if you don't get a job, AI will decide whether you get unemployment.
- Programmers who use AI bots don't get pull requests done any faster, but they do introduce 41% more bugs.
- Larry Ellison is looking forward to everyone being monitored by AI using omnipresent cameras and drones.
- AI images give everyone fake American smiles.
- Police are using AI chatbots to generate crime reports.
- Microsoft wants to reopen Three Mile Island to power its AI — and have taxpayers cover a $1.6 billion loan guarantee.
- Zuckerberg says that other people's content isn't valuable enough to matter, but of course they're going to carry on using it anyway.
Water in the wrong places
- The good news is, Hurricane Helene isn't going to bankrupt the insurance industry. The bad news is, that's because almost none of the damage is going to be covered by insurance.
- Elon wants to use a million gallons of water a day and 150 megawatts of electricity to power his edgelord AI.
Elongation
- Elon's spending millions backing anti-immigrant and anti-trans initiatives.
- Trump wants Elon to do to government what he did to Twitter.
- Stalkers on Twitter can now continue to follow people who've blocked them.
- Tesla's "Full Self Driving" can't even cope with driving in tunnels.
Elections
- The QAnon voting official in Colorado who breached voting system security to try to prove Trump won the election has reached the "find out" phase of the story.
- The Heritage Foundation is already preparing lists for the great purge.
Texas
- An 87 year old Texas woman complained about residents in her area not getting postal ballots, so she was raided by the Texas "elections integrity unit" who seized her laptop and phone.
- The deadly blackouts that killed hundreds in Texas in 2021 were likely an inside job, but the Texas state government has already ruled that the profiteering was fair.
Minnesota
- A furry is running for city council in Maple Grove, MN.
- The Minnesota Republican Party candidate for Senate posted that "The bad guys won in WWII".
- Small businesses are pressured by Minneapolis police to hire off-duty police as security guards.
Great scientific discoveries
- People who are physically attractive are less likely to spend time playing video games.
- Brain lesions in specific areas of the brain are associated with religious fundamentalism.
- A food dye found in Doritos can be used to create mice with partially transparent skin.
Well, fancy that!
- In 2020 Homeland Security were ordered to try to link anti-racism protestors to an imaginary terrorist plot to try to help get Trump re-elected.
- Republican donor and Trump appointee Louis DeJoy is still Postmaster General; key swing states with strict ballot delivery deadlines just happen to have the slowest postal service in the country.
- The Alabama Republican Party Chairman has been voting with a fake ID.
- US right-wing influencers like Tim Pool and David Rubin have been covertly paid by Russia.
- Dustin Carmack, one of the authors of Project 2025, is now in charge of public policy at Facebook.
- A Tory politician's wife admitted that she tried to stir up racial hatred on Twitter; Twitter said that's fine.
Perspectives
- Yes, the US healthcare industry is worse than every other comparable nation, but at least it's twice as expensive.
- Sure, Starlink satellites may be ruining conventional astronomy, but the next generation of Starlink will be able to ruin radio astronomy as well.
Brexit dividends
- Thanks to Taking Back Control, British voters are now enjoying much higher levels of pesticide on food.
- Goods exports from Britain to the EU are down 27%, it's still getting worse, and many small companies have given up.
Business
- Arms dealers in Yemen are openly selling their goods on Twitter.
- A Wells Fargo employee died at her desk, and nobody noticed for four days.
And finally…
- Yo dawg, I heard you like Windows apps.
- Flute teacher penalized for whistleblowing.
- I for one welcome our robot mushroom overlords.
- Two out of work actors attempted to mount a full production of Hamlet — inside Grand Theft Auto Online.
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