There should be a required WARRENT ID field and it should be checked against valid active warrents. Otherwise, access denied.

Man, Nicholas Tesla was right when he wrote

Actually, I think I've got this one, other than whether this was really necessary.

(alt subject : "Oops, all data breaches!")

Nothing to see here, just normal day-to-day government work circumventing the 4th amendment by outsourcing data collection to the private sector. This kind of thing happens all the time.

Move along, Citizen!

Has he(George Santos) done anything to help the Republican Party?


Yes, he has. He has made a bald-faced mockery of the rule of law. That's priceless for supporters of an imperial presidency.

The fact of the matter is that the very existence of unregulated bookies like Kalshi incentivizes actions that may not be reversible, like, I dunno, bombing another country or burning down an orphanage.

I don't remember exactly when I learned a single bitmapped screenshot of Super Mario Bros takes up more storage than the ROM file for the whole game, but I remember it was the moment I first grasped the concept of bloat.

I thought back to playing Donkey Kong Country in 1995 and seeing Cranky Kong's rant about "my beard has more frames than I had in the whole game". DKC used pre-rendered 3D art to make the SNES do things it was never meant to do and the game still had to be heavily-optimized to fit within the 4MB available.

There's a lot of Venn overlap between people spooked by AI and people who hate Bill Gates because of 5G microchips in COVID vaccines (pick a conspiracy theory, I guess).

AI Protestor: "Down with AI!"
Bill Gates: "AI can be dangerous. We need to be careful."
Same AI Protestor: "... More AI!"

Yeah, I remember a previous incident where we were concerned about a "brain drain".

hah! You thought I was talking about this.

This Torment Nexus implementation is ill-conceived, slipshod and substandard.
Put in the work to do things right or don't fucking bother.

some anonymous jape on teh intarwebs said :

Which is what these greedy out-of-control AI fuckwits are doing in a more diffuse manner.

There's non-destructive ways to scan books, that probably are just as fast as what these negligent morons are doing. It's just plain greed above all else.

This kind of behavior tells you who these people are. And why they should be shunned. It's starting to look like good people need to take action to stop their destructive rampage.

His. Name. is. BOBBY Tables! [1]


It's right there in the ancient [2] webcomic you linked. I know, I know, IHBT, IHL. HAND.


1 Tyler Durden, freaking the norms by inserting subliminal images.
2 2007-10-10 !, Early happy 19th anniversary Robert!

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Was it because the suits needed MS Office? That's really the last stranglehold Microsoft has in the business world. LibreOffice and such just aren't "there", yet.

I can't decide whether I'm impressed or appalled. Little of both, I guess.

I guess we meatbags have been on the chopping block far longer than I though.

I wish. That would be grand!

Everyone gathers to watch the securitybots fall down and violently flail around trying to right themselves.
Meanwhile, while the crowd is distracted, I pick their pockets.

Truly a golden age of law and order.