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Dear deities. I'm watching a Nate B. Jones video for work, and the ads... the ads make me need a shower. With like steel wool to scrub off the ick.

I don't know if this is where YouTube ads have gone generally, but these things are making Meta ads look legit.

Vancouver Sun: Concert review: AC/DC Power Up Vancouver again — and are far better than in 2025

By the time the final cannon salvo echoed over the arena during the concert closer For Those About to Rock (We Salute You), the crowd exited smiling and, in many cases, well-juiced. Outside the arena exit gates, rows of teens were waiting to drive their parents home.

JP @daedalus@eigenmagic.net

Idly musing that the Therac-25 cautionary tale I learned about in my undergrad software engineering course resulted in a total of (IIRC) 6 medical injuries over about 4 years. And that was considered horrific and required immediate changes to how computers were used in medicine.

is a good jumping off point for the various replies talking about layers of redundance, hardware interlocks, cost benefit analyses, and more. 🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑 @brouhaha@mastodon.social, further down thread, sen @sen@hachyderm.io

Lots of fascinating stuff in Schneier on Security: AI Use by the US Government:

The international gold standard was arguably set by the French in 2016, via their Digital Republic Act. The law, itself informed by an online citizen consultation, requires all algorithms used to automate government administrative decisions to be subject to public records requests, to be appealable to a human reviewer, and to have mandatory notification of the use of automation to those affected by the decisions.

Via.

Apparently there's a 'tuber (my whitewater days leave me unable to separate the "You" and "inner-" meanings of that word from the botanical ones, hat tip to William Nealy) named Hank Green who's been pushing ControlAI and "AI doom" as undisclosed paid marketing, [object Object] @zzt@mas.to has a thread going into further detail on Pivot to AI: The AI doomsday cult recruits social media influencers.