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We can save the internet by going back our roots*
*cat memes

Und alle so: Yeah!
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/kubicki-fdp-100.html

Kubicki will neuer FDP-Chef werden
Wolfgang Kubicki möchte künftig die FDP anführen. Damit fordert der Parteivize beim Parteitag im Mai den nordrhein-westfälischen FDP-Landes- und Fraktionsvorsitzenden Höne und Amtsinhaber Dürr heraus.

Some assholes who sued the city to block the distribution of harm reduction supplies in the Tenderloin failed to get a preliminary injunction. Good. Hooray to the new café as well
https://missionlocal.org/2026/04/tenderloin-buzz-new-yemeni-cafe-eas…

Tenderloin Buzz:  New Yemeni cafe, mystery focaccia, and an easter egg hunt
Also: S.F. can keep distributing safe drug use supplies, judge rules.

slop consequences 🥹
I have no illusions that there's gonna be any once slop code does harm, tho. After all, companies got away with all kinds for hand-crafted, artisanal negligence for decades.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-tech…

Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes
Ars Technica has fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following an outrage-sparking controversy involving AI-fabricated quotes.

Imagine:
You are these parent of an adorable 4-year-old kid. They have made a toy airplane out of spare cardboard. Sadly, during play the wing has fallen off. You, a wise parent, produce a piece of duct tape and tape it back on. Your kid asks: "but what if the tape breaks, or the other wing falls off?" Dutifully, and with a completely serious manner, you duct tape the other wing, and then with a sharpie you write "Please DO NOT fall off!" on each wing. "There," you say, now the wings will not fall off. "
Your child happily returns to their play.
Imagine:
You are boarding a Boeing airplane for an intercontinental flight. Just the other day you were reading news about the emergency exit door falling off a Boeing airplane during flight. Thankfully nobody was injured in that incident, but a passenger could have been sucked out the gap and killed. As you walk down the aisle towards your seat at the back, you notice that around the emergency exit door of this plane, there are some scratch marks. It looks like it might not be 100% seated in place. You see several rolls worth of duct tape slapped onto the gaps between the door and the frame. In sharpie, someone has written "Please DO NOT fall off!" on the duct tape.
This is a post about #Agentic #AI.
To clarify: there are a host of reasons why using Claude Code is unethical in the first place, besides the fact that its a danger to its users. These make it unethical to use it even for a child's-toy-like application. But the source code we've just witnessed in the recent leak is *exactly* this level of "engineering." If you see an app that claims to be "programmed with AI" and it has any possibility of failing in a way that could harm you (for example, if it connects to the internet, meaning that poor programming could allow hackers to take over the device you run it on), my advice is: "Do not use it and warn your friends and family."
P.S. yes, this advice does apply to Microsoft Widows at this point, although that can be a tougher bullet to bite.

In response to the growing global kerosene shortage, German government now plans to lower the taxes on air tickets 🤦🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️
Fortunately, the taxes are ridiculously low, so this won't do much direct harm. But it's of course totally the wrong signal to give.
https://www.tag…

Bundesregierung will Luftverkehrssteuer wegen teurer Flüge senken
Für Flüge aus Deutschland soll von Juli an eine niedrigere Ticketsteuer gelten. CDU, CSU und SPD lösen damit ein Versprechen aus ihrem Koalitionsvertrag ein. Die Preise dürften allerdings kaum fallen.

heise | Grafik-Turbo Metal 4: So nutzen Sie Apples API mit KI, Games und mehr
Apple stattet Metal 4 mit künstlicher Intelligenz und Concurrency aus. Die GPU soll grafiklastigen Code dadurch deutlich schneller ausführen. So gehen Sie vor.

Police, jail, and banning stuff seem to be this board's/mayor's only "solutions" to the public health crisis of addiction, and not, for example, voluntary treatment: we still lack enough treatment facilities to accommodate every San Franciscan who comes in ready and wanting help to kick their habit.
This policy is particularly dumb because of its obvious harm to nightlife. People want to be able to buy snacks when they leave the club.

S.F. supervisors say late-night store ban is working. Not so fast, say criminologists. 
Researchers urge caution on policy implications, as San Francisco supervisors use study's results to push for a broader late-night ban.

Ich möchte vorschlagen, dass Betreiber von Gas- oder Ölheizungen sich selbst um einen Abnehmer ihres erzeugten Kohlendioxids kümmern müssen. Meinetwegen können die Verkäufer entsprechender Brennstoffe eine Art Pfandsystem einführen und das Kohlendioxid auch wieder zurücknehmen und recyclen. Es kann jedenfalls nicht sein, dass die Privatsache Heizungskeller der Gesellschaft und der Allgemeinheit aufgebürdet wird.

Yesilgoz leest nu even het VVD verkiezingsprogramma voor.
Alles binnengehaald zo te horen.
D66 heeft alleen ‘geen bezuinigingen op onderwijs’ binnengehaald. CDA? Verhogen kinderbijslag.