prediction markets are a public menace

Wow who would have thought that

Lebanese journalist killed by Israeli airstrike amid ceasefire Lebanon’s civil defence agency said rescuers were able to recover Amal Khalil’s body in the town of al-Tiri.

An Israeli airstrike killed a Lebanese journalist and wounded another today while they were working near the border with Israel, according to their employer and rescuers. jrnl.ie/7020951

Elon Musk admits millions of Tesla owners need upgrades for true 'Full Self-Driving' | TechCrunch The admission could open Tesla to legal challenges after it spent years promising customers they were just one software update away from owning fully autonomous cars.

in legal parlance i believe this is called a "big oops"

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Still looking at millions of pounds even if it’s not the £24m I’ve seen mentioned

The people in that Turkish shop are always so nice.

ADOBE: welcome to photoshop. what would you like to do. here is an AI tool
ME: i would like to draw a rectangle. i am selecting the rectangle tool
ADOBE: did you say AI?
ME: rectangle please
ADOBE: sorry but i can only do that in an insane way now. here is a new layer and a vector for some reason

As a cherry on top, this is costing them a fortune. Six year deal lmaoooo

It means your country needs age limits for political office

Car brain is really something

Verge headline: Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want by Elizabeth Lopatto Illustration of a brain melting in the sun

"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and LLMs. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich."

Read more: buff.ly/Yu2AUFy

See also: Cork “Task Force”

Getting “Red Ross” from Friends energy from this announcement

If they’re doing this to Christian statues on camera imagine what they’re doing to Moslem civilians off camera.

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

i can only assume @quantian.bsky.social is too much of a coward to post this here on bsky so i will do it for him

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If you mean a 100% exactly copy then I’d guess not. There must be a number of materials/techniques used that are so obsolete, the knowledge/experience to recreate them has disappeared.

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Palantir, the Talking Like Sephiroth Corporation

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

The first one is tolerable and I’ll happily join my kids as they rewatch it for the nth time but the second one….criminal on many levels.

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Unless it’s a two day test, it was yesterday. George Russell posted something suggesting it was yesterday and l’equipe also talking about it in the past tense. She got better weather than Antonelli’s first test at least…

Given their long tenure and apparent commitment to the sport, it’s weird that Toyota never appeared to have a program of young drivers. Obviously they can’t justify the army of drivers Porsche and Ferrari have but they let this lineup get very old.

New Footage Shows Wanted Kinahan Cartel Kingpins Post-Sanctions - bellingcat Daniel and Christy Kinahan have been photographed in Dubai, marking the most recent sighting of the wanted crime bosses since the US levied sanctions against the cartel.

Breaking: Kinahan cartel leader Daniel Kinahan has been arrested in Dubai. It follows a Bellingcat investigation last month that traced him to an MMA event in Dubai - providing the first proof that the cartel's leadership was still in hiding in the UAE. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

Interesting information from @tripeanddrisheen.bksy.social

Next step McDonald's to arrange visits to schools ? Or reps from Flying CCTV Ltd. ?

#Speirgorm

Council told to “look at the evidence” after calling to make it illegal not to wear hi-vis “at all times” Tipperary County Council have been requested to “look at the evidence” after councillors voted to write to the Minister for Transport, Darragh O’Brien, to call on him to make it i…

What the fuck is wrong with these morons

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do NOT call me a NIMBY. I FULLY support new housing if it is AFFORDABLE, passes my personal VIBE check, will not be lived in by people I consider UNCOOL and is constructed only when the MOON is waxing, upon the APPROPRIATE ley lines

It is my understanding that to be featured in Witherspoon’s popular book club, authors must give her production company an option for film/TV development. It’s understandable they’re pissed about tying themselves to a company now promoting a technology that’s stolen from most — if not all — of them.

Quite a reversal from “Honda to WEC maybe?” to “Honda to stop all sportscar racing” in a few months…