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Google is fucking over your children as it chases AI-related income to balance its massive and mostly useless investment in generative AI. Fuck Sundar Pichai and all of these misanthropic Big Tech ghouls. Stop giving this death cult unfettered access to your children. RESIST

wsj.com

Google Pushed AI Into Schools—and Even Students Say It’s Gone Too Far

The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash.

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 16m

One way to think about this is that LLMs are good at turning written/spoken language into smart web search terms, laundering the results, and handing them to you in a chat format rather than 10 blue links. If you remove web search, they provide wrong answers so often you wouldn't bother with them.

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 16m

LLMs are still garbage at facts. It's the harnesses around them that give them any value at all. Take the harnesses away and top 5 LLMs provide bullshit answers to about 25% of factual questions. The next ranked 5 are even worse, with all having failure rates in the thirties.

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 32m

"Our new autonomous car went rogue. We told it to drive really fast around our test track, and instead it drove out the open gate and mowed down 7 children at a school crosswalk. Damn these rogue EVs. What can be done. Regulate us or more children will die." That bullshit PR is working for OpenAI.

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 38m

uBlock Origin can hide those sleezy "upgrade to our AI" buttons and banners. All you have to do is click the uBO icon, click the eyedropper, and then select the element you want to hide. You'll get a chance to "Preview" the change, then press the "Pick" button to hide that element. Easy peasy :D

four screenshots in one image.

Top left is the uBO main pop-up with a mouse pointer over the eyedropper icon at the bottom of the panel. Bottom left is a shot of the Google Gemini icon highlighted with red indicating focus. The right stacked images are the uBO filters panels that let you adjust the boundaries of the element you want to hide. The top image has the mouse pointer on "Preview" and the bottom has the pointer on "Pick." The panels are numbered 1-4 in the order described.

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 1h

Reuters: OpenAI says that as of September 26, it has notified 100+ organizations about its AI agents bypassing their security controls or negatively impacting a service Despite OpenAI's PR claiming otherwise, it was OpenAI, via their agents, that bypassed security and negatively impacted services.

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 9h

🎵 When Eddie said he didn't like his teddy, You knew he was a no-good kid. 🎵

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 10h

--------------------- And I hope that you die And your death will come soon I'll follow your casket By the pale afternoon And I'll watch while you're lowered Down to your deathbed And I'll stand over your grave 'Til I'm sure that you're dead ---------------------- Bob goes hard.

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Bob Dylan - Masters of War (Official Audio)

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 15h

These people rule us: "So, you know, if you're evil, you're at least competent. And if you're evil, you're not bad, and therefore you're actually maybe kind of good because you're at least getting something done." Peter Thiel, CEO surveillance company Palantir. Fuck these evil motherfuckers.

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 15h

The article is good. It's a 10-15 minute read, but don't be put off by the length. It's clear and informative, mostly jargon-free, and the author is even-handed, so give it a read. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/09/30/i...

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 15h

"A reasonable summary of the situation is that (as of this summer, and possibly today) OpenAI had effectively no security team with clear authority to secure RL training and evaluation runs, or to override the ML teams and tell them how to do their job."

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 15h

"these agent breakouts represent a serious and unforgivable breach of trust. Somebody dropped the ball, and then just kept dropping it." "When a trillion-dollar company is managing a security incident mainly via CEO, that’s not a sign of company with a mature security organization."

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 15h

This alone *should be* enough to shut them down. "OpenAI notes that agents 'did not consistently distrust goals passed along by other agents.' .... which is basically an admission that their models don’t know who they’re working for." blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/09/30/i...

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 15h

"New Mexico asks a judge to order Meta to pay up to $40B after a jury found it willfully deceived customers, in what could be the biggest US court penalty ever" 3 months of Meta revenue :-( When the biggest fines ever are easily laughed off, they're not big enough. www.krqe.com/news/new-mex...

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 16h

Seems Apple's got this right. Cameras don't have to *record* and provide images and videos to users. They can be used as device sensors, streaming data to the OS. That way, AI features that need to see the world can do so without sacrificing *as much* privacy. Meta could learn a thing or two.

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 18h

Dammit, @bsky.app let me edit for typos and brain farts. Changing "it's" to "its" isn't going to break anyone's flow. Do it already!

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 01/10/2026

Estimated units sold, first 5 years: Meta Pervert Glasses 2021–2023: ~0.5M 2024: ~2.0M 2025: ~7.0M Meta Quest VR Headset 2019 ~1.0M 2020 ~3.0M 2021 ~10.0M 2022 ~6.0M 2023 ~4.0M Meta's pervert glasses are selling less than half as well as Quest, it's $100B flop.

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 01/10/2026

"The operators did not break our encryption, compromise a database, or gain direct access to stored user conversations. Instead, they ... violated our terms of service." Eat shit, assholes. You've violated the terms of service for every site on the internet. Your terms deserve no better.

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 01/10/2026

OpenAI says it disrupted a campaign to extract model reasoning through distillation. "Distillation" means teaching your model with theirs. That's rich. The motherfuckers who stole every recorded thing are complaining about someone leeching off of their ill-gotten gains. openai.com/index/disrup...

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 01/10/2026

"The Third Circuit rejected an artificial intelligence company’s fair use defense after it trained its AI on a competitor’s product, finding the training constituted copyright infringement — and potentially setting a landmark precedent for artificial intelligence."

courthousenews.com

AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit

Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 01/10/2026

While shapes can signal differently in different cultures, color is far more complicated. You and I might associate white with purity, while in Korea it can be death. We might see red as danger, while in India it could be beauty or fertility. i18n doesn't end at calendars and reading directions :D

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 01/10/2026

Almost certainly. We use red and green for positive and negative, addition or subtraction, stop and go, etc., f.e., where utility is the goal and aesthetics are secondary, even incidental. For important uses of color, we have to consider not only a11y, but cultural differences (i18n).

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 30/09/2026

Rounded buttons reduce visual (and sometimes actual) target areas, making them harder to use. Radius-ed corners on windows and panels reduce content areas for no gain. Rounded and radius-ed features are entirely form over function, aesthetics ahead of usability. Let's end this awful 25 year trend.

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 30/09/2026

Zephyr Teachout: "As every law student knows, from the case where water on one land flooded another’s mine, if you bring something dangerous onto your land and it escapes and causes harm, you are liable even if you were careful.” Civil suits are a key weapon against OpenAI, Anthropic, and others.

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 30/09/2026

If Ford came out with a car that promised to cut commute times by 90% and also said it might just kill every other driver on the road, would our government let them sell it? What if Ford already had them on road and they were actually killing people today? Would we not prosecute Ford's C-suite?

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 29/09/2026

New look ಠಿ_ಠ If you don't care for the gradients, select Proton as your theme and it'll go back to your old colors. BTW, if you're a Firefox user and you don't know about userChrome.css and how to use it to customize every bit of Firefox with CSS (just like a web page), you should look that up.

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 29/09/2026

They're losing every time. it's incompetence or lazyness or terrible leadership, probably all of the above.

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 29/09/2026

Wild NYT headline: Internal memo: FBI said it is “operating under the premise” that a threat actor stole PII of all employees Even if it's only their names, this is a catastrophic cyber security failure by the nation's top domestic intelligence and investigation organization.

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 28/09/2026

Looking at the photo, trees 150' to 180' tall, one might imagine getting only 30' up wouldn't make much difference. But given the angles and density of the constellation, it makes a world of difference. If I could get up 60' I might not need the tree mount. But that would require complex permitting.

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 28/09/2026

As the constellation fills out further, I expect this to become fully workable. My guess is 1-2 years, probably closer to 2. If, in the mean time, we can get up a tree, we'll get interruption-free and better speeds. (With our slow but bullet-proof WISP, we got real-time covered okay for now.)

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 28/09/2026

Yes. It's not ideal as we haven't got it high up in a tree and instead have it on an a ~28 ft mast (regulations only allow 12 ft above the roof line). It works great for everything except real-time, because it occasionally loses one sat before picking up the next and drops for maybe 5-30 seconds.

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 28/09/2026

Seven years from bent metal to orbit, Starship is now the largest super-heavy lift vehicle in operation, nearly twice as powerful as Saturn V. For growth and maintenance of the Starlink internet constellation, Starship can deliver 20x the bandwidth per launch as Falcon 9--with full reuse.

spacex.com

SpaceX

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 28/09/2026

Also pictured here, our WISP radio tower. Those two trunks at about nine o'clock, the radio+antenna that connects to our WISP's AP up the mountain is mounted about 170' up the larger of the two. It's also one of my favorite trees here. Nearly 7' DBH with glorious bark.

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 28/09/2026

I am concerned about this limb. Most of these are redwoods, but this one's a Doug fir. In the 1990s, for reasons unknown, the previous owners topped this sturdy tree at 150', and this branch swelled. It *might* reach our house with enough wind ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The neighborhood lumberjack has retired :-(

typical tourist-y skyward shot up through tall though not mighty redwoods, where you have a nice sort of circle of blue sky with wisps of white clouds in the middle of the picture and that's encircled by green feather adorn black spears jabbing and pointing inward and upward, stabbing at the blue oculus if in defiance, "You have no power here, mighty golden disk. Your fire will not avail you. We have authority over these lands. You are forth with banished from this kingdom!"

LOL

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 28/09/2026

New Rule: Every minute spent scrolling social media must be balanced by an equal and opposite minute on McMaster-Carr.

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 28/09/2026

I gave ChatGPT a simple construction project: mount a brace and a face plate across three rafters to secure a telescoping mast for a small radio. I provided goals, materials, and dimensions, and asked it for some drawings. The drawings are the most cursed thing I've ever seen. Here's one example.

Hard to describe. It's a detailed illustration with labels and arrows but every single piece of lumber and every bracket and fastener are just wrong--misshapen, wrong dimensions, wrong type, wrong in every way.

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 27/09/2026

I'm generally a pretty laid back dude. There are exceptions.

CVS.com's cart icon always features a red indicator, even for "0" items as is the case in this screen shot excerpt.

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 27/09/2026

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman on Apple's Vision Pro flop: "Apple retail employees say many stores around the world are lucky to sell one unit a month." "Apple’s Vision team is now working on a completely revamped headset under the code name N224. ... Even so, I’m told the work is on ‘life support.’"

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 27/09/2026

WSJ: Some early Anthropic employees are considering buying remote US land for relocation if AI goes awry

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 27/09/2026

How many bands did this?

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 27/09/2026

This fine EV's base model is ~$10K in China, ~$15K in Australia, ~$21K in Mexico/Latin America, and ~$23K in the EU/UK. An extra 10%–20% gets you from base model to the top-of-the-line kit. If you could get one into the US, it'd cost you about $50K. The people that rule us are idiots.

carnewschina.com

Second-gen BYD Seagull switches to rear-wheel drive, adds front trunk in major overhaul

The second-gen BYD Seagull switches to rear-wheel drive, gains a front trunk and adopts independent rear suspension.

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 27/09/2026

I'm parsing Mork data with Python. Please stand by with a crash cart.

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Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com · 27/09/2026

The number of threats Windows Security is finding as I import an ancient 13 GB mbox is too damn high.

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