Why risk analysis is so hard whenever human behaviour is involved - it's "those other idiots" who make all the mistakes. "We", on the other hand, are not that stupid. Yes, you are capable of that stupidity, unless you've taken steps not to do so. Safety is not achieved by accident.

This should be a "fire the CEO" moment, or at least the CTO. You put your company's future at existential jeopardy for the sake of an untested technology, and the promise of fairy magic failed spectacularly.

I enjoyed watching this video. "This is not the AI we were promised" from the Royal Society Michael Faraday award.

Remember that a ruler is nothing more than a straight edge that's graduated.

Most testicular lumps are not cancerous, but some are. And the only way to know is to get checked. https://cnn.it/4waHkQF

Legitimate and timely advert in the Private Eye that arrived today. aquaplancton.co.uk

Musical Youth casually explaining to Blue Peter host Simon Groom, and the audience of children at home, exactly what a Dutchie is, and why you should pass it around.

Cuisinart's web page has an icon for a "shopping bag" that looks a little too like a raised middle finger. Particularly since I can't find the part - or even the grill model - I'm looking for.

The job will never love you back, but if you let it, it just might kill you.

Kids are going to be upset when they find out the news story about a "67 Summit in France" actually turns out to be an AI summary that misread "G7".

They're going to insist he commute three hours a day to come into the office.

One more time for the people in the back: I will always hate your real names proposal. I will always hate your backdooring crypto proposal. I will always hate your hack back proposal. These ideas are bad and you cannot dress them up in any way that will change that.

The sad results of "you're not going out looking like that, young lady" winning out too much.

I wrote about what was actually in that #Fable guardrail bypass research paper, and why it should never have triggered an #AI model export control. We can't export control our way to cyber resilience. So many tshirt ideas. www.lutasecurity.com/post/the-fab...

The luggage store could make even more money if they fixed up the least worst of the broken luggage that people are replacing with new suitcases, and then they could sell second-hand luggage to the people who are struggling along because they can't afford to replace with new.

I kind of wonder how it is that a company can actually waste money on lawyers to argue "no, we should be allowed to be completely, knowingly, and preventably, wrong in the delivery of our primary product."

England aren't even due to play here, and already, the unofficial decorations begin. The dragon on the lamppost did nothing, don't know why we put them there, if they don't scare off the vandals.

I feel like the lady in the Monty Python SPAM skit, but everything on offer is AI

What sort of absolute <> thinks that it's appropriate to make an advert that emphasises that they're the sort of <> who would ruin your day at a beach by running a boat billboard in front of your ocean view?

I know I don't actually understand the electronics, and that's why articles like this one are so irritating, because I get half way through before I realise, from trying to understand the circuit diagram, that it's probably written by AI and contains confidently incorrect content.

At circus. Love circus. Visit circus!

Tell no-one of our secret rocket fleet.

Thanks, LinkedIn - I was reminded that my profile hadn't been updated to represent the lateral move that was given to me in September, so I decided to update my profile, and now everyone's emailing me congrats on the promotion. I mean, yeah, OK, I'll take the congrats, but it wasn't what I planned.

"And that's what powers the city and keeps the society pleasant and prosperous?" "Goodness no," said the Mayor of Omelas, "This is just what we do because we're the elite, and we can get away with it."

Everyone has a teammate they suspect has a portrait painting hidden up in their attic.

I figured out, in my sleep last night, why I can't get my diabolo light circuit to go into low power mode. I asked the AI and it agreed with me. So now I'm not so sure.

Three years after you install a Windows domain, EFS magically gets disabled across your enterprise.

I guess we're expecting World Cup visitors to look at this sculpture and marvel at how whimsical we are.

Limited test run of the new Mazda 3-line.

Crazy Socialist Mayor of Seattle Says Cars Not Allowed to Drive on ‘Trains-Only’ Train Tracks: tinyurl.com/3hrm25vc

Reading a book about migraines, and the author somehow manages to clear the first chapter about migraines through history without mentioning a woman.

After many years of searching to try and discover who came up with the phrase "a gentleman is someone who says thank you to his robots", and not having found any satisfactory references, I'm begrudgingly going to have to claim that I came up with it. AI is no help.

"Lupins are rabbit-resistant". My arse, they are.

Is there anyone I know at Meta who can help me resolve Instagram disabling an account? Festival organisers, so they don't want to be sharing PII of an individual to confirm they exist.

How long until Microsoft tells IBM "We have Bob at home"?

Oh, random brand names on Amazon, you never cease to make us laugh. I am 12.

If your org still hasn’t figured out things like how to patch without production falling over or getting teams to talk to each other, a higher volume of findings will only make those things worse. Before you worry about Mythos, figure out how you’re going to deal with that

Honestly, I'd rather stop reading reddit, thanks.

Is there anyone I know at Meta who can help me resolve Instagram disabling an account? Festival organisers, so they don't want to be sharing PII of an individual to confirm they exist.

Thinking back to the day I was at my son's school, reading a display of some of the kids' reasons they loved living in the US. "I'm glad to live in the USA because at least I can cross the road when I want!" - oh, child, this is literally the country that invented jaywalking as a crime.

"Please bare with us" - if you're going to use an AI assistant for customer service, is it too much to ask that it can spell?

“The unpayable debt of being alive” That phrase & so many others pierce me to my core. I can’t fathom why, in a world of such hard won abundance passed down from our ancestors, we don’t yet have #UBI @scottsantens.com writes: scottsantens.substack.com/p/the-primor...

At least one writer got it right. "I wouldn't trust that computer to speak my weight."

Well, that seems like a good thing...

Yes, my notifications are off, because you already abused the crap out of that. I will not be turning them on again.

Sunday dinner. Everything bagel.

"We are laser-focused on the changing business landscape." So is a kitten.

Waiting at the park-and-ride for the interminable RTO bus ride, I occasionally notice a car pull up with a man driving, and the woman in the passenger seat. The man parks the car and gets out, and the woman switches into the driving seat and drives away. This perplexes me.

Genuinely disappointed by how many people work in technology and aren't embarrassed by the quality of the stuff they sell. At least, apparently not embarrassed enough to fix it.