Daily Tech News 2 October 2026

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Xbox is not for sale, says Xbox. (Windows Central)

Unless you have a lot of money.

Like... Any at all.

Tech News

Pi 1.0 is here. (Earendil)

It's a thing. That people use. Apparently.

What it does is not mentioned.
Micron says that memory is going to get even more expensive over the next two years. (Tom's Hardware)

Even though because the company is booking an 86% gross margin it is in no hurry at all to see prices go back to normal.
Anthropic and OpenAI keep saying their products will kill all life in the galaxy. The FTC decided to take a look at that. (CNBC)

Either they're lying, which is bad, or they're not lying, which is worse.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Hey ho, my mare is grey.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at October 02, 2026 04:31 AM (odBC9)

2 G'Day everyone
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at October 02, 2026 04:32 AM (Ia/+0)

3 Hundreds of thousands of people around the world use Pi every week.

Yeah, when I'm dealing with circles...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 02, 2026 04:33 AM (l3cgK)

4 Good morning Fen

Posted by: Skip at October 02, 2026 04:33 AM (Ia/+0)

5 because the company is booking an 86% gross margin it is in no hurry at all to see prices go back to normal.

And the other companies are probably doing the same thing...just can't prove (yet) that it's an oligarchy...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 02, 2026 04:35 AM (l3cgK)

6 Top 5?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 02, 2026 04:35 AM (wzUl9)

7 oligopoly, not oligarchy...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 02, 2026 04:35 AM (l3cgK)

8 Darn. Didn't quite make it.

Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers. 'Tis Friday, the consummation devoutly to be wished!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 02, 2026 04:35 AM (wzUl9)

9 Willowed: I've always thought "Taurus" the constellation and car, and "torus" the topological shape, should be pronounced differently. "Taurus" would employ an "ah" or "aw" sound farther back in the mouth, while "torus" would have a simple "or" sound. So the Ford TV spots years ago about "Taurus -- For Us" did not sound right.

But whadda I know, I'm just a son of a Western Canadian lady who referred to a Phillips screwdriver as a "French" screwdriver.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 02, 2026 04:36 AM (wzUl9)

10 I played around with google site search.

This works:

site:acecomments.mu.nu irongrampa

Posted by: m at October 02, 2026 04:37 AM (odBC9)

11 Morning, Fen -- fellow survivor of kitten adoption! You'll make it through to kitten Millard's adulthood in a year or so. It'll just *seem* like a decade.

Skip, have a donut on the way to work for me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 02, 2026 04:40 AM (wzUl9)

12 BOING! In the kitchen.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 02, 2026 04:40 AM (P3X50)

13 But whadda I know, I'm just a son of a Western Canadian lady who referred to a Phillips screwdriver as a "French" screwdriver.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 02, 2026 04:36 AM (wzUl9)

I already pronounce them like that...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 02, 2026 04:40 AM (l3cgK)

14 Disclaimer: Hey ho, my mare is grey.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

I'm sorry to have to tell you this, son ... but if she's old, she ain't what she used to be ...

Posted by: Adriane the Logical Progresion of Things Critic. . . at October 02, 2026 04:42 AM (3ZUWJ)

15 Mornin'

Anthropic and OpenAI keep saying their products will kill all life in the galaxy. The FTC decided to take a look at that. (CNBC)

Either they're lying, which is bad, or they're not lying, which is worse.

This is why people are balking at those data centers popping up in there backyards. Well one of them. IMO, it's a big reason. These idiots are self sabotaging there own product. People hear them, believe them, and act accordingly, with pitch forks and iron pipes.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 02, 2026 04:42 AM (EweRc)

16 Anthropic and OpenAI keep saying their products will kill all life in the galaxy. The FTC decided to take a look at that. (CNBC)
Either they're lying, which is bad, or they're not lying, which is worse.

Or their comments fall under another category altogether, such as Blathering.

Posted by: m at October 02, 2026 04:42 AM (odBC9)

17 But whadda I know, I'm just a son of a Western Canadian lady who referred to a Phillips screwdriver as a "French" screwdriver.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 02, 2026 04:36 AM (wzUl9)

I already pronounce them like that...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 02, 2026

***
To me people like William Shatner and Michael J. Fox have "standard" speech. I grew up among Noo Awlins "Yats," people who talked like Brooklyn cab drivers in Forties movies, and adopted it as a second language, so to speak; a "dialect" of English. But my drama and radio background cemented my early speech training. (The "Yat" dialect is fading, though you can hear it in the suburbs to a degree.)

I have never yet met anybody, in real life or on the 'Net, Canadian or not, who referred to a Phillips as a "French" screwdriver. My mother's father was Swedish and her mother from an area that is now Ukraine, so maybe the term originated in those countries? No idea.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 02, 2026 04:45 AM (wzUl9)

18 What did I just watch?

Posted by: Skip at October 02, 2026 04:47 AM (Ia/+0)

19 5 because the company is booking an 86% gross margin it is in no hurry at all to see prices go back to normal.

And the other companies are probably doing the same thing...just can't prove (yet) that it's an oligarchy...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 02, 2026 04:35 AM (l3cgK)

7 oligopoly, not oligarchy...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 02, 2026 04:35 AM (l3cgK)

As a board game, not as much fun as Monopoly.

Posted by: m at October 02, 2026 04:49 AM (odBC9)

20 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at October 02, 2026 04:49 AM (V0/Sp)

21 Since I'm up so early, coffee first, and then I can go work out in a while. Today Linda wants to visit a local food bank/thrift store so she can donate and shop for new items. They have men's things, but not much, and I can browse and be done in a few minutes. Maybe they'll have something I need or at least want.

We'll have some coffee and maybe a croissant on the way there.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 02, 2026 04:49 AM (wzUl9)

22 Or their comments fall under another category altogether, such as Blathering.
Posted by: m at October 02, 2026 04:42 AM (odBC9)

They literally want to a regulator, but for the purpose of capturing it and making it force them to reduce their capex, so their IPOs would pop. I don't think that the FTC was what they had in mind.

Posted by: SciVo at October 02, 2026 04:51 AM (ke3zm)

23 7 oligopoly, not oligarchy...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 02, 2026
*
As a board game, not as much fun as Monopoly.
Posted by: m at October 02, 2026

***
Whenever I see an "olig-" word, I think of the "few bristles" worms, "oligochaetes," we read about in high school biology -- earthworms and others like it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 02, 2026 04:53 AM (wzUl9)

24 Good morning, Skip and all!

( I posted this in the ONT by mistake. What is an x box ? A computer game? . I have never played on of those.)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 02, 2026 04:53 AM (JrHfD)

25 17 I have never yet met anybody, in real life or on the 'Net, Canadian or not, who referred to a Phillips as a "French" screwdriver.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 02, 2026 04:45 AM (wzUl9)

Ngram agrees with you:

https://tinyurl.com/3yr7fy8m

Posted by: m at October 02, 2026 04:54 AM (odBC9)

26 >>> What did I just watch?

Spokanki, apparently. They can sing.

Posted by: fluffy at October 02, 2026 04:54 AM (V0/Sp)

27 I think it's really interesting that they hired and trained gamers to be air traffic controllers . I wonder who came up with that idea. It's fascinating.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 02, 2026 04:57 AM (JrHfD)

28 22 Or their comments fall under another category altogether, such as Blathering.
Posted by: m at October 02, 2026 04:42 AM (odBC9)

They literally want to a regulator, but for the purpose of capturing it and making it force them to reduce their capex, so their IPOs would pop. I don't think that the FTC was what they had in mind.
Posted by: SciVo at October 02, 2026 04:51 AM (ke3zm)

Morning, SciVo. This comment is all Greek to me; may I ask you to dumb it down a bit? Also, I'll fetch covfefe.

Posted by: m at October 02, 2026 04:57 AM (odBC9)

29 On the way to getting my hair cut yesterday, I stopped at the fuel station on the avenue nearest the river. $3.64 for regular E10, .15 less than the cheapest I've seen elsewhere and .25 less than the usual price now. They had E0, and now the pumps do not have the "May Contain Ethanol" sticker on them, but I was not tempted -- not at $4.69/gal. The Buick gets better mileage on the non-ethanol. But not 25% better.

Despite its big (by today's standards) engine, the Buick does not require or even recommend premium; the manual has zero mention of premium fuels.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 02, 2026 04:58 AM (wzUl9)

30 Ngram agrees with you:

https://tinyurl.com/3yr7fy8m
Posted by: m at October 02, 2026

***
Are those like the human memory engrams Dr. Daystrom impressed into the M5?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 02, 2026 05:00 AM (wzUl9)

31 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 02, 2026 04:58 AM (wzUl9)

Come to Kalifornia for its $6+/gal gasoline!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 02, 2026 05:00 AM (l3cgK)

32 I'm going to wait for Pi 1.1.2a

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 02, 2026 05:01 AM (nHXB4)

33 Wikipedia

n-gram

Not to be confused with word n-gram language model or Engram.

An n-gram is a sequence of n adjacent symbols in a particular order.

The symbols may be n adjacent letters (including punctuation marks and blanks), syllables, or rarely whole words found in a language dataset; or adjacent phonemes extracted from a speech-recording dataset, or adjacent base pairs extracted from a genome.

They are collected from a text corpus or speech corpus.

Posted by: m at October 02, 2026 05:02 AM (odBC9)

34 . . . I stopped at the fuel station on the avenue nearest the river. $3.64 for regular E10, .15 less than the cheapest I've seen elsewhere and .25 less than the usual price now. . . .

And wouldn't you know it: On the way home after filling up, I saw an Exxon-branded convenience store with $3.59. Oh, well.

Is there some reason why Exxon seems to be pulling out of this market? There are still Exxon stations, but a number of convenience stores have recently stopped taking Exxon cards. Is it that Exxon charges something for a franchise operator to use their fuel and their name, and the chains are economizing? Or is Exxon abandoning this market?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 02, 2026 05:03 AM (wzUl9)

35 A nice thing that happened yesterday was that my husband came back from the school bus in the evening with a bag which said on the outside "Thank you for being my bus driver Love ( and the little girls name)" She is in the 2nd grade and was on his bus last year . Inside in the bag was an apple cake and a flavored water . She did not know it was his birthday . He did not say anything.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 02, 2026 05:03 AM (JrHfD)

36 Come to Kalifornia for its $6+/gal gasoline!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 02, 2026

***
I thought it was too high even in 2014 when I visited Culver City and drove up to Malibu.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 02, 2026 05:04 AM (wzUl9)

37 Fen X Box is a computer game, multitudes of possibilities

Posted by: Skip at October 02, 2026 05:06 AM (Ia/+0)

38 What did I just watch?
Posted by: Skip

Russians. I don't think we can admire that they are a terrific acapella group anymore because Putin. Or something like that. If you suddenly feel the urge to dive under the furniture, you're not alone.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at October 02, 2026 05:07 AM (VyD10)

39 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 02, 2026 05:08 AM (Hbeqj)

40 And I do need to hit a local Walmart for some groceries like tonight's pizza. The one closest to me will do fine, I guess.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 02, 2026 05:09 AM (wzUl9)

41
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 02, 2026 05:09 AM (AMvSw)

42 A third carrier, the USS Franklin Roosevelt is on it's way to the Middle East'
Iran has shipped no oil since the end of August
15 empty Iranian tanker are stuck off the coast of Sri Lanka , running out of fuel, food and fresh water. Countries have been warned against offering them any aid.
Bessant has sanctioned the auto and rail industries in Iran.
The IRGC is arming women in chadors and children.
The FM of Iran was deported by Marco Rubio. Aragchi's sister was found dead. Hmmmmm?

Posted by: Ben Had at October 02, 2026 05:10 AM (10NPz)

43 I have no problems driving into anything Russian

Posted by: Skip at October 02, 2026 05:11 AM (Ia/+0)

44 Pixy, from what I can tell, Pi is like Brawndo -- it's what developers crave.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 02, 2026 05:11 AM (nHXB4)

45 Morning all. Gonna try to grab an hour or so before the second alarm goes off because my sleep is all messed up today.

Will it work? Who the eff knows, I'm sleepy but not falling asleep....

Been working on a personal code project with lots of AI help. It's going well, but I better understand both the allure and the trap of vibe coding. The initial code worked for a specific situation, needed to be tuned, got the tuning done and decided it needed to be refactored, and now the free version of the AI keeps losing context after minutes, so it's a real struggle to refactor into proper classes, methods, instances, etc for modularity and maintainability. (maybe once I have a job I can subscribe to one of the code-AIs and make an actual persistent session with project files).

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at October 02, 2026 05:11 AM (aJQbY)

46 Posted by: m at October 02, 2026 04:57 AM (odBC9)

They want money. They're getting paid, but they want Elon Musk money. For that, they need take their company public in an Initial Public Offering (IPO), so it has tradeable stock that it can give them to sell.

However, in order to keep up with the LLM Joneses, they are setting a lot of cash on fire per year (burn rate) in constant capital expenditures (capex), since their industry doesn't build such durable infrastructure as a railroad. They're constantly having to improve their models, and the data centers are full of solid-state memory (faster than traditional hard drives) that wears hard with all the read/write cycles.

If they can convince the Feds to put a regulator over them, then they are sufficiently wealthy and well-connected to make sure that it will be staffed as an amenable authority, that will order them to do what they wish they could: stop spending so much.

The pretext for the order would be to save the world from being destroyed by the uncontrollable power of their tech. The actual purpose and result would be to stanch the capex burn rate, so they get rich as Croseus on the IPO.

Posted by: SciVo at October 02, 2026 05:12 AM (ke3zm)

47 The local Fox outlet is trumpeting the Saints' "Domecoming" -- celebrating twenty years since they came back to start a new season after Katrina. Since anything football-related fills me with mild but waning interest, this is nothing but a footnote.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 02, 2026 05:12 AM (wzUl9)

48 Everyone associated with AI is a commie.
They are scum.
Their product is scum.
Their intentions are scum.
Shoot them and they will behave.
Gonna be beautiful beach day today.

Posted by: Accomack at October 02, 2026 05:14 AM (/Chlc)

49 As I recall, I was out of school sick the day our math teacher first mentioned "pi." I caught up once I realized she was not talking about an edible concoction with crust and filling.

The same thing happened when they introduced indentation for paragraphs. I've always felt I missed some big important secret to life that day too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 02, 2026 05:16 AM (wzUl9)

50 G'morning, all!

A third carrier, the USS Franklin Roosevelt is on it's way to the Middle East'"

Howdy young lady!

Actually she is the USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN (CVN-71)

I retired on her in 2010, and our son just deployed on her on Sunday for 8+ months.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 02, 2026 05:17 AM (iMotb)

51 46 28 22 They want money. They're getting paid, but they want Elon Musk money. For that, they need take their company public in an Initial Public Offering (IPO), so it has tradeable stock that it can give them to sell.

However, in order to keep up with the LLM Joneses, they are setting a lot of cash on fire per year (burn rate) in constant capital expenditures (capex), since their industry doesn't build such durable infrastructure as a railroad. They're constantly having to improve their models, and the data centers are full of solid-state memory (faster than traditional hard drives) that wears hard with all the read/write cycles.

If they can convince the Feds to put a regulator over them, then they are sufficiently wealthy and well-connected to make sure that it will be staffed as an amenable authority, that will order them to do what they wish they could: stop spending so much.

The pretext for the order would be to save the world from being destroyed by the uncontrollable power of their tech. The actual purpose and result would be to stanch the capex burn rate, so they get rich as Croseus on the IPO.
Posted by: SciVo at October 02, 2026 05:12 AM (ke3zm)

Thank you!

Posted by: m at October 02, 2026 05:17 AM (odBC9)

52 Rain today and through the weekend, and then slightly less hot temps next week. Like PR China promising limited freedom of thought, it's "provisional."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 02, 2026 05:18 AM (wzUl9)

53 Clear and nice outside
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at October 02, 2026 05:18 AM (Ia/+0)

54
It's getting sort of heartbreaking and hard to take with my mother, now. She's becoming sort of incoherent. She's been trying to tell me or ask me to do something, but she can't make any sense. Basically, talking gibberish.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 02, 2026 05:19 AM (w6EFb)

55 VIA, my apologies on getting the name wrong. I should have written it down.
Thank you both for your service.
How long will it take to get there?

A big hug to you both.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 02, 2026 05:21 AM (10NPz)

56 37 Fen X Box is a computer game, multitudes of possibilities

Posted by: Skip at October 02, 2026 05:06 AM (Ia/+0)

I would describe X Box as a game system...then again my knowledge of X Box is from 20 years ago...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 02, 2026 05:21 AM (l3cgK)

57 50 42 the USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN (CVN-71)

I retired on her in 2010, and our son just deployed on her on Sunday for 8+ months.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 02, 2026 05:17 AM (iMotb)

Fair winds and following seas!

Posted by: m at October 02, 2026 05:23 AM (odBC9)

58 Ben Had, no problem.

Once they complete landing quals for all the squadron pilots, I would guess maybe 10-14 days of transit, if no port visits are involved enroute.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 02, 2026 05:23 AM (iMotb)

59 Thank you, m.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 02, 2026 05:24 AM (iMotb)

60 And now to wake Mrs VIA so we have time to get to church for the annual yard sale.

Three day long event to raise funds for the church and the Lutheran Women's Mission.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 02, 2026 05:26 AM (iMotb)

61 >>> 15 empty Iranian tanker are stuck off the coast of Sri Lanka , running out of fuel, food and fresh water. Countries have been warned against offering them any aid.

Bring their crews stateside for the duration. I'm sure we could find a place in the southwest with a secure fence.

Posted by: fluffy at October 02, 2026 05:26 AM (V0/Sp)

62 @FenelonSpoke: The XBOX is a computer gaming system. Basically, it's a specialized little computer optimized to play games that are sold specifically for that system by Microsoft. Earlier versions used DVD discs that the game came on, but now everything is streaming so probably not anymore.

They come with game controllers instead of a keyboard and mouse, and I guess those things are popular, but I always found they made my hands cramp up after using them longer than 30 minutes.

I much prefer a general-purpose computer with keyboard and mouse for my gaming, and everything else I want to do on a computer.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 02, 2026 05:27 AM (O7YUW)

63 And a very nice psalm -Psalm 133:

https://tinyurl.com/msm6nsvj

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 02, 2026 05:28 AM (JrHfD)

64 @46/SciVo: Good explanation! Thank you.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 02, 2026 05:29 AM (O7YUW)

65 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 02, 2026 05:27 AM (O7YUW

Thanks, G & C for all the info and all the others who answered .as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 02, 2026 05:31 AM (JrHfD)

66 I bet it's some kind of assonance that crept in one day and stuck. It's not a "Fahrd Tahrus". It's a "Fohrd Tohrus".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 02, 2026 05:31 AM (aKiSo)

67 66 I bet it's some kind of assonance that crept in one day and stuck. It's not a "Fahrd Tahrus". It's a "Fohrd Tohrus".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 02, 2026 05:31 AM (aKiSo)

I'll bet you're right.

Posted by: m at October 02, 2026 05:33 AM (odBC9)

68 Amateurs think about phonotactics.

Real linguists think in phonostrategy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 02, 2026 05:34 AM (aKiSo)

69 "Fohrd Tawrus" seems right. "Taurus" and "for us" do not really rhyme.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 02, 2026 05:35 AM (wzUl9)

70 66 I bet it's some kind of assonance that crept in one day and stuck.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 02, 2026 05:31 AM (aKiSo)

this could be better, but:

Little Mary donned her skates
Upon the ice to dance
Wasn't she a silly thing
Some kind of assonance

Posted by: m at October 02, 2026 05:36 AM (odBC9)

71 66 I bet it's some kind of assonance that crept in one day and stuck. It's not a "Fahrd Tahrus". It's a "Fohrd Tohrus".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 02, 2026 05:31 AM (aKiSo)

Ford Taurus...
I pronounce the o in Ford like the word or.
I prounounce the aur in Taurus like the wore are.

F-ore-d T-are-us

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 02, 2026 05:37 AM (l3cgK)

72 ( I posted this in the ONT by mistake. What is an x box ? A computer game? . I have never played on of those.)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 02, 2026 04:53 AM (JrHfD)

The Microsoft Xbox is a video game console, like the Sony Playstation or Nintendo Wii. Having a common little appliance devoted to graphics and sound theoretically makes it cheaper for gamers -- and simpler for game developers -- than the endless variety of home computers with different motherboards, graphics cards, and operating systems.

In practice, developers have to make for the computer market anyway; and on the flip side, the Steam software platform has simplified that for developers anyway. And also, the consoles do not have as much of a price advantage anymore; as computer hardware gets commodified and console gamers expect computer-like power, their cost and capabilities tend to converge.

So, an "Xbox game" is often just a dumbed-down computer game that doesn't assume the user has a keyboard. That is also true of the Playstation, but Nintendo has an institutional habit of innovating control devices, to make genuinely novel games that use inputs that computers don't have.

Posted by: SciVo at October 02, 2026 05:40 AM (ke3zm)

73 "OK, cool, so now, how about... A Festiva for the Rest 'o ya'?"

"Quit while you're ahead, Dave."

Posted by: Overheard at Fahrd's Mahrketing Depahrtment at October 02, 2026 05:43 AM (aKiSo)

74 68 Amateurs think about phonotactics.

Real linguists think in phonostrategy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 02, 2026 05:34 AM (aKiSo)

heh

Now do cunning linguists.

Posted by: m at October 02, 2026 05:43 AM (odBC9)

75 Man from Keyna who is dealing with complications with his work because of AI reflects on a passage from Proverbs - 3: 5-6 and trusting God

https://tinyurl.com/2awn6zjd

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 02, 2026 05:44 AM (JrHfD)

76 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 02, 2026 05:45 AM (RIvkX)

77 >>> Anthropic and OpenAI keep saying their products will kill all life in the galaxy. The FTC decided to take a look at that. (CNBC)

People are noticing that the legislation that the libs are shrieking about passing to regulate and control AI might leave Anthropic out of the companies being regulated. Meaning in the battle for who dominates AI, congress is picking Anthropic as the winner by hobbling its competition. Yes, let's crown the winner of AI the company claiming they will kill all life in the galaxy.

It's like we're in the 5th Element, and everyone from politicians to oligarchs to Zorg style companies are trying to help Mr. Shadow win and kill all life in the galaxy. Except without the crazy modern outfits and soundtrack and no Leeloo to save us.

Posted by: Prince Harry, another dumb Brit taken in by an American viper at October 02, 2026 05:45 AM (Toos7)

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