Tired: “We should be afraid of AI”

Wired: “We should be afraid of the people building AI”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/joseph-gordon-levitt-concern-people-building-ai-1236727031/

The magic macOS command I wish I've known for a million years:

$ defaults write com.apple.loginwindow TALLogoutSavesState -bool false

Don't reboot every damn app under the sun every time you restart your OS. Let an OS restart be a blissful clean slate where you can reopen the apps you actually want to use.

WTF Apple, why is it so hard to experience this zen state of no apps unless you explicitly check a goddamn box when you restart the OS that says "I would like an OS restart to be a clean slate please!"

Apparently it’s 99F (37C) in Los Angeles in October

https://abc7.com/post/los-angeles-weather-temperatures-southern-california/58983/

#climatecrisis

For context I hate Ronald Reagan and think he’s responsible for a lot of what’s wrong with America today, but it’s kind of mind boggling just how much worse Trump is:

Ronald Reagan: “An attack on Munich is the same as an attack on Chicago”

Trump: just doubled down on his claim it’s okay for Iran to wipe out an American city if it’s in California, giving LA and San Diego as examples

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6r7yn8pknyxo

#uspol

Feels a little weird linking a site called "oilprice.com" to report this news, but EV sales have surpassed ICE car sales globally for the first time ever, thanks to the Straight of Hormuz crisis:

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Fuel-Price-Shock-Pushes-Global-Gas-Car-Sales-Below-50-for-First-Time.html

There’s a sci fi trope of a renegade AI superintelligence gaining control of nuclear weapons which has been around since at least Colossus: The Forbin Project, but there’s a terrifying reality that’s potentially worse: that what we call “AI” today (which is definitely not “superintelligence”) could mislead dumb leaders into using nuclear weapons by amplifying cognitive blind spots

https://thebulletin.org/2026/10/ai-doesnt-need-superintelligence-or-evil-intent-to-start-a-nuclear-war/

Oh cool, Trump is asking AI for advice on conquering other countries

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jaw-dropping-way-trump-80-got-talked-into-a-war-is-leaked/

#uspol

Corporations policing themselves has such a great track record.

“Trump says top tech firms have signed accord to 'self-police' AI development”

https://www.npr.org/2026/09/30/nx-s1-5985699/trump-self-police-ai-development

#uspol

Funny how the “All Lives Matter” crowd likes to take “Free Healthcare For All” and warp it into “Candidate X Wants Free Healthcare For Illegals!”

Apparently they don’t actually believe all lives matter. Who’da thunk it?

#uspol

Really the next administration’s best bet for SCOTUS, other than successfully expanding the court, is to arrest and imprison the members of SCOTUS who have actively committed crimes such as bribery, namely Alito and Thomas.

It won’t remove them from SCOTUS but it will prevent them from participating.

But also these unconstitutional rulings can also be used to make a case that SCOTUS members are a part of Trump’s criminal conspiracy against the Constitution, which itself is a federal crime.

#uspol

SCOTUS gives the president the power to exile innocent people to random countries.

The next POTUS should use that power to fix SCOTUS, along with the full force of the ostensibly unconstitutional powers this SCOTUS has somehow granted to a “unitary executive” should be used directly against them.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/29/politics/supreme-court-allows-trump-to-restart-controversial-deportations-to-third-countries

#uspol

Three deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surge

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/29/deaths-one-day-ice-immigration

#uspol

White House pretends Constitution doesn’t exist.

Remember when Republicans would go on and on and on and on and onandonandonandonandon about cancel culture and censorship?

https://newrepublic.com/post/215797/trump-judge-blocks-white-house-media-ban

#uspol

Speaking as someone who had some clout in the Ruby community who also has some clout in the Rust community, DHH is a white nationalist/supremacist who should have a place in neither

Trump threatens to annihilate the entire nation Iran for at least the second time.

Remember when he was really insistent he deserved a Nobel peace prize?

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/09/trump-iran-united-nations-speech.html

#uspol

I really hope this guy lands in jail after the Trump administration

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fcc-goon-brendan-carrs-secret-past-in-alleged-alcoholics-anonymous-sex-cult-midtown-group-revealed/

#uspol

Literally everything is worse under Republican control. Literally everything. The party has no argument for its own existence at this point #uspol

Of all of the afflictions infecting America right now, the biggest one is the mass delusion which has been previously holding the Republican party together which Trump is doing his hardest to dispel by taking the yoke of the proberbial airplane and aiming it straight for the ground

https://newrepublic.com/article/215569/transcript-fox-meltdown-fox-poll-turns-brutal-trump

#uspol

Trump’s core argument for why AI doesn’t need guard rails and instead a “high I.Q.” (scare quotes very intentional) president instead suffices (clearly a self-serving act where he wants to prevent the AI bubble from popping because that would make him look bad) seems to be because radio replaced TV and some people couldn’t handle that.

Edit: maybe I didn't place enough emphasis on that: Trump thinks he's a high IQ president because he knows the radio... replaced the TV...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/daily-show-donald-trump-ai-warnings_n_6aa9fd69e4b03cde7fad7a90

#uspol

The common theme is corruption and corporatocracy, and that’s the real cancer infecting the US government #uspol