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  Can't stop thinking about the 250 THOUSAND trees #Google chopped down in Finland without permission, for another goddamned AI data center. As far as I'm concerned we've reached the point where this garbage isn't worth killing a single tree.

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  BREAKING (literally): Soggy Hegseth's cronies, rather than using a skilled team, tried to move Eisenhower's historic globe -- and broke it Like everything else Hegseth touches. Ruined.

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  Social Security sending out scammy "Trump Account" email propaganda that looks like a phishing attack

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  BREAKING: Claims of massive PHP exploits being announced tomorrow with 10/10 severity affecting all versions 5 through 8 on websites (apache, etc.) blogs (wordpress, etc). ... etc. There's a lot of talk but no details. Apparently those details and patches, where available -- and apparently only newer versions will get patches -- will arrive Wednesday morning. That's all I know.

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  BREAKING: Mapquest now includes a layer showing known Flock and other surveillance cameras!

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  BREAKING: Full Starlink access to Ukrainian troops reportedly restored

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  BREAKING: Arizona Supreme Court says clergy need not report horrific child abuse, due to "religious freedom"

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  Today is Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" Nuclear War Day First published in 1950, Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" describes a single house miraculously standing after nuclear attacks have destroyed the city (and presumably global civilization), the house still going about its automated duties for a time, unaware of what has occurred. Yes, remarkably prescient, and unlike much science-fiction, damned accurate on his predicted dating...

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  BREAKING: Trump calls for ABC and NBC to have licenses revoked for not carrying his deranged, political speech, saying that they are plotting election fraud

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  #Amazon users are livid over the Alexa AI Misinformation Slop Invasion features now contaminating many searches on the Amazon web site and app. This feature cannot be disabled completely without using 3rd party extensions, which on general principles I would not recommend on a shopping site where payment credentials and other personal information can appear. The Alexa sidebar replete with useless AI slop comments about your search and your prior purchase history can be closed, but will likely po...

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  BREAKING: Bipartisan panel says Musk likely broke Wisconsin law by handing out big election checks to voters

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  [Uh, no.] Signal now allows signups without phone numbers -- BUT you have to pay a $2.99 fee to Google to do so! You have to pay a fee in the Signal Android app! Uh, no. #signal #google

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  A major utility I deal with recently changed their website and phone customer services ops to an obviously AI-based system that is a serious cluster f*ck. I mean, stuff like claiming phone numbers aren't in the system that have been there for decades, and showing an online DUE amount along with "No payment due". Still possible to reach a human, but it required third-level magic to do so.

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  BREAKING: Hackers say they have [personal] data on all FBI employees https://www.404media.co/we-hacked-the-fbi-hackers-say-they-have-data-on-all-fbi-employees/

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  BREAKING: Man shot by ICE and removed from hospital despite bullet still in back is now partially paralyzed and back in hospital

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  Personally, I'm in favor of sites blocking ALL external AI agents. Period. Starve these Big Tech monsters to financial death. It's already happening.

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  BREAKING: Madman Trump now says his massive arch will be a military complex full of snipers, drones, and ammunition

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  BREAKING: Idiot Trump says he's creating "#AI Force" like "Space Force" with an "AI Czar" -- "only High I.Q. individuals need apply"

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  Madman Trump says he'll rip down Kennedy Center if he can't get his name on it

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  #Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials https://micahflee.com/flock-cameras-are-riddled-with-security-vulnerabilities-and-hard-coded-credentials/

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  Burger King announces it will use AI to spy on employees to make sure they are "friendly"

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  Heeding calls from investors, Trump admin rushing to replace doctors with unproven AI systems that could harm patients Gift Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/health/ai-doctors-medicare-fda.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BFE.q7GH._r33D0XHeLXN&smid=url-share

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  ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/chatgpt-using-lawyer-punished-for-citing-fake-testimony-from-made-up-witnesses/

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  When you hear Big Tech CEOs pronounce the future of AI with authority, keep in mind that Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs thought the Segway scooter was going to revolutionize the world. Jobs said it would be as big as the PC. Now you can go look it up to find out what it was.

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  Jimmy Kimmel's interview with James Talarico that Trump's fascist FCC didn't want you to see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLDE9LrGpNk

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  BREAKING: New #Apple watches can listen all day and feed audio to #AI, possibly violating two-party consent state privacy laws

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  AI almost sent hazmat train barreling toward 'catastrophe' in Eastern WA https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/aug/28/ai-almost-sent-hazmat-train-barreling-toward-catas/

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  I object to how most traditional cartoons portray mice as the good guys and cats as the bad guys. Misinformation.

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  I don't ride in robotaxis. Period. I don't care who makes them. The more you know about the failure modes, the more they should scare the hell out of you. The companies endlessly quote statistics claiming they are safer than human drivers, using the classic techniques described in Darrell Huff's "How to Lie with Statistics" -- first printed in 1954, still in print, and still a classic.

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  Senile Trump threatens to cut off trade with countries having trade deficit with U.S. unless Fed cuts interest rates (in fact, they are considering a rate increase)