another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

LOL - although to be fair cracking it and refusing to pay an Adobe subscription is probably the most relatable thing Elon Musk has ever done.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last

slop machines “know” exactly nothing, a simple web search would be a better strategy, slop users <will> cause cultural harm, and people with sufficient knowledge are required to check and correct the slop, again demonstrating slop to be a huge drain on productivity. thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

The good news just keeps on coming

Yikes.

You could count on the fingers of one hand the number of people* who really wanted this in footy. *excluding anyone who is, or is related to an AFL House or club employee, anyone who is, or is related to an AFL club 'official partner', or anyone involved in an AFL 'broadcast partner' role.

The *default* function of a chatbot will be the fabrication of fake information. This is baked into the core design of the product: so stuff like "please check outputs" and "ethical" AI use are just attempts to broom a tidal wave back into the sea

lol

Pains me to say it but I think this is true. Some of my colleagues in the media who’ve stayed on X don’t even realize how badly its noxious algorithm is skewing their perception of politics and reality. Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.

The collapse of these AI companies cannot come quickly enough.

Lol I was one of the people who lodged an ACCC complaint about this. Go ACCC! This was outrageous. (For those who don’t know, you can maintain your copilot free Office but the option to do so was hidden.) youtu.be/9lGK5CXtwKo?...

Reading the Wikipedia page about DB Cooper and there is a lot going on in this description of Cooper copycat Glenn Tripp.

Alan Kohler on AI taking his financial analysis to a darker place than usual.

twitter is making mainstream reporters dumber, and because they're all getting dumber together, none of them can recognize it and they actually think they're getting smarter

Zach Merrett should fire his manager. All the strategy and finesse of Leroy Jenkins. #afl

As someone who experienced the 2000 era tech bubble collapse, this is fucking wild to watch. No one wants to pay for this bullshit which is why they keep forcing it on everyone, while spending the GDP of a reasonably sized country to build more of the thing that no one wants. It's fucking absurd

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

The dunks on this in the replies are well worth reading. Heartening to see such contempt.

If "Abundance" isn't an establishment psy-op to trick liberals into being ineffective and derby stooges, I'll be genuinely shocked

CEOs be like: “AI is fantastic. The only things it appears to struggle with are things I am skilled at/knowledgeable about. It’s pretty bad at those. It’s great at all the stuff I’m not well-versed with, though.”

It’s infuriating that Stewart will miss the GF and they’ll change the timing of the bye next year to avoid it happening again. This was a completely foreseeable outcome 5+ years ago and the #afl just sleep-walked on and let it happen.

This vid about a dead mall in Oklahoma is bananas. It also shows an incredibly grim downtown. Obviously this is an extreme example, but I think in Australia we are sheltered from just how bad both brick and mortar retail, and urban environments more generally, are in the US. youtu.be/RTxwJPrzu08?...

Some sort of automated cost recovery from certain former politicians and public servants would seem to be in order.

Read @amyremeikis.bsky.social's excellent column on Charlie Kirk that The New Daily saw fit to take down here: amyremeikis.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...

Broadcasters (I’m watching on Foxtel) are optically adding an AAMI logo onto the ground. It looks like one of those tricky perspective painted ground ads (which they also have), but it is not there in long shots. What new corporate bullshit is this? #afl

Every Gold Coast player surely got the classic “is that what you’re wearing?” from their partners when leaving the house tonight. #afl

Crows did a lot to set this situation up by fighting so hard on the Rankine suspension, which was the opposite of their lip service to accepting he’d done the wrong thing. #afl www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

I know I've posted a lot of words about the booing of Isaac Quaynor but I am just so disturbed by it. It is far too reminiscent of the booing of Adam Goodes. Isn't it a funny coincidence that so many booing targets are players of colour; POC who didn't "know their place" and spoke up #afl

Worst umpiring decision ever (the first of the two Cameron kicks). #afl

This feels a lot like a grand final matchup, with whoever loses tonight going the long way round. #afl

Will the absence of reliable automatic metro service in the United States mark the moment its citizens notice how far behind their country has fallen?

Why did the Foxtel commentators talk over the soft call? Shut up so we can hear. #afl #aflcrowspies

When all is said and done, the very worst punishment ultimately rests on Linda Reynolds. There is nothing more terrifying, no more painful punishment that I can think of, that is worse than this for Reynolds . . . Linda Reynolds has to live the rest of her life being Linda Reynolds.

SovCits and other unhinged cooker types are the real problem in this country, not people speaking out against genocide who are labelled as anti-semitic by some. Governments need to wake up and get with the programme otherwise reality will continue to bite them on the arse just like it did today.

One of the most irritating things about management edicts re: uni teaching is how often they come from people who actively avoid teaching, who've forgotten what the inside of a classroom looks like, and whose views seem derived from decades-old memories of a bad lecturer or their own bad lecturing

Bulldogs weirdly reluctant to rely on Essendon beating Gold Coast. #afl

Turned on the TV to watch the #afl pre-game and it’s halfway through the first quarter. What crazy time did this game start?!?

Pleasing to see the broadcast getting stuck into the Rankine verdict. #afl

Garbage League

AFL will want to have a bloody good explanation of how Rankine got a week off the previous normal suspension. Especially since Adelaide’s approach this week indicates a lack of remorse. #afl

Laura Loomer, who the president has consulted for decisions on who to fire, is arguing with a chatbot

Planners embracing AI solutions.

The link is well worth reading. There’s a lot of detail in there that gives a sense of how bad these chat bots are.

Woah.....this article was published 113 years ago!!!!