vxbush 12/18/2025 5:37:30 AM

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UK Imprisons Man for 17 Days — for Each X View of His 'Hate' Speech

He got a total of 18 of jail time with 33 people viewing his tweet. And how often do certain other people post death to Israel on a regular basis with no action taken in that same country? Yeah, I think we know. 

vxbush 12/18/2025 5:43:14 AM

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This AI Keeps Getting Dumb and Dumber, and I've Got the Receipts

In this case, ChatGPT is the idiot, saying Charlie Kirk is still alive, among other things. I have never liked ChatGPT, mostly because if everyone else was going with it, I figured it probably wasn't the best. I've had much better success with other engines. 

But there has been clear chatter that the AI engines are working hard to supplant regular web searches so that they can eventually completely control the narrative like the halcyon days of the 20th century news organizations. It wasn't enough to control the search engine results and bury the truth pages down in the results; now, they don't even want to give you the truth. 

JCM 12/18/2025 7:40:00 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 1:

Keir Starmer can eat my shorts... after I have nasty bout of bowel issues.

Come and get me Keir you don't have the balls for it.

JCM 12/18/2025 7:43:15 AM

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BONDI PANIC Cops ram car filled with men ‘planning violence on Bondi Beach’ and arrest seven as Sydney on edge after terror attack

Footage shows counter-terrorism police in camouflage fatigues handcuffing the men who were allegedly on their way to the famous beach.

JCM 12/18/2025 7:48:24 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 2:

AI so far is a net negative. It's making people dumber. People are outsourcing thinking, writing, research skills to AI.

I could use AI in my current position to collate and cross reference data strewn across multiple databases. AI has potential, but only in cases where the user has a good idea of the output needed.

Occasional Reader 12/18/2025 8:39:14 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 1:

I saw this story yesterday. In my opinion: there are a lot of good examples of how free speech is dying in the UK. This is not really one of them. But this guy was posting looked very much like a direct incitement to violence; he was not merely posting his opinions about immigration. 

Occasional Reader 12/18/2025 8:41:06 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 2: 

Just a couple weeks ago, Google AI overview informed me that the current attorney general of the United States was Merrick Garland.

Occasional Reader 12/18/2025 8:44:06 AM

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Reply to JCM in 4:

this calls for one thing, and one thing only: MOAR GUN CONTROL

Occasional Reader 12/18/2025 8:45:47 AM

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JCM 12/18/2025 8:49:24 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 8:

I have a different opinion on the matter. The issue is clearly that the bad guys use a car to travel to their planned misdeeds.

We clearly need common sense car control. Only self driving cars owned by the government should be allowed. When you access the car you have to clearly state you need for the car and the purpose of the trip. That why these guys would have been stopped from even starting out make something happen.

vxbush 12/18/2025 8:58:22 AM

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In #6 Occasional Reader said: I saw this story yesterday. In my opinion: there are a lot of good examples of how free speech is dying in the UK. This is not really one of them. But this guy was posting looked very much like a direct incitement to violence; he was not merely posting his opinions about immigration. 

If this case had been in the US, would you have supported his arrest? Is there a good line in US law between incitement and free speech of unpopular opinions? I honestly don't know. 

vxbush 12/18/2025 8:59:16 AM

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In #5 JCM said: AI so far is a net negative. It's making people dumber. People are outsourcing thinking, writing, research skills to AI. I could use AI in my current position to collate and cross reference data strewn across multiple databases. AI has potential, but only in cases where the user has a good idea of the output needed.

AI does fine in programming if you have a short conversation. But the longer the conversation/chat goes, the more the AI gets confused and you get garbage. I had to deal with this yesterday when it solved five problems for me and created brand new ones instead. Winning! 

vxbush 12/18/2025 9:11:53 AM

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In #9 Occasional Reader said: So I’m seeing people in the right blogosphere becoming deeply, deeply invested in the  crazy idea that the administration of Brown University is deliberately protecting the killer, and/or was even complicit in the attack.  People. Just stop it. Please. 

I think those stories are being intentionally hyped, no? I saw some and intentionally did not read them because of the level of crazy. 

vxbush 12/18/2025 9:12:48 AM

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In #7 Occasional Reader said: Just a couple weeks ago, Google AI overview informed me that the current attorney general of the United States was Merrick Garland.

Yeah. Riiiiiiiight. 

"Do computer AIs dream of leftist attorneys general?"

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vxbush 12/18/2025 9:19:42 AM

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Show me the dataset, or I'm going to say this is pandering to Republicans. I'm not saying she didn't do insider trading, but I want those numbers verified.

Kosh's Shadow 12/18/2025 9:33:56 AM

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The non-gravitational acceleration of 3I/Atlas is strong and increasing.

If this were due to outgassing from a comet, it would decrease with the distance from the Sun.

And as the article says, acceleration out of the plane of of the orbit is quite rare.

JCM 12/18/2025 9:42:32 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 16:

They've reviewed transmissions from earth and are getting the heck out of town!

Occasional Reader 12/18/2025 11:14:39 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 16:

I know who this is, but I refuse to say. I’m taking the Fithp Amendment.

/recycled joke

JCM 12/18/2025 12:54:11 PM

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Putin keeps pushing the envelope.

Russian guards breach NATO territory on hovercrafts

Estonian media reported that around 10 a.m. local time on Wednesday, three Russian border guards crossed the Estonian-Russian border and were in the NATO member for about 20 minutes without permission. The guards were spotted by surveillance equipment on a hovercraft on the Narva River near the Vasknarva breakwater, located on both Russian and Estonian territory in Ida-Viru County.   

JCM 12/18/2025 1:11:31 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 18:

You have the right to lie on your back and present you soft underbelly.

You then will submit to the will of the herd.

JCM 12/18/2025 1:15:14 PM

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Reply to JCM in 20:

Now that I think about it, that sounds awfully similar to another herd we are familar with.