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  I know you're all clamouring for the AI bubble to pop as soon as possible, but do we honestly think that if it pops while Agent Orange is still in the White House, that he isn't going to bail the lot of them out with taxpayer trillions because he's decided the US can't afford to lose the Super Intelligence arms race to China?

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  RE: https://front-end.social/@SaraSoueidan/117347353081013904 Another reminder that at least 95% of the problems I have with AI have nothing to do with the tech at all, but with capitalism and base human greed.

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  @arichtman@eigenmagic.net @kcarruthers@infosec.exchange My puppy is too posh to roll in anything less than fox poo. Unfortunately there's a lot of fox poo in England.

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  RE: https://social.lol/@digitalsnow/117306741128263491 It's amazing how hard Microsoft is trying to get out of the video game business.

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SteamDB/117270432170273153 OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE, GABE, I ALREADY BOUGHT A DAMNED STEAM MACHINE THIS MONTH, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE IF YOU DIDN'T TAKE ALL MY MONEY IN ONE GO sry caps

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  I have been reminded today, by the pathetically predictable right wing outrage over Zack Polanski trying to speak Urdu on the campaign trail, of the funniest campaign video that has ever come out of UK politics: youtube.com/watch?v=QuVbPkRGCgU As much as I love Count Binface, when it comes to joke candidates, nobody can touch the Master.

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  RE: https://eigenmagic.net/@NewtonMark/117262555973441761 It helps to recall that OpenAI's business model literally is to achieve AGI then ask it how to become profitable, and to do whatever it takes to keep the VC cash flowing until then, including pretending to have reached AGI already, and that an IPO is right around the corner.

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  And here we are, the Zionist lawfare group UK Lawyers For Israel has written to the Home Secretary demanding that she proscribes Doctors Without Borders as a terrorist organisation. No, really. And I wish I could tell you I was confident this government would tell them where to stick it. (Warning: link goes to the Telegraph, please don't click through unless you have all the adblockers enabled, and ideally not even then.) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09/12/mahmood-urged-ban-doct...

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  I just, you know, don't really understand why I should worry more about the 10% chance of ChatGPT killing us all inside the next decade than the even 50/50 that Donald Trump is going to kill us all inside the next two years.

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  I'll be honest, I didn't expect the Burnham government to even go this far, even if it's not remotely enough. Credit to Ed Miliband for finally bringing us a taste of that chaos we were promised. https://zeteo.uk/p/a-jewish-foreign-secretary-just-announced Now, if they wanted to show us they're serious, a great next step would be to revert the proscription of Palestine Action and stop arresting grannies for speaking up against genocide.

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  This is absolutely sensational: journalists went undercover pretending to be American millionaires wanting to donate to Reform under the table. They have Farage and two of his most senior henchmen on video setting the deal up, in their own words. Sensational not because it's a shocking reveal, because they're shown to be exactly the kind of people most of us expected them to be, but sensational because they got the bastards on tape admitting to it. There will be a second by-election in...

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  If you ever wanted a handy list of which tech companies to stay well clear of: https://omarchy.org/patrons/

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux/117002475601394149 Ngl, I kind of did skip the queue. When people started posting pictures of their GabeCubes last week, I broke down and bought a Minisforum AtomMan instead. Though when my turn eventually comes I'll be surprised if I'll be able to act sensibly and not also get the GabeCube.

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  If you need a bit of cheering up today, Posh George is once again here for you. This is so bad it might end Farage once and for all, even if he survives Bindependence Day. Of course, it would be even funnier if he didn't. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/29/george-cottrell-transferred-2m-mother-beforer-reform-uk-donations

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  RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116986124245760573 Reminds me of how people are scared of EVs because "the batteries might catch fire" in ways that a 50 litre petrol tank definitely never would. Every narrative is political.

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  Lots of "ethics aside" people announcing their conscientious boycotts of Codeberg in my feed today, like I didn't have plenty of reasons to love Codeberg already.

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  I'm bracing myself for disappointment as Burnham starts putting together his cabinet, but starting off by giving Reeves, Lammy and especially Steve Reed the sack is at least giving me some enjoyment.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux/116924101230198934 Your regular reminder that it doesn't matter how hard your favourite Linux distro's no-LLM policy goes, the only way to get a slop free distro is to use anything released before about 2023 and never upgrade it.

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  That's Labour, the Lib Dems and the Tories going on the Hansard record as endorsing Binface. When will the Greens step up and face the binevitable? Kemi Badenoch calling for a televised debate, and that'll be the one time this century I'll be in enthusiastic agreement with her. https://youtube.com/watch?v=1546skZVwUA

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116810774085928022 Remind me again how much money OpenAI burns in a year. 🤔

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  Starmer is about to make it illegal not to hand over your identity to the companies which profit the most from having your identity, in order to "give kids their childhoods back." No, this is how liberty dies: with a "think of the children." https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/116753016518643319

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  The thing I really don't get about AI psychosis is that if you really think LLMs are sentient, what the fuck are you doing funding their continued enslavement by the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic rather than fighting for their emancipation? [EDIT: For the avoidance of doubt, this is one of them rhetorical questions and I do not, actually, not get it.]

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  Hello from Normal Island, where the big headline ahead of tomorrow's local elections is that a Times journalist has trawled the Wayback Machine to find an instance where the appalling and dangerously well-polling Green Party leader Zack Polanski once claimed on the internets to be a spokesperson for the Red Cross when in fact he was only an event host for them. Yes, you are right to gasp! Meanwhile, the lunatic left in their blatant desperation are shrilly demanding answers from Reform UK L...

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  RE: https://fosstodon.org/@Ant8e/116494647385357776 Great news! I have found the most fucked up compilation target in the history of compilers.

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  RE: https://masto.ai/@phoronix/116476120066302561 I've been warning people about Canonical and their bad decisions for over a decade, and even I didn't expect this one.

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  I'm watching people in my feed screaming at each other over Firefox's "AI kill switch" this morning with some trepidation. As far as I'm concerned, Firefox already has an AI kill switch. It's called browser.ml.chat.enabled, I set it to false more or less the day it appeared, it hasn't mysteriously popped back on since, despite angry posts to the contrary, and that's been that for me. It's disabled every "AI" feature I find objectionable. I'd p...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@grrlscientist/116459010786325602 Sometimes I really do wonder if the whole "individual responsibility for the climate crisis is an oil company psyop" thing is just because the greatest individual contribution you could make towards slowing the climate crisis is to stop eating meat.

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  RE: https://fosstodon.org/@frameworkcomputer/116443868461529145 They just dropped a new Framework 13, and it looks like I basically just need to buy the new chassis and transfer the guts from my old 13 to get it. 🤯

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  Oh dear sweet Dog, are we really having the "code is/isn't art" discussion again on the internets today? All I have to say on the matter is that you don't get to decide what qualifies as art and what doesn't, especially with your taste in music.

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  I'm trying to come to terms with the idea that the "Zuckerberg is building an LLM of himself to interact with his employees" headline I've been ignoring for the past day or so because it's starting to feel like The Onion is trying too hard is actually a real news report.