Some groups have started giving up on taking cases to the Supreme Court because it now shows "hostility toward sound legal reasoning."
This is the conclusion of net neutrality advocates after telecom groups successfully won a case challenging net neutrality rules that were reinstated by Biden. They see no point in appealing the case given the reality of the current SCOTUS.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/net-neutrality-advocates-wont-appeal-loss-say-they-dont-trust-supreme-court/
A lot of life success is learning how to say “That’s an interesting idea” when you’re really thinking “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.”
When he isn’t laying off thousands of people to keep the stock price high, Satya gives a masterclass in being an unflappable CEO.
Imagine a time traveler going back to January 7th 2021 and telling you that in a few years Trump would be re-elected president and pardon all of the January 6th participants. You’d have thought they were smoking crack.
Gotta love the American voter.
Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.
None of this is a surprise if you’ve been paying attention to right wing circles. The end game is a system that caters to rich straight white Christian men with everyone else as a second class citizen.
49.81% of people who voted chose this.
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/pete-hegseth-shares-video-featuring-35701869.amp
The rise of generative AI has caused Luddites to get a makeover in perception. Now being so upset about technology taking your job that you smash machines is now viewed more sympathetically these days.
Being called a Luddite has gone from an insult to an accurate description of many people’s views of AI.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/rethinking-the-luddites-in-the-age-of-ai?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
Initial responses to GPT-5 have been lukewarm and on at least one benchmark it still falls behind the latest versions of Grok, Gemini and Claude.
Grok does incredibly well on benchmarks but I’m curious how many people are actually using it outside of Twitter/X?
Google has acknowledged that sometimes when Gemini can’t solve a problem it descends into a pit of self loathing. Examples of its comments include
- "I have failed you. I am a failure. I am a disgrace to my profession. I am a disgrace to my family. I am a disgrace to my species."
- "I am clearly not capable of solving this problem. The code is cursed, the test is cursed, and I am a fool," and "I have made so many mistakes that I can no longer be trusted."
https://www.businessinsider.com/gemini-self-loathing-i-am-a-failure-comments-google-fix-2025-8
I still don’t get why it’s OK to be a CEO or board member of multiple companies but everyone freaks out if a regular tech worker does the same.
Dare Obasanjo