So this is a very, very desperate move - a very silly app of generative AI slop that will be incredibly expensive for OpenAI to run, and on top of it, they're requiring rights holders to *opt out* once they see violations. You can't do it in advance. They're washed, and trying everything to survive.

I’ve been training my cat to play ambient music. Last night he hit me with this hauntingly beautiful chord change after 10 minutes of A7sus4

You know a restaurant will be legit when there's a Google review like this

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

This seems fine.

what if we kissed on the pretty freight machine

A week from today is day 1 of @monktoberfest.com and once again, I. Can't. Wait. Best conference. Best hang. Best people. Best setting. Least pretension. Oh and some of the best beer on the planet. Who else is going to #monktoberfest this year?

Flock around, find out: Flock apparently decided to reinstall all of the ALPRs they recently took down in Evanston. One problem though: they didn't consult Evanston about it. The city sent a cease & desist letter, and Flock has "committed to promptly removing the cameras." Full story here ⬇️

Seriously though should I just get dressed and walk over to the nearest 5am bar and pretend like I'm not even trying to sleep

Really enjoying this whole "wake up after 2am and can't get back to sleep" lark lately. Really sets you up for the day huh

this is gaslighting, plain and simple. No, it's not the worker producing workslop, it's the fucking AI!

So here's my possibly-unpopular thought about house guests: If you're staying over at someone's house and it saves you X nights in a hotel, you should treat the hosts to a meal that is AT LEAST the cost of one of those nights you've just saved.

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

Today is a death/doom day in Casa del Burrito open.spotify.com/track/4CHV4w...

Just read a mention of the Tunity app (www.tunity.com ) and holy moly, what a neat idea for having an earbud in for game audio in a bar where they have TVs muted.

I don't want to get all @edzitron.com about this (OK maybe I do) but goddamn, I've been struggling with an annoying bug all afternoon and let me tell you, "AI" code models sure aren't doing anything but going in circles. I'm hitting the pub.

Is this the world's most prominent Liverpool fan?

*howls in European disbelief*

Kefir Starmer

I thank my lucky stars every day I don't have a tiktok account

To any security researcher or CERT person the Rosé/Bruno Mars song must just trigger cold sweats. Advanced Persistent Threat Advanced Persistent Threat Ah-huh, uh-huh youtu.be/ekr2nIex040

Oh shit it's a labRET piercing, not a labRAT piercing, this changes everything

Watching morning news and they're doing a bit about the Emmys. Everyone losing their minds about Golden Girls and uhh I've never seen a single episode

Randomly pining for Teletext today. What a weird thing to be missing.

Incredible www.reddit.com/r/rareinsult...

Shout-out to the guy provoking a two-row evacuation of the United Center by projectile vomiting halfway through the NIN show tonight 👍

Efficiency of logistics is the boring obvious one, but the one that I actively enjoy is being able to walk to a bar or restaurant or whatever on a whim. No driving needed, no parking required to be found, I can have pretty much anything within a 15 minute walk.

I keep thinking about this guy from NASA who was on NPR once saying, "for every person in space there are 5000 people on earth keeping the person in space from immediately dying, there is no way this can be scaled"

Hoo boy is this class going to hit a brick wall if they go to University.

*waves in living in Chicago, enthusiastically pointing towards this*

A federal agent used a local cop's password for Flock to do an immigration-related search without his knowledge. Illegal in Illinois and at the very least a Flock terms of service violation. Of course they're all just joking about it though: www.404media.co/feds-used-lo...

I know blogs are dead &c &c but if I wanted to write something that had some sort of longevity / availability for posterity, what's the current non-platform hotness ?

Gonna be lit when companies that own AI transcription services start selling your confidential medical data to Amazon so they can tweak your recommended products. Or just straight to AI-fueled hiring services to quietly weed out sick candidates.

Oops I accidentally $80 on the roulette. You can call me Kai Roller from now on.

This is all kinds of neat www.theregister.com/2025/08/10/d...

Oh my god the Silver Stamp has both Russian River beers AND Hamm's? And the soundtrack slaps? Hell yeah

Oh my god this bar rules. I have been here for all of 3 minutes and I can say that with significant confidence. Silver Stamp, thank you for existing.

The "snitch puck" Highschooler reveals the vape detectors installed in their school bathrooms are loaded with spy hardware and capabilities. And ofc then hacks the shit out of them for DefCon. www.wired.com/story/school...

That's Def Con day 1 in the books. Beer time. #dc33 #defcon

Irrationally excited for getting to go to the Silver Stamp here in Vegas tonight

Watching the Social Engineering Village Vishing competition and having a target answer "yeah we have to do security training..." and then proceed to answer a lot of questions about the company VPN etc is PRICELESS! #dc33 #defcon

Young kids walking up to the Def Con NFO stand and asking "What's En Eff Oh?" The greybeard patiently explained the concept of the .nfo file. I feel old and haggard. #defcon #dc33

chatgpt 5 bring wife back. How bring wife back

It's wild how bringing a bottle of Malört is like a cheat code in a market where it's not distributed. Long may that continue.

Good god it's hot in Vegas. My pasty ass isn't used to this. 10 minute walk to tacos and I'm gasping

You know what's heartening? The sheer gender and presentation diversity at Def Con compared to pretty much every other tech conference I've been to. Hell, there's toddlers here with their parents! KubeCon in particular needs to sort itself out.

Pretty sure I just walked past @medus4.com at Def Con and was like "argh that's a face I know From Online"

Turns out there is such a thing as too long of a password for the #dc33 WiFi credentials. Oops.

Oh hello #dc33 #defcon

Early morning flights to Vegas sure do bring them out. FA offering PDBs of orange juice or water. Dude behind me asks for something else. "That'll be available when we do the main service". Grumbling. Another person: why isn't the WiFi working? We're still sat on the ground with the door open.