This is a massive invasion of privacy and will no doubt be used by HOAs and councils to perform dragnet building/planning enforcement. At my place, for example, there are significant remaining elements of an ancient stone shed which are somehow not on the cadastral record despite predating planning regs. Wonder if I'll get dragged into court over it now

I really don't like iPhones, so I'm gonna go snack them out of people's hands, and when the cops try to arrest me I'll just show them this post from some dipshit on /. who said it was fine to physically assault people

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If AI generated content is in uncopyrightable (https://www.copyright.gov/ai/), then video games are about to become free! Oh, and don't forget about the gold fringe on the flag. Explains that one to the judge, too.

Davy, who isolated the metal, first called it alumium, and changed his mind to aluminum. The British scientific press overruled him and renamed it aluminium.

Aluminum is most correct, in the sense that we should respect the naming wishes of the person who put in the work.

Ryanair relishes their image as a cartoon villain cheap airline. Surely the EU should be stepping up to reign them in a little. Otherwise, what do we pay them for?

but there's prior art - dating to 1812 - for "automatic"

Some do, but that's a rampant oversimplification that elides such realities as the Netherlands abruptly changing its "free college if you finish" program into "very good loan terms for college financing"

When I lived in the Netherlands it was light out at 4:30AM and dark after 11PM in summer. With DST eliminated that would be light at 3:30AM and dark after 10PM. Do tell me more about the normal sleep pattern of someone who has to suffer light from 3:30AM.

The biannual ragebait story push about DST. I don't know a single person who likes endless dark in winter, but by God these comment sections always drag out a few who think that changing a number on a clock somehow causes your heart to explode.

ALL this shit coming from these AI grifters is narrative-shaping trying to pump up their valuation by advancing the narrative that the current and/or anticipated near-future models represent an inflection point exceeding a linear relationship with the number of GPUs thrown at them. Bad press the same as good press: anything from them that says AI could be a real risk is pushing the idea that there's a "there" there.

Don't get sucked in.

Book prices in Denmark are about to not change in the slightest, but publisher revenues will increase by 25%

hyperinflation has created more millionaires than any other economic scheme

I'm self-censoring every thought I have on this one so I don't end up on a(nother) list

Datacenters everywhere do this. Equinix AM3 heats the Science Park, and the bank datacenter I supervised in Switzerland heated the surrounding bank offices and some of the adjacent residential neighborhood. I guess these Italians just wanted some free PR.