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FCC chair's 'patriotic' nonsense is straight out of North Korea
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/2/20/2369661/-FCC-chair-s-patriotic-nonsense-is-straight-out-of-North-Korea

Google is running a "small" experiment replacing news headlines in search results with AI-generated ones, after adding the feature in Google Discover in January (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/googl

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines
Google is beginning to replace news headlines in its search results with ones that are AI-generated. After AI clickbait nonsense in its Google Discover news feed, it’s starting to mess with headlines in the “10 blue links” too.

UK a laughing stock. Latest nonsense: those with dual nationality will have to pay EUR670 for a doc in order to re-enter the country, their home.
"La espiral autodestructiva en la que entró Reino Unido con el Brexit no tiene fin. Parche a parche, se lo ponen cada vez mšs difícil. ... nueva norma que pone trabas a los britšnicos con doble nacionalidad, que tendršn que pagar 600 euros y hacer papeleo extra si no quieren tener problemas para entrar en su propio país."

RE: https://front-end.social/@grigs/116262197138180764
I repeatedly feel validated that I abandoned Google Search (and many / most Google products) years ago.
Bummer for readers who get to my site via Google, burning forests to turn my nonsense techni…

Google is running a "small" experiment replacing news headlines in search results with AI-generated ones, after adding the feature in Google Discover in January (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/googl

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines
Google is beginning to replace news headlines in its search results with ones that are AI-generated. After AI clickbait nonsense in its Google Discover news feed, it’s starting to mess with headlines in the “10 blue links” too.

I am getting old, but with a bit of effort I can still locate the small circle on my arm where I was jabbed, repeatedly, for smallpox vaccine.
I endured many of the childhood diseases - awful thing - but none worse than getting measles as an adult.
My former wife had Scarlett Fever and her teeth attested to the damage.
These are not diseases to be endured under some "if it doesn't kill you it makes you stronger" nonsense. These are disease to be avoided.

How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back when trust in shots — or access to them — falters.

Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
SERVALAN: Nonsense, its old stuff. No use to anybody. Tell me.
ARDUS: I regret I cannot.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/199 B7B3

Republicans worry White House 'nonsense' is hurting midterm prospects (Dasha Burns/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/15/republicans-white-house-nonsense-midterms-00874332
http://www.memeorandum.com/260415/p169#a260415p169

Raiders, Mendoza Get Critical Draft Endorsement https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-fernando-mendoza-get-critical-draft-endorsement

AOC’s reframing here cuts to the heart of it:
A politics that blames the most vulnerable people in society for society’s problems is diametrically opposed to a politics that blames the most powerful. Lumping these opposites together as both being “populism” is nonsense.
It is important, she says, to provide an explanation of the •causes• of society’s problems — both why and who — or the worst people will fill that explanatory vacuum.

[Paraphrasing Felix Bloch speaking to Heisenberg]...space was simply the field of linear operations.
[Heisenberg] Nonsense, space is blue and birds fly through it.
[Bloch, explaining] What he meant was that it was dangerous for a physicist to describe Nature in terms of idealised abstractions too far removed from the evidence of actual observation.
Tell it! Yay Heisenberg!
#Foundation

East Bay Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, a "Democrat," is proposing to require Class 2 and 3 e-bikes to be registered and display license plates based on some nonsense about them supposedly being the biggest threat to disabled Californians' safety and not, y'know, cars.
You can sign Bike East Bay's petition against it:

Say NO to Mandatory E-Bike License Plates and Registrations - Bike East Bay
Tell the state legislature that increased regulation on legal e-bikes is counter-productive to traffic safety, sustainability, and equity goals.

I’m not kidding. I have coworkers that simply *do not read* anymore.
I can send a brief paragraph and not get anywhere for days, with nonsense questions thrown back at me in response (Presumably LLM generated).
If I sit down and say the exact same thing in a 5 minute video call, we’re all good.

RE: https://functional.cafe/@otfrom/116235291392564588
The concept of a global CO2 shortage is utter nonsense.
That was a temporary and extremely UK-specific shortage 5 years ago, apparently due to the market being overconsolidated on a source that pr…

Well that was all surprisingly not unpleasant. Same time same place next week for more of this nonsense? #TOTP

"Rent a human": Wenn KI wen braucht, der das Gras anfasst
Über die Plattform rentahuman.ai können KI-Agenten Menschen mit Aufgaben in der physischen Welt beauftragen. Ist das logische Arbeitsteilung oder Nonsense?

Submitting to an academic conference and once more am completely amazed that people who call themselves academic technologists use LaTeX to make PDFs to communicate their research. This is by far the worst widely-adopted software I've ever used, and I really hope I don't ever use it again. Awful nonsense, which I think is only still in use for the purposes of gatekeeping other disciplines away from interacting with computer science.

I always ask people who want to build some nonsense:
- how will you know that it worked?
- what can you do if it didn't?
The answer is usually: we won't, and nothing. It never occurs to them that the idea might not be an inevitable success, despite ALL prior experience to the contrary.

AI chatbots make use of the Barnam Effect. The same thing that makes personality tests and fortune tellers "feel" meaningful and accurate despite being total nonsense.
#al

Proof that nominative determinism is nonsense: "Royal Mail Tracked 48™ delivery."

BullshitBench: Models Answering Nonsense Questions.
This benchmark measures whether models detect broken premises, call out the nonsense directly, and avoid confidently continuing with invalid assumptions:
https://petergpt.github.io/bullshit-benchmark/viewer/index.html

I don’t know, perhaps I read too hastily and am misrepresenting what these people did. But at this point the nonsense is so severe I can believe it without even doing a double take

I love Claude, I've finally canceled my ChatGPT subscription, but here's my hot take on the Mythos nonsense. I hope I'm wrong. They've run into a major roadblock on the way to 5. It's way too expensive to run now, so they have announced Mythos to keep their IPO alive.

A federal judge just told President Trump he has to stop building his tacky, enormous ballroom until he gets congressional approval.
Unsurprisingly, Trump immediately said he would keep building it anyway,
trying to squeeze his precious new obsession through a national security-sized exception in Judge Richard Leon’s ruling.
Leon, a 76-year-old George W. Bush appointee, wrote a banger of an opinion granting the preliminary injunction requested by the plaintiff, the Nationa…

Federal judge demolishes legal "basis" for Trump's ballroom
Judge Leon offered a masterclass in exposing MAGA nonsense.

I'm not interested in this car but others might be and I really like this car review channel the best. No nonsense or fawning over stuff only car enthusiasts like.
2026 Chevrolet Equinox EV | This Is The *Almost* No-Compromise EV America Needs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tbfUtGxJJ8

We need a special war tax to pay for this chest-beating nonsense, ideally applied to loans taken against unrealized investment gains. Make the tax-evading Epstein class pay for it.

It can be hard to keep track, but here is a timeline that clearly illustrates Trumps insanity. https://aus.social/@aby/116361364463053134

What's The Go?
Hosted by comedian Ibby Akbar, and failed footballer turned social creator, Daniel Olaniran (aka OlanTekkers), this unlikely duo chat nonsense, react to the internets madness, and explore topics they know nothing about....
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralian…

PLEASE FUCKING MAKE THIS NONSENSE STOP https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/899086/jensen-huang-nvidia-agi

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Waarom Ohhh. Leuk!?
Nou .. Hierom:
Fela Kuti - Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense (Live at Glastonbury, 1984) - YouTube
#FelaKuti

Why the 'planetary parade' social media meme is utter nonsense - and 28 February a particularly bad day to try to see as many #planets as possible at the same time: https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid02smbGM7QrfG7KQLojCxEyVyy3mTVQ94pzydHBNnNwb5139GN7fSj1zWAyShyX34tel goes into the details and shows that 19 February would have been a far better choice. While the question remains: which moron came up with the 28th as 'the' date in the first place ... and why did practically nobody (looking at you, news sites ... and space agencies) bother to check the basic facts?

One of the weirder cold contacts I've gotten:
> I cannot write this email opener.
>
> The research signals explicitly disqualify this contact and company. City of Cape Town operates municipal infrastructure (water, sanitation, electricity, waste) with no database technology stack, distributed systems, or data engineering workloads that align with <cold email org>'s offerings.
Misfiring LLM or some dark pattern, Edgelord nonsense?!?

@… actually, I also posted in on LinkedIn, but haven't checked any comments there, but I give a shit, I know the truth, if others are unwilling to accept it, it's their problem..... There is a kind of developer that is dying out right now, that's probably all the crybabies who comment "such nonsense" 😂

I hate clicking a link and it leads to a paywall or Medium or some other anomic nonsense...
BRING BACK BLOGS!
(and, yes, I realise a lot of us have had them since the '90s and still post on there - I'm about to copy this to mine.)
(bzangy.com, thank you for asking)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@FirewallDragons/116318253656244523
This was a great interview! It's reassuring to hear such a sensible, no-nonsense attitude coming from all three of you throughout the interview. That kind of balanced approach (dif…

Wall Street's idea that a software pure play will "vanish" into an LLM is "nonsense": we need more software, and AI-enabled software moves up the product stack (Steven Sinofsky/@stevesi)
https://x.com/stevesi/status/2019167552794948020

Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) on X
Death of Software. Nah.

Dutch @nieuws.nos.nl had clear videos of the cold-blooded execution of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, yet still had texts like "The Trump administration said its ICE agents acted in self-defense, but the Democratic Governor of Minnesota said this was nonsense."
Its correspondent also talked about the roughening (verruwing) of ICE's conduct. Understatement of the year.

@… @… Yes, and they don’t seem to be the only one doing this nonsense.

@… @… Yes, and they don’t seem to be the only one doing this nonsense.

How am I supposed to fit all my books into such a tiny, tiny bookshelf? I don’t. In reality, I’ve resorted to buying e‑books— not because I prefer them, but because I’m rapidly running out of storage space, bookshelves, and places to hide the growing stacks. And don’t listen to anyone claiming I ran out of space years ago. Absolute nonsense.
I simply need a house for my books. A house just for books.
I wonder what that would be called…

Lots of users spouting nonsense lately. No idea if they are bots or what, and what the purpose is, but good thing we can mute

The claim "you won't be replaced by AI, but by a person using AI" is nonsense. The Block layoff victims were some of the most productive, #llm pilled people in the company, but it didn't save them, because that's not what layoffs are about.
The layoff script goes, as always:
- overhire
- lay everyone off
- pretend it's because of

"AI layoffs" like Block's are a race to the bottom that have nothing to do with productivity.
You won't be replaced by AI, nor a person using AI, because backfills aren't real.

Seems like a good moment to re-share this, particularly as there is nonsense being spoken about renewables not having a problem of the Hormuz type.
Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis – degrowthUK
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/08/01/renewables-carbon-and-th…

Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
Article originally published at North West Bylines, 31 July, 2025 Based on a longer, fully referenced pamphlet, jointly published by Steady State Manchester and DegrowthUK available HERE as pdf or …

At this point, I must sincerely and publicly apologize to Mr. Daniel Micay and the entire GrapheneOS team! In my rant about US products and US services and as part of my boycott of these services due to the new fascism in the US under Trump, I mistakenly referred to them as American or an American project – which, according to a clarification from the GrapheneOS team, is absolute nonsense! I would like to thank GrapheneOS for clearing up my misconception!
It was absolutely not my inten…

"The USA needs to take over the Moon and stop all this phases nonsense. We’ll have a full Moon every night, unless werewolves become a big problem. We might even bring the Moon closer so getting there isn’t such a hassle": Donald Trump as cited in #ArtemisII

"Labour has taken a blow. But Reform UK has been shown up. When tested, their movement offers nothing but grievance, paranoia and imported culture-war nonsense. No answers. No humility. Just blame. And this is why Farage’s behaviour matters beyond one by-election."
'Stop looking back in anger, Nige. Manchester didn’t want to put their life in Trump's hands.' - The Mirror

'Stop looking back in anger, Nige. Manchester rejects Trumpism'
Nigel Farage wraps himself in the Union flag, but the moment voters rejected him, he ditched British values and reached straight for Donald Trump’s playbook - cry cheating and trash the result

By now you’ve seen Trump’s big speech at Davos.
The slurring,
the confusing of Greenland and Iceland,
the nonsense about wind power,
and the racist smearing of Somalis before the whole world
—it was an unmitigated disaster.
But things got worse when Trump’s propagandists spun it all as a world-historical triumph:
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt unleashed an extraordinary stream of obsequious praise,
absurdly declaring that
…

Trump Press Sec. Goes Full Cult as Reviews of Davos Fiasco Turn Brutal
As Karoline Leavitt and others struggle to spin Trump’s speech as a world-historical triumph, a critic of Trump’s unfitness explains why it was a disaster for our whole country and its future.

How am I supposed to fit all my books into such a tiny, tiny bookshelf? I don’t. In reality, I’ve resorted to buying e‑books— not because I prefer them, but because I’m rapidly running out of storage space, bookshelves, and places to hide the growing stacks. And don’t listen to anyone claiming I ran out of space years ago. Absolute nonsense.
I simply need a house for my books. A house just for books.
I wonder what that would be called…

#games #kek

Fury over Trump's slur against British troops: Kemi Badenoch leads attack on president for 'flat-out nonsense' claim that NATO allies 'stayed off the front line' in Afghanistan (Daily Mail)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15490863/Fury-Trump-NATO-slur-Presidents-claim-UK-allied-troops-stayed-line-Afghanistan-absolute-insult-disgraceful.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p8#a260123p8

“Agents shouldn’t have to figure everything out from scratch.”
Sure is an interesting way to describe the wholesale theft of intellectual property.
1. Yes, they should.
2. But they don’t.
Such nonsense.
https://mastodon.social/@MozillaAI/116279201448628…

Rugby League Bonazza!
This podcast will be about the greatest game of all, Rugby League. Here, the content will be raw, unfiltered and no-nonsense...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/rugby-league-bonazza/

Over and over, DHS goons descend on areas where immigrants congregate,
grab every non-white person they encounter,
and drag them away with little regard for their citizenship status.
Then they send out indignant liars like DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin to spew nonsense about how this is all perfectly legal.
“Our officials use reasonable suspicion,” McLaughlin claimed on Fox News,
explaining the standard federal law enforcement officers use to detain…

Kristi Noem's assault on the Fourth Amendment
Thanks, Brett Kavanaugh.

Thank you pop kids for another two hours of Friday night nonsense. The music has been as up and down as ever but you're all the uppest bunch ever. #TOTP