Sunday, September 13, 2026

Unauthorized drone billboard for an AI medical chatbot (AI newsletter)

("an ad campaign for a new ... AI-powered chatbot...The display, which began around 11 p.m. and lasted 15 minutes...a spokesperson for the city, told CBC Toronto that a one-time grounds rental at the Fort York National Historic Site had been approved for a third-party drone operator. But she said the city was not informed of the client associated with the display and what it was for")





I wrote about this. There is an effort right now to undermine the anti-Flock movement by painting them as being part of a Chinese propaganda or paid by rich people. The people doing this are ... people w/ financial interest in Flock or well-funded think tanks www.404media.co/smear-campai...

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— Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) September 9, 2026 at 10:17 AM


NEW: An artist made a GTA V mod that adds over 200 Flock cameras to Los Santos, which you can smash and shoot for money. It also has a 5 percent chance of misidentifying your vehicle and calling the cops on you. @regret.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/you-ca...

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— Andrew Couts (@couts.bsky.social) September 9, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Grand Theft Automated License Plate Reader







Slimy astroturf website pretending to oppose Paramount merger changes your message so it supports the merger, instead of sending what you typed in opposition to it.

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— Bob Morris (@bobmorris.bsky.social) September 7, 2026 at 12:30 PM
("Nothing we do is AI-generated. It’s AI-assisted." "Asked if he had received indirect funding from Paramount, he said he was not aware of it.")























Someone on HN commented "The rumor I’ve heard from multiple employees at OAI and Ant is that the model has solved hundreds of open problems in maths", and what's crazy is that given the recent trajectory and what we know of current model capabilities, that's a very plausible rumor.

— John Wiseman (@lemonodor.bsky.social) September 11, 2026 at 10:09 AM








Anthropic's threat report is unbelievable. "this case provides evidence of the existence of active wet-lab research programs that develop both the knowhow and the biological materials needed to create pathogens of enhanced pandemic potential" www.anthropic.com/threat-intel...

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— John Wiseman (@lemonodor.bsky.social) September 11, 2026 at 12:10 PM

The Houthis seem to be running a whole weapons program with Claude.

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— John Wiseman (@lemonodor.bsky.social) September 11, 2026 at 4:50 PM






A write-up(Havent't read the report)















NEW: The San Francisco City Attorney has hit Meta with a cease-and-desist telling it to stop publishing ads with AI-generated child sexual abuse. The letter asks Meta why the same ads keep running. Meta says the ads didn’t run in San Francisco and they are outside the city attorney's jurisdiction

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— Matt Burgess (WIRED) (@mattburgess1.bsky.social) September 9, 2026 at 2:18 PM










THEY TOOK R JOBS: Caterpillar hires robot safety inspectors

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— Electrek (@electrek.co) September 7, 2026 at 7:17 AM








Ok im gonna say something here that is going to draw a lot of different feelings from everyone, and I want to be clear i'm not "in support of this" or "against it". i'm just saying it as an observation that seems true to me: I think with the latest frontier LLMs, the “music” era of games is upon us

— Zach Gage (@stfj.net) September 7, 2026 at 9:17 AM






































There’s a move I’ve coined the “Black Mirror Gambit” which works by presenting your company as the villain in a Black Mirror episode to soak up this mid-2020s-era investor demand for, well, evil plots. That’s the playbook.

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— Colin (@colin-fraser.net) March 27, 2026 at 2:11 AM


On the Official Tilly Norwood website they're selling both 'Team Tillly' and 'F*ck Tilly' merch, in case anyone is under any illusion that this is anything other than ragebaiting grift.

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— Steven Sheil (@scsheil.bsky.social) September 10, 2026 at 8:16 AM








("The 'dream' is how the app works overnight to find meaning in the content overload across your connected apps. It then distills what it finds into 'beans' - a fresh collection of stories brewed for you each morning.")















A Cybercab rider found the robotaxi's touchscreen in an undisclosed configuration, showing an on-screen virtual joystick that allows the car to be steered and accelerated by hand despite having no steering wheel or pedals. https://electrek.co/...

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— Electrek (@electrek.co) September 8, 2026 at 8:58 AM








Just went to buy @gilduran.com's "The Nerd Reich" on Google Books, and discovered that the enshittification is so thorough that it's not safe to do so - I was very close to buying one that's actually AI slop with an identical title and author name. This is utterly insane.

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— The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) September 5, 2026 at 9:04 AM
























Dammit, the AI bots have finally figured out how to solve the "puzzle" that obscures my ARGN email (the contact page explains how to solve it, but that explanation alone was thwarting the scrapers until about a week or two ago). It was a good run, at least.

— Michael Andersen (@mjandersen.bsky.social) September 8, 2026 at 9:46 AM




























A sticker to place anywhere. Like hand dryers, toilet bowls, soap dispensers, alarm keypads, coffee machines, thermostats, pedestrian crossing buttons, BBQs, park benches, parking meters... As well as staplers, pens, potatoes, bricks, brooms, lunch, potplants and speed humps.

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— Nanoraptor (@nanoraptor.danamania.com) September 11, 2026 at 8:06 PM