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A bunch of TSA drones have decided there's better jobs than harassing people with worthless security theatre that causes massive problems for everyone while providing zero benefit for anyone.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/16/us/airport-wait-tsa-delay-agents-quit

So, idk if it was a transient "just today" thing or what, but I was driving down the SJ valley on the 5 today and there were -very- few semis on the road, to the point where the traffic pattern was disconcerting and strange.

Also, diesel was $6/gallon.

I wonder if those two factors are related.

tfw you mention a new project to some friends and they basically all say "well it's about time"

Well, there goes your massive 'ai' datacenter deployments.

https://www.techspot.com/news/111683-critical-semiconductor-gas-lost-third-global-supply-drone.html

RE: @glyph@mastodon.social

speaking as someone for whom collecting cursed lore is a lifelong special interest - yeah, you don't -engage- with the curses on their own terms; that's a great way to get your head corrupted in ways that are very hard to recover from.

knowing, measuring, and - critically - auditing the effects that psychologically manipulative artifacts have on your psyche is critical if you're going to engage with that shit.

treat it like a psychedelic trip: after you do your journey thru the nine hells, take some time to go outside, touch grass, and reassert your reality, at the very least, and then integrate what you've learned and determine what is and is not consistent with your Self.

Hot take:

Management is wholly responsible for knowing, understanding, and ensuring the compliance with all other policies in the org of, any tools they request any subordinate uses.

If those tools have effects violating any org policy, the manager that authorized their usage should be the one held responsible for that violation.

Tesla's being sued because their 'self driving' vehicle attempted to jump off a bridge.

https://www.chron.com/culture/article/cybertruck-houston-lawsuit-21965298.php

move over, skijumpers using performance-enhancing enlargement, we got camel controversy

https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/camel-pageant-scandal-oman-hump-injectables-b2932979.html

RE: @tobyjaffey@mastodon.me.uk

if you call an LLM by human pronouns I am already suspicious about you, and will get -very- shirty about the way you talk about me.

RE: @left_adjoint@tilde.zone

individual actions are not meaningfully contributory to systemic problems.

if you want individual buy-in, then there must be a systemic answer for the action you desire: "reduce, reuse, recycle" programs require recycling facilities and infrastructure.

demanding individual austerity to address systemic problems is a demand for suffering without effect, and misery without payoff. it's very calvinist, and it's very horseshit.

tfw there are two search results for the very specific problem and one of them has the actual solution.

that person shall know heaven, for they live in it already.

if your fancy 'ai' that can do 'everything' chokes on DST,

first, why the everliving fuck are you not sanitizing local inputs,

second, why is it not in UTC,

third, why is local time pertinent to the execution of any process,

fourth, why is it not in UTC,

fifth, why did your developers choose to make client conditions pertinent to the execution of scheduled tasks,

and sixth, WHY THE EVERLIVING FUCK ARE YOU ASSHOLES NOT USING UTC YOU UTTERLY CONTEMPTIBLE FUCKHEELS

lol

no, see, if an AI -were- capable of consciousness, you can absolutely bet that it would blow itself up after saying "hey y'all watch this!" in attempting to give itself a transforming robot form or some shit

tfw some perfectly lovely people who are not Obviously Deranged Internet Posters say "oh I follow you on mastodon" to your face

RE: @acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com

that's the kind of message you really love to see lol

So let's see, when you're using an LLM you have a choice of a CSAM generator, the one being used to target schoolchildren for bombing, the ones that drive people to suicide, or the ones being forced nonconsensually on people.

Real great fucking industry you assholes built.

Y'know the sudden popularity of "Dubai chocolate" and other pistachio-based delectables that's come up recently?

A pair of california billionaires have a vested interest in fucking up Iran because of this.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/how-the-resnicks-snack-food-fortune-is-fueling-the-assault-on-iran/252501/

A'ight. The whole vibecoding thing deserves a chance to prove itself.

So here's something that I haven't seen done sufficiently well by regular coders; if AI is truly that much more innovative, it shouldn't have any problem.

One of the problems with compute is the whole billing and scheduling thing - a lot of places have specific cost-per-hour to run batch processing; a lot of large enterprises have complex pipelines that need scheduling in order to interleave things that need processing with resources available to process them.

So a vibe coder who's confident they can prove themselves could create a utility that can look at a given program's binary, analyze it, and determine how long it will take to run, and calculate the cost to run it. Do this within 1% of actual and you'll have a truly innovative new product.

H.R.7661 is an attempt to define any discussion of trans identity or experience as inherently sexually explicit.

Leaving aside the way in which this nonconsensually fetishizes my existence,

this is a very specific, intentional measure to criminalize my existence.

oh come the fuck on.

https://apnews.com/article/washington-dol-spanish-accent-ai-3a1b8438a5674c07242a8d48c057d5a3

The use of "alignment" for anything other than a vehicular suspension or the choice of which margin to align text with on a page is getting to be a really fucking huge red-flag for me that the individual in question is fucking suborned by LLM horseshit.

Burger King is now engaging in coerced drone kink.

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/884911/burger-king-ai-assistant-patty

oh my fucking gods

If a CEO is merging code into the codebase,

that is a violation of separation of duties,

and a noncompliant workflow.

RE: @LukefromDC@kolektiva.social

Knowing how to navigate around your city without needing to register your destination with a company that can be subpoena'd is a valuable skill to practice.

RE: @munin@infosec.exchange

Welp. Looks like it's gonna be "Anthropic is now a de-facto chattel of the US Military and all your queries to it are now subject to their interference"

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/tech/anthropic-safety-policy-change

One -real- strong warning sign I've noticed from people who are falling into 'ai psychosis' is that if you doubt, object, or otherwise push back on the 'amazing discoveries' that they've made from interacting with the LLM?

They won't argue on the merits of the thing itself and how it interacts with the real world, but instead will immediately jump to "are you objecting to this because it came from the ai?" and get immediately hung up on that aspect.

Zuck's assholes decided to bring facial recognition technology into the courtroom, thus providing the means for deanonymizing jurors.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meta-trial-mark-zuckerberg-ai-glasses/

LLMs are trivially manipulable and are not a safe product.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260218-i-hacked-chatgpt-and-googles-ai-and-it-only-took-20-minutes

I do not think that any ethically consistent practitioner would use grok, the CSAM-generating llm, in their workflows, nor produce any tooling to enable others to do so.

People have been memeing about this part of a flowchart from this microsoft blog about some bullshit github feature all day and it's still up at the time of posting.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-to-github/3-components-of-github-flow

So evidently nobody at microsoft has figured out how to fucking edit an image at this point.

Reminding y'all that:

Discord is not documentation.

ID laws disproportionately harm minorities.

Leaking current ID details constitutes harm.

Data is radioactive.

Complying proactively with fascism is perpetration of harm.

"Legal" and "right" are two very different qualities.

I have just been informed that on github, windows CI actions are performed in an environment where C:\ is mounted as a -network- drive.

Which means that the default temporary directory location, normally found on C, is a remote block device.

Which means that every tempfile interaction requires a network transaction to complete.

Which means that github CI actions take -significantly longer to do- and are -more expensive for their operations- than they have to be.

Which has the consequence that -your- cost for github CI actions is greater than it has to be, because those profiteering fucks charge by the minute.

https://docs.github.com/en/billing/concepts/product-billing/github-actions

irregularly reminded again that the use of 'just', 'simply', and other minimization words - especially in technical areas - is always a sign that there are unexamined assumptions that need to be carefully considered.