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ebruary 01, 2026 @07:50PM
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Attached to: Anthropic's $200M Pentagon Contract at Risk Over Objections to Domestic Surveillance, Autonomous Deployments
"No surveillance" of ... anyone? Ever? Or what?
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ebruary 01, 2026 @01:39PM
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Attached to: Videogame Stocks Slide On Google's AI Model That Turns Prompts Into Playable Worlds
Huh. Weird downmod. Stalker? Movie/miniseries hater, lol?
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anuary 30, 2026 @05:13PM
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Attached to: Videogame Stocks Slide On Google's AI Model That Turns Prompts Into Playable Worlds
... I'd be happy with generated movies or series. No playability required.
So many good books I'd love to see dramatized!
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anuary 30, 2026 @07:12AM
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Attached to: Google's Project Genie Lets You Generate Your Own Interactive Worlds
LOL, kidding, you psychopaths.
Who in their right mind would pay that much for this crap?
Yeah, my brain still hears that amount and thinks more like "car payment" ...
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January 29, 2026 @06:48PM
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Attached to: There's a Rash of Scam Spam Coming From a Real Microsoft Address
You seem to have a thing about prisons
About them being a good place for criminals to live? Sure.
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January 29, 2026 @06:52AM
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Attached to: There's a Rash of Scam Spam Coming From a Real Microsoft Address
If "we" really wanted to stop the scamming spammers, then I think it could be done.
Well, long prison sentences might help. And perhaps large fines for any network delivering spam. Big tariffs for countries allowing it to be sent?
Let's get creative. We obviously haven't taken it very seriously, yet.
How can the large numbers of spam haters be placed between the scammers and their suckers to shift the profits into losses?
By electing people who pass laws mandating long prison sentences for spam?
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January 29, 2026 @06:47AM
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Attached to: There's a Rash of Scam Spam Coming From a Real Microsoft Address
... that allows "invitations", and customizing, or even just adding to, the invite message, can result in scam email sent from very real email addresses of trusted entities.
This is not new. Never click the link in the email, never call the number in the email. And most of all, never rush; carefully read it, think about it, see if it even makes sense ("hmm, what's this weird invitation thing at the bottom?"), and if you feel you must follow up on it, do so through completely independent and verifiable channels.
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January 27, 2026 @07:14PM
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Attached to: Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp To Test Premium Subscriptions
F. B. Purity gives you a reverse-chronological feed and zaps most ads. Downside is it only works in a browser on the desktop, but then again that's the only sort-of-safe way to use Facebook.
Dang, even the old review quoted on that page about what some guy didn't like about Facebook sounds like some sort of hazy, pristine, nostalgic wonderful version of it!
F.B. Purity Reviewed in The Washington Post:
Like several bazillion other users, I like using Facebook to keep tabs on what my friends are up to. What I don't like is the endless stream of "so-and-so took this quiz" and "Joe became friends with Jane" messages and "What Kind of Jedi Are You?" come-ons.
That's why I just became a fan of Facebook Purity, a browser extension / add-on that removes those annoying quiz and application notifications from your Facebook home page.
Personally, I'm loving this add-on. Anything that cuts down Facebook clutter is a winner in my book.
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anuary 23, 2026 @04:42PM
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Attached to: The Great Graduate Job Drought
Does your irony meter ever go off when you try the dementia thing?
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anuary 23, 2026 @06:48AM
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Attached to: 'Active' Sitting Is Better For Brain Health
... I mean "reading better for you brain than TV", news at 11?
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January 22, 2026 @07:20PM
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Attached to: Google Begins Offering Free SAT Practice Tests Powered By Gemini
I never saw how the SAT could actually be a test of ability when there were so many entrenched courses to teach exactly what is on it. I didn't care and never prepped and was still in the 90 something percentile - just imagine how much worse everyone else would have been if they hadn't prepped - and I would say more than 3/4 of my class took the SAT prep course.
Standardized testing doesn't work towards the common good, plus that test is all the schools will now teach because if it isn't on the test the school board doesn't care as it won't help the school's rating.
The old SAT was a thinly disguised IQ test. I doubt that the prep helped much, unless some people were totally unused to taking standardized tests at all. (Which is doubtful; I recall being peppered with them all through school.)
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January 22, 2026 @04:58PM
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Attached to: 'Stealing Isn't Innovation': Hundreds of Creatives Warn Against an AI Slop Future
... the days of wandering musicians and "players" companies.
Songs were copied, and tweaked into new works, left and right. So were plays.
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January 22, 2026 @04:57PM
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Attached to: 'Stealing Isn't Innovation': Hundreds of Creatives Warn Against an AI Slop Future
I'd like to see copyright go back to a reasonable time limit, like author's lifetime, or even less.
Seven years, renewable once to 14, was good enough for the founding fathers. Would be good enough for me ...
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January 22, 2026 @06:58AM
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Attached to: Weight-Loss Drugs Could Save US Airlines $580 Million Per Year
Just searched this Ozempic drug and the first side effect is: Possible thyroid tumors, including cancer.
Life is all about comparative risk. Obesity has HUGE risks.
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y January 21, 2026 @08:07PM
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Attached to: Half of World's CO2 Emissions Come From Just 32 Fossil Fuel Firms, Study Shows
... almost 100% of drownings come from just one compound, H2O!!!!!!!!!!!!
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