'Oh Yeah': The Eighties Pop Classic That's Never Gone Away Inside the documentary 'Oh Yeah!', a short film about Yello's ubiquitous Eighties song that soundtracked many movies of the era.

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Sorry to hear that. The bell gets a big work out on the (unmodified) e-bike or standard bike every commute.

Also who is modifying a bike for a 8 year old??

Complaint to EC on appointment of data protection commissioner - Pulse+IT The Irish Council for Civil Liberties submitted a formal complaint to the European Commission regarding the appointment of former Meta lobbyist Niamh Sweeney as the new Data Protection Commissioner (D...

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties submitted a formal complaint to the European Commission regarding the appointment of former Meta lobbyist Niamh Sweeney as the new Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) www.pulseit.news/irish-digita...

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

The Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia has views about this.

One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”

“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath

Some costs aren’t costs.

4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...

Car Size

xkcd.com/3167/

'They really shouldn't let those small cars drive in traffic. I worry I'm going to kill someone if I hit one! They should have to drive on the sidewalk, safely out of the way.'

Car Size
https://xkcd.com/3167/

'They really shouldn't let those small cars drive in traffic. I worry I'm going to kill someone if I hit one! They should have to drive on the sidewalk, safely out of the way.'

Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3167

The AWS outage interfered with our cats’ automatic feeders and yes I am already embarrassed I assure you I have adequate shame already

"Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

I agree with this trend and have started doing the same for unknown numbers for the lack of ability to control voice recording. Also it is now custom to schedule calls via text

‘AI doesn’t know what an orgasm sounds like’: audiobook actors grapple with the rise of robot narrators As demand for audio content grows, companies are looking for faster – and cheaper – ways to make it

Audible will allow publishers to choose AI voices...

"I’ve narrated really raunchy sex scenes – AI doesn’t know what an orgasm sounds like,” Tudor, a narrator, says. “Birth scenes as well – I’d love to know how they plan on getting around that.” #AIEthics

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Perhaps Qantas has given us an opportunity to test if s13G of the Privacy Act is useful at all? classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth...

Cloudflare blocking AI scraping by default is a good start, however I have limited faith in the AI companies given their past ‘respect’ of content creator intentions

AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations Say Exclusive: An FTC complaint led by the Consumer Federation of America outlines how therapy bots on Meta and Character.AI have claimed to be qualified, licensed therapists to users, and why that may be...

“Almost two dozen digital rights and consumer protection organizations sent a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday urging regulators to investigate Character.AI and Meta’s “unlicensed practice of medicine facilitated by their product…”

They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.

Here is a gift link to @kashhill.bsky.social's must read piece on the dangers of OpenAI's sycophantic LLMs and the parasocial relationships people are creating with them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

This is incredible

Why Mark Zuckerberg's AI app is one of the most depressing places online Mark Zuckerberg's Meta AI app has become the saddest place on the internet with its public feed of personal overshares.

The Meta AI app continues to be full of people who are accidentally posting private conversations publicly. I saw posts sharing phone numbers, email addresses, medical questions, a teen describing her crush, child custody questions. www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerb...

Headline reads: Chatgpt gets crushed at chess by a 1 MHz Atari 2600

Presented without comment

A shelf of 3 books about Roger Moore, Thomas More, and Henry Moore

In the midnight hour
she cried
Moore, More, Moore

With a rebel yell
she cried
Moore, More, Moore

Just saw a comedian say "If vaccines caused autism then America would have trains" and I almost spit out my drink.

Meta plans to replace humans with AI to assess privacy and societal risks Current and former Meta employees fear the new automation push comes at the cost of allowing AI to make tricky determinations about how Meta's apps could lead to real world harm.

“Until recently, what are known inside Meta as privacy and integrity reviews were conducted almost entirely by human evaluators.

But now, according to internal company documents obtained by NPR, up to 90% of all risk assessments will soon be automated.”

I asked generative AI a simple question: How many Australian prime ministers have there been between 1970 and 2013?

Google Gemini said eight.

ChatGPT said 15.

Siri (using ChatGPT) said 14.

Microsoft Copilot said 12.

The answer, dear reader, is 10.

OpenAI is going to make hardware Generative AI and devices haven't yet found a good fit. Will Jony Ive be the one to change that? PLUS: Claude 4 arrives

Casey Newton, in his latest newsletter:

“Every time I feel like progress in artificial intelligence is beginning to slow, a week like this one hits — and suddenly, it's all I can do to keep up.”

Me, a stratcomm professor: YES EXACTLY THAT’S A COMMS CAMPAIGN.

www.platformer.news/openai-jony-...

Librarian here. Got an email from a patron about our "poor selection" of books on AI, w/ list of new books that we HAD to get so ppl could stay informed about this important subject. Title, author, synopsis.

Of 11 titles on the list, 10 Did Not Exist. At all.

"Yeah, I got it from Ch*tGPT, why?"

Childcare is just the latest failure of Australia’s privatisation push. It’s time for an ideology overhaul | John Quiggin Even the Productivity Commission is backing away from the for-profit model. We need to ensure that our human services serve humans

John Quiggin: Australia’s privatised childcare has failed www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill Republicans try to use the Budget Reconciliation bill to stop states from regulating AI entirely for 10 years.

There's a lot of chatter around the proposal being inserted into a budget bill that would put a moratorium on any AI legislation being passed by the states for the next 10 years. I thought I'd say a bit about why this is an absolutely disastrous move.

www.404media.co/republicans-... 1/n

As Klarna flips from AI-first to hiring people again, a new landmark survey reveals most AI projects fail to deliver Just 1 in 4 AI investments bring in the ROI they promise—but CEOs just can’t resist the technology.

Klarna admits AI isn’t as good as human workers, but this story suggests it’s “hiring” two types of human customer support now: freelancers or an “Uber type of setup.”

It sounds like the AI strategy served its purpose after all: to turn employees into contractors.

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