@dylanbeattie You said a while ago that LLMs never say "That's a terrible idea".

You were so right. I gave Claude a try and told it to add a countdown alarm with popup to my old music player. Then I said to add diagonal moving bands of colour, just to see if I could provoke it.

Nope. It just did it. Didn't fake the piss out of me, or advise me to cut down on the mushrooms.

How much do I have to pay to get something that has the guts to call me an eejit? Disappointed...

It did compile and run, though. Those LLMs must have ingested countless millions of lines of code to build my folly.
#BadIdea

edit: I forgot the picture evidence.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyg4wx6nxgo

Why would a parent give a child an AI toy at all (or for that matter expose them to AI of any configuration)?
I'm not saying that this happens all the time, but why would you take the risk?
It's like putting your child on the phone with a complete stranger.

#aislop #aitoys #badIdea #children #technology #ai

#DoublePlusUngood!!!

#FCC Deciding Whether to Allow Startup to Launch Huge #MirrorSatellite to Blast Sunlight on Cities at Nighttime

"The implications for #wildlife, for all life, are enormous."

By Frank Landymore
Published Mar 10, 2026

Excerpt: "The idea is as far-fetched as it is controversial. But something like it has been attempted before. In 1993, the Russian satellite Znamya, or 'Banner,' deployed a 65-foot-wide sheet of mylar that reflected a beam of light twice as bright as the Moon, illuminating a roughly three mile wide circle onto the Earth below like an orbital spotlight. It didn’t prove to be practical, however, with ground observers noticing no more than a flash of light, and it was exorbitantly expensive to pull off.

"Even so, it has the potential to massively disrupt the environment and interfere with many human operations. And the far-reaching consequences of such a technology is exposing the limits of the FCC’s remit.

"Experts fear that light from space mirrors could disrupt circadian rhythms in nature, posing a problem for flora and fauna alike. Animals might breed at the wrong time, and hibernating insects and migrating birds could be confused, Martha Hotz Vitaterna, a research professor of neurobiology at Northwestern University, told the NYT. And plants could bloom when pollinators aren’t active.

" 'The implications for wildlife, for all life, are enormous,' added Vitaterna, who is co-director of the Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology."

Read more:
https://futurism.com/space/fcc-huge-mirror-satellite

#DarkSkies #LightPollution #BadIdea #USPol #Idiocracy #MirrorSatellites #CircadianRhythms

Hear my prayer, Demon King!
By he Power of the Orb,
By the scepter of our Lord,
I'm calling in the Great Deep!

Astanael - https://www.deviantart.com/astanael
#art #pencil #tentacle #monster #incocation #badidea #prayer

Entends ma prière, Démon !
Par le pouvoir de mon Orbe,
Par le sceptre de notre Lord,
J'appelle le Péril Profond !

Moin! In Ermangelung meines üblichen Duschgels habe ich mir gerade das Weihnachtsgeschenk meines Bruders auf die Primel geschmiert. Es war mit Menthol versetzt, sehr erfrischend und nicht zu empfehlen. Danke, Brudi!

#badidea #pain #menthol #smellsgood #thanksbro