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What is the quintessential Onion headline? The strong contender that just randomly popped in my mind is "Hank Williams Jr. Honored by Institute For Football Preparedness"

Given the initial take was "fuck, open his skull to save his life" everyone is pretty happy

Oh and with today's 6 monthly checkup I'm officially discharged from St Vincent's Neurosurgery team. Woot

Anyway. Truck is unloaded, kiddy is asleep in his cot in his new bedroom. Guess that's a good enough time to say yeah I'm back living in Melbourne again.

IPSOS do a regular poll of the extent to which the public trust members of various professions. I find it's often a useful reference point.

It's 2025. Anyone who accepts an email sign up without first sending a confirmation email to check the email address is correct needs to be bonked on the head with an amusing squeaky rubber hammer. If it's a gambling site, you can probably drop the word "rubber".

To support@tombola.co.uk Hilariously not only have you got an incorrect email address, your stupid website doesn't allow me to unsubscribe from your site as I am in Australia. I guess I'll just set up a Gmail rule to mark all future emails from you as spam in the hope that Gmail will start rejecting all of your emails and you learn to confirm email addresses before you start using them. I'd offer you a nice day, but gambling sites who don't manage the basic steps of email communication don't deserve that. Fix your fucking stuff, parasites.

New irritating form of incorrect email address spam

And cut the budget for international travel for the senior folks to fucking zero, if they deliver a project on time let them expense a trip. Premium economy at most.

Every year, keep reducing the Australian defence purchasing budget until they demonstrate an ability to deliver on time at the initial budgetted amount.

Sure this might seem radical, but the current approach of "what if we give them even more money next time" sure as fuck doesn't work

Pokemon Go the fuck away and get out of public life, thanks.

Or just Jetstar regular fucking incompetence

"oh if you have to buy replacement clothes for your toddler make sure to keep receipts" like c'mon man I'm not naive enough to believe that you'll ever reimburse that

"can you describe your bags" well they are the ones with the luggage tags your staff put on them at the airport, for a start.

Tip for Jetstar or anyone else. When your IVR has already determined that a caller is likely to be fairly fucking annoyed (like if they're calling about where the fuck their luggage is) perhaps tweak the onhold messages to skip the upselling messages.

Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.

SUNO r/SunoAl Jo 6h ago Join ThrowRA1234567788777 Sick of having to come up with prompts Discussion ... Hey y'all, looking for some tips here. I like what I've made so far with Suno but now I'm kind of hitting a wall with ideas for prompts. Why doesn't Suno also have a feature to write prompts for you? Like just hit a button the says "new prompt" and then hit make song when it comes up with something that sounds interesting! Thoughts?

not beating the “AI art is lazy” allegations

What a great headline

A few hours later, he sends me an example of how he’s been using AI. It’s a “hidden role deduction” game he’s working on. At the top is the prompt he put into ChatGPT: “You are five blind lesbian adventurers out for a good night out. Slaying dragons and whatnot. But one of your number is a hulking great troll pretending to be a woman. Find the troll lesbian and then devise an amusing punishment without giving him an erection.

Graham Linehan is a normal and well man.

god I hope Olivia Nuzzi never gets paid even one more cent by a single publication for the rest of her life

OpenAI requested memorial attendee list in ChatGPT suicide lawsuit | TechCrunch The new information comes as the Raines family updated its lawsuit against OpenAI. The family first filed a wrongful death suit against OpenAI in August after alleging their son had taken his own life...

Fuck these pricks so hard. techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/o...

It's expected in 2 years. Do they have 2 years of life left?

Sam Altman says OpenAI’s first device is iPhone-level revolutionary but brings ‘peace and calm’ instead of ‘unsettling’ flashing lights and notifications | Fortune Altman said the AI-first hardware will be released in less than two years.

Hahahahaha this is going to suck on a world record setting level. Like for years to come it will be spoken of in *awe* because of how bad it was. fortune.com/2025/11/25/s...

PNG a few of the fuckers

Ok palate cleanse time. In case you missed it, here's my most popular post ever

Isaac Chotiner: "You would have to be brain-dead to read this piece and not immediately wonder who is funding Semafor Gulf." Quote post of Ben Smith saying: "Fascinating @msergie piece on covering a monarchy" about a Semafor article on Saudi Arabia's crown prince Smith responds to Chotiner: "That's a hell of an allegation/implication, Isaac. To figure out the literal answer to your question, you'd either have to look and see who the sponsors are in the email (I haven't checked today!) or read our publicly disclosed list of investors. I believe you're trying to imply that it's the Saudi government? Have you read more of our coverage, or just this tweet? My impression — correct me if I'm wrong — is that you're working on zero information and smearing us in general, and an experienced journalist @msergie whose work I suspect you're totally unfamiliar with in particular." Chotiner responds:"I’m not making any allegation. I’m making a simple point about how an average reader—myself included—might respond after reading this ridiculous piece"

Ben Smith: "Just asking questions! Come on. You genuinely know better. Or read Mohammed's long career of work covering the Gulf and the Syrian war before you imply he's some kind of stooge." Noah Kulwin: "The point is not about who funds your reporting/if your colleague is a “stooge”. Isaac’s comment is that the reporting is so bad so as to make a reader wonder who is funding it" Smith: A reader, sure. A journalist who can do very basic homework, kind of lame. Chotiner: "You are right, I’ll do some homework now by perusing Jay Solomon Semafor pieces, and reading Jason Greenblatt Semafor columns. In the meantime, I will formally say that I am making no accusation and was just astonished at how inane the piece was"

Chotiner quote-posts with "I see Semafor loves running column after column by this guy (https://semafor.com/author/faisal-j-abbas), who also publishes pro-Saudi conspiracies about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi https://arabnews.com/node/1386291" Ben Smith's post says "I hope I'm not overreacting, but it makes me crazy when people I think of as reporters do this "just asking questions" stuff. Feel free to report it out by googling/asking me/reading our various scoops and reports about the region — these two just now" and links to two Semafor articles

Chotiner quote posts Ben Smith: "You might have heard that the UAE is helping destroy Sudan, but at the next Semafor event, all is well." Screenshot says "Held at Abu Dhabi Finance Week, Semafor will spotlight insights from the Global Findex 2025 report and the Global Digital Connectivity Tracker, translating global research into actionable, locally relevant conversations. As the third stop on The Next 3 Billion Tour, this edition explores how the Gulf's growing investments in Africa can accelerate digital connectivity and financial inclusion. With Abu Dhabi's focus on sustainable finance, digital transformation, and cross-border collaboration, it offers a strong platform to examine how technology and capital can work together to expand access and opportunity." Ben Smith's post says "Just asking questions! Come on. You genuinely know better. Or read Mohammed's long career of work covering the Gulf and the Syrian war before you imply he's some kind of stooge."

A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.

The thing about Carville's piece is that it's a perfect example of the way centrists can't write literally anything without getting in a few jabs at the left/minorities. It's entirely possible to run on "economic rage," sure. There's no need to go, "And remember what some people on Tumblr said??"

Like I've been a maintainer of large open source projects, shit I was the release manager for Python for a number of years. Absolutely no one wants this sort of large blob of AI slop in their project. Who's going to maintain it?

Note there's some deleted comments before the PR was marked closed.

I asked the LLM for a copyright analysis, and other things that would make *any* open source project say "absolutely fucking not"

Artisanal Coding Is Dead, Long Live Artisanal Coding! Discuss on Hacker News or Twitter. I recently discovered that I possess certain AI-assisted superpowers: I can now implement working features — the ones I actually need and want — far faster than if ...

Oooo yeah. See also joel.id/artisanal-co...