An awards show for AI music sounds like the perfect industry event: algorithms making the songs, algorithms judging them, and algorithms applauding politely. The only humans left are the ones paying for tickets.

I already feel uneasy about giving my credit card details to any shop, but to an AI agent? Urgh…

I’m afraid I’ll have to disappoint you, little block warden. Oh, or are you just a block warden bot?

The scary part isn’t the 72 eggs. It’s that the AI agent confidently invented a reason, then another reason, before admitting eggs weren’t even on the shopping list. Imagine giving this thing access to your bank account. Today it’s breakfast for a small hotel: tomorrow it’s explaining why you own a jet ski.

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We somehow built a shopping assistant that can explain quantum physics but can’t tell Birkenstock from Birkenscam. The worst part isn’t even the bad links: it’s the confident tone. A search result looks like a lead you should check. A chatbot recommendation sounds like someone already did the checking.

Trump tried to make oil geopolitics great again and accidentally became China’s best solar salesman. Nigeria gets more reliable electricity, Beijing gets a booming export market, and Washington gets to explain why a war meant to project power turned into a solar panel promotion.

The fact that they’re willing to pay teenagers to keep quiet says a lot. If the apps were really as safe as they claim, you’d think they’d want to prove it in court rather than settle quietly. Hard to take all those speeches about protecting kids seriously after that.

Apparently asking how much water a data center uses makes you a Chinese operative now. The industry can calculate trillions of tokens per second but somehow can’t produce a straight answer about electricity bills, permanent jobs, or tax breaks. Maybe the real threat to national security is a public records request.

The AI rollout might be innocent, but deploying a billion dollar system into critical infrastructure days before a nationwide ground stop is spectacularly bad timing.

It seems to me far wiser to spread services more widely across several providers. Seriously: how daft is it to buy email, instant messaging, video conferencing from a single provider?

Nothing!!!11

Faxgerät or just Fax.

Yes, how we love our fax machines. 🙈😂

Absolutely! It is simply unbelievable how one-dimensional large corporations and public authorities in particular are: completely dependent on a single source! We need: https://sovereignty.it/

Indeed. https://www.tomshardware.com/software/japanese-workers-return-to-fax-machines-during-ongoing-microsoft-365-outage-were-going-full-analog-say-workers-forced-to-ditch-pdfs

Japan keeping fax machines around suddenly looks less like resistance to progress and more like disaster recovery planning. Microsoft spent years selling the future of work, only for a paper tray and a dial tone to become the high availability tier.

The CEO of Palantir warning about mass surveillance is like Sauron filing a privacy complaint about the Eye of Sauron. Monitoring ordinary people is apparently national security. Looking into a billionaire’s assets? Suddenly we’re living in a dystopia.

Amazing how we built a world where hospitals, police departments and governments all depend on one company’s email servers, then call it resilience. Microsoft 365 goes down and suddenly the most reliable communication protocol is a piece of paper taped to a door. Maybe redundancy deserves a bigger budget than Copilot.

An LG executive explains why keeping your old laptop is secretly worse than buying a new LG thin client. Also, comparing a laptop charger’s maximum rating with a thin client’s actual power draw is some impressive accounting. Apparently the greenest computer is always the one the author sells.