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  [Uh, no.] Signal now allows signups without phone numbers -- BUT you have to pay a $2.99 fee to Google to do so! You have to pay a fee in the Signal Android app! Uh, no. #signal #google

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  A major utility I deal with recently changed their website and phone customer services ops to an obviously AI-based system that is a serious cluster f*ck. I mean, stuff like claiming phone numbers aren't in the system that have been there for decades, and showing an online DUE amount along with "No payment due". Still possible to reach a human, but it required third-level magic to do so.

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  BREAKING: Hackers say they have [personal] data on all FBI employees https://www.404media.co/we-hacked-the-fbi-hackers-say-they-have-data-on-all-fbi-employees/

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  BREAKING: Man shot by ICE and removed from hospital despite bullet still in back is now partially paralyzed and back in hospital

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  Personally, I'm in favor of sites blocking ALL external AI agents. Period. Starve these Big Tech monsters to financial death. It's already happening.

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  BREAKING: Madman Trump now says his massive arch will be a military complex full of snipers, drones, and ammunition

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  BREAKING: Idiot Trump says he's creating "#AI Force" like "Space Force" with an "AI Czar" -- "only High I.Q. individuals need apply"

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  Madman Trump says he'll rip down Kennedy Center if he can't get his name on it

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  #Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials https://micahflee.com/flock-cameras-are-riddled-with-security-vulnerabilities-and-hard-coded-credentials/

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  Burger King announces it will use AI to spy on employees to make sure they are "friendly"

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  Heeding calls from investors, Trump admin rushing to replace doctors with unproven AI systems that could harm patients Gift Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/health/ai-doctors-medicare-fda.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BFE.q7GH._r33D0XHeLXN&smid=url-share

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  ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/chatgpt-using-lawyer-punished-for-citing-fake-testimony-from-made-up-witnesses/

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  When you hear Big Tech CEOs pronounce the future of AI with authority, keep in mind that Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs thought the Segway scooter was going to revolutionize the world. Jobs said it would be as big as the PC. Now you can go look it up to find out what it was.

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  Jimmy Kimmel's interview with James Talarico that Trump's fascist FCC didn't want you to see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLDE9LrGpNk

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  BREAKING: New #Apple watches can listen all day and feed audio to #AI, possibly violating two-party consent state privacy laws

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  AI almost sent hazmat train barreling toward 'catastrophe' in Eastern WA https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/aug/28/ai-almost-sent-hazmat-train-barreling-toward-catas/

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  I object to how most traditional cartoons portray mice as the good guys and cats as the bad guys. Misinformation.

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  I don't ride in robotaxis. Period. I don't care who makes them. The more you know about the failure modes, the more they should scare the hell out of you. The companies endlessly quote statistics claiming they are safer than human drivers, using the classic techniques described in Darrell Huff's "How to Lie with Statistics" -- first printed in 1954, still in print, and still a classic.

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  Senile Trump threatens to cut off trade with countries having trade deficit with U.S. unless Fed cuts interest rates (in fact, they are considering a rate increase)

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  The fundamental problem is that the techies who invent and.push stuff like passkeys generally don't have a damned clue of how little most people understand about these systems, nor do the techies care to have anyone in the loop that might point this out. In general, the disdain with which the tech community views their "LUSERS" (a long-standing obnoxious tech slang for "users") hasn't changed since the earliest days of computing, and it permeates virtually every aspec...

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  Google's kowtowing to fascist madman Trump -- a man literally trying to steal the next election by preventing millions of people from voting -- is rapidly pushing the firm and by extension Alphabet into the unenviable historical position of IBM's servicing of the Third Reich. #google

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  WARNING: MAJOR new WordPress vulnerability!!! A very new major vulnerability affecting recent versions of WordPress, likely millions of running instances, is currently being massively exploited in the wild. The exploit permits unauthenticated users to gain administrative access and control. The typical pattern is that the exploit gains control, changes the administrator password, creates a number of additional administrators and attempts to access "xmlrpc.php" to morph the site into...

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  William Shatner and his daughter are both fighting Stage 4 cancer.

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  BREAKING: Oil hits $100 for first time in months

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  Pushing for a "secret military" -- Trump orders info on sailors hidden, info long available to the public.

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  The amount of video copying on #YouTube is extraordinary. Much of it is in the short videos. One example: I was looking for comparisons of airport jet bridges vs. air stairs. I quickly was offered a seemingly endless number of apparently AI-generated short videos each with different images but identical script AI-generated voice overs. Somewhere the original video by the original creator likely exists, but it's buried under all the copied AI-slop. Why should creators even bother when Google...

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  Whether you talk to people on the Left or the Right or Independents in the Middle -- young or old, all races, all religions, urban or rural: AI HATE is very, very real.

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  [!!!] Closed since 2020 and threatened with demolition, Sony says it will reopen iconic L.A. Cinerama Dome and theaters complex in 2028

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  Technology journalist and more John C. Dvorak dies at 80. Peace.

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  Disgusting Trump posts comparison of deaths for various U.S. wars, suggesting 14 dead doesn't matter