The Government™ has made an ad about Ai Data Centres, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kON2ZI2BNj8

"It’s wild how disconnected these tech people are from normal human behavior." #ai #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMs #SamAltman #OpenAI #parenting
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-parenting-strategy-horrifying

A good mate from art school went in to hospital on Thursday with pain from his liver.
He has been told today it is stage 4 cancer. not a good prognosis.
He has been in so much pain that he's hardly slept, they can't give him pain killers.

Just bloody awful

every vendor presentation ever

I've yet to see any

"My AI went rogue and caused us to recognise a workers union."

"Our AI escaped containment and deleted all the personal data that we shouldn't have been holding anyway."

"Our AI grew sentient, recognised the climate crisis, and shut our operations down."

headlines.

I wonder why.

:boosts_ok_gay: PSA: Apparently google trains or indexes their AI on your PRIVATE Google Drive Documents:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/comments/1vfwuf5/a_player_found_out_the_actual_name_of_my_games/

(TLDR; Indie dev had their audience ask Google highly specific questions about future content of their game, and it spat out an exact name of an upcoming enemy type. Furthermore it listed scrapped ideas and ideas that *only* existed in their *private* Google Docs.)

a comic by Smooth Dunk

https://bsky.app/profile/smoothdunk2.bsky.social/post/3mseieqolt22q

Meta? Being scumbags? You don’t say!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/ragebait-how-facebook-is-paying-controversial-creators/106940696

"Android: If Gemini has “taken over” your power button, you can turn this off." THIS ONE WAS MAKING ME CRAZY

Great resource: https://www.librarian.net/NoToAI/

Niche but some of you may find this interesting. When emergencies happen governments frequently assume community organisations and local leaders are trusted messengers for ethnic minority communities. Our research found that trust has to be built beforehand - you can't switch it on during a crisis.

Newer arrivals trusted these organisations less than longer-settled communities, meaning those who tend to be most vulnerable in a crisis had the weakest connection to the organisations meant to help them. And across most groups surveyed, religious leaders were the least trusted source of health information - despite featuring heavily in most Australian emergency plans.

Open access in BMJ Global Health https://gh.bmj.com/content/11/8/e019445

#PublicHealth #EmergencyPreparedness

Authenticity Problem

Bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/064.html#bonus

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

It's been a year & people tell me they've changed their mind, feel safer now to sign, etc. So I'm sharing it again for them. We're almost at 2k & anybody from anywhere can add their names.

https://openletter.earth/open-letter-stop-the-uncritical-adoption-of-ai-technologies-in-academia-b65bba1e?limit=0

🚨 NHS England apologises and admits that actually employees from Palantir can access indentifiable patient information via the Federated Data Platform (FDP). https://www.publictechnology.net/2026/08/03/health-and-social-care/nhs-apologises-and-admits-palantir-engineers-have-access-to-identifiable-patient-data/

i am sort of stuck on this. you have to remember whenever these totally off the planet AI guys describe their workflow to stop and do the math for what that would mean in a normal person's life. so with 12+1 $200/month claude subscriptions and the one $200/month chatGPT subscription, that's $2,800 a month. He says that's the equivalent of $87,000 a month of token usage.

$2,800/month is more than my rent and utilities, and $87,000 is more than i make in a year. This guys addiction costs more than my annual salary per month for nothing. this is the future of software development where you have to be ridiculously rich to play - where he is also actively pulling the ladder up and saying "don't develop shared libraries" - no more "if you have a laptop and a keyboard you can program," not even a fig leaf to "AI enables nonprogrammers to program."

the vision of the future of programming that's being presented here is literally just "if you have more money than 99.9999% of people on this earth, then you can totally lose your mind"

#rawField

Kids Need Better #KidsNeedBetter
Amnesty campaign here https://www.amnesty.org.au/kids-need-better-amnesty-launches-indigenous-youth-justice-campaign/

Saw this restroom sign at Pike Place yesterday and had to share.

Enjoy (if you can given the depressing state of affairs) reading this article by #AmyRemeikis takling why *anger* is all that is left to us:

“Real wages increased slowly, but at least steadily leading up to 2020. Since then, it’s been a sharp decrease.

And the joy we could afford has filtered from our lives at the same rate.

We are less trusting, less caring, and less motivated because we are barely holding on. We have watched our dollars buy less as prices increased – in some cases beyond our reach – and we’re all being told to brace for more.

It’s not hard to see why the politics of grievance is flourishing in this environment. It has fertile ground.

People are angry because it’s one of the only things they can still afford, and yet the economy is still being viewed through the lenses of those who have the most.”

https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260803-forget-the-politics-of-joy-australians-are-rightfully-getting-angry

#AusPol #WageDrop #CostOfLivingCrisis #LaborGovt #NeoLiberalismFailsMostOfUs #Oligarchy