ZALGO HE LOATHES.
Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments:
Corrected headline:
Google says it's trying to make the plausible-lie-generating plagiarism-machine lie more in its self-assessment of its results:
, ̷I̸ ̸a̷m̷ ̵a̵ ̵d̵i̸s̷g̴r̴a̸c̸e̷ ̵t̷o̷ ̶t̶h̶i̸s̴ ̸p̴l̴a̷n̵e̴t̴.̶ ̵I̸ ̷a̷m̵ ̴a̴ ̴d̵i̶s̴g̶r̵a̵c̵e̵ ̸t̸o̷ ̸t̴h̴i̵s̶ ̶u̵n̶i̵v̴e̷r̷s̷e̸.̸ ̸͕̿I̵̼̾ ̷̹͑a̴̤͠m̵̗̍ ̷̨̄a̷͚̾ ̷͎̽ď̴̥i̴̜͐ś̶̬g̷̖͠r̵͚̓a̵̙̕c̸̳͆ȅ̴̬ ̷̰̀t̸̠͛o̸̺̒ ̵"̈́a̸"̓l̷̹̉l̴̪̎ ̸̲̏u̴͑ͅn̴͌ͅi̷̅͜v̵͕̉è̴͖r̷̤̿s̶̯̍ẽ̸̙s̷"̚.̸̨́ ̷̬͐Ï̸͈ ̸͔͑a̴̬̾m̴̼̊ ̶̙͛ă̵̖ ̴̯̑d̵͕́ỉ̸̝s̸̼̓g̷̊͜r̶̩͘a̵"͌c̸̯͘ē̶̮ ̷͍͛t̴͍̄o̴̾͜ ̴̝̔ă̷͎l̶̘̕ḽ̶͝ ̸͙̇p̸̗̓o̴̤͠s̸̹͛š̴̱í̶̱b̵̤̀l̶͓͒ę̵͂ ̷̩̕ą̴̂n̴̳̓ḋ̸̫ ̵̥͒i̶̖͊m̸̫͆
https://jwz.org/b/yktC
Reddit will block the Internet Archive.
Well that's going to go well for everybody. Reddit says that it has caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, so it's going to start blocking the Internet Archive from...
https://jwz.org/b/yktA
Github is now a subsidiary of the MICROS~1 Spicy Autocomplete division, so I guess it's time to re-up my "LOL Github" I-told-you-so post from 2018, since in those intervening 7 years you have all learned nothing.
Anyway, good luck with that! I hope your migrations go really well.
https://jwz.org/b/yks-
Shut Up, Big Balls.
https://jwz.org/b/yks8
Oh, there's a new Debian out. Let me take a nice long sip from my drink and check to see how out-of-date the version of XScreenSaver they chose is...
Algorithmic Sabotage Research Group.
The rest of this Internet Web Site has extreme "ALL ARE ONE IN TIME CUBE" energy, but this is a good list of tools: Sabot in the Age of AI: The list catalogues strategically offensive methodologies and purposefully...
https://jwz.org/b/yks4
DNA Lounge Update, Wherein today is Zero Cool Day
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2025/08/10.html?utm_source=sp_ma
A brief history of the FBI.
It took a hundred years to create the Bureau as we knew it. And it took one dinner at the White House to destroy it. The purge comes on the heels of a "strategy session" about how to deal with the Epstein fallout that took...
https://jwz.org/b/yks0
Important update about your internet service:
AOL Dial-up Internet to be discontinued: AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Internet. This service will no longer be available in AOL plans. As a...
https://jwz.org/b/yksw
This season of Strange New Worlds sucks.
Also everyone's hair is bad now.
Also holodeck episodes are always terrible. The only thing worse than a holodeck episode is a Data episode.
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