Linus Torvalds on AI, Junk Patches, Humans, and Godzilla

I don't even know what our victory conditions might be now that Castro is dead.

... it seems to me the USA is unnecessarily picking on it, seeing as it doesn't pick on equally despicable dictatorships (Saudi Arabia; China) that are just as bad as Cuba but more powerful.

The Los Angeles Police Department is ending its agreement with Flock Safety, a company that operates surveillance cameras throughout the city.

LAPD announced that it will allow its agreement with the company to expire Saturday, ending the department's three-year relationship with the security firm - at least for now.

"This contract is not being renewed because of serious concerns around civil liberties and civil rights issues, particularly around privacy and the data that is being collected from these cameras," said Dean Gialamas, LAPD's chief information officer. "The LAPD had to make a difficult decision, in this case discontinuing using Flock services until we can get those data, privacy, security and sharing concerns ironed out through a contractual relationship."

LAPD says the department does not use Flock's cameras to help U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

"We have received confirmation from the Westland Police Chief that he has decided not to bring the Flock camera contract before City Council for a vote," she said in her post. "It was clear Council was deeply divided on the issue."

She added that the current Flock cameras placed around the city will remain so, until the contract expires within the next month, before coming down afterward.

Sampey said that it is an example of city officials listening to residents, many of whom voiced concern about the cameras.

The FCC approved the satellite, ... to test an innovative technology that could advance American leadership in space.

Why on earth would you need to shoot someone for... driving away???
Are you a psychopath. Evading arrest doesn't carry the death penalty in law.

This can only get unintentionally funnier.

Lawmakers Probe Growing Use of Chinese AI Models In US Companies

It's a reason I have grown more and more favorable to some sort of compulsory voting like Australia does but I don't think it would fly over here.

And they will find some excuse to justify it.

A government of the corporation, and for the cooperation. Corporations are people too, my friend. It is just that some people are more equal that others. Citizen United has made sure of that.

Following the arrest, Stokes was extradited to the U.S., where he appeared in front of a federal court in Chicago for the first time on June 30, 2026, and he remains in custody, ...

The only Bending of Spoons that'll happen is from heaving all that AI slop enshittified excrement coming out of the BSP bunghole that these companies are producing.