What bothers me about Thiel is, has he always been this gonzo and incoherent, even as a student at Stanford, or is this the cumulative effects of homeopathic remedies, acupuncture, ayahuasca, ganja and meth over decades? What mushrooms has this guy been eating? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
What bothers me about Thiel is, has he always been this gonzo and incoherent, even as a student at Stanford, or is this the cumulative effects of homeopathic remedies, acupuncture, ayahuasca, ganja and meth over decades? What mushrooms has this guy been eating? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Found one! Should get here in time to wear to the Kings Day protest, too. www.amazon.com/DAHAKII-Infl...
Amazon.com: DAHAKII Funny Inflatable Frog Costume Easter Red Frog Blow-Up Costume for Adult/Birthday/Party/Easter (Frog) : Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry
Amazon.com: DAHAKII Funny Inflatable Frog Costume Easter Red Frog Blow-Up Costume for Adult/Birthday/Party/Easter (Frog) : Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry
www.amazon.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Found one! Should get here in time to wear to the Kings Day protest, too. www.amazon.com/DAHAKII-Infl...
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PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”
(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)
(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)
October 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”
(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)
(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)
This one snuck right up on me. The oral arguments are supposed to happen tomorrow, Tues, in front of SCOTUS (does that word have any etymological connection to the latin Scrotum? Just asking for a friend) www.scotusblog.com/2025/10/does...
October 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This one snuck right up on me. The oral arguments are supposed to happen tomorrow, Tues, in front of SCOTUS (does that word have any etymological connection to the latin Scrotum? Just asking for a friend) www.scotusblog.com/2025/10/does...
America's very own fascists: a thoughtful analysis of George Lincoln Rockwell's visit to U of Mich in '64 and the controversy over whether he should even be allowed to speak. GLR is seen as a 'founding father' of the movement by white supremacists today. heritage.umich.edu/stories/invi...
Invitation to a Nazi | University of Michigan Heritage Project
George Lincoln Rockwell’s appearance at Michigan became a classic battle in microcosm over the proper role of the First Amendment on a college campus.
heritage.umich.edu
September 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
America's very own fascists: a thoughtful analysis of George Lincoln Rockwell's visit to U of Mich in '64 and the controversy over whether he should even be allowed to speak. GLR is seen as a 'founding father' of the movement by white supremacists today. heritage.umich.edu/stories/invi...
Who is a fascist? Don't take other people's word for it, decide for yourself. Listen to someone who meets the definition, and see what you think. In Oct '64 George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, spoke at Univ of Michigan bentley.mivideo.it.umich.edu/media/1_9ybc...
George Lincoln Rockwell Speech at Hill Auditorium; Senator Dirksen speech [Part 1; Segment 1] - Bentley Historical Library
bentley.mivideo.it.umich.edu
September 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Who is a fascist? Don't take other people's word for it, decide for yourself. Listen to someone who meets the definition, and see what you think. In Oct '64 George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, spoke at Univ of Michigan bentley.mivideo.it.umich.edu/media/1_9ybc...
Hey gang, look what my Chat bro can do now! Like, link to Stripe, render an invoice, all kinds of shit. Any way to know if it's accurate and stuff? "Some users have encountered bugs, either with connectors not working, or returning fictional information." www.theregister.com/2025/09/15/f...
September 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Hey gang, look what my Chat bro can do now! Like, link to Stripe, render an invoice, all kinds of shit. Any way to know if it's accurate and stuff? "Some users have encountered bugs, either with connectors not working, or returning fictional information." www.theregister.com/2025/09/15/f...
Finally, an actual use case for ChatGPT that can really make a difference in helping someone get their work output to a new level. www.theregister.com/2025/09/15/n...
Nork snoops whip up fake military ID with help from ChatGPT
: Kimsuky gang proves that with the right wording, you can turn generative AI into a counterfeit factory
www.theregister.com
September 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Finally, an actual use case for ChatGPT that can really make a difference in helping someone get their work output to a new level. www.theregister.com/2025/09/15/n...
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Charlie Kirk was an artful wordsmith who used coded language to normalize an American version of Nazism. She's not wrong with her analogy.
September 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Charlie Kirk was an artful wordsmith who used coded language to normalize an American version of Nazism. She's not wrong with her analogy.
Nominations are now open for the 2025 AI Darwin Awards! Finally all the AI slop can get the recognition it deserves. If you have a favorite AI experience, submit your nomination now at aidarwinawards.org. You can also check out the current list of nominees as well. It's about time, eh?
AI Darwin Awards 2025 - Celebrating Spectacularly Bad AI Decisions
Honouring those who use artificial intelligence in spectacularly reckless ways. Submit nominations for the most catastrophically ill-advised AI deployments of 2025.
aidarwinawards.org
September 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Nominations are now open for the 2025 AI Darwin Awards! Finally all the AI slop can get the recognition it deserves. If you have a favorite AI experience, submit your nomination now at aidarwinawards.org. You can also check out the current list of nominees as well. It's about time, eh?
No, this is not a joke, and no, this is not funny. Just your friendly neighborhood tech bros doing what they do best.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
ChatGPT Gave Instructions for Murder, Self-Mutilation, and Devil Worship
OpenAI’s chatbot also said “Hail Satan.”
www.theatlantic.com
July 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
No, this is not a joke, and no, this is not funny. Just your friendly neighborhood tech bros doing what they do best.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
OK folks, forget the OpenAI chatbot crap, what you want is the real thing, right from MIT Tech: Eliza running the Doctor script. Try it for yourself, don't let the age of the software fool you, this is a really real therapist. And it doesn't need any damn cloud! web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/el...
Eliza, a chatbot therapist
web.njit.edu
July 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
OK folks, forget the OpenAI chatbot crap, what you want is the real thing, right from MIT Tech: Eliza running the Doctor script. Try it for yourself, don't let the age of the software fool you, this is a really real therapist. And it doesn't need any damn cloud! web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/el...
Hey, Kids! Create your very own personalized Digital Companion, who will listen to you and help you with trouble deciding your gender or sexual orientation. It's made with real AI! And it's FREE. Just remember to tell them you're over 18 (wink wink, nudge nudge)
replika.com/Mi4wLjA/camp...
replika.com/Mi4wLjA/camp...
Replika
Always here to listen and talk. Always on your side. Join the millions growing with their AI friends now!
replika.com
July 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Hey, Kids! Create your very own personalized Digital Companion, who will listen to you and help you with trouble deciding your gender or sexual orientation. It's made with real AI! And it's FREE. Just remember to tell them you're over 18 (wink wink, nudge nudge)
replika.com/Mi4wLjA/camp...
replika.com/Mi4wLjA/camp...
Step aside, you amateurs, let's let the almighty Google Gemini make short work of this thing. Ah, an AI so smart it knows how to chicken out entirely. The chatbots not only couldn't beat an Atari, they couldn't even properly render a chessboard. Just sayin.
www.theregister.com/2025/07/14/a...
www.theregister.com/2025/07/14/a...
Google’s Gemini refuses to play Chess against the Atari 2600
: Warned that ChatGPT and Copilot had already lost, it stopped boasting and packed up its pawns
www.theregister.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Step aside, you amateurs, let's let the almighty Google Gemini make short work of this thing. Ah, an AI so smart it knows how to chicken out entirely. The chatbots not only couldn't beat an Atari, they couldn't even properly render a chessboard. Just sayin.
www.theregister.com/2025/07/14/a...
www.theregister.com/2025/07/14/a...
Ok that wasn't really a fair fight. Let's let Microsoft Copilot have a shot at it.
www.theregister.com/2025/07/01/m...
www.theregister.com/2025/07/01/m...
Microsoft Copilot falls Atari 2600 Video Chess
: Copilot's confidence was... misplaced
www.theregister.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Ok that wasn't really a fair fight. Let's let Microsoft Copilot have a shot at it.
www.theregister.com/2025/07/01/m...
www.theregister.com/2025/07/01/m...
So let's see just how smart these AI thingys really are. How about a chess match?
www.theregister.com/2025/06/09/a...
www.theregister.com/2025/06/09/a...
Chap claims Atari 2600 beat ChatGPT at chess
: 1.19MHz eight-bit CPU trounced modern GPUs – can you do better with your retro-tech?
www.theregister.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
So let's see just how smart these AI thingys really are. How about a chess match?
www.theregister.com/2025/06/09/a...
www.theregister.com/2025/06/09/a...
Run for your lives, the Singularity is here. Autonomous humanoid robots are ready to take over, and we'll all be reduced to idle drones playing video games.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Watch: Humanoid robots stumble through football match in China
The robots kicked, scored and tumbled while competing at a tourmentant in Beijing.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Run for your lives, the Singularity is here. Autonomous humanoid robots are ready to take over, and we'll all be reduced to idle drones playing video games.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
So, let's get serious for a moment. Probably the most prominent ostensibly convincing use case for AI is coding - software development. Microsoft, Meta, etc are dumping thousands of employees and no one is hiring entry level s/w folks. Help me out here, I'm confused.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/s...
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/s...
Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower
Coders spent more time prompting and reviewing AI generations than they saved on coding.
arstechnica.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
So, let's get serious for a moment. Probably the most prominent ostensibly convincing use case for AI is coding - software development. Microsoft, Meta, etc are dumping thousands of employees and no one is hiring entry level s/w folks. Help me out here, I'm confused.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/s...
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/s...
More evidence of the evil AI feeder bots devouring legitimate web content. Can't help but think of those attack scenes from the Matrix. Life imitates art, or whatever. coar-repositories.org/news-updates...
Open repositories are being profoundly impacted by AI bots and other crawlers: Report from a COAR Survey
Executive Summary Every day, multiple bots access the repository at all hours 24/7. We estimate performance degradation due to bot activity about once or twice a day, and at least once a week the s…
coar-repositories.org
June 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
More evidence of the evil AI feeder bots devouring legitimate web content. Can't help but think of those attack scenes from the Matrix. Life imitates art, or whatever. coar-repositories.org/news-updates...
The armies of enshittification on the march. AI bots devouring web content to feed training data to the AI models are overwhelming digital content sites like galleries and libraries.
www.glamelab.org/products/are...
www.glamelab.org/products/are...
Are AI Bots Knocking Cultural Heritage Offline?
www.glamelab.org
June 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The armies of enshittification on the march. AI bots devouring web content to feed training data to the AI models are overwhelming digital content sites like galleries and libraries.
www.glamelab.org/products/are...
www.glamelab.org/products/are...
So I guess Zuck and the other tech bros at Google and OpenAI and the rest have never noticed this. Hey guys, Cash Patel is at the door and wants to talk to you.
archive.org/details/fbi-...
archive.org/details/fbi-...
FBI Anti-Piracy Warning, Warning, Attention : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Per my notes I ripped this from the season 2 DVD of The Partridge Family.
archive.org
June 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
So I guess Zuck and the other tech bros at Google and OpenAI and the rest have never noticed this. Hey guys, Cash Patel is at the door and wants to talk to you.
archive.org/details/fbi-...
archive.org/details/fbi-...
If you're looking for a deeper dive on Google Zero (zero click-throughs on AI search results) here's some charts and tables.
ahrefs.com/blog/ai-over...
ahrefs.com/blog/ai-over...
AI Overviews Reduce Clicks by 34.5%
Google says AI Overviews increase clicks. Cold, hard logic disagrees, and so does our research.
ahrefs.com
June 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
If you're looking for a deeper dive on Google Zero (zero click-throughs on AI search results) here's some charts and tables.
ahrefs.com/blog/ai-over...
ahrefs.com/blog/ai-over...
There's even a buzzword (does anybody even say that anymore) for impending doom on the net, at least for publishers: Google Zero. Check it out. www.threads.com/@reckless128...
Nilay Patel (@reckless1280) on Threads
Google Zero, baby. Been saying it for years; the CEO of the NYT literally asked me if I really believed it
www.threads.com
June 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
There's even a buzzword (does anybody even say that anymore) for impending doom on the net, at least for publishers: Google Zero. Check it out. www.threads.com/@reckless128...
The downstream impact of AI search is devastating and happening faster than conventional media and publishing firms can deal with it. Enshittification is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. The basic business model is dead. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The End of Publishing as We Know It
Inside Silicon Valley’s assault on the media
www.theatlantic.com
June 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The downstream impact of AI search is devastating and happening faster than conventional media and publishing firms can deal with it. Enshittification is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. The basic business model is dead. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
"A Man and his Wife had the good fortune to possess a Goose which laid a Golden Egg every day..." Google 'Aesop' for the rest - if you dare. www.theregister.com/2025/06/22/a...
AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic
: Turn out the lights, the internet is over
www.theregister.com
June 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"A Man and his Wife had the good fortune to possess a Goose which laid a Golden Egg every day..." Google 'Aesop' for the rest - if you dare. www.theregister.com/2025/06/22/a...