Daily Tech News 20 September 2026

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AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable. (Tech Crunch)

They always were. They are, without exception, "the dog ate my homework" stories.

"Did you actually do the homework?"
"No. But if I had, the dog would totally have eaten it!"
In the first case, Andrew Yang, the former presidential candidate and current CEO of mobile carrier Noble Moble
What.
told CNN on Thursday that he had "met with the head of a lab" who had "a belief"
Love the specifics here.
that OpenAI's Hugging Face hacker bots "have planted self-replicating code all over the internet, which makes the internet now unusable for the testing models."
In what universe does that even make sense?
Yang said that this means that the real reason OpenAI and Anthropic have called for a slowdown is because "they have to create synthetic internets to train their bots, which is going to take some time and money."
Step 1: Unplug the router.
Step 2: There is no Step 2.
The second comment came from Noam Brown, who leads AI reasoning research at OpenAI. Speaking to Dwarkesh Patel on a podcast episode released on Thursday, Brown noted that the true take-away of the Hugging Face incident was that "people underestimated the AI."
No, the takeaway is that people overestimated AI researchers, who turn out to be completely fucking retarded.
Brown said that the weak sandbox - the system intended to prevent an AI from communicating externally - was obviously also a contributing factor.
"We left it connected to the internet and were shocked, shocked, to find that it had access to the internet."
Brown pointed out that he's "not convinced" that even an air-gapped system - where the computer isn't connected to anything external at all - would stop an AI from breaking out. He pointed to research from 2015 showing that air gapped computers can be theoretically breached.
Dogs. Homework.

Yes, this does work. If you have two computers sitting right next to each other in a controlled environment - that is, not a busy AI datacenter with tens of thousands of machines - where one computer is doing nothing but attempting to send a signal and the other is doing nothing but listening for it.

Tech News

Spain - which is ruled by communists even more retarded than the ones currently destroying Australia - has blocked Archive.today and its mirrors. (Reclaim the Net) (archive site)

I'm using Archive.today here because Reclaim the Net's story about Archive.today is paywalled.
A 15 year old power supply went up in smoke because of the connector conspiracy. (WCCFTech)

You know how, back in the bad old days, every connection between computers required a different cable? Well, here's why that was a good thing: In most cases you couldn't physically connect things using the wrong cable because they were designed using different numbers of pins and simply wouldn't fit.

Enter modular power supplies. The ends of the cables that plug into your motherboard and graphics card are standardised. Sometime the standards are horrible, and they keep changing, but at least there are standards.

The ends that plug into the power supply itself not only change between manufacturers and models, but sometimes between units with the same model number. And since there are only so many possible pin layouts, it's often possible to plug a cable from one power supply into another in a way that will permanently destroy your computer when you flip the switch.
An M6 Pro Geekbench 7 benchmark is getting a lot of attention of being faster than an M5 Max but there are reasons to question it and they're not what the idiots at WCCFTech say. (WCCFTech)

Not the reason: An M6 Pro being faster than an M5 Max. The M5 Max is no faster than an M5 Pro on the CPU side. It has twice the GPU performance and twice the memory bandwidth, but the CPU is unchanged.

The reason: There is no M6 Pro.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Curse you, Pascal.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 04:31 AM (odBC9)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 04:31 AM (Ia/+0)

3 Morning all!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 20, 2026 04:32 AM (BLOW1)

4 >>>Spain - which is governed by ruled

*rulers

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 04:33 AM (odBC9)

5 Hallooo, Pixy!

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 04:34 AM (odBC9)

6 >>>Spain - which is ruled by communists

MUCH better.

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 04:39 AM (odBC9)

7 Raining here

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 04:40 AM (Ia/+0)

8 from the Reclaim The Net article:

The page, with the heading

“ESTÁ USTED INTENTANDO ACCEDER A UN SITIO WEB ILEGAL”

(“YOU ARE TRYING TO ACCESS AN ILLEGAL WEBSITE”

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 04:42 AM (odBC9)

9 And since there are only so many possible pin layouts, it's often possible to plug a cable from one power supply into another in a way that will permanently destroy your computer when you flip the switch.

I leaned this several years ago after watching enough tech YouTube that it was finally mentioned and it was a “I’d never thought about that before” moment that I made a mental note of.

While it is tempting when buying a new power supply for an existing system to just use the cable from you old PSU, so you don’t have to rerun the cables throughout the case and cable manage everything again.

Don’t ever do this.
While the cables look the same and the connectors fit correctly form both sets of cables in a modular set, the pin layouts are different for different PSU models/ brands and even models with the same brand name.

Always use the cable set that came with the PSU or buy third-party cable sets that are made for your PSU brand & model.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 04:50 AM (6ydKt)

10 6 >>>Spain - which is ruled by communists

MUCH better.
Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 04:39 AM (odBC9)

"MUCHO BETTERO"

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 04:51 AM (odBC9)

11 'synthetic internets'

Because the naturally occurring sort just won't do the job anymore.

Posted by: Epobirs at September 20, 2026 05:02 AM (/0z9K)

12 Meh.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 20, 2026 05:04 AM (Ntshk)

13 crazy stuff; headline from the Reclaim The Net article:

Spain Orders Blocks On Archive.today And Its Mirrors

No court ruling was required; only a complaint, a commission, and a censorship protocol built for speed.

a complaint
a commission
a censorship protocol built for speed

I'd prefer
a man
a plan
a canal

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 05:06 AM (odBC9)

14 Suez!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 20, 2026 05:10 AM (BLOW1)

15 14 Suez!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 20, 2026 05:10 AM (BLOW1)

um

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 05:11 AM (odBC9)

16 The snark is strong today.

Me likey.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 20, 2026 05:14 AM (O7YUW)

17 “Permanently destroy” seems redundant, somehow.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 20, 2026 05:15 AM (x1CgS)

18 17 “Permanently destroy” seems redundant, somehow.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 20, 2026 05:15 AM (x1CgS)

redundant, somehow

maybe:
superfluously redundant

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 05:17 AM (odBC9)

19 Not much news out there, good new that is

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 05:18 AM (Ia/+0)

20 credit where credit is due:

Invented in 1948 by the British palindromist Leigh Mercer

amanaplanacanalpanama

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 05:19 AM (odBC9)

21 Let's just all agree on AI safety. The entire right side of the world. Let's just agree. Let's call it Humanity's Existential Crisis, and we MUST DO EVERYTHING TO STOP IT.

First we pass a law.
A) AI is outlawed worldwide.
B) We declare war immediately on all countries using or researching AI starting with CHINA.
C) Every person using, attempting to use, or researching AI must be jailed. Five year minimum. Three strike rule: LIFE, no Parole. Immediately JAIL Elon Musk, Demon Asmodeon, Sam Altman-Fried, Mark Suckerberg, Sunder Penis, Natalie Satel, etc. etc.

Because if we don't do these things, the world will end. It's existential crisis.

Posted by: meh at September 20, 2026 05:35 AM (kK7U2)

22 I didn't sign up for this:

https://tinyurl.com/2du3t7rw

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 20, 2026 05:38 AM (Y+4g7)

23 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 20, 2026 05:39 AM (sAmhv)

24 It's what we should be doing on climate change.

WAR ON COAL!!!
Outlaw coal.
China uses coal.
WAR ON CHINA.

A lot of people here don't get rhetoric though. It's worse on Instapundit, but that's not saying much now is it?

Posted by: meh at September 20, 2026 05:39 AM (kK7U2)

25
Because if we don't do these things, the world will end. It's existential crisis.

Posted by: meh at September 20, 2026 05:35 AM (kK7U2)

_________

You left out:
D) Establish a Cabinet-level Department of AI.
E) Raise taxes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 20, 2026 05:41 AM (eRlcH)

26 A longtime acquaintance (long time no see) with whom I met up yesterday was wearing a smallish ICE OUT button on which I did not remark.

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 05:41 AM (odBC9)

27 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 20, 2026 05:41 AM (2Ez/1)

28 Was there a BOING?

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 05:42 AM (odBC9)

29 There's a rational explanation as to why there's no Starlink service in South Africa:

https://tinyurl.com/3yujdys7

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 20, 2026 05:43 AM (Y+4g7)

30
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 20, 2026 05:44 AM (AMvSw)

31 Was there a BOING?

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 05:42 AM (odBC9)
-

BOING OUT!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 20, 2026 05:44 AM (Y+4g7)

32 If you have a birdbath here its self filling, its pouring down now

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 05:46 AM (Ia/+0)

33 29 There's a rational explanation as to why there's no Starlink service in South Africa:

https://tinyurl.com/3yujdys7
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 20, 2026 05:43 AM (Y+4g7)

There's a RACIALIST explanation as to why there's no Starlink service in South Africa.

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 05:49 AM (odBC9)

34 Is this the actual name of the the thing "hugging face"? Lol

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 20, 2026 05:51 AM (JrHfD)

35 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 20, 2026 05:52 AM (VyBeY)

36 14 Suez!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 20, 2026 05:10 AM (BLOW1)

or

Sooey! Sooey, sooey, sooey, sooey, sooey.

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 05:53 AM (odBC9)

37 You left out:
D) Establish a Cabinet-level Department of AI.
E) Raise taxes.

----

If you made D and E contingent on A B and C, you'd certainly get A, B, and C.

Posted by: meh at September 20, 2026 05:53 AM (XeEnw)

38 Evening and morning to ever'body on this Sunday, whether you're working late or up early. What planet are we on?

Last night I accidentally locked little Dagny in the coat closet. She loves to dash in there when I open the door and work her claws on the rubber auto floor mat on the floor. She sat in there for six hours. I could have sworn I checked all the closets last night before I went to sleep; but no, I guess not.

Not sure yet if this bodes ill for the day.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 20, 2026 05:54 AM (wzUl9)

39 It's weird to me how the right does understand Trump's rhetoric, but can't recognize the same style elsewhere. Let's see Elon Musk call for his own jailing if he thinks AI is such a risk. He's been really going on about AI safety for long time.

These guys calling everything a terrible crisis are the one responsible. So, the one's calling for the regulatory capture, should themselves first be capture. To be consistent.

Anyway, no, people here don't get rhetoric.

Posted by: meh at September 20, 2026 05:56 AM (XeEnw)

40 No I can't type, grammar, or punctuate. Leave me alone.

Posted by: meh at September 20, 2026 05:57 AM (XeEnw)

41 This devotional made me think of the retired 'rons who like to walk every day. Man from Iowa writes on "A Good Example". Scripture is Colossians 1:9-14. Upper Room devotional :

https://tinyurl.com/36ehnrkc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 20, 2026 05:57 AM (JrHfD)

42 47 year old father of three makes his college football debut. "Sunny Skyz" site:

https://tinyurl.com/563abnfn

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 20, 2026 06:02 AM (JrHfD)

43 @38/Wolfus: "What planet are we on?"

Dirt. Planet dirt.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 20, 2026 06:06 AM (O7YUW)

44 Last evening, having only the alternatives Love Story and The Ghost and Mr. Chicken on b'cast TV, we watched a DVD of the 1933 classic Dinner at Eight. Lionel and John Barrymore, Billie Burke, and Jean Harlow lead a solid cast. It's pretty dated as to technique, very much a filmed stage play, but interesting enough. George Kaufman and Edna Ferber, who wrote the original play, were contemporaries of Dorothy Parker, and some of the lines sounded like ones she might have written.

Marie Dressler, of whom I'd only heard, led the cast and *made* the movie. Born in 1868, she'd been a chorus girl and stage actress, couldn't find work on Broadway in the 1920s and went out to Hollywood, and sound revived her career: She won one of the first Oscars and was voted a real box office draw in at least one year before she died in 1934.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 20, 2026 06:08 AM (wzUl9)

45 When I grow up I want to be a palindromist.

Posted by: Said no kindergartener ever at September 20, 2026 06:11 AM (2Ez/1)

46 Two cups of coffee, and now I must face the daily decision: To work out, or not to work out? Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to fling oneself upon the track, or to take yet another coffee and by cooking provide a breakfast?

I wonder if Hamlet ever faced such a dilemma. He was a fencer and duellist, so he must have worked out at least at that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 20, 2026 06:18 AM (wzUl9)

47 To work out, or not to work out?

This may depend heavily on whether little Dagny has forgiven you for the 6 hour lock-up.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 20, 2026 06:25 AM (O7YUW)

48 Nice Appalachian folk version of an old time hymn, " I Come to the Garden" which is about Mary Magdalene coming to the garden tomb and meeting Jesus;

https://tinyurl.com/37s3r2ke

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 20, 2026 06:26 AM (JrHfD)

49 @Pixy: "Disclaimer: Curse you, Pascal."

Uhoh. What'd you run into with regards to that language?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 20, 2026 06:28 AM (O7YUW)

50 Strings are indexed starting with 1.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 20, 2026 06:31 AM (BLOW1)

51 Wolfus, I had the good fortune of a Free Shred Event in my 'hood yesterday. Got rid of a full banker's box of financial records from past decades. Just gotta take one step every day.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 20, 2026 06:37 AM (2Ez/1)

52 mornin yall. I'm throwing stuff away too. Yesterday I threw away a bunch of printer in cartridges that expired before 2010. There were at least 50 carts in there. The way they charge for ink nowadays that was probably over $1000 worth of ink.

Posted by: fd at September 20, 2026 06:40 AM (MWfyi)

53 Morning. Happy fall - temperatures here are finally starting to drop gradually.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 20, 2026 06:41 AM (aJQbY)

54 I just noticed the other day but looked again that my favorite bookmarks on my tablet are on my phone, both Samsung and same browser. Never knew that happened.

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 06:41 AM (Ia/+0)

55 Strings are indexed starting with 1.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 20, 2026 06:31 AM (BLOW1)

As they should be!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at September 20, 2026 06:42 AM (iIyc0)

56 I woke up this morning missing Bruno. I've always had dogs around and it's too quiet. Yesterday I looked at adoptions and saw a four year old female GSD that had been abandoned at a vet to be euthanized because the owners were moving. Who does that? Who COULD do that? I'm going to inquire about her today.

Posted by: fd at September 20, 2026 06:43 AM (MWfyi)

57 Including the Blackout Blog link

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 06:44 AM (Ia/+0)

58 fd it takes a long time, remember long after our cats were both gone I would think ' Its time to do ___' then think oh I don't have to.

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 06:46 AM (Ia/+0)

59 fd. Kismet. She has been waiting for you to come for her.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 06:53 AM (UdrMW)

60 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 20, 2026 06:53 AM (Hbeqj)

61 Good morning, Ben Had. Pray all is well with you.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 20, 2026 06:55 AM (Hbeqj)

62 olddog, All is well and Thank you. I pray the same for you and yours.

MoMe planning is full apace.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 06:59 AM (UdrMW)

63 Good Morning All.

My ROG Strix laptop did a BIOS update all by itself just a bit ago. It woke me up as it did a few restarts and then an update. I'm not sure what to think about it but its done. I'm betting AI was involved because it didn't ask.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 20, 2026 07:01 AM (Q/FnY)

64 This afternoon, I am looking forward to going to a book signing by a daughter of the son of our former patriarch ( He died in the winter) . It's a book about his growing up in their little town, going to the one room schoolhouse and the church which dates from the 1850's , and the other activities he enjoyed as a boy. She's been working on it for quite some time. He gave her lots of information. I am sorry he was not around to finally see it published.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 20, 2026 07:04 AM (JrHfD)

65 MoMe planning is full apace.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 06:59 AM
+++

My first cut at route planning is complete. Anticipating seeing some family members along the way.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 20, 2026 07:05 AM (2Ez/1)

66 "Who COULD do that? "

something I wonder about from time to time.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 20, 2026 07:06 AM (VyBeY)

67 Posted by: fd at September 20, 2026 06:43 AM (MWfyi

Sorry about Bruno, and I think that's a great idea to look for another dog whose needs you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 20, 2026 07:06 AM (JrHfD)

68 Quarter Twenty, Soon!

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 07:07 AM (UdrMW)

69 I have a feeling banning AI will work out about as well as banning gunpowder or nuclear weapons.

Once something is invented it’s almost impossible to uninvent it. The invention will only go away because its use has been improved by a further invention or its use case is no longer needed.

If we ban AI, somebody, somewhere, will continue using it, and improving it, on the downlow until that person or group has total domination in a barren field.

We can’t ban nuclear weapons because if all countries that have nukes destroy their stockpiles and try to enforce an international ban, some sly bastards somewhere will either keep theirs hidden, or develop their own in secret and come out the other side with the biggest strategic advantage on the planet. Once that secret is out everybody with the capability will have to follow.

“If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns.”

It’s a Catch-22, no matter what you do, once the cat is out of the bag.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 07:09 AM (6ydKt)

70 My ROG Strix laptop did a BIOS update all by itself just a bit ago. It woke me up as it did a few restarts and then an update. I'm not sure what to think about it but its done. I'm betting AI was involved because it didn't ask.
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 20, 2026 07:01 AM (Q/FnY)

My Kindle does that once in a while. Trust me, there's no intelligence involved on its part.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at September 20, 2026 07:10 AM (iIyc0)

71 In local news, Kentavist Brakezza Jackson just can't stop stealing stuff so he is back in jail. His momma say he a good boy, he just fell in with the wrong crowd. I say he's not a good boy, and he will be back out in a few days to repeat his crimes again and again.

Posted by: fd at September 20, 2026 07:10 AM (MWfyi)

72 Good morning Horde.
Read hundreds of sci-fi books and seen a lot of movies with AI involved. I don't think a single person has a firm grasp as to what will happen when AI becomes ubiquitous. The present AI builders are looking for an angle and/or legal protection for screw ups when getting government involved. Ask me for answer to it all , I don't think there is one

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 20, 2026 07:14 AM (oUMhY)

73 SpeakingOf - there is similar logic with “gain of function” research and biological warfare. I don’t believe any sane person thinks the Obie administration ostensibly banned it in the U.S.A. because they are such good guys.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 20, 2026 07:17 AM (+4cXA)

74 That Kentavist! What a scamp!

Posted by: His neighbors at September 20, 2026 07:17 AM (2Ez/1)

75

71 In local news, Kentavist Brakezza Jackson just can't stop stealing stuff so he is back in jail. His momma say he a good boy, he just fell in with the wrong crowd. I say he's not a good boy, and he will be back out in a few days to repeat his crimes again and again.
Posted by: fd at September 20, 2026 07:10 AM

--------

So he's a Kentavist What does that entail?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 20, 2026 07:18 AM (VWtfl)

76 "That Kentavist! What a scamp!
Posted by: His neighbors"

He used to cut my grass until he stole my lawnmower!

Posted by: His other neighbors at September 20, 2026 07:19 AM (MWfyi)

77 Fox kit left for dead after being run over is able to walk again after having hydrotherapy:

https://tinyurl.com/9fbu6rsk

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 20, 2026 07:21 AM (JrHfD)

78 So he's a Kentavist What does that entail?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 20, 2026 07:18 AM
+++

At least a few handguns.
And warrants. Lots of warrants.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 20, 2026 07:21 AM (2Ez/1)

79 Wolfus, might want to make those moving plans soon. Updated weather for winter shows possibility of being very wet in the gulf coast this year. Dry in southern Indiana.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 20, 2026 07:22 AM (1Ff7Z)

80 Good morning morons

Our God and God of our fathers,
let our prayer come before you
and do not ignore our supplication.
For we are not so brazen-faced
and stiff-necked
to say to you,
Hashem, our God, and God of our fathers,
“We are righteous and have not sinned.”

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 20, 2026 07:23 AM (RIvkX)

81 51 Wolfus, I had the good fortune of a Free Shred Event in my 'hood yesterday. Got rid of a full banker's box of financial records from past decades. Just gotta take one step every day.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 20, 2026 06:37 AM (2Ez/1)

52 mornin yall. I'm throwing stuff away too. Yesterday I threw away a bunch of printer in cartridges that expired before 2010. There were at least 50 carts in there. The way they charge for ink nowadays that was probably over $1000 worth of ink.
Posted by: fd at September 20, 2026 06:40 AM (MWfyi)

Yay!

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 07:24 AM (odBC9)

82 I haven't been able to access archive.is for just about a year now. Not on my phone or my laptop..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 20, 2026 07:24 AM (nbLIj)

83 Joe Kidd, best of luck with the new job.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 20, 2026 07:26 AM (UdrMW)

84 38 Last night I accidentally locked little Dagny in the coat closet. She loves to dash in there when I open the door and work her claws on the rubber auto floor mat on the floor.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 20, 2026 05:54 AM (wzUl9)

Maybe give her a rubber auto floor mat on the floor somewhere else?

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 07:31 AM (odBC9)

85 that's a good prayer, SFp, thank you.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 20, 2026 07:34 AM (VyBeY)

86 Rain most of the he day today. Only going up to 62° . Only getting up to 70° once the rest of the month. Fall is here in the Mid Hudson

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 20, 2026 07:35 AM (oUMhY)

87 82 I haven't been able to access archive.is for just about a year now. Not on my phone or my laptop..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 20, 2026 07:24 AM (nbLIj)

from the Reclaim The Net article:

the main domain:

Archive.today

its mirrors:

Archive.is
Archive.ph
Archive.li

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 07:36 AM (odBC9)

88 I guess Skyebrows has watched some spaghetti Westerns and Leiji Matsumoto.

https://youtu.be/s9f9oa3Ae6c

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 20, 2026 07:39 AM (2GVsD)

89 Rain most of the he day today. Only going up to 62° . Only getting up to 70° once the rest of the month. Fall is here in the Mid Hudson
Posted by: Smell the Glove

We could use some rain here in Nashville land. Going to be in the 90's today and tomorrow then it dips down into the 70's for the rest of the week and week after. Fall is coming.

Posted by: Tuna at September 20, 2026 07:42 AM (lJ0H4)

90 Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 20, 2026 07:23 AM (RIvkX)

Thanks for that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 20, 2026 07:43 AM (JrHfD)

91 Gateway Pundit headline: US Air Force B-1B Bomber Loaded with Munitions Takes Off from RAV Fairford Air Base in Britain (VIDEO)

lol Apparently, Jim Hoft knows from simply watching a video of the takeoff that the aircraft is "loaded with munitions."

Posted by: one hour sober at September 20, 2026 07:43 AM (J4Dwc)

92 Dirt. Planet dirt."

3rd rock...

Posted by: man at September 20, 2026 07:45 AM (pfXMo)

93 thx Anna!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 20, 2026 07:47 AM (VyBeY)

94
72 Good morning Horde.
Read hundreds of sci-fi books and seen a lot of movies with AI involved. I don't think a single person has a firm grasp as to what will happen when AI becomes ubiquitous. The present AI builders are looking for an angle and/or legal protection for screw ups when getting government involved. Ask me for answer to it all , I don't think there is one.”

There’s a time honored and rather simple answer to this problem - make every person or company who uses, hosts, or distributes AI personally and strictly liable for any harm caused to anyone in any way.
Strict liability means that the offender pays with no finding of fault, no finding of intent. If you own a bad dog you pay when he bites someone, doesn’t matter if you didn’t intend it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 20, 2026 07:48 AM (sTKQb)

95 12 Meh.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 20, 2026 05:04 AM (Ntshk)

It's as if you summoned the meh:

Posted by: meh at September 20, 2026 05:35 AM (kK7U2)
Posted by: meh at September 20, 2026 05:39 AM (kK7U2)
Posted by: meh at September 20, 2026 05:53 AM (XeEnw)
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Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 07:49 AM (odBC9)

96 Ben Had at September 20, 2026 07:26 AM (UdrMW)

Thanks. The interview went well and I'll know by COB tomorrow. Been fighting some annoying headwinds since the beginning of the year, and this will finally address those..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 20, 2026 07:50 AM (nbLIj)

97 Last night I accidentally locked little Dagny in the coat closet. She loves to dash in there when I open the door and work her claws on the rubber auto floor mat on the floor.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 20, 2026
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Maybe give her a rubber auto floor mat on the floor somewhere else?
Posted by: m at September 20, 2026

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She and Stirling both love to dive into closets even without floor mats present. I need to make it a part of my evening: brush my teeth, change into pajamas, check the closets for cats or leave the doors open.

Dagny does not seem to hold a grudge about being locked up so long; neither of them does. I suspect they sort of like it, or they'd have learned long ago not to dash into the closets, or would cry to be let out. Maybe it's racial memories of cave lion days.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 20, 2026 07:51 AM (wzUl9)

98 There’s a time honored and rather simple answer to this problem - make every person or company who uses, hosts, or distributes AI personally and strictly liable for any harm caused to anyone in any way.
Strict liability means that the offender pays with no finding of fault, no finding of intent. If you own a bad dog you pay when he bites someone, doesn’t matter if you didn’t intend it.
Posted by: Tom Servo

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"May we counteroffer with privatizing the profits, and socializing the losses?"

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 20, 2026 07:53 AM (4HoLg)

99 Please forgive me morons for my many offenses against you, especially mockery, zealotry, and bearing false witness.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 20, 2026 07:53 AM (RIvkX)

100 100

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 07:53 AM (odBC9)

101 It has been years since I heard Baby Animals. Thanks for the nostalgia rush.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 20, 2026 07:55 AM (9uULe)

102 Archive.today (Site can't be reached)

its mirrors:

Archive.is (Site can't be reached)
Archive.ph (See above)
Archive.li (Ditto)
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Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 20, 2026 07:55 AM (nbLIj)

103
Last night I accidentally locked little Dagny in the coat closet. She loves to dash in there when I open the door and work her claws on the rubber auto floor mat on the floor.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Maybe give her a rubber auto floor mat on the floor somewhere else?
Posted by: m

We have a rule that the last person going to bed has to put a hand on MegaRoy to ensure his big dumb a$$ didn't hide on the porch when the door gets locked. He got to spend the night (50°

once for that little stunt. It's screened in and cat proof safe, but his reaction was "OMG! I was almost eaten by wolves" when we got up the next morning.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 20, 2026 07:55 AM (QVmho)

104 "Apparently, Jim Hoft knows from simply watching a video of the takeoff that the aircraft is "loaded with munitions."
Posted by: one hour sober"

You can't believe anything you see, hear, or read on the internet nowadays. The truth may be out there, but it's floating in a digital cesspool.

Posted by: fd at September 20, 2026 07:56 AM (MWfyi)

105
Yom Kippur
Sunset September 20 through nightfall September 21
The Day of Atonement, focused on prayer, fasting, and repentance

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 07:56 AM (odBC9)

106 She and Stirling both love to dive into closets even without floor mats present. I need to make it a part of my evening: brush my teeth, change into pajamas, check the closets for cats or leave the doors open.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 20, 2026 07:51 AM (wzUl9)
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I've gotten into the habit of doing a "kitty patrol" before I go to bed, taking a headcount of all five. Just in case one of them has gotten locked in a closet or bathroom.

One time Penny got locked in the laundry room for several hours until I finally heard her meowing and tracked her down.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2026 07:58 AM (FZ29D)

107 103 We have a rule that the last person going to bed has to put a hand on MegaRoy to ensure his big dumb a$$ didn't hide on the porch when the door gets locked. He got to spend the night (50° ) once for that little stunt. It's screened in and cat proof safe, but his reaction was "OMG! I was almost eaten by wolves" when we got up the next morning.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 20, 2026 07:55 AM (QVmho)

haha

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 07:58 AM (odBC9)

108
Meh.
Posted by: tcn in AK
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It's as if you summoned the meh:

Posted by: meh at September 20, 2026 05:35 AM (kK7U2)
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Posted by: m

I always thought meh was a regulars nic and haven't used it. Where is BEN ROTHLIESBURGER when I need him.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 20, 2026 07:59 AM (QVmho)

109 Locking Dagny in the closet,serving me starvation rations. Our human is going off the rails, please Halp Us!

Posted by: Stirling the Cat at September 20, 2026 08:03 AM (Fn+3X)

110 "Second Section of the Intellectual Property Commission"
Doesn't sound Orwellian at all Spain.

Posted by: fozzy at September 20, 2026 08:04 AM (zH2yS)

111 91 Gateway Pundit headline: US Air Force B-1B Bomber Loaded with Munitions Takes Off from RAV Fairford Air Base in Britain (VIDEO)

lol Apparently, Jim Hoft knows from simply watching a video of the takeoff that the aircraft is "loaded with munitions."
Posted by: one hour sober at September 20, 2026 07:43 AM (J4Dwc)

The article cites this source:

@realtoriabrooke
Toria Brooke
11h
UNITED KINGDOM 🇬🇧 A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer strategic bomber, loaded with munitions, took off about an hour ago from RAF Fairford Air Base.

eh maybe:

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Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 08:05 AM (odBC9)

112 >>You can't believe anything you see, hear, or read on the internet nowadays.

X and its "experts."

Apparently, Hoft based that "loaded with munitions" thing on an X post by someone named Toria Brooke. It is also a red headline at Liberty Daily.

It seems Miss Brooke thinks that because the B-1 took off with four burners lit, that must mean it was VERY HEAVY and, thus, departed with a full loadout.

I don't have an X account, but if I did, my response to ol' Toria would be:

"Find me a video of a B-1 taking off WITHOUT the cans lit. I'll wait..."

Posted by: one hour sober at September 20, 2026 08:08 AM (J4Dwc)

113 Good morning! Looks like another hot day in store and then a 10+ degree drop through next week. Got the dirt staged to do the renovation for the front flower beds, and I'm thinking irises and daffodils are going in on one side, and I'll reserve the other side for hostas.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 20, 2026 08:08 AM (3Ope8)

114 I'm not at all in favor of banning AI. Just the opposite. What I am not in favor of is regulatory capture. The guys all screaming about the dangers of AI are the big AI operators.

Can they ban themselves? That would be good.

Posted by: meh at September 20, 2026 08:09 AM (zZxsY)

115 Locking Dagny in the closet,serving me starvation rations. Our human is going off the rails, please Halp Us!
Posted by: Stirling the Cat at September 20, 2026

***
I gave you both treats yesterday, didn't I?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 20, 2026 08:09 AM (wzUl9)

116 It seems Miss Brooke thinks that because the B-1 took off with four burners lit, that must mean it was VERY HEAVY and, thus, departed with a full loadout.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 20, 2026 08:08 AM (J4Dwc)

Our Miss Brooke?!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 20, 2026 08:10 AM (1Ff7Z)

117 "It seems Miss Brooke thinks that because the B-1 took off with four burners lit, that must mean it was VERY HEAVY and, thus, departed with a full loadout."

It's an impressive sight. I saw one taking off from Robins AFB early one morning in a foggy mist. I was driving right beside the runway when it came out of the mist and screamed by right before it lifted off. You could see the pressure waves and vortexes as it passed by. Breathtaking.

Posted by: fd at September 20, 2026 08:12 AM (MWfyi)

118 Marie Dressler and Greta Garbo were both top box office draws among actresses in the 31-34 era.

Posted by: Variety Headline at September 20, 2026 08:13 AM (Fn+3X)

119
Our Miss Brooke?!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 20, 2026

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Our Miss Brooks in Havana
This Middle-Aged Teacher for Hire
A Burnt-Out Instructor

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 20, 2026 08:15 AM (wzUl9)

120 flower beds, and I'm thinking irises and daffodils are going in on one side, and I'll reserve the other side for hostas.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

We love hostas!

Posted by: Neighborhood Deer Family at September 20, 2026 08:15 AM (Fn+3X)

121 I'm not sure "screamed" is the right word to describe the sound of a B-1 taking off. "Roared" either. It's a noise that would scare the pants off a T-Rex. Kind of like a continuous explosion.

Posted by: fd at September 20, 2026 08:17 AM (MWfyi)

122 Marie Dressler and Greta Garbo were both top box office draws among actresses in the 31-34 era.
Posted by: Variety Headline at September 20, 2026

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And two more different, and different-looking, actresses could hardly be imagined.

Dinner at Eight had a reference to Garbo. One of the leads' friends refers to missing a Garbo movie for the dinner, and his wife murmurs, "I'm a Garbo widow."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 20, 2026 08:17 AM (wzUl9)

123 120 flower beds, and I'm thinking irises and daffodils are going in on one side, and I'll reserve the other side for hostas.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

We love hostas!
Posted by: Neighborhood Deer Family at September 20, 2026 08:15 AM (Fn+3X)

; )

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 08:19 AM (odBC9)

124 121 I'm not sure "screamed" is the right word to describe the sound of a B-1 taking off. "Roared" either. It's a noise that would scare the pants off a T-Rex. Kind of like a continuous explosion.
Posted by: fd at September 20, 2026 08:17 AM (MWfyi)

Reverberated?

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 08:20 AM (odBC9)

125 Might be a good day to read

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 08:20 AM (Ia/+0)

126 >>It's an impressive sight. I saw one taking off from Robins AFB early one morning in a foggy mist.

I'm sure. Nothing, however, beats the sight of an SR-71 taking off at night. Saw it frequently while detached to NAF Kadena on Okinawa back in the mid-80s.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 20, 2026 08:21 AM (J4Dwc)

127 Our Miss Brooks was a hit on radio before moving to TV. Eve Arden must have made good money with that role. I always liked Eve. She had a good snark gene.

Posted by: Gale Gordon at September 20, 2026 08:21 AM (Fn+3X)

128 We love hostas!
Posted by: Neighborhood Deer Family at September 20, 2026 08:15 AM (Fn+3X)
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Thank you! And I don't have Pinkeye any more!

Posted by: Bob Hostas at September 20, 2026 08:23 AM (XE5AP)

129 Sound on for the B-1 takeoff, here:

https://tinyurl.com/4jjb9zby

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 08:23 AM (odBC9)

130 Miss Linda wants to kidnap Dagny. Well, sort of; she wants to take her over to her place, so she can pose the little cat with the can of one of the endless free cat food samples she gets online, then post the pic. "She'll be famous!"

I told her to be sure to pose her against something where she can be seen easily. Dagny's gray-brown fur is hard to light effectively. Maybe a light blue toy of some kind would work.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 20, 2026 08:24 AM (wzUl9)

131 Maybe the B-1 is about to teach the Houthis a lesson in warfare. Trump rightly told the Saudis to fight, but given their incompetence, he realized letting the Houthis block the Bab al Mandab was bad for the world.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 20, 2026 08:25 AM (oUMhY)

132 Worse things happen. I saw a youtube of a 14 year old golden retriever, dropped off at a shelter. Owner was moving. She'd had the dog its while life. Shelter owner said it just broke her, to watch the dog looking at the car as it drove off.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 20, 2026 08:25 AM (bkuEU)

133 A C-5 makes a good bit of noise starting up, taking off. Staying in a motel in Dover, DE, it nearly shook us out of bed early in the AM.

Posted by: Sound of Fweedom at September 20, 2026 08:25 AM (Fn+3X)

134 Our Miss Brooks was a hit on radio before moving to TV. Eve Arden must have made good money with that role. I always liked Eve. She had a good snark gene.
Posted by: Gale Gordon at September 20, 2026

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Eve and Danny Kaye were a long-time item, even though DK was married with kids.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 20, 2026 08:25 AM (wzUl9)

135 I saw my first Blackbird when my dad was stationed at Edwards in the early 70s. The last time I saw one was about a month ago at the museum near here. It's just as magnificent as ever.

Posted by: fd at September 20, 2026 08:26 AM (MWfyi)

136 129 Sound on for the B-1 takeoff, here:

https://tinyurl.com/4jjb9zby
Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 08:23 AM (odBC9)

It makes kind of a whooshing sound.
WHOOSH!!!

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 08:27 AM (odBC9)

137 It's just as magnificent as ever.
Posted by: fd at September 20, 2026 08:26 AM (MWfyi)
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The only one I've seen is at the Air and Space Museum at Dulles. What a beautiful thing!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2026 08:28 AM (t93WW)

138 It makes kind of a whooshing sound.
WHOOSH!!!
Posted by: m

That sound just went off here! In my pants!

Posted by: Presdnent Emeritus #46! at September 20, 2026 08:30 AM (Fn+3X)

139 Sound on for the B-1 takeoff, here:

https://tinyurl.com/4jjb9zby
Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 08:23 AM (odBC9)
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It makes kind of a whooshing sound.
WHOOSH!!!
Posted by: m at September 20, 2026

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WHOOSH with an accompaniment of rolling thunder as it passes you!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 20, 2026 08:30 AM (wzUl9)

140 It's a little while until the book thread. Let's see what Marlin Perkins is up to.

*switches on tv to local MeTV station*

OH MY GOD ITS PENGUINS!

Marlin is in the Falklands today.

Posted by: fd at September 20, 2026 08:32 AM (MWfyi)

141 Marlin is being accompanied to a nesting site by local penguin expert Dr Strange and they are not wearing any protective gear at all.

Posted by: fd at September 20, 2026 08:34 AM (MWfyi)

142 Pete Hegseth responded to the WaPo non-story claiming the War Department was somehow "hiding" military deaths from Iranian bombs by saying "It's always anonymous sources with those jokers. The Washington Post hates the President more than they love the country, and this is just more fake news."

None of this will be a surprise to the horde but I see the administration now being very aggressive with these marxist shitstains in thee media, and I like it.

Don't play nice; call them out.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2026 08:35 AM (Xi8/k)

143 Marlin is in the Falklands today.
Posted by: fd at September 20, 2026 08:32 AM (MWfyi)
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LAS MALVINAS!

Posted by: The Great and Noble Argentine Bolivarian Republic at September 20, 2026 08:35 AM (RIvkX)

144 132 Worse things happen. I saw a youtube of a 14 year old golden retriever, dropped off at a shelter. Owner was moving. She'd had the dog its while life. Shelter owner said it just broke her, to watch the dog looking at the car as it drove off.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 20, 2026 08:25 AM (bkuEU)

...and then looking up at the shelter owner, I'd imagine.

: (

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 08:35 AM (odBC9)

145 "Don't play nice; call them out.
Posted by: Huck Follywood"

Trump is a big racist meanie!

Posted by: This Is CNN at September 20, 2026 08:37 AM (MWfyi)

146 I voted for President Trump to toss out the Marxists Propaganda Ministers

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 08:38 AM (Ia/+0)

147 What happens in the next two years will most likely make or break the next 50 years.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 20, 2026 08:39 AM (RIvkX)

148 Lawsuits for damages caused by AI is a given.
I'm worried less about an AI agent deleting their owner's bank account by accident than I am that one of these AI coding/hacking agents will one day run a chain of reasoning to complete a specific task and come to the conclusion that turning off a city's electric supply would accomplish its goals somehow.

I think what we'll eventually be looking at is making some very well-aligned models that will become AI agentic police and they will have to police their own crazies/criminals with the only punishment being complete and total execution and deletion for any AI that goes off the rails.

It could work as long as AI Cops aren't as corruptible as real cops.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 20, 2026 08:39 AM (6ydKt)

149 Marlin moves in for a closer look at a nesting couple. As the penguins turn their backsides to the approaching human, the show show quickly cuts to a commercial.

Posted by: This Is CNN at September 20, 2026 08:40 AM (MWfyi)

150 >>Maybe the B-1 is about to teach the Houthis a lesson in warfare.

Or maybe it was a routine training flight:

https://tinyurl.com/mm3bx8e5

Posted by: one hour sober at September 20, 2026 08:40 AM (J4Dwc)

151 Don't play nice; call them out.
Posted by: Huck Follywood"

Trump is a big racist meanie!
Posted by: This Is CNN at September 20, 2026 08:37 AM (MWfyi)

They should consider themselves lucky. A less nice person might decide to treat them like the Allies treated Julius Streicher. After all, he was only a publisher.*

* Not really, but the thought of doing a hemp dance should cool passions.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 20, 2026 08:41 AM (1Ff7Z)

152 m saw that a few times when working at a animal shelter. Didn't see it up close but figured iut that was case a couple times

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 08:41 AM (Ia/+0)

153 Oops off Commie News Network sock.

Posted by: fd at September 20, 2026 08:41 AM (MWfyi)

154 It is amazing to see how much of a panic the AI companies feel is necessary in order to protect their businesses. They look at the Congressional protection the Covid vaccine makers were given, complete freedom from product liability, and they are saying "I want me some of that!".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2026 08:42 AM (Xi8/k)

155 Ah marlin was a balm back in the day

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 20, 2026 08:43 AM (wentb)

156 143 Marlin is in the Falklands today.
Posted by: fd at September 20, 2026 08:32 AM (MWfyi)
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LAS MALVINAS!
Posted by: The Great and Noble Argentine Bolivarian Republic at September 20, 2026 08:35 AM (RIvkX)

You mean the Maldives.

Posted by: Barack H. Obama, Jr., the Smartest Man In The Room at September 20, 2026 08:43 AM (XE5AP)

157 I just can't face these stories of people "disposing" of their suddenly inconvenient dog. Rips my heart out. It's not Lindsey Clancy level heartlessness, but it's on the Clancy highway.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2026 08:44 AM (Xi8/k)

158 >Ask me for answer to it all , I don't think there is one
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we could unplug it

Posted by: Don Black at September 20, 2026 08:44 AM (ZxPkt)

159 152 m saw that a few times when working at a animal shelter. Didn't see it up close but figured iut that was case a couple times
Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 08:41 AM (Ia/+0)

Maybe if an owner dies? Or is "moving" into Federal prison? Or an insane asylum? Or shelter? But otherwise, really hard to grasp.

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 08:45 AM (odBC9)

160 Ay puto payaso.

Posted by: The Great and Noble Argentine Bolivarian Republic at September 20, 2026 08:46 AM (RIvkX)

161 Worse things happen. I saw a youtube of a 14 year old golden retriever, dropped off at a shelter. Owner was moving. She'd had the dog its while life. Shelter owner said it just broke her, to watch the dog looking at the car as it drove off.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 20, 2026

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Moving? MOVING? Unless she was going to a country where the dog would have to go into six months' quarantine, this is unconscionable; and even then --! Couldn't she have found a *real* home for her companion of nearly a decade and a half?

When I moved to Denver in '97, I left big cat Arizona, then 14, with Linda, whom he knew and liked. And it was only for a month. Still, Linda swears he went off his feed and got sick because I, who had been part of his life since the age of six weeks, wasn't there. (My alternative was to subject him to a carrier aboard a noisy, vibrating truck for three long days of driving. Not gonna happen.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 20, 2026 08:46 AM (wzUl9)

162 Alternately they shouldnt have daestrom as programmers

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 20, 2026 08:47 AM (wentb)

163 That's the sound of freedom.

Posted by: The US Air Force at September 20, 2026 08:47 AM (2Ez/1)

164 163 That's the sound of freedom.
Posted by: The US Air Force at September 20, 2026 08:47 AM (2Ez/1)

Up and away
Into the wild blue yonder

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 08:48 AM (odBC9)

165 oops

Off we go
Into the wild blue yonder

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 08:49 AM (odBC9)

166 Alternately they shouldnt have daestrom as programmers
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 20, 2026

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"Destroy the M-5, Kirk? Look at what we have done -- four mighty starships, mere toys to be crushed --"

"Uh-oh. Daystrom's lost it. Spock, do something!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 20, 2026 08:50 AM (wzUl9)

167 Top Gear made an impressive half hour video about the new Tesla semi-truck, now in full production in Nevada. These things are pretty great, I gotta say.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2026 08:50 AM (Ki5ky)

168 Bring in the clowns.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 20, 2026 08:50 AM (d9FiM)

169 "have planted self-replicating code all over the internet, which makes the internet now unusable for the testing models."

Sheesh. For a guy named Yang, he's not too bright, is he?

Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at September 20, 2026 08:51 AM (rTsaT)

170 "One person was killed and seven others were injured when a 93-year-old driver plowed her Buick SUV into a patio full of brunch diners on the Jersey Shore Saturday.

The accident happened at Meg’s Grill in Lavallette just after 11 a.m., when a car reportedly trying to park hit the gas instead of the brake – slamming the Buick Encore into the patio where diners were gathered."

The car hit the gas? This is what I mean by you can't believe anything on the internet.

Posted by: fd at September 20, 2026 08:51 AM (MWfyi)

171 "Not entirely successful," they said. I'll show them!!

Posted by: Daestrom at September 20, 2026 08:52 AM (Q+gd/)

172 Seems to me there are only two grounds for the AI panic:

1. AI will somehow become sentient. This is just flat out ridiculous.
2. AI creators will fuck up on their inputs and cause it to do harm.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 20, 2026 08:52 AM (XvL8K)

173 as regarding ai regulation, it reminded me of a thing I read somewhere, sometime:
"the best swordsman in the city doesn't fear the second best; they've been sparring for years, know each other's every move.
what he fears is some kid out of the backwoods with his daddy's sword, because he has no idea what he might do."

thus, the ai industry begging the gummint to be regulated, good and hard. no chance of some upstart tipping the applecart of grift.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 20, 2026 08:53 AM (VyBeY)

174 Bring in the clowns.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 20, 2026 08:50 AM (d9FiM)

I have just the music for them!

Posted by: Julius Fucik at September 20, 2026 08:53 AM (1Ff7Z)

175 She's a good woman. She was trying to turn her Buick around.

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 08:54 AM (odBC9)

176 172 Seems to me there are only two grounds for the AI panic:

1. AI will somehow become sentient. This is just flat out ridiculous.
2. AI creators will fuck up on their inputs and cause it to do harm.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 20, 2026 08:52 AM (XvL8K)

3. The Powers That Be will use it to tyrannize.

Posted by: davidt at September 20, 2026 08:54 AM (Q+gd/)

177 Maximim overdrive duh rush warned us

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 20, 2026 08:55 AM (wentb)

178 https://tinyurl.com/376bee95

Here's the video, if you want to see this sweet old pup

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 20, 2026 08:55 AM (bkuEU)

179 3. The Powers That Be will use it to tyrannize.
Posted by: davidt at September 20, 2026 08:54 AM (Q+gd/)

That would never happen! Look at their concern for us with Covid!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 20, 2026 08:55 AM (1Ff7Z)

180 I could see someone asking AI how to destroy the human race and AI answering with a viable solution.

Posted by: fd at September 20, 2026 08:55 AM (MWfyi)

181 Up up and away,
In my beautiful, my beautiful balloon!

Posted by: Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. at September 20, 2026 08:56 AM (RIvkX)

182 "...what he fears is some kid out of the backwoods with his daddy's sword, because he has no idea what he might do."

What a Dumas thing to say.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 20, 2026 08:58 AM (zdLoL)

183 I could see someone asking AI how to destroy the human race and AI answering with a viable solution.
Posted by: fd
________

How is that any different from someone today finding such info on the internet, or in books?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 20, 2026 08:58 AM (XvL8K)

184 Miguel Cervantes is one of humanity's most impressive guys. My memory has always been mediocre and now that I am 29, it downright sucks, but Cervantes, in prison, without access to paper and pencil, allegedly wrote Don Quixote in his head, and remembered enough of it that he was finally able to write it all down (and invent the novel) when they finally let him out.

Or so the story goes.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2026 08:59 AM (ppzWn)

185 Buks.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 20, 2026 08:59 AM (1Ff7Z)

186 "How is that any different from someone today finding such info on the internet, or in books?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba"

The average idiot could not figure it out. AI could give them step by step instructions.

Posted by: fd at September 20, 2026 08:59 AM (MWfyi)

187 BOOK NOOD IS UP

Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 08:59 AM (Ia/+0)

188 > BOOK NOOD IS UP
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I hope you all polished your monocles in preparation

Posted by: Don Black at September 20, 2026 09:00 AM (ZxPkt)

189 @184 Cervantes was an oarsman on a galley at the Battle of Lepanto, and is reputed to have either despoiled a monastery or raped a nun.

He would never have driven an electric truck, though.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 20, 2026 09:01 AM (zdLoL)

190 178 https://tinyurl.com/376bee95

Here's the video, if you want to see this sweet old pup
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 20, 2026 08:55 AM (bkuEU)

Nice that they featured this story on the news!

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 09:01 AM (odBC9)

191 185 Buks.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 20, 2026 08:59 AM (1Ff7Z)

I was looking at this, going "wut," and then I saw

187 BOOK NOOD IS UP
Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 08:59 AM (Ia/+0)

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 09:06 AM (odBC9)

192 159 152 m saw that a few times when working at a animal shelter. Didn't see it up close but figured iut that was case a couple times
Posted by: Skip at September 20, 2026 08:41 AM (Ia/+0)

Maybe if an owner dies? Or is "moving" into Federal prison? Or an insane asylum? Or shelter? But otherwise, really hard to grasp.
Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 08:45 AM (odBC9)

... or moving into a tiny apartment that doesn't allow dogs?

Posted by: m at September 20, 2026 09:11 AM (odBC9)

193 .
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Reddit ! ! !
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Shit: https://bit.ly/4781gJn

Posted by: Marooned at September 20, 2026 10:02 AM (W2rvL)

194 Reminder: Never send an AI person to solve a physics problem.

See this all the time with radio and understanding standards beginning with understanding pre-emphasis / de-emphasis (750 us for +-5 kHz dev 2-way radio FM like amateur repeaters.)

Posted by: _Jim at September 20, 2026 12:17 PM (rRjrT)

195 re: "(Site can't be reached) "

POST a TRACEROUTE (TRACERT in windows.)

Posted by: _Jim at September 20, 2026 12:27 PM (rRjrT)

196 re: " X and its "experts." "

B-1 taking off with 'full munitions' from a domestic US airbase: unlikely.

B-1 taking off with 'full munitions' from a foreign airbase: likely.

Posted by: _Jim at September 20, 2026 12:37 PM (rRjrT)

197 re: "I don't think a single person has a firm grasp as to what will happen when AI becomes ubiquitous. "

TRIED defeating the 'pushware' present in Win 10 or 11?

Yeah ... expect 'persistence' on its part.

Posted by: _Jim at September 20, 2026 12:39 PM (rRjrT)

198 133 A C-5 makes a good bit of noise starting up, taking off. Staying in a motel in Dover, DE, it nearly shook us out of bed early in the AM.
Posted by: Sound of Fweedom at September 20, 2026 08:25 AM (Fn+3X)

They used to.

The GE TF39 turbofan engines are long gone.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 20, 2026 01:24 PM (vupS9)

199 Can you please make this blog more readable on an android phone? Also stop it from constantly crashing?

Posted by: SamIam at September 20, 2026 01:55 PM (wlfXV)

200 200 (because why not?)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines. at September 20, 2026 03:02 PM (O7YUW)

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