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See also: “Bellevue house at center of OnlyFans trafficking case” https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2026/06/09/bellevue-huma...

The current link is a cheap aggregation of the actual reporting by 404 Media: https://www.404media.co/software-giant-sap-stops-most-travel...

Anytime a company/group announces some random new project now, I tend to immediately suspect over-reliance on AI. From what I’ve seen, AI addiction frequently manifests as an explo…

fwiw, Gemini 3.5 has identified itself to me as an OpenAI product on multiple occasions.

I held my nose through the first third of the winning entry before giving up. Unbearable. Those metaphors… yeesh. Reminded me of this brutally fair minded attempt to read Shy Girl …

The number of realists on this site is encouraging.

I’m not sure how to reconcile anthropic’s update / some of the exuberant comments here with recent feedback like the following from curl maintainer Daniel Steinberg: “I see no evid…

Isn’t this illegal?

From my experience, LLM performance in these areas is being massively oversold. I have repeatedly tried using Claude to modify a range of models typical of investment banking / pri…

Our country is currently enforcing a blockade that is murdering children in Cuba. It is all so sickening.

the word general in italics was intended to read as “in contrast to this”...

Somewhat relatedly, there is a pretty plausible theory that some “find the Yeti” expeditions were in fact cover for operations by my country’s intelligence services to sabotage Chi…

That is no longer true. What we have historically referred to as “health insurance” companies responded to ACA margin limits by becoming sprawling behemoths whose rampant self-deal…

Our country has a long and sickening history of interdiction theater e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Peru_Cessna_185_shootdown

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I would recommend Garbage Day’s coverage of this: https://www.garbageday.email/p/a-big-confusing-game-of-inter... Also, for contextualizing the social media reactions (including on…

Apple Pay does not generate a unique card number for every purchase. One number is generated when the card is added to Wallet. This seems to be a common misconception.

Thank you. I disagree that it's "just the same thing", but it is an interesting precedent to consider and one that I was not familiar with.

I am also somewhat uncomfortable that his sponsorship was kept secret for so long, and that it easily could have stayed secret indefinitely.

Can you point me to some examples where an individual financed litigation against a media outlet or journalist? I don't doubt they exist, but I can't think of any specifically.

It's been a year since Google posted this update[1] on their end-to-end project and a month since the last commit.[2] Yahoo announced a forked end-to-end extension in March[3] and …