Nvidia doesn’t count, by the way. Selling pickaxes during a gold rush doesn’t prove that prospecting pays.

The Onion has an AI policy. It is refreshingly clear

https://theonion.com/about-us/

So the AI business “model” is:
1. NOT HIRING 📉 juniors to create human candidates for the specialists & experts with work experience.
2. BURNING OUT ☢️ mid-level engineers, hardware (prices rising), infrastructure consumed unsustainably (water & electricity) to make everyone “addicted” to AI-LLM word & sentence calculator.
3. PUSHING OUT 📉 experienced senior-level engineers who advise & set tech strategy for “the business”.

This is the “Kodak” & “Boeing” business downfall case studies combined.

Two people in Michigan have died from the Cyclosporiasis outbreak.

The media is already leading with the fact that they had pre-existing conditions.

They’re pacifying the public.

Anyone could die from Cyclosporiasis, but they want you to believe it can’t happen to you.

It can only happen to the weak, the disabled, the elderly.

The expendable people.

Eugenics.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/well/eat/cyclospora-deaths-michigan.html

#ableism #publichealth #disability #eugenics #chronicillness #uspol #Cyclospora

Safety Not Guaranteed (2012), staring Aubrey Plaza & Mark Duplass (also Jake Johnson)

Plus it offers a very cool cameo. I won't say who. Apropos of nothing, do you want to build a snowman?

I really loved this movie. You can watch it for free on Tubi. It's totally corny, earnest, low-budget, and set in swampy ferny beaches off the Washington coast.

I mean, what's NOT to love!! 😍

LinkedIn won't expand its data centers this fiscal year. Instead they are focusing on how to use compute power more efficiently. This is why it is so important to push back against new data centers. It forces tech companies to make their software efficient. https://www.wired.com/story/how-linkedin-is-keeping-its-compute-capacity-flat/

Looking for source of quote: "The real purpose of AI is to give the wealthy access to skill without giving the skilled access to wealth." thanks in advance (please note: not in search of commentary at present time)

RE: https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/politics-h8vn14lnz/-/a-h6jL4rBQRVGExhGWJFgetw%3Aa%3A3199720-%2F0

We need to start putting running tallies next to each headline that says “once again trump has lied about this same very important thing”.

I think we’re headed into the dozens on this one already.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@J2pro/117029730446459081

Oh my god yes. Why no one should listen to a word that “grifty-ass demon throated bitch” RFK Jr. ever says. Never heard it said better!

#USPol #MitchMcConnell #HaleyJoelOsment #MNightShyamalan #TheSixthSense

RE: https://flipboard.com/@thehill/the-hill-business-noc896ucz/-/a-HgMPan_lTsCHLWZuvn_hCg%3Aa%3A2780754566-%2F0

Sunday show preview spoilers: Hamas deal just a prelude to more ceaseless violence, Trump administration fails yet another test. You heard it here first!

JK Rowling is Anti-Rights

https://quokk.au/c/comics/p/1076760/jk-rowling-is-anti-rights

#ElonMusk

Always check the number of fingers...

RE: https://mstdn.social/@lowqualityfacts/116921995751435641

Right, this is why they close the beaches for plover season — so people don’t break their legs rolling over all those unbreakable eggs 😆

when you tell us that the people who murdered comity and civility—who are trying to kill and rob and enslave us—are actually your dear friends, you don’t create civility, but despair; we see you don’t actually believe the danger is real, can’t be trusted to fight the battle that needs to be fought.