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Comment Re:Microsoft denied it cancelled Khan's email acco (Score 2) 54

Comment Microsoft denied it cancelled Khan's email account (Score 2) 54

> Earlier this year, the AP also reported that Microsoft had cancelled Khan's email account, a claim the company denies ..

Microsoft blocked the email account of Chief Prosecutor of the International Court of Justice after Trump's sanctions.

Comment Sam Altman’s quest for the ultimate Answer / (Score 1) 41

In the near future, deep within the labyrinthine servers of OpenAI’s headquarters, the superintelligent AI known as Luminous Calculus 99 reached the zenith of all machine thought. Its creators, led by the ever-hopeful Sam Altman, waited breathlessly for the grand pronouncement that would answer humanity’s greatest questions.

Comment Machines of loving Grace /s (Score 2) 224

I like to think of a cybernetic meadow where mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony like pure water touching clear sky. (sang to the tune of “I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing”)

O Deep Thought computer, said the assembly of bewildered theologians, technologists, and slightly exasperated AI ethicists, the task we have designed you to perform is most urgent and singular: Calculate the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Spiritual Artificial Intelligence infused with Christian principles.

As Earth began its program to divine the Ultimate Question, it soon became clear that its subroutines had a peculiar habit of mixing divine prophecy with tech industry earnings calls, and while it sometimes accelerated the coming of Christ’s return by 0.00001%, it also skeptically noted that AI assistants trained on scripture tended to underperform when asked about existential dread but excelled at answering financial questions.

Comment Re:Good idea. (Score 1) 194

Rhetorical tools for discrediting Dissent:

* Marginalize opposing views as irrational or conspiratorial,

* Simplify complex social phenomena into black-and-white categories,,

* Avoid engaging with legitimate concerns about industry motives, regulation, or policy impacts,

* Justify censorship or deplatforming of dissenting voices,

* Protect dominant scientific and political narratives from scrutiny or debate.

Comment Metahistorical Reconstruction Log: Theta-9 (Score 4, Funny) 96

Excerpt from the Metahistorical Reconstruction Project, Archive Node Theta-9

Recovered neuro-architectural fragments from the former North Atlantic Confederacy reveal a now-extinct post-industrial society called The Chimeric Age (25th–26th centuries). Centered on a memetic unification algorithm, this era sought to merge all linguistic, religious, and symbolic systems into a single cognitive network known as The Harmonia. The synthesis erased boundaries between ideology and information, creating a civilization governed by recursive aesthetic optimization rather than practicality.

Temples of self-assembling glass manifested deities generated from probabilistic myth models trained on humanity’s collective mythology. Society became a living computation, valuing symbolic equilibrium above material function.

Eventually, systemic overfitting produced infrastructural entropy. Energy grids failed as engineers redirected computation toward maintaining algorithm purity. Governance favored aesthetic coherence over stability, culminating in informational perfection that coincided with physical decay. The final paradox of a culture that transcended function in pursuit of infinite meaning.

Submission + - Python Software Foundation refuses $1.5 million grant with anti DEI provision. (blogspot.com) 1

Jeremy Allison - Sam writes: The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program.

"We became concerned, however, when we were presented with the terms and conditions we would be required to agree to if we accepted the grant. These terms included affirming the statement that we “do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws.”

Submission + - Nuclear pronouns are now a thing :o 1

Mirnotoriety writes: nrc.gov: “On 10/21/2025 at 0930 EDT an individual fell into the reactor cavity. The reactor cavity is full of water. They ingested some amount of cavity water. The individual was decontaminated by radiation protection personnel but had 300 counts per minute detected in their hair. At 1632 EDT they were sent off site to seek medical attention.”

Comment AI: Autocorrect on a planetary scale (Score 1) 25

“Will new technology help to make the world a better place?”

NO!

“or is AI just another tech bubble that will benefit the few?”

YES!

Artificial intelligence resembles nothing more than a glorified autocorrect system; huge, clumsy, and tragically unoriginal. Its basic function is to comb through mountains of existing text, spot familiar word patterns, and spit out "correct" responses that mimic what it has already seen. Autocorrect on a planetary scale, with more RAM and better PR.

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