good thing i had the right pic to hand https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/21/pivot-to-ai-unscheduled-maintenance-today-for-php-fix/

@bvibber hate. hate. let me tell you how much i hate doing sysadmin now. there are 387.44 miles of tubing in my stomach and they're all filling with hydrochloric acid at the thought of sysadmin. hate. hate.

well that fucks my schedule https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/php-maintainers-tell-web-devs-to-prepare-themselves-for-critical-security-patches/

remote hole in wordpress, release this afternoon

i need to get my new box up IMMEDIATELY then

fuckin

@bvibber from mediawiki posted that it was *that* bad, i'll take brooke's word for it

well there it fuckin is lol

> SpaceX and Tesla boards are exploring potential merger
> Elon Musk says combining his two public companies would be a ‘good idea’ as the world approaches an AI singularity

https://www.ft.com/content/f2a2a578-5a2e-42ff-b4c9-8bafff271b37
archive: https://archive.ph/RS2z1

here's Ed Zitron's broader view of the coming crash. it's gonna suck.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-had-better-work-out/

i'm reading matt levine on AI debt default insurance and holy shit, every person who uses first world currency in their daily life is turbo fucked

the fuckery is like crypto but it's *real* money

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2026-10-20/someone-has-to-take-the-ai-risk
archive: https://archive.ph/7Hc09

> Financial markets can move around the AI financing risk, but they can’t get rid of it. It will be interesting to see where it lands.

FOR SOME FUCKING VALUE OF

also:
https://app.ft.com/content/6dd31584-064c-4015-bf5d-e5747799ccd5

ya fuckin think mate, here in October 2026

very business insightful

https://app.ft.com/content/5dd8b17e-b0a3-4b14-9d83-aba2627e635d

lol nobody wants the problems from letting AI agents through

imagine the customer service problems and eventual chargebacks

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1013195/ai-agents-blocked-web

i guessed right, this is the fucker who claims credit for making Mastodon 5.0 literally unusable

it's for accessibility, you see

you might remember scott from his ardent efforts to get people not to be so *mean* to AI bros on masto, and also to push AI for the KDE desktop at Akademy, featuring a slide of Omarchy

https://web.archive.org/web/20261020193625/https://social.coop/@scottjenson/117473614309131678

my psychic powers tell me our mastodon AI buddy scott jenson is involved. i have no smoking gun facts here, but it's the most scott fuckin' thing

Microsoft has been warehousing Nvidia rigs it doesn't have data centre power for since last year. Amazon admits it's doing the same:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jwz/117474367814251561

is our AI pushing buddy scott involved in this somehow

mastodon 5.0 regards viewing full posts as antisocial behaviour because

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> About This Game
> I UNDERSTAND THAT THE AI GENERATED CONTENT IS UNAPPEALING AND AM HEAVILY FOCUSED ON ADDRESSING THIS ISSUE.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4190240/Nuclear_Design_Bureau/

altman v altman is dead, dismissed with prejudice

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.moed.217171/gov.uscourts.moed.217171.160.0.pdf

i'm sure the holmes movie delivers, but also, three fuckin hours of wire fraud mouse?

my t14 gen3 is apparently such that lenovo have offered me a replacement t16 gen3 to go away lol

this doesn't netbsd very well either so debian leengux it is again sigh

demons are angels which are genderless so the correct pronouns for a BSD would likely start at they/them and be correctd as necessary

CoreWeave founders cash out — the rest is mop-up

A successfully concluded blowoff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1D5LXlAPE0&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261019-coreweave-founders-cash-out-the-rest-is-mop-up - podcast

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