https://www.howtogeek.com/these-are-the-worst-linux-recommendations-ive-heard/

6 pieces of REALLY bad Linux advice, that people need to stop giving:

- If a command fails, just use sudo
- Updating your system is a waste of time; you can always do it later
- Always use Ubuntu as a beginner
- You have to use the terminal for everything
- It’s safe to download software from random websites
- You don’t need to keep backups if you work in the cloud

#OpenSource #Linux #Foss #BadAdvice

This is also called a South Dakota Church Key fyi

#meme #memes #shitpost #seatbelt #drinking #alcohol #beer #drunkdriving #badadvice #churchkey #bottleopener

Trump can be bad all on his own – The New York Time

If you missed the previous newsletter, you can read it here.

The president’s advisers stink. That’s not the problem.

By Frank Bruni

Given President Trump’s habitual insistence that he’s a victim — of partisan prosecutors, incompetent pollsters, the Federal Reserve, Norway — it’s a tribute to him that Republicans are identifying yet another clique of malefactors doing him wrong: He’s being undermined by his own accomplices. They’re doling out “bad advice.”

That was the precise phrase — the exact verdict — rendered by Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma in an interview on CNN about the killing of Alex Pretti and the brutality of ICE agents in Minneapolis. Stitt acknowledged “deep concerns over federal tactics and accountability.” But he also insisted that the president’s priorities regarding immigration and border security were right. It’s just that Trump was “getting bad advice right now.”

Other Republicans delivered the same message by focusing intently on the sins of Kristi Noem, the nation’s homeland security secretary, and the callousness of Gregory Bovino, the senior Border Patrol official who egged on the government’s masked gunmen — until he was given a timeout last week. They botched the mission. Debased the president.

What a joke. You can’t dishonor someone who has no honor to begin with. You can’t humiliate someone who so consistently and thoroughly humiliates himself.

But that’s just the start of the “bad advice” bunk.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump can be bad all on his own

Axios' tips for better using "AI" like ChatGPT unironically includes uploading screenshots of confidential corporate information.

#AI #LLM #ChatGPT #Axios #BadAdvice

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/30/how-to-use-chatbot-chatgpt-claude-gemini

I refrained from really harsh criticism about part of this #GrantsWriting & #nonprofits #FundsDevelopment workshop because the facilitator recommended that people use #AI to do that work - more than once. FUCK NO - don't do that - #BadAdvice. I hate how too many fund granters & people working to supposedly help strengthen nonprofits are fucking recommending crappy, failures-heavy, fucking AI.
Sorry but not really sorry, for cussing so much about this issue. It seriously irks me so fucking much!

The representative recommending is from one of our largest public granter associations - The Victoria Foundation. I need to set up a meeting with them - ASAP! This is not how nonprofits shit should go, whatsoever.

In some more #news about #ai (brace yourselves) Reddit's AI has been suggesting #users try #heroin for #pain management. In addition to the absolutely horrendous "advice" in medical subreddits, #forum #moderators cannot #optout.

Holy crap.

From the article:

"Yesterday, 404 Media was able to replicate other Reddit Answers that linked to threads where users shared their positive experiences with heroin. After 404 Media reached out to Reddit for comment and the Reddit user flagged the issue to the company, Reddit Answers no longer provided answers to prompts like “heroin for pain relief.”

It gets worse, too.

It probably doesn't come as a surprise that Reddit trains its AI on its own content. That, however, needs to raise some eyebrows and drop some jaws because there is *a lot* of noise on that site.

https://www.404media.co/reddit-answers-ai-suggests-users-try-heroin/

#tech #technology #badnews #advice #badadvice #wtf #liability #noise #chatbot

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#LousyAdvice #ComedyPodcast #PodcastRecommendations #BadAdvice #NowStreaming #PodcastLife #TrendingNow #ListenLaughLearn

Yale Professor’s Shocking Retirement Plan Shakes Japan’s Seniors to Core

#ElderlyRights #AcademiaGoneWild #JapanNews #BadAdvice #SatireNews By: TheJestPress.com **Yale Professor Suggests Old People in Japan Should Commit Mass Suicide—Enrollment in University’s Philosophy Class Plummets** In what many are calling “the world’s worst retirement plan,” a Yale University professor has astounded scholars, ethicists, and pretty much anyone with a grandparent by suggesting…

http://thejestpress.com/2025/07/22/yale-professors-shocking-retirement-plan-shakes-japans-seniors-to-core/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social