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The president of Glendale Community College was pelted with a chorus of furious boos
after an AI tool tasked with reading graduating students’ names completely flunked the assignment.
As local outlet AZFamily reported, students and families at the Phoenix-area school were left disoriented when the names being read over the ceremony’s loudspeakers failed to match those of the students actually walking across the stage.
The names displayed on the ceremony’s jumbotron were also…

AI system fails during Glendale Community College graduation ceremony
An AI system malfunctioned during Glendale Community College's commencement, misreading graduate names and pausing the ceremony multiple times.

Electrification = resilience
The municipal police force in Hermosillo, Mexico 🇲🇽, is also successfully putting the combination of EVs, solar power generation and storage into practice.
https://www.integratetozero.org/i2z-deployments

This. So much this.
Heinlein wrote to pay off his mortgage…and then he did it cos he enjoyed it.
I mean, c’mon:
“Starship Troopers” (Heinlein’s a fascist!!) - 1959
“Stranger In A Strange Land” (Heinlein’s a Hippie free sex freak!) - 1961
@… Knows of which he speaks.

John Scalzi (@jscalzi) on Threads
Saw another whiny right-wing dweeb assert that Robert Heinlein couldn't get published today, presumably because of "woke," and I'm all, motherfucker, you don't think that the most commercially savvy science fiction writer of his era wouldn't understand how to read the room in 2026 and then write to it? No, of course you don't, because your Heinlein is some weird fetish object instead of an actual working writer who liked money AND telling stories. Heinlein understood commercial storytelling...

I grew up in a small village in England and heard cuckoos basically every year I was in primary and walking to school.
But the first time I actually saw one was about 18 years ago and in Denmark. Haven't heard one for years and then all of a sudden this weekend...
#arter app for a while. I was intrigued to discover that 4 of my recent finds are in fact red listed in Denmark. And what are they? The cuckoo, the coot, the common frog and the lapwing.
They all feel like they should be too common to be red listed...

Cuba’s top diplomat in the United States on Friday underscored the inviolability of her country’s sovereignty
amid tenuous negotiations with the Trump administration and mounting fears that the US is planning to criminally indict a former Cuban president and possibly invade the island to abduct him.
Cuban Chargé d’Affaires Lianys Torres Rivera told The Hill that her country’s socialist government is open to negotiating with the US,
but that “the only exception is our sovere…

Cuban Envoy Draws 'Red Lines' Amid Specter of US Invasion and DOJ Targeting Castro Like Maduro | Common Dreams
Cuban Chargé d'Affaires Lianys Torres Rivera said her government is willing to negotiate with the US, but "the only exception is our sovereignty, independence, and right to self-determination."

Bill C-22 is quite clearly a bad bill that the Canadian government is digging in it's heels on.
Michael Geist @… covers the latest, which is Signal @… saying they will pull out of Canada if it passes (there is a requirement of retai…

Bill C-22’s Groundhog Day: Why the Government’s Dismissal of Signal, Apple and the U.S. Congress Concerns Runs Back the Disastrous Online News Act Playbook - Michael Geist
Secure messaging service Signal yesterday became the latest company to warn that Bill C-22, the lawful access bill, could force it to leave the Canadian market rather than comply with provisions it says would compromise its end-to-end encryption and create new cybersecurity risks. Signal vice-president Udbhav Tiwari told the Globe and Mail that the company “would rather pull out of the country than be compelled to compromise on the privacy promises we have made to our users.” The comments a…

Sonnet 023 - XXIII
As an unperfect actor on the stage,
Who with his fear is put beside his part,
Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,
Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart;
So I, for fear of trust, forget to say
The perfect ceremony of love's rite,
And in mine own love's strength seem to decay,
O'ercharg'd with burthen of mine own love's might.
O! let my looks be then the eloquence
And …

Kapwing: in tests, ~60% of the first 500 TikTok For You videos shown to a new account were AI slop, ~3x the slop shown to a new user in the YouTube Shorts feed (Matt G. Southern/Search Engine Journal)
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/tiktok

TikTok Shows 3x More AI Slop Than YouTube, Report Finds
In a fresh-account test, Kapwing found 59% of TikTok For You videos were AI slop, roughly three times the rate on YouTube.

If we let the orbital datacenter scams get to the point of launching, we deserve the Kessler Syndrome we get.
Sun-synch terminator-riders are in a limited orbital space. Many current residents belong to governments, as it’s a useful surveillance orbit. Once upon a time it’s the sort of thing that a U.N. body might regulate. Suggesting that now just seems like a joke…

I voted for him.
These quick vote AGM options, by which Boards encourage members to not read the materials and follow their lead, they should be banned.
"About 95% of votes were cast in support of Nationwide’s pay report, which was recommended by the board, after the building society nearly doubled the pay of Debbie Crosbie, the chief executive, to £4.7m."
A mutual??????
Nationwide customer vows to fight on after failed attempt to join board | Nationwide | Th…

Nationwide customer vows to fight on after failed attempt to join board
James Sherwin-Smith says he will launch fresh campaign for change at the building society after losing vote at AGM