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New comment by acidhousemcnab in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

acidhousemcnab — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:23:12 +0000

Yes sorry, typo.

New comment by acidhousemcnab in "Breakthroughs for batteries could soon make them better"

acidhousemcnab — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:22:39 +0000

https://archive.is/ReAtU

You'll need to get your hands on Greenland first.

New comment by acidhousemcnab in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

acidhousemcnab — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:20:21 +0000

Sounds like they need to employ more "neurodivergents" to make these robots work correctly, before they are all Silent Greened, and it is only the CEOs left bashing each other's heads in with rocks.

New comment by acidhousemcnab in "Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored"

acidhousemcnab — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:15:23 +0000

The rogue fissile material left in Iran sounds like an unoriginal plot device from the sketch "American Knights" in 2003-2005 satirical BBC cartoon Monkey Dust, and there are now reports the US intended to reinstall Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for reasons hitherto unknown.

New comment by acidhousemcnab in "News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism"

acidhousemcnab — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:17:41 +0000

Yeah, so about that - it’s called Project White Bear, involved UK GCHQ, theatre act called GAYA 4.0, AI human “psychological” experimentation, and propaganda depicting Russians as Mongolian beasts with dripping claws and fangs. Not making this up.

New comment by acidhousemcnab in "Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police"

acidhousemcnab — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:02:50 +0000

No I'm just not from the United States (or a solipsist).

New comment by acidhousemcnab in "News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism"

acidhousemcnab — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:45:04 +0000

Perhaps I imagined this, however some months ago on X someone pointed out a historical article on dailymail.co.uk related to Prince Phillip and Epstein had been scrubbed, which likely would be intelligence or through D-Notices, but where instead of showing a 404 page would redirect to an article that was similar but benign. I checked the URL on the Wayback Machine and it turned up zero results, but not even the redirected article, however the user on X had screen grabbed the original, which everyone was reading and commenting on. As of 21st May I can't find this discussion on X and Grok denies it ever existed. This is a "maximally truth-finding" AI, so I must be mistaken. Perhaps the Internet Archive cannot be trusted, so this is why 340 local news outlets need to limit access.

New comment by acidhousemcnab in "Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police"

acidhousemcnab — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:28:22 +0000

Any belief system or club that validates sociopathy as a "higher" state of evolution or enlightenment will worm it's way into intelligence agencies.

New comment by acidhousemcnab in "Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police"

acidhousemcnab — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:26:11 +0000

What in the decomposed-dissident gang-stalked tarnation is this?

New comment by acidhousemcnab in "Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police"

acidhousemcnab — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:21:34 +0000

There were a lot of articles describing Snowdon / Manning and Wikileaks releases as exactly "nothing burgers", in those journals of note that people read to tell them what to think about matters - but I'm not sure what a "nothing burger" means - pulverised cattle flesh flattened into an oval, that doesn't exist?

New comment by acidhousemcnab in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

acidhousemcnab — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:40:39 +0000

RAG on every machine, and the means for corporations / shadowy powers to query it.

New comment by acidhousemcnab in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

acidhousemcnab — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:38:29 +0000

This will happen, but reconfiguring the infrastructure of the entire planet to train LLMs and run them over networks might be the "bubble", the megalomania.

New comment by acidhousemcnab in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

acidhousemcnab — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:36:44 +0000

We need better GUI and OS integrations with sandboxed local LLMs, before this is thrust on everyone and rolled out as the default in commercial OSes. Here in Berlin, I was functionally surrounded and hounded out of a local meetup, due to confrontation over the naive pushing of OS-level and network access agentic AI, done in the mode of mystical powers and artistic possibilities, which due to recent experiences, comes off as string-pulling, to produce a threat or danger that then must be observed and kept tabs on, according to Goodhart's Law.