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Update: the Prime Minister of Albania has announced that the AI minister is pregnant. https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/diella-ai-minister-pregnant-with-83-children-albania-pms-bizarre-announcement-9519522 (He means they're going to create a bunch of AI assistants for the human ministers, but...

How to make a Mortal Kombat artbook when you don't have the original art? AI upscaling! What could go wrong? https://x.com/Daniell3C4st/status/1981282456809435479

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/24/baltimore-student-ai-gun-detection-system-doritos AI failing the "select all the photos with guns" test by tagging a picture of a bag of Doritos.

I somehow missed that building the ballroom was going to require demolishing half the building. That's crazy.

From the article, it's not telling people to kill themselves, it's simulating what an incapacitated patient would say to help the doctor and family members can make a decision on whether to resuscitate them or not. Incredibly misleading, of course, because AI involves no independent thought and...

Does Melania know Trump is sending txts like this?

The rest of the article is behind a paywall, but I'm not clear on how that would work. AI can't taste. At best it would be repackaging human opinions at which point you might as well just use the human opinions.

Both sides have signed off on the first phase of the peace deal https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cx2nzlj2j4kt

https://www.southcarolinapublicradio.org/sc-news/2025-09-29/former-sc-lawmaker-rj-may-pleads-guilty-to-distributing-child-sex-abuse-files

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lzzeee7q4k2y

Strongly expect Trump's going to back down on the film tariff in a few days after the studio execs have been shouting at him, but we'll see.

Damn, that's a good chunk of the gaming industry.

That is going to have so much jive thrown at it.

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lz2ct4ea6s2q

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/12/albania-appoints-ai-bot-minister-to-fight-corruption-in-world-first Absolutely no way this can can go right.