The US Military’s GPS Software Is an $8 Billion Mess
The US Military’s GPS Software Is an $8 Billion Mess
Awww, or should I say #wompwomp .
Musk's sad "antitrust" lawsuit against advertisers that boycotted his fascist platform was dismissed with prejudice.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/elon-musk-loses-big-in-court-x-boycott-perfectly-legal/
@benroyce
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The #TrumpAdministration will pay $1 billion to French #energy giant #TotalEnergies in exchange for the company abandoning plans to build offshore #windfarms
Now aint that the shittiest birdbrain thing #Trump did, I bet #MAGA doesn't care, but their grandkids will fell the burn
#Windpower and #Solarpower don't get stuck in the Straits of #Hormuz
â•SIMILAR article on #arstechnica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/trumps-latest-anti-wind-effort-pay-companies-to-abandon-offshore-leases/?comments-page=1#comments
#arstechnica After over a decade of being part of that community, nt only has my subscription lapsed, but I have closed my Ars Technica pinned tab, and deleted my account.
After the transphobia article by Jon Brodkin, the sycophantic coverage of Musk by Eric Berger, the recent AI inventing quote event, and a moderation that favours the civil bigot and transphobe sea lion, the head moderator has decided to nuke discussion threads from the regulars.
Ars quality came from its commenters and community, it’s been going downhill for a while.
Good-bye.
PS: Shitcanning the reporter involved in the quote invention event does not address the root causes, systemic issues that led a reporter to publish this, and to work while too sick to work.
Why reply to an article without reading it? Because, forum platforms motivate people to do so. Quantity matters more than quality,
I'm afraid that my comment on #arstechnica will get hidden for low-score.
So, here's a link to it:
https://pnqk.me/y8y2sm
Let's view it without giving an ef about #downvotes!
So many tech publications post what are thinly veiled ads dressed up as articles.
Techdirt: Ars Fires Reporter For Accidentally Using Fake AI Quotes. “There are several interesting layers here. The biggest being that AI isn’t an excuse to simply turn your brain off and no longer do rudimentary fact checking. At the same time, this can’t really be unwound from the fact that media ownership rushed to tightly integrate often under-cooked LLM models into an already very […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/15/techdirt-ars-fires-reporter-for-accidentally-using-fake-ai-quotes/Given that the article provides two distinct bogus expansions of the PUA initialism when it comes to Unicode, there's certainly a whiff of verified-by-bullshit-generator about the article.
Plus, of course, there's the facts that (a) PUA glyphs are not zero-width, (b) programmers like to use 'nerd' fonts, and (c) even without that they'll show up as replacement characters in things like terminal emulators.