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• Post #4170253

  So Claude apparently creates a “secret” URL for the conversations people have with it. URLs can be indexed if they can be reached. So users’ private conversations with Claude, predictably, started showing up in Google search results. “But but but we had a robots.txt file!” says Anthropic, unironically. https://www.wired.com/story/private-claude-chats-exposed-in-google-and-bing-search-results/ #noai #ai #consent #badideas

• Post #3762135

  So Lindsey Graham is dead. It’s so weird that we get an instant update on his death, with the commensurate “let’s all pray for the family and remember him” stuff, but getting the health status of McConnell is like pulling teeth because it is politically disadvantageous if he dies at the wrong time. This makes it creepily obvious that the GOP are more concerned about how McConnell’s death affects their own purposes than any care for the man himself. Ghouls, hoarding his body in shadow. #uspol

• Post #3745886

  There are 8.3 billion people on Earth. Gartner estimates AI companies will spend $2.5 trillion on AI service in 2026 alone. That works out to AI orgs having to wring an average of over $300 of AI revenue out of EVERY PERSON ON EARTH just to break even in 2026. And they wouldn't gamble more money than most nations' GDP expecting just to break even. That $300 per person figure is not even remotely close to what they're going to expect out of each of us. (And it's going up in 20...

• Post #3183025

  Okay, still trying to figure out what chapter of "Art of the Deal" this whole strategy is from: * Straight of Hormuz was free and open to everyone. * Kill children of people who could close it, angering them. * They close the straight, causing us huge economic damage. * Threaten war crimes if they don't open it back up. * Back down when they call your bluff. * Impotently grouse on social media that they won't open it, saying, "Open the fuckin&amp...

• Post #3183024

  2026 seems to be the year of people saying, "Today, we're here to have a discussion about [technology / policy / person]. Now, of course, there are valid [ethical / environmental / privacy] concerns about this topic, and I want to acknowledge those concerns up front. But I don't want that to derail the conversation, so..."

• Post #3183023

  Yikes. How did Mattel go from the “Barbie” movie to “Masters of the Universe?” This show is crippling male insecurity in movie form, exactly what “Barbie” was about. Clearly, a producer was working through some stuff. If you’re OK, you don’t take a character out of their fantasy world and send them to Earth to be threatened by a black female HR manager antagonist. Or compliment a woman by calling her a man. Or cast Jared Leto. Did Mattel not SEE it? #movies #barbie #mastersoftheuniverse

• Post #3183022

  Another example of the itch community being generous. Yesterday I released a new “Dungeon Hero” expansion. It’s free, but if you pay $3 or more you get access to bonus content. Several people went ahead and paid, which is not surprising, but more than a quarter of them paid EVEN MORE than that! And a few left congratulatory messages too! Very heartening! https://lonespelunker.itch.io/dungeon-hero-volume-four-eerie-dimensions #itchio #rpg #solorpg #indiedev