Wikipedia defines a humanoid as "a non-human entity with human form or characteristics". So given how utterly inhuman Trump and his sycophants are, it seems that the sad and cringe-worthy 'Robot-and-Melania' episode came very late to the 'Real Humanoids of Washington' unreality TV show.

I feel like a good idea for this sort of thing if it's going to be deployed is include the applicant in the loop.

"Hi, your application will be rejected because:
* You list your qualifications as an electrician, not a medical expert.

If this anything is in error and you want to continue with your submission, please explain the error below and click "Contest" attesting that you believe this to be in error and someone will be sure to review more carefully."

Even without AI it would be nice for job application forms to let applications know that they're just going to get tossed automatically regardless of the automated system. In fact it should be against the law to discard applications automatically without allowing an application to review the criteria by which they were automatically rejected regardless of it being algorithmic or fuzzy AI.

.. the in-car experience will feel "much more invasive and the latest advertising will reach your eyes and ears faster," ...

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - Fuck Google with a running chainsaw, sideways. Google needs to Just. Fucking. DIE!

Before anybody points this out, a gallon of bleach (the common size) is currently well over their weight limit. OTOH, that doesn't mean we shouldn't be thinking ahead to the possibility of hackers ordering risky combinations of materials that might ignite or release hazardous fumes if jostled. I don't know if Wing's drones drop cargo like other services I've seen either. The videos I've seen have drogue parachutes but things still come down a bit fast. Anyway, it's not a realistic concern *for now*, apparently; but hopefully it's being considered.

I'd like to send an order of bleach, ammonia and thumb tacks to 1000 of my closest friends, via drone.

How many years has it been since we figured out that Chinese computing and internet software can spy on users and report back to Beijing? And Washington is just now banning imports, without having first found and vetted alternative sources?

Even the routers that aren't actually made in China may use Chinese silicon which could have its own backdoors. The way to fix this is to have other manufacturers lined up, ready to deploy with tested designs and audited supply chains. The time to do it was - at the very latest - five years ago.

Given that, it's still better late than never. But doing it without having alternate suppliers lined up, and with no plan for carefully staged infrastructure replacement, seems rather lame.

How long will it be before malware such as this is used to (further) poison LLMs? Is there the potential to make LLM outputs strategically false and/or propagandistic and/or psychologically damaging?

IANAP, so I don't know if these things are feasible. But if I was a black-hat hacker with a grudge - or one who simply gets off on wreaking havoc - I'd be pursuing that course of action.

Today whole day is ~2c/kWh. "don't work very well". vittu mikä palikka.

You have a very long nose most of the time, and no matter how hard you wish and try you'll never be a real CEO. Best just call that AI agent you're yearning for "Geppetto", because we all know which of you will be holding the strings.

The drones will undoubtedly be sending video home in real time, so Cletus and his bud will be hearing knocks on their doors soon after. OTOH, I think the EMP cannon I've been dreaming of could be camouflaged quite easily...

Just a bit more than five hundred years ago Cortes & Co. arrived in the Americas. They were riding horses, wearing steel armor, wielding firearms, and spreading diseases for which the natives of the western hemisphere had no defenses. When two previously unconnected networks of similar entities encounter each other, there is conflict, and one "giant component" emerges. The natives that are left are perhaps 1% of their former number and in general they subsist at the edges of a transplanted European society.

AI has reached the point where it's hard to tell meat from machine and the internet is now having that same experience. These attempts to create human only networking are going to crush the life out of existing social media KPIs, and I think it'll be good for the Fediverse. Bot operators don't want to manually work their way through archipelagos of tiny spaces that do NOT want them. There's a political repression angle to the identity verification as well - if you want to manipulate the masses, gotta herd 'em into a space where you can DO that. Ten thousand digital islands are frightful when you have clear memories of being able to operate in a few globally flat spaces like Facebook and Twitter.

I've done computational social sciences stuff with a heavy conflict component. The day Musk took over Twitter was the equivalent of the Titanic bumping that iceberg. The sinking took about six months and I'm glad I made it to a life boat. But the really frightful thing here?

The same dynamics that apply to these social sites today are coming for white collar jobs and this isn't going to be measured in decades, it's going to happen in at most a few quarters. I hope my health care startup is about to get funded, because the alternatives for me are pretty grim. As for the vast majority of people who don't have a computer science background and the autistic focus superpower? I imagine what they feel is akin to the mood in Tenochtitlan in the early 1520s.

Regarding your second point, thanks for the correction.

Regarding your first point, I would argue that religiosity is possibly a prime mover behind, and is definitely a major and ongoing support for, the US shitstorm currently fucking over the entire world. I think it would be difficult to overestimate the huge role that religious beliefs and justifications have played in bringing Trump to power and keeping him there.

Recommended reading on groupthink, which in my mind definitely encompasses most religiosity: https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03...

OTOH, maybe the remaining 1% are more likely to cause grief for the powermongers. Also, that 1% keeps the possibility of non-compliance alive, allowing for the possibility of the 99% to decrease and the 1% to increase.

It's an age requirement which makes Web privacy virtually impossible; therefore it has EVERYTHING to do with the Epstein class and their desire to control, and potentially exterminate, us plebeians.

Why do the terms "640k", "ought", and "everybody" keep popping into my head? ;-)

More specifically, data centres are increasingly responsible for worsening AGW. Inefficient code wastes more power than it needs to; and that's literal, physical, P=E*I power.