Apropos of nothing, archive.is ddos-d a website and altered page snapshots as part of some sort of inscrutable net drama causing Wikipedia to stop using it.
So if anyone cares about such things here's a wayback machine link instead
That said: lmao. Where are all these billion dollar LLM-run Tamogotchi feeding startups hiding? Still in the strawberry counting phase of starting a business?
I mean maybe it's poorly worded and there's only one set of beeps at the end. But then why would the protagonist be reminded multiple times?
Unless she's remembering all the times in the past that microwaving bland chicken reminded her of the world being orderly?
But now I think I'm thinking too deeply about microwaves.
All I could think about is who has a microwave that beeps while it's still cooking?
Against all odds they found a worse future to pursue than forcing employees to strap VR goggles to their heads 40 hours a week, and have pivoted towards AI.
New AI legal filing sanctions just dropped: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca6.152857/gov.uscourts.ca6.152857.50.2.pdf
I don't have time to read over it completely yet, but here's a taste:
That briefing repeatedly misrepresented the record, cited non-existent cases, and cited cases for propositions of law that they did not even discuss, much less support. As explained below, Irion’s and Egli’s misconduct warrants the sanctions laid out in Section II.C.
If we included typos and other errors that are arguably, but not clearly, a misrepresentation or fake citation, we would be looking at far more misstatements of fact and law
Irion and Egli did not respond to these directives. Instead, they said the show cause order was “void on its face for failing to include a signature of an Article III judge,” was “motivated by harassment of the Respondent attorneys,” and “reflect[ed] illegal ex-parte [sic] communications within this Court.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1rrhzhc/doge_lead_in_deposition_details_how_he_emailed/
Behold: the Silicon Valley masters of opsec.
Last week 404 Media reported on some DOGE deposition videos.
The videos were since removed via court order, but are available on Internet Archive.
For anyone unfamiliar: this slots under TechTakes because DOGE is basically Elon Musk's army of naive fascist silicon valley tech-bros rampaging about the federal government with Chat-GPT, SQL, and unsecured thumb-drives.
This article is behind a paywall, but links to the following video snippets from the depositions:
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DVtOiqJjcu4/ https://www.instagram.com/reels/DVyhJT9jf4f/
For example here Justin Fox talks about deleting federal grants that he considered in-scope for an anti DEI executive order: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DVtOiqJjcu4/
Q: "Why is a documentary about Holocaust survivors DEI"
A: "It's the gender based story 🤷 that's inherently discriminatory to focus on this specific group 🙄."
Q: "It's inherently discriminatory to focus on what specific group?"
A: "The gender based. So, females 🤷 during the Holocaust."
He goes on to clarify that it's DEI because it focuses on Jewish women. Oh that's OK then!
There is a lot of video to work through but I know there is more ~~comedy gold~~ rage inducing punchable nazi snippets within.
There's only one thing that's advertised as not-waterproof that I'll risk using underwater and that's Casio wristwatches. "Water resist" is a huge understatement for them the things are indestructable.
(This comment sponsored by Casio)
Apparently this sort of machine learning training pitfall I learned about a decade go in an undergraduate level class that I was like halfway paying attention to in a party school is now evidence of the impending AI apocalypse.
The editor in chief has an apology: https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/ -- the commenters are not happy.
The reporter in question wrote an explanation here: https://bsky.app/profile/benjedwards.com/post/3mewgow6ch22p
The AI part of the explanation is about what you'd expect from an AI enthusiast caught with his hand in the cookie jar and trying to blame the danger-tools as much as he can. Though it also shows that he felt compelled to work during an acute covid infection, and yikes to that work life balance.
Elon Musk pivots from mars colony tweets to moon colony tweets (xcancel).
I'm not quite clear on what "self-growing" means here given how inhospitable the moon is.
I saw this headline:
And thought nothing in the body of the article could possibly top the headline. I was wrong:
Journalists know that they don't have to cover every random crank on the internet right? I suppose it's my own fault for clicking on it.