Oops, silly me, getting tricked by phishing emails after hearing we were all being laid off. Teehee

It is always morally correct to dunk on AI boosters

Ok but that’s obviously another one of those astroturfed “AI risk” groups. Look at their mission statement and how hyperbolic it is:

METR’s mission is to develop scientific methods to assess catastrophic risks stemming from AI systems’ autonomous capabilities and enable good decision-making about their development.

At some point, AI systems will probably be able to do most of what humans can do, including developing new technologies; starting businesses and making money; finding new cybersecurity exploits and fixes; and more. This could change the world quickly and drastically, with potential for both enormous good and enormous harm. Unfortunately, it’s hard to predict exactly when and how this might happen. Being able to measure the autonomous capabilities of AI systems will allow companies and policymakers to see when AI systems might have very wide-reaching impacts, and to focus their efforts on those high-stakes situations.

The stakes could become very high: it seems very plausible that advanced AI systems could pursue goals that are at odds with what humans want. This could be due to deliberate effort to cause chaos or happen despite the intention to only develop AI systems that are safe.[1] Further, given how quickly things could play out, we don’t think it’s good enough to wait and see whether things seem to be going very wrong. We need to be able to determine whether a given AI system carries significant risk of a global catastrophe.

This is obviously bullshit and glosses over all the real harms that AI is perpetuating right now.

Merchant pays the BNPL service, and theoretically gets increased sales from people who otherwise wouldn’t have made single purchases instead of BNPL

No, but it’s funny

Don’t forget radioactive genders, which decay to a predictable mixture of other genders

Kinda feels like he’s angling to reduce FDA oversight with this one?

A GitHub Actions workflow caused the body of any issue created on the repo to be directly inserted into a Python here-doc without sanitization, Tenable said. An attacker could have used triple-quote string terminators to escape the string literal, injecting Python code to be executed.

Hey siri why do we distrust user input

The advice I usually hear is to always pay in the local currency, using a card that covers the transaction fee.

… I might finally learn how networking works

You can always look for an existing Office-based process that is tedious and manual, but fairly mindless.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/25171092

Here is the full list of Democrats who voted to continue sending bombs to Israel:

1. Richard Blumenthal (CT)
2. Chris Coons (DE)
3. Catherine Cortez Masto (NV)
4. John Fetterman (PA)
5. Kirsten Gillibrand (NY)
6. Jackie Rosen (NV)
7. Chuck Schumer (NY)

Alt source:

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-destroyer-interdicts-two-oil-tankers-attempting-leave-iran-official-says-2026-04-14/

Then you have to check each of the references to verify that they’re real…

Weirdly romanized, who knows

Bloody Marys are traditionally a cocktail you drink when already hungover. Takes the edge off.

Think it’s just about the unpleasantness of hangovers