Reposted by Lance SteelAlfred E. Neuman ( MAD Magazine ) @alfreds-mad-world.bsky.social · 27/09/2026 4295
Lance Steel @sweatybitter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026"But I'm a single issue voter and he was the only candidate who promised to make DST permanent." 010
Lance Steel @sweatybitter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Uh oh. Trump is looking for a reason to bomb FIFA. 000
Lance Steel @sweatybitter.bsky.social · 10/08/2026theshovel.com.au/2026/08/10/n...theshovel.com.auNew Hotline Launched To Help Governments Addicted to Gambling Revenue — The ShovelGovernments that struggle to get through the day without claiming to care about the effects of gambling while simultaneously taking money from gambling companies, will now have access to a confidentia... 000
Lance Steel @sweatybitter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026He's playing the "invisible accordion" which means he's telling a whopper of a lie. 000
Lance Steel @sweatybitter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026My gripes: People posting screenshots from x with the timestamp cropped off. They are trying to pass 5+ year old posts as something so-and-so "just said". Add 2mm to the bottom of your crop job to add legitimacy to your post. 1/2 100
Reposted by Lance SteelMark @ferl67.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Italy: recipe for ancient elixir, possible Coca-Cola precursor, found in convent www.euronews.com/culture/2026... #Archaeology #Historyeuronews.comItaly: recipe for ancient elixir, possible Coca-Cola precursor, found in conventIn the archive of Florence's historic San Marco Pharmacy, a recipe for an "Elixir vinoso ricostituente" has been found, using the same ingredients as "French Wine Cola", the medicinal precursor of tod... 152
Lance Steel @sweatybitter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026From the party that views breast feeding as pornography... www.thebulwark.com/p/right-wing...thebulwark.comRight-Wing Media and OnlyFans Are in a Symbiotic RelationshipCrotchety views and crotch views. 000
Lance Steel @sweatybitter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Why do people still give these hucksters a platform to spout their nonsense? I'd be laughed at and fired from my job if I said something as dumb as this. These guys say it and are worshipped as tech visionaries. 000
Lance Steel @sweatybitter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comUS government targets Cop City protester over phone operating systemConcern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS 010
Lance Steel @sweatybitter.bsky.social · 23/07/2026To paraphrase his final thought in the message thread: If Alphabet, with all it's non-AI revenue streams, is struggling to turn a profit on AI, what hope do the AI-only companies have? 010
Lance Steel @sweatybitter.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Is congress finally waking up to what an unregulated AI industry leads to? 000
Lance Steel @sweatybitter.bsky.social · 17/07/2026How's about tire slashers so "vandals" don't drive multi-ton motorcades on the freshly painted/sealed foundation? 000
Lance Steel @sweatybitter.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Having to interact with men having attitudes like this is why I have so few male friends. 000
Lance Steel @sweatybitter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026He's the lead in some of my favs: Dead Calm, In the Mouth of Madness, Event Horizon just to name a few. A monumental talent! www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...theguardian.comSam Neill, actor and star of Jurassic Park, dies aged 78New Zealand actor built career as dashing romantic leads and charismatic villains across film and television 000
Lance Steel @sweatybitter.bsky.social · 10/07/2026My employer is seeing the exact same results; high AI utilization = high cost, not much increase in productivity. Luckily for them, they didn't terminate the workforce immediately after adopting an "AI first" approach... they definitely were planning on doing it further down the road though. 000
Lance Steel @sweatybitter.bsky.social · 10/07/2026We've fired a bunch of people prematurely and the magic of AI hasn't led to the massive gains we believed would happen. www.reuters.com/business/zuc...reuters.comEXCLUSIVE: Meta's Zuckerberg says AI agent tech progressing slower than expectedMeta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged shortcomings in the company's sweeping restructuring at an internal town hall on Thursday, saying the systems known as AI agents had not progressed a... 010
Reposted by Lance SteelHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/07/2026“Companies across tech, entertainment, banking, and many other industries are throttling their employees’ use of AI and pleading with workers to use less powerful models to stop AI costs from spiraling out of control…”404media.coCompanies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too ExpensiveSources and leaks from Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, Citi, and more show what is really happening with AI right now: companies are trying to reign in AI use as costs spiral out of control. 1323173
Reposted by Lance Steel404 Media @404media.co · 24/06/2026Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides, according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media. Welcome to the Tokenpocalypse.404media.coThe Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AILeaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides. 941952655
Reposted by Lance SteelThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 11/06/2026Visa is embedding its payment network into ChatGPT, allowing the chatbot to shop and complete transactions for users.bit.lyVisa plugs its payment network into ChatGPT, letting AI agents shop and pay for usersVisa is embedding its payment network into ChatGPT, allowing the chatbot to shop and complete transactions for users. 408525248
Lance Steel @sweatybitter.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Big Tech has gotten businesses to adopt AI and is now pushing solutions to the question, "How can you use AI to fix the problems that your AI adoption has created?" 010
Reposted by Lance SteelErin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 14/05/2026"Hall is currently running follow-up experiments to see if agents become Marxist in more controlled conditions. In the previous study, the agents sometimes appeared to understand that they were taking part in an experiment. “Now we put them in these windowless Docker prisons,” Hall says ominously."wired.comOverworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers FindIn a recent experiment, mistreated AI agents started grumbling about inequality and calling for collective bargaining rights. 66315
Reposted by Lance Steelboo!burdsandwurds @burdsandwurds.bsky.social · 09/05/2026“Two more Coloradans came forward after that story aired. Both were surrounded by law enforcement. Both were unaware whether they were removed from a police hotlist . . . Neither had done anything wrong. Both had been quietly sitting in a police database for who knows how long.”9news.comNot a one-off: More Coloradans stopped by police after data errors triggered Flock alertsA 76-year-old grandmother is among the Coloradans repeatedly pulled over after data errors triggered inaccurate Flock camera alerts. 15018
Reposted by Lance SteelErin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 09/05/2026As unsettling as it is to have a Flock FWPD camera 2 blocks from our 300-door 70s era redlined housing project complex now owned by out of state PEI, the camera has been missing this week and that too is unsettling esp now that I know it's almost surely being upgraded to a shot spotting onewane.comFWPD begins testing on Flock surveillance cameras with audio detectionThe system, which uses acoustic sensors to identify sounds associated with gunfire and other potential public safety threats, is the latest Flock Safety technology to be used by the department alon… 48413
Reposted by Lance SteelThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/04/2026AI job scams are booming – and I was fooled by one. Here is how to avoid themtheguardian.comAI job scams are booming – and I was fooled by one. Here is how to avoid themFraudsters are using the promise of fake roles to trick job-seekers out of money, personal information or both, and with the help of AI they are more convincing than ever. But there are ways to spot them 35020
Reposted by Lance SteelLeila Brillson @leilza.bsky.social · 20/04/2026It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for. 146230324329
Lance Steel @sweatybitter.bsky.social · 19/04/2026If I sent this to my 2014-self, I'd have thought it was from The Onion. 000
Reposted by Lance SteelEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026A society that runs on this stack doesn't stop holding elections, or debating, or running investigations. The forms stay, but what goes is their capacity to constrain power. The arc bends toward simulation, carried out in the language of defending democracy. 15807164
Lance Steel @sweatybitter.bsky.social · 08/04/2026How many billions did we spend on this war only to end up letting Iran get $2 million a pop for each boat passing through the Straight? That seems like the opposite of "The Art of the Deal". 110
Reposted by Lance Steel👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 07/04/2026God, I love her so much. Just banger after bager. She's in it purely for the love of the game and I respect that. 3106737876
Lance Steel @sweatybitter.bsky.social · 05/04/2026When you vote for a candidate just because they'll hurt people you don't like, you need to realize there's a good chance you're someone else's "other people". 010
Reposted by Lance SteelCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/04/2026DRW: “.. The 6-month average for payrolls has been negative in four of the last five months. .. This might matter because every time the 6-month average for Nonfarm Payrolls falls below zero it occurs during a recession, usually in the opening months of the recession.” 14374133
Reposted by Lance SteelJohn Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset. 168183436899
Reposted by Lance SteelGergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 31/03/2026This is either brilliant or scary: Anthropic accidentally leaked the TS source code of Claude Code (which is closed source). Repos sharing the source are taken down with DMCA. BUT this repo rewrote the code using Python, and so it violates no copyright & cannot be taken down! 882391533
Reposted by Lance Steelits me, im kris @imkrisyim.com · 28/03/2026new github update automatically enables scraping your code for copilot 😍☺️ change it under settings > copilot > features > privacy 431310803
Reposted by Lance SteelMike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Something wholly satisfying about mocking up my taxes on turbotax, then filing on FreeTaxUSA 3353
Lance Steel @sweatybitter.bsky.social · 27/03/2026It turns out AI chatbots might not be on the up-and-up. Considering developers at Anthropic have said they can't always explain why AI's do what they do, you might want to minimize the amount of personal data you are passing to our favorite AI helper. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comNumber of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study saysExclusive: Research finds sharp rise in models evading safeguards and destroying emails without permission 000
Lance Steel @sweatybitter.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Patel probably didn't even complete his mandatory phishing training because he's "too smart to get hacked". www.reuters.com/world/us/ira...reuters.comIran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email, publish excerpts onlineIran-linked hackers have publicly claimed the breach of FBI Director Kash Patel's personal inbox, publishing photographs of the director and other documents to the internet. 000
Lance Steel @sweatybitter.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Why are gas prices up? You're either lying and we DO need the Strait of Hormuz OR the gas companies are using the war as a cover to jack the prices up and make records profits. Which is it? 000
Lance Steel @sweatybitter.bsky.social · 26/03/2026It's like a bad action movie title. Aren't we up to "Final Blow 4: Blow Harder" by now? 000
Lance Steel @sweatybitter.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Are they doing this to stop countries from spying on US citizens or are they looking at this as a way to add backdoors and tracking so they can spy on their own citizens? You might want to switch to routers using OpenWRT just to be safe. gizmodo.com/fcc-bans-all...gizmodo.comFCC Bans All New Routers Not Made in AmericaRouters the FCC has already approved can still be sold, but further approvals of foreign-made routers will not be issued. 001
Lance Steel @sweatybitter.bsky.social · 23/03/2026You don't say... www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comWorkers who fall for ‘corporate bullshit’ may be worse at their jobs, study findsNew study finds that employees impressed by corporate speak may be least equipped to make effective decisions 000
Lance Steel @sweatybitter.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Trump told me if I voted for Kamala we'd be at war with Iran, the Epstein files would never be released, and inflation would be sky high. I have to admit he was right! 020
Lance Steel @sweatybitter.bsky.social · 20/02/2026I asked AI to generate me a picture of two guys working out in a sauna and this is the crazy thing it came up with. 020
Reposted by Lance SteelThe Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 20/02/2026This year, Pikachu turns 30. Zelda and Link hit 40, and Donkey Kong celebrates his 45th. How did Japan's gaming icons reach middle age, and what's in store for them once they're officially over the hill? 👉 ebx.sh/BDEEqg 3256
