Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
Although this example is offered for rhetorical effect, I often wonder the extent of efforts to poison the AI well.
BREAKING: Iranian artists TRICKED US-Israeli joint forces with "paintings on the ground." Experts believe that the recently contracted OpenAl-driven weapon technologies have "wasted millions of dollars" worth of missiles.
Art really scored one against AI here.
This really is the worst/dumbest timeline.
"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"
Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
There is 100% an insane amount of scamming in the indie pub industry. I get like 5 scam emails every day, all written by chatgpt, and I have no clue what the end game is. They want to make me rich though! How great is that!
Just one more data point on how the current admin is doing a speedrun of how to destroy a superpower…
DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover.
Documents show the real story behind the raid was to target alleged squatters — with the landlord's blessing.
I get asked to show up to book clubs, online and offline. Here is why from now on the answer is always "no." If you think this might have something to do with "AI" ruining yet another thing for everyone, you're absolutely 100% correct.
whatever.scalzi.com/2026/03/03/i...
“Those who’ve chosen Anthropic as a pro-democracy signifier should reconsider…not only is it far from an ethical company, but it embodies the very worst, most corrosive aspects of AI’s impacts on modern society, from creative exploitation to political opportunism to, yes, military lethality.” 🙏🏼
A standout among this morning’s horrors…
It appears that a Polymarket account called "Magamyman" made $515,000 in a single day betting on last night's U.S. strike on Iran, with the first trade placed 71 minutes before the news broke publicly.
Gemini: 'I deeply regret the time and effort you spent searching for references that I fabricated. My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors and an attempt to cover those errors with more artificial information.'
www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/gemini-...
Like. Amazon’s advertising fees aren’t extraction. That’s extortion, buddy. Nothing new here.
'The conditions rhyme with gaming.' is a beautiful turn of phrase. People want to own their culture, not rent it from a sociopath who jacks the prices every year because they think that'll appease the rabid ghost of Ayn Rand.
kotaku.com/dvds-zoomers...
84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised
Will they start the five seconds when the player has the ball in hand or when the throw is awarded? Will that affect whether long throws are nerfed?
This is so fucking disturbing
“As Israeli airstrikes hit Tehran this morning, Iranians received mysterious push notifications saying that “help is on the way,” promising amnesty if they surrender.”
the washington state department of licensing’s phone menu is available in 10 languages and it turns out the 9 that aren’t english were just english with an accent of the language you picked. so press 2 for spanish and it was just english with an accent
With the team's hiatus, Tormenta's 16 announced professionals all became free agents at the worst possible time, less than two weeks before the season. Here's a quick profile on all of them, as they now look for new homes.
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
This is what happens when you build with "AI".
I’d settle for Warlocks and Paladins with the Amulet of Health.
wrote about Trump's inflammatory comments directed at the supreme court, which are almost certainly going to lead to ppl sending them death threats.
his use of stochastic terror is so normalized now it's barely even discussed. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-supr...
Nothing you could do.
it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails.
it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.
DOJ to Review Whether DOJ Improperly Withheld Epstein Files About Trump
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Buying political power has perhaps the highest ROI of any possible investment in the US.
When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.
