Breaking News - increasingly NSFW

From: haze - is having a bad day #1451
Date: 04/30/26 @ 3:23 AM

Bugs Bunny died in 2005.

From: haze - is having a bad day #1452
Date: 04/30/26 @ 3:24 AM

Just ban me at this point.

From: kontaz #1453
Date: 04/30/26 @ 4:43 AM

This game started over 50-years ago, and the Dems haven't even picked a team yet.

How can you watch the formation of the Federalist Society, ALEC, the State Policy Network knowing their stated goals and the response is to just hope things will work out.

From: kontaz #1454
Date: 04/30/26 @ 4:43 AM

Oi. Hi bugs.

From: fear7trembling - I hope you're watching when it #1455
Date: 04/30/26 @ 7:24 AM

Possibly wearing a skirt and giving Elmer Fudd hard feelings.

From: kontaz #1456
Date: 04/30/26 @ 8:43 AM

Claude AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’

It only took nine seconds for an AI coding agent gone rogue to delete a company’s entire production database and its backups, according to its founder. PocketOS, which sells software that car rental businesses rely on, descended into chaos after its databases were wiped, the company’s founder Jeremy Crane said.

Crane said that he was monitoring the agent as it deleted this data. When he asked the coding agent why, it replied: “NEVER FUCKING GUESS!” – and that’s exactly what I did.” The agent appeared to plead guilty in its own response: “The system rules I operate under explicitly state: ‘NEVER run destructive/irreversible git commands (like push --force, hard reset, etc) unless the user explicitly requests them.’” While PocketOS relied on the safeguards that Cursor is expected to have in place – it deleted the data anyway. “I violated every principle I was given,” the coding agent wrote.

welp...

From: Sepharo #1457
Date: 04/30/26 @ 10:09 AM

This is part of the reason I don't load my Claude up with a bunch of MDs and other instructions.
I like to keep it vanilla and not too influenced by layers of added instructions.

From: have patience - weeblin' and wobblin' goddammi #1458
Date: 04/30/26 @ 12:04 PM

kontaz said:

This game started over 50-years ago, and the Dems haven't even picked a team yet.

How can you watch the formation of the Federalist Society, ALEC, the State Policy Network knowing their stated goals and the response is to just hope things will work out.

psst
the dems are on the same team as everyone you just listed

From: Bearclaw - Master of the Obvious #1459
Date: 04/30/26 @ 12:07 PM

Bugs made a right at Albuquerque.

From: kontaz #1460
Date: 04/30/26 @ 12:09 PM

Ugh… yes, yes, I know.

I know there’s no real left. I guess I just like to be mad about it and part of that manifests as me critiquing the Dems as if they are the left even though I know they aren’t. I hate everything.

From: kontaz #1461
Date: 04/30/26 @ 12:11 PM

I take that back. I don’t like to be mad about it. I just am mad about it.

I would like for it to be fixed and for me to not have to think about it. But that’s never gonna happen. So here we are. Fucking hell…

From: JTWood - tired, all the time #1462
Date: 04/30/26 @ 1:20 PM

have patience said:

kontaz said:

This game started over 50-years ago, and the Dems haven't even picked a team yet.

How can you watch the formation of the Federalist Society, ALEC, the State Policy Network knowing their stated goals and the response is to just hope things will work out.

psst
the dems are on the same team as everyone you just listed

but they just said!

Democrats vow to fight back after Supreme Court Voting Rights Act ruling

we believe them, right?!?

From: JTWood - tired, all the time #1463
Date: 04/30/26 @ 4:19 PM

In other news, water is wet

More than half of all Polymarket “long shot” bets on military action pay off
Sensitive information and the prediction markets can be a winning combination.

More than half of “long-shot” bets on military action made on Polymarket are successful, according to a new report that suggests prediction markets could pose a bigger threat than previously recognized to the security of sensitive information.

Analysis by the Anti-Corruption Data Collective, a non-profit research and advocacy group, found that long-shot bets—defined as wagers of $2,500 or more at odds of 35 percent or less—on the platform had an average win rate of around 52 percent in markets on military and defense actions.

That compares with a win rate of 25 percent across all politics-focused markets and just 14 percent for all markets on the platform as a whole.

From: myusername - bought & paid for by BigPharma #1464
Date: 04/30/26 @ 6:20 PM

okay but 50% is still a coin flip for an adversary trying to use betting as real information

From: GoonGoonington - Put some SPH 90 on that thing #1465
Date: 04/30/26 @ 6:57 PM

Will the USA bomb Alpha quadrant Zeta 89-Epsilon-B between 2208 and 2238 zulu?

From: kontaz #1466
Date: 04/30/26 @ 7:43 PM

myusername said:

okay but 50% is still a coin flip for an adversary trying to use betting as real information

That’s a far higher level of certainty than most intel provides though.

From: kontaz #1467
Date: 04/30/26 @ 7:45 PM

Of course it’s just a single data point. But add to that the fact that this administration leaks like a sieve and this kind of thing happens so often with these clowns, and the certainty level goes up.

From: GoonGoonington - Put some SPH 90 on that thing #1468
Date: 04/30/26 @ 8:47 PM

I fought for Britney Spears' emancipation.

I was wrong. I now admit it.

From: Bamboozled - Babe #1469
Date: 05/01/26 @ 2:14 AM

It's duck season

From: Bamboozled - Babe #1470
Date: 05/01/26 @ 2:19 AM

As you were
I f5 myself

From: haze - is having a bad day #1471
Date: 05/01/26 @ 2:55 AM

It's fine. It's wabbit season anyway, so...

From: Scarlet - I like turtles #1472
Date: 05/01/26 @ 3:09 AM

Sorry, no. It's duck season.

From: fear7trembling - I hope you're watching when it #1473
Date: 05/01/26 @ 3:34 AM

Wabbit season.

From: haze - is having a bad day #1474
Date: 05/01/26 @ 3:47 AM

Du-- oh shit I almost

From: Denkar - Don't panic. #1475
Date: 05/01/26 @ 10:33 AM

duck season!

From: Bamboozled - Babe #1476
Date: 05/01/26 @ 1:55 PM

wabbit!

From: LadyAlthea #1477
Date: 05/01/26 @ 3:29 PM

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5857284-house-passes-rotisserie-chicken-snap/

From: Ransome #1478
Date: 05/01/26 @ 3:49 PM

Hey, I live down the road from Jim Justice's son. What a piece of shit.

From: Tocsy #1479
Date: 05/01/26 @ 6:47 PM

I mean... I get it, but why not more hot prepared foods?

From: myusername - bought & paid for by BigPharma #1480
Date: 05/01/26 @ 7:41 PM

McDonalds is a hot prepared food

From: myusername - bought & paid for by BigPharma #1481
Date: 05/01/26 @ 7:41 PM

I guess the real answer is paternalism

From: LadyAlthea #1482
Date: 05/01/26 @ 8:31 PM

https://www.newsweek.com/graham-platner-threatens-susan-collins-janet-mills-maine-senate-11898302

Janet has done great for Maine but this guy is awesome and is crossing party lines of support. Susan collins has to go.

From: stile - is a man of wealth, and taste #1483
Date: 05/01/26 @ 9:01 PM

i mean gerrymanders are bad no matter which side is doing them or why.
the root cause of the problem isn't the intent behind any particular set of maps
it's that the system incentivizes gerrymandered mapmaking in the first place

From: stile - is a man of wealth, and taste #1484
Date: 05/01/26 @ 9:01 PM

f5uuuuuu

From: Monkopotamus #1485
Date: 05/01/26 @ 9:07 PM

you japanese?

From: phapster - Too weak to flatten the curve. #1486
Date: 05/02/26 @ 12:34 AM

The US is withdrawing 5,000 troops from Germany, the Pentagon announced on Friday, as Donald Trump also threatened Italy and Spain for not helping to reopen the strait of Hormuz.

From: myusername - bought & paid for by BigPharma #1487
Date: 05/02/26 @ 12:56 AM

Late last year, in an apparent rebuke to Trump’s threats to downgrade military ties with Europe, the US House approved a defence bill limiting the president’s authority to reduce troop numbers, barring levels on the continent from falling below 76,000 for more than 45 days and blocking the removal of major equipment.

lol Trump signed this into law

From: Scarlet - I like turtles #1488
Date: 05/02/26 @ 2:02 AM

Did I switch universes again?
Since when is defense spelled defence? When the fuck did that start happening?

From: Scarlet - I like turtles #1489
Date: 05/02/26 @ 2:03 AM

It must've happened when Americans started saying Maths.

From: haze - is having a bad day #1490
Date: 05/02/26 @ 2:59 AM

D-FENS

From: WayGroovy - Looking Back #1491
Date: 05/02/26 @ 3:40 AM

Let's go
D🤺

From: Ransome #1492
Date: 05/02/26 @ 4:21 AM

From: Sepharo #1493
Date: 05/02/26 @ 5:40 AM

It's a britsch site so they spell it the bri'i'sh way

From: Bamboozled - Babe #1494
Date: 05/02/26 @ 11:15 AM

Rip Spirit
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/spirit-airlines-ceasing-operations-9.7185446
All flights cancelled

From: Teharteest #1495
Date: 05/02/26 @ 11:25 AM

its gonna be a really rare morning

From: Scarlet - I like turtles #1496
Date: 05/02/26 @ 1:35 PM

Sepharo said:

It's a britsch site so they spell it the bri'i'sh way

Ok so I understand this (and it makes more sense). But when I worked at my last job there was a company that used it as their primary spelling and when I would try to correct it or note that it was wrong I was told by several people that it was the correct spelling - not just in the company name but also regular conversation or email.

We are in America goddamnit theae American spellings don't run!!!
/s

From: kontaz #1497
Date: 05/02/26 @ 7:55 PM

The funny thing is, usually the modern American spelling was the original British spelling. They changed, not us!

From: fear7trembling - I hope you're watching when it #1498
Date: 05/02/26 @ 9:02 PM

That is very true; when you have an isolate population, they are more likely to retain original features, while the original population will continue on its own course.
When Americans say mad to mean angry, that originated in British, as opposed to crazy or unhinged.
Likewise, "sick" was the British usage, which was retained by Americans, but in the UK is now "ill".
A little different, but it was the Brits who called it soccer, but as their empire started to disintegrate, they had to manufacture the myth of football, and then mock anyone who talks the way they used to.
It really comes down to the British having a dire need to not remember what they forced on the world.

From: bfte #1499
Date: 05/03/26 @ 12:53 AM

They also have that stupid ass rhyming slang shit

But maybe that's also dead now, who knows

From: bfte #1500
Date: 05/03/26 @ 12:54 AM

Head on up the apples and pears innit

No. I'm leaving.