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‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets — Guardian US Shares in Uber, Mastercard and American Express fall on back of apocalypse scenario posted on Substack

Someone speculates on the answer to the question: “when AI takes our jobs…who will buy their shit?” And the market shakes. apple.news/AdFpTbzwDS8e...

Another Measles Death Is Coming The number of measles cases in the U.S. is too high to avoid the disease’s worst outcomes for long.

The CDC is reporting 982 cases of measles; a tracker run by researchers at Johns Hopkins University has ticked past 1,000 already. By the numbers alone, the year's first measles death seems inevitable. @katherinejwu.com reports:

A image of a magazine article headline that reads “Girls: They are Pretty”

Back in the 1940s outlets like Life weren’t afraid to tackle the tough stuff

Unfortunately, not wrong in many cases...

Sam Altman’s anti-human worldview OpenAI CEO downgrades humanity in pursuit of goal to merge with computers

OpenAI is a menace. Two recent stories make that clearer than ever.

One day you have Sam Altman denigrating humanity to defend AI. The next, WSJ reveals OpenAI could have alerted Canadian police of a potential mass shooter, but refused pressure from employees. That person went on to kill 8 people.

L’acteur Robert Carradine décède à l’âge de 71 ans Il souffrait de troubles bipolaires depuis deux décennies et qu’il s’est suicidé, selon sa famille.

L’acteur Robert Carradine décède à l’âge de 71 ans.
www.noovo.info/nouvelles/ar...

This post is the single best advert for the fact that proper local journalism matters.
If Jim’s team hadn’t put the pieces together quickly, this wouldn’t have been stopped.

Tweet that reads Leo Xander @STALLEON Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken V - it is bigger than the car

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

La DMT, un psychédélique prometteur pour traiter la dépression

La drogue a été bien tolérée par les patients et n’a engendré que des effets secondaires légers à modérés. #drogue #dépression

It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to comp...

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold.

The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold.

fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

EXIT: The Game – Prison Break Can you work well with others to escape prison in time?

Played EXIT: The Game – Prison Break today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/38... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

Haven’t been watching a ton of Olympics but have enjoyed what I’ve seen. I have ESPECIALLY loved watching Flavor Flav have a great time there, be a hype man for the athletes, and try all the sports.

Hot Streak Which mascot will cross the finish line first? Who will be DQ'd?

Played Hot Streak 2 times today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/44... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

The Economist once put a picture of camels literally fucking on the cover, I thought nothing could be worse. Today Wired proved me wrong.

Scientists discover why high altitude protects against diabetes Living at high altitude appears to protect against diabetes, and scientists have finally discovered the reason. When oxygen levels drop, red blood cells switch into a new metabolic mode and absorb lar...

Scientists discover why high altitude protects against diabetes | ScienceDaily - goo.gl/alerts/bjpE31 #GoogleAlerts

German soccer team cancels Minnesota visit due to ICE crackdown Bundesliga side Werder Bremen were planning to visit in May, though no matches were scheduled.

This is what needs to happen.

Cancel the World Cup.

Cancel the Olympics.

Cancel your US vacations.

Refuse to support this regime and refuse to endanger lives.

Why isnt the bundle available everywhere .. ?

Godot maintainers struggle with 'draining and demoralizing' AI slop submissions GitHub itself to blame for AI slop pull requests, say devs Rémi Verschelde, a maintainer of the open source Godot game engine, is the latest to complain about the impact of "AI slop PRs [pull requests]", which he says "are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for Godot maintainers."…

ICYMI: Godot maintainers struggle with 'draining and demoralizing' AI slop submissions

Sony is closing the studio behind the Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus remakes It never released another remaster after Sony bought it.

Sony bought *the* studio acclaimed for creating the best remakes and remasters on the planet... then closed it without ever doing another.

Bluepoint worked on a now-canceled God of War live service game instead.

I'm sure it's more complicated than that, but 'sigh'
www.theverge.com/games/881578...

What a horrifying end for such an admired and successful studio, just incredible work time after time after time.

Disaster.

Et toujours pas de couverture médiatique massive. Toujours pas de mise en accusation du RN.

Le mec a tiré sur des policiers et leur a lancé des GRENADES.

11am: monitoring shows site's down
noon: staff on site calls in, says site is down. Helpdesk replies reboot our router + the ISP's to be sure
3pm: helpdesk escalates 'hey, how about that reboot?'
7pm: boss replies 'oh nevermind, we don't have power'

If you need employees, please come steal ours.

33 Immortals Demo on Steam 33 Immortals is a co-op action-roguelike for 33 players. Play a damned soul, and rebel against God's final judgment. Pick-up and raid, cooperate to survive hordes of monsters, defeat massive bosses, a...

Immortals, we heard you and increased the Steam demo time limit to 6 hours!

Have fun exploring the Beyond, face Lucifer, and invite your friends to join the Rebellion ⚔️

See you in Dark Woods and please leave us a review on Steam 🙏

#33Immortals #IndieDev #IndieGame #Steam

Useful context: Escapist's entire video team (inc Yahtzee) quit to form @secondwindgroup.com in 2023. Escapist barely posted on YT for a year, got sold, and then started spamming online gambling ads and shitty streamer reacts.

When this is your "content," your company's dying, with or without AI

I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.

Race for AI is making Hindenburg-style disaster ‘a real risk’, says leading expert Prof Michael Wooldridge says scenario such as deadly self-driving car update or AI hack could destroy global interest The race to get artificial intelligence to market has raised the risk of a Hindenburg-style disaster that shatters global confidence in the technology, a leading researcher has warned. Michael Wooldridge, a professor of AI at Oxford University, said the danger arose from the immense commercial pressures that technology firms were under to release new AI tools, with companies desperate to win customers before the products’ capabilities and potential flaws are fully understood. Continue reading...

Race for AI is making Hindenburg-style disaster ‘a real risk’, says leading expert

Don't think I've ever heard of any game pubs becoming an actual chain.. ever seen that anywhere?

Also - welcome to Mtl :)