you can't make this stuff up
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Couldn't decide whether to put this in politics or here but it is just a costly mess with a costly fix, throw in some crony capitalism:
WASHINGTON, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Donald Trump's Navy and Air Force are poised to cancel two nearly complete software projects that took 12 years and well over $800 million combined to develop, work initially aimed at overhauling antiquated human resources systems.
The reason for the unusual move: officials at those departments, who have so far put the existing projects on hold, want other firms, including Salesforce and billionaire Peter Thiel's Palantir, to have a chance to win similar projects, which could amount to a costly do-over, according to seven sources familiar with the matter.2 -
the greed.
crypto and banks.
free article here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/business/wall-street-banks-crypto-stablecoins.html?unlocked_article_code=1.eE8.Dq98.Kkz70w5hmDQw&smid=url-share1 -
Oh. That's just great. The intelligence community will have a field day with this tech.
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Father-son morticians turn tattoos into wall art.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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my wtf--just take a picture of the damned tattoo, don't hang your dead kin's skin on the wall. Gross.
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@silvermouse said:
my wtf--just take a picture of the damned tattoo, don't hang your dead kin's skin on the wall. Gross.Exactly. They should be turned into Ash for later use by people like Adam.
I am the Troll Jesus. Follow me, my children, or clutch your pearls tightly.
@ScotchnSmoke still sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones.2 -
@VegasFrank said:
@silvermouse said:
my wtf--just take a picture of the damned tattoo, don't hang your dead kin's skin on the wall. Gross.Exactly. They should be turned into Ash for later use by people like Adam.
Regarding a cigar, the pipe and the open road, go forward without hurry, learn the essence of things through frequent experiences, taking advantage of every occasion.
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How to remove your info from these scum
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@silvermouse said:
How to remove your info from these scumThank you, Edward. Worked instantly.
Nolite Oblivisci Peniculus Dentes
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@Hawks said:
@silvermouse said:
How to remove your info from these scumThank you, Edward. Worked instantly.
Same here, even though I don't really know what I just did.
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis4 -
🤷♂️ trusting the process?
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@peter4jc said:
@Hawks said:
@silvermouse said:
How to remove your info from these scumThank you, Edward. Worked instantly.
Same here, even though I don't really know what I just did.
You just identified yourself as a malcontent
I am the Troll Jesus. Follow me, my children, or clutch your pearls tightly.
@ScotchnSmoke still sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones.3 -
@VegasFrank said:
@peter4jc said:
@Hawks said:
@silvermouse said:
How to remove your info from these scumThank you, Edward. Worked instantly.
Same here, even though I don't really know what I just did.
You just identified yourself as a malcontent
Common knowledge already. Ask Cole. Slave to the Federal government remember?
Nolite Oblivisci Peniculus Dentes
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Regarding a cigar, the pipe and the open road, go forward without hurry, learn the essence of things through frequent experiences, taking advantage of every occasion.
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Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT. Clients are triggered.
Declan would never have found out his therapist was using ChatGPT had it not been for a technical mishap. The connection was patchy during one of their online sessions, so Declan suggested they turn off their video feeds. Instead, his therapist began inadvertently sharing his screen.For the rest of the session, Declan was privy to a real-time stream of ChatGPT analysis rippling across his therapist’s screen, who was taking what Declan was saying, putting it into ChatGPT, and then parroting its answers.
But Declan is not alone. In fact, a growing number of people are reporting receiving AI-generated communiqués from their therapists. Clients’ trust and privacy are being abandoned in the process.
More here:
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^^my WTF^^
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain2 -
Mine WTF too. This is a perfect example of the nefarious 💩 people will engage a platform that ‘could’ and should be used for… insert any good reason or idea.
I think the general population will get lazier and dumbed down more as they use the platform instead of their brain, education, training and etc etc.
Regarding a cigar, the pipe and the open road, go forward without hurry, learn the essence of things through frequent experiences, taking advantage of every occasion.
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@OutdoorsSmoke_21191 said:
I think the general population will get lazier and dumbed down more as they use the platform instead of their brain, education, training and etc etc.
I think that's the plan.
Hey, you gonna eat the rest of that corndog?6 -
All these leaves and just a day after Labor Day
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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Chris J. Ratcliffe/Reuters
An AI podcast company is releasing 3,000 new episodes a week, all generated in about an hour for $1 a go. Inception Point AI has seen more than 10 million downloads since September 2023, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It has about 50 AI personalities, including the nominatively determined nature-show host Nigel Thistledown and food expert Claire Delish. Each episode takes a fraction of the time a human-produced podcast does to make, and as long as 20 people listen to each one, it turns a profit. CEO Jeanine Wright, former head of Amazon’s podcast division, said people calling it AI slop “are probably lazy luddites” and that “in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI.”3 -
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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Was just about to post this one myself lol. The funny part is that they claim it to be “incorruptible”, yet it was programmed by a person to do what a person wants. Was said person corruptible?
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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@Rdp77 said:
Was just about to post this one myself lol. The funny part is that they claim it to be “incorruptible”, yet it was programmed by a person to do what a person wants. Was said person corruptible?
IDK…ask Adam.
Regarding a cigar, the pipe and the open road, go forward without hurry, learn the essence of things through frequent experiences, taking advantage of every occasion.
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@silvermouse said:
and it is down again
The cone is back, but they're closed for maintenance. They've set up an alternate site for tourists.
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An alternate farthest point south?
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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Remember when paper bags were killing the planet?
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We're not going to kill the planet. We're just going to fill every available space with garbage.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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