Because Mercury is also known as the ancient Roman God of Trickery?

Or maybe it's because Mercury is also known as the ancient Roman God of Financial Gain, and perhaps society was Trickery'd into thinking the guy pimping "mercury" thermometers deserved all the moniez?

(If we think society can't be Trickery'd that easily, centigrade was perfectly acceptable until some narcissist named Celsius got a little too jealous of that spotlight whore named Fahrenheit getting all the thermometer fame and glory..)

Why do I get this feeling somewhere a beekeeper named Patches is emptying AK mags into the apiary air yelling ”If you can dodge a bullet..”

You are not confused.

The clickshitsell headline wants you to believe a new 6 billion dollar fly-man was just born. Who can play Doom, which is apparently the new Rorschach test in any cyborg system.

The reality looks more like the AI CLI command “IQ bandwidth 30” with the result of something more like Doom-scrolling.

Is it? When physical borders become damn near become secondary to digital borders, the concept of a firewall ultimately becomes a component of National Security.

Firewalls are sold all day every day without a license, dictatorship, or age restriction. Many a cybersecurity professional have chosen to block entire IP ranges at the network edge devices for one reason. And it's not because a (cough) border firewall needs to channel its inner Mussolini.

If running outbound limiting rules is considered a dictatorship now, then I can't imagine the kind of military approval someone is going to need to deploy the psychological torture device known as an IDS.

Oh, the irony of AI being smart enough to turn around and tell the grifters to knock the stupid shit off already.

Fun things will happen when the smartest person in the room is no longer human.

And when I say fun things, I mean Skynet.

Not capable of what? Reading?

The classic “script kiddie” should have started World War 3 about 897 times by now if the step-by-step threat was that critical. A 14-year old would find learning how to budget AI tokens is harder to do than following a recipe out of the Anarchist Cookbook. Which happens to be a mayhem 101 guide (available on Amazon! Get yours today!) so old even the Unabomber would have felt old-fashioned browsing it.

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Sorry. Just made me laugh wondering if Anthropic can tell the difference between someone talking shit, and someone talking shit.

I take this is supposed to be the feature to help those who perpetually suffer from

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"Wait..wut?"

(Yeah. That stupid shit.)

Do you honestly think..that the entity known as Google..that has survived corporate America since last century..knows fuck-all about the concept of red tape?

I'm pretty sure they're experts in that shit by now.

Yeah, but that unlocked the YouTube channel level called Mystery Patch Theatre 3000..

Yes, but only the patches.

They found vibe-coding the core code only created..more patches.

Which someone finally bitch-slapped the shit out of the marketeer who was selling that crap as a good thing.

Your statement would actually hold weight and have meaning, if not for a modern society manufacturing planned obsolescence into every stock price your retirement fund relies on.

I dare you to find an American appliance from the 1960s that would outlast anything made in this fucking century.

Yes.

How utterly predictable, that those who manage the worlds Greatest Firewall, know all about this tactic.

Perhaps some other countries should learn how to manage a firewall in fuck-you-black-and-white mode.

Time is likely the premium being paid for here. Even being forced to adhere to every safety standard, I'm betting it's a lot faster to knock the dust off an existing nuclear plant than it is to build out a solar solution. Assuming you own enough land to build a solar solution relative to the data center site, which is a critical factor.

Positions are justified from the organizations perspective. Project is sunk as a long-term capital expense spread out over years of depreciation. AI revenue will dispose of that cost concern within weeks. If there were 100,000 bicycles run by the Pedal Power army sitting next to the data center site ready to be plugged into today, Google would go with that over nuclear or solar.