"You're gonna test this, right?"

AI slop comes to genetic coding. 

I feel like this might be the right time to retreat to a cave in the woods and wait for the end to come for us all.

"New virus with genetic code written by AI ‘is first step towards lab-grown life’"

Source: https://metro.co.uk/2026/01/25/new-virus-genetic-code-written-ai-is-first-step-towards-lab-grown-life-26509020/

#AI
#BadIdeas
#WeAreAllGoingToDie

New virus with genetic code written by AI 'is first step towards lab-grown life'

The team at Stanford University, California used AI to draw up the entire genome for a new virus codenamed Evo-Φ2147, that could attack a colony of the E.coli bacteria.

Metro

Thank you, The Late Show, and Stephen Cobert (May 2, 2025), for this Joni Ernst 'lawn ad'.

#JoniErnst
#WeAreAllGoingToDie

I have been proselytizing the dangers of salad, especially the evil cucumber, for years. But seriously, the Trump administration's cuts pose a significant threat to the already strained food safety system. Will the salmonella cases and E.coli deaths increase by 10X? #WeAreAllGoingToDie #86TACO

Dozens sickened in expanding s...
Dozens sickened in expanding salmonella outbreak linked to recalled cucumbers

Nearly four dozen people in 18 states have been sickened in an expanding outbreak of salmonella food poisoning tied to recalled cucumbers sent to restaurants, hospitals, cruise ships and grocery stores, including Target stores, federal health officials said Friday.

CNN
Alt CDC (they/them) (@altcdc.altgov.info)

Who wore cognitive dissonance/complete detachment from their populous' suffering better?

Bluesky Social
I love how folks say AI will be able to do all the coding... then put a prompt into an AI to generate an image and spend the afternoon selecting the ones that don't hurt the eyes or aren't Island of Dr Moereau material. Imagine thinking mission critical development could be handed over to an AI to “have a couple of goes at till they got it right”.
#aihype #coding #weareallgoingtodie
Foone Turing

My mastodon is @[email protected] You might want to go ahead and share yours/get one, if you're trans, especially if you're trans femme.

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Did #COP28 have to pay royalties for their use of Yakety Sax?

#Petrostate
#farce
#Weareallgoingtodie

How is it that the #ai community has so many people in it who want to make Terminator real?

"US closer to using AI-drones that can autonomously decide to kill humans"

(For the record, I'm not really worried about Terminator. I'm worried about the humans who will deploy these purpose-built atrocities.)

#AIBiz #politics #war #robotoverlords #terminator #WeAreAllGoingToDie

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-closer-ai-drones-autonomously-decide-kill-humans-artifical-intelligence-2023-11

US closer to using AI-drones that can autonomously decide to kill humans

The use of drones capable of deciding whether to kill humans is alarming critics.

Insider

61 degrees in the middle of #November.

Totally normal for #Wisconsin.

Totally.

#wi #climate #climatechange #WeAreAllGoingToDie

what doesn't kill you... mutates and tries again.

#nature #biology #optimism #optimization #saturday #funny #notFunny #WeAreAllGoingToDie