Brutkey

Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop
Screencap from Bluesky. Text reads: @hikikomorphism.bsky.social If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "Al" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged. 5:56 PM • Aug 12, 2025 ® Everybody can reply a57b52f80a25bb82.png Social media post of a news clipping. Subject reads: "The headline's good, but the rest is even better." Text reads: Florida couple arrested for selling tickets to heaven A couple in Florida, Tito and Amanda Watts, were arrested a few days ago for selling "golden tickets to heaven" to hundreds of people. They sold the tickets on the street for $99.99 (about sh390,000) per ticket, told buyers the tickets were made from solid gold, and that each ticket reserved the buyer a spot in heaven - simply present the ticket at the pearly gates and you are in. Tito Watts said in his police statement: "T do not care what the Police say. The tickets are solid gold. And it was Jesus who gave them to me behind the KFC and told me to sell them so I could get me some money to go to outer space. I met an alien named Stevie, who said If I got the cash together he would take me and my wife on his flying saucer to his planet that is made entirely of drugs. You should arrest Jesus because he is the one that gave me the golden tickets. I am willing to wear a wire and set Jesus up." In her police statement, Amanda Watts said: "We just wanted to leave earth and go to space and do drugs. I did not do anything Tito sold the golden tickets to heaven. I lust watched." Police said they confiscated over $10,000 (sh39m) in cash, drug paraphernalia and a baby alligator. 592815d131f16163.jpeg A screenshot from a government page about saving water. It says. HOW TO SAVE WATER AT HOME • Install a rain butt to collect rainwater to use in the garden. • Fix a leaking toilet - leaky loos can waste 200-400 litres a day. • Use water from the kitchen to water your plants. • Avoid watering your lawn - brown grass will grow back healthy. • Turn off the taps when brushing teeth or shaving. • Take shorter showers. • Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems. e43b9c7d413fbd1c.png Fire proof suit 80edcfba1f95fc2f.jpeg Screenshot from some other social media. Text reads: millenianthemums i want a shirt that has a QR code on it for some kind of horrible malware so that if anyone ever tries to film me in public their phone will automatically scan the code and be reduced to a functionless brick iwasrightaboutthesun Modern day Medusa 1beb082852c95742.jpeg