Border Patrol Drones now using LLM-based “Predictive Empathy” to screen migrants. Ethical lapse or necessary evil?

🚨 Cloudflare Outage Day 14: Only 5 Sites Still Online. This Is Not a Drill.

Voyager 1’s final official ping confirmed, exactly 60 years after launch. 🫡 Farewell, old friend.

At least the plant does some good in the world.

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Epic is bullshit. Fuck them.

Yes, of course he is a racist. Not too long ago he went on a 20 minute rant about “DEI” (which is a racist code word for people of color) and the Debian Project. He is also anti-lgbtqia, sexist, and ablist. He consistently deadnames and misgenders trans people. He is an all around bigoted asshole who does nothing good in this world and spends the majority of his existence spreading hate and misinformation.

Sources:
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/debian-linux-doesnt-want-straight
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/elementary-os-is-imploding?s=r

Edit: typo

How to tell people you are a racist without telling people you are a racist, associate in any way with Lunduke.

I drink alcohol maybe once per year and I’ve never touched weed. I feel joy when I am around people and animals whom I love.

Another reason not to use vanilla Firefox.

How funny, I am in the south too.

bricks

I’m happy with 1080p content. I have a 4k TV and from the couch I can’t see a difference. I would be perfectly happy with a bargain 4k TV, bigger the better.

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I don’t know how I’ve lived this far into my life without using a random year generator. So often, I want to think of a random year yet the thought exercise is too encumbering.

Yes, Karl Marx wrote:

“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.”

“To be able forcefully and threateningly to oppose this party [bourgeois], the workers must be armed and organized.”

I have been preparing to delete my Google account very soon. I did a final takout request and I’m waiting for that email (it has been 4 days since the request), but there is a lot of stuff since it is a very old account and I was deep in the Google ecosystem. Over the last six months, I have deleted my Microsoft, Reddit, and Facebook accounts and I don’t regret it. Google has always been the big one and it has taken a lot of work to rearrange my life to cut it out.

It is shitty in many ways. First, I view videogames as art (because they are art) and taking out the human element just makes them a product created by a machine. Coding is a form of human expression. I understand the capitalist urge not to pay people, but replacing people with AI is a moral wrong. Microsoft, for example, after purchasing many studios over the past few years, has fired over 15,000 people in 2025 alone, despite making record profits and charging us more for new games.

I would be terrified if I were a full-time coder. Like many other occupations, programming jobs are in jeopardy. I would be considering other fields or specializations because these corporations plan to replace them all. Google already is saying that more 25% of their code is written by ai. That will only increase and bleed over to game development.

Second, by forcing the development timeline by basically any means necessary, you are creating an inferior product. Just throwing a game in early access because it isn’t complete isn’t a good solution and there are hundreds of games currently in that status. Personally, I avoid anything that is early access, with a few exceptions. I get the point in the article about making games with lesser graphics, which I am fine with if the project warrants it, but it feels like these companies don’t care what the product is as long as it sells. They are going to create ai-slop and charge us more for it. This is how the AAA industry dies.

Sources:

https://www.geekwire.com/2025/in-new-memo-microsoft-ceo-addresses-enigma-of-layoffs-amid-record-profits-and-ai-investments/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/29/24282757/google-new-code-generated-ai-q3-2024