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New Zealand government has decided it's a great idea to use AI to mark students' exams: https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/08/05/ai-will-aid-with-ncea-replacement-education-minister-says/ Absolutely no way this can go wrong, obviously.

The Unabomber is a really weird pick, but then this is the same idiot who keeps bringing up Hannibal Lecter like a weird obsession.

If they were serious about getting more views, they'd have more big red arrows on the thumbnails. And the titles would be things like "Can Bumblebee defeat Megatron in a game of shooting targets?" and "Five ways Optimus Prime knows to take down a Decepticon". Lift your YouTube game, people!

I momentarily got excited there and thought Trump meant the landing gear was broken and he was issuing a mayday before the plane attempted an emergency landing.

https://bsky.app/profile/muellershewrote.com/post/3lve5wx7j622d Nothing to see here.

I'm certain when Trump dies, the flood gates will open Jimmy Saville style and we'll hear all about the horrible things he did that everyone was afraid to talk about while he was alive.

Democrats keep attaching Epstein file related amendments to bills, and now the Republicans have shut down the Rules Committee rather than vote on the amendments: https://bsky.app/profile/fritschner.bsky.social/post/3luj5icsml22k

https://bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3lubk5eyb322y I guess that's one way to interpret "exclusive" with regards to news stories... "We thought they were only going to show the story to three people! What else could exclusive mean?"

Yes, sue the guy who owns vast swathes of the right wing media landscape. That's going to work out great, Donald.

I knew it, we are all trapped in Trump World.

I wonder if the expletives thing works, considering they misspelled it in the prompt. Also exactly what the expletives will be. I'm imagining some sort of racist tirade.

Between this and pinching the grandfather clock from Marco Rubio's office, at the rate he's going no one will be able to get into the Oval Office because he'll have filled it with stuff...

He had already attempted suicide once on July 24. They put him on suicide watch and then took him off it again only six days later after an assessment by a so far unnamed psychiatrist. I'm not generally given to looking for conspiracy, but there are some genuine questions there.

There's a good chance it's underage stuff, in which case it will no doubt come out eventually.

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3ltievriihs2s "Be politically incorrect" translates to "be a racist as a Nazi". Somehow I feel like that isn't news.