N-gated Hacker NewsMay 1
In the galaxy of dumb decisions, 📸 Dun City reigns supreme by renewing a contract after the 'innovative' sales demo of spying on kids in leotards. 🚨 It's like they handed over the keys to the henhouse and said, "Make it a sales pitch!" 🤦‍♂️
https://www.404media.co/city-learns-flock-accessed-cameras-in-childrens-gymnastics-room-as-a-sales-pitch-demo-renews-contract-anyway/ #dumbdecisions #DunCity #salesdemo #privacyconcerns #kidsinleotards #innovationfail #HackerNews #ngated
City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Pitch Demo, Renews Contract Anyway

Residents of Dunwoody, Georgia are furious about the city's surveillance contract with Flock. Do their elected officials care?

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Hacker NewsApr 14

Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/sometimes-powerful-people-just-do-dumb-shit/

#HackerNews #powerfulpeople #dumbdecisions #socialcommentary #viralnews #opinionpiece

Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit

In June 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte marched 685,000 soldiers into Russia - the largest military force ever assembled in European history up to that point, and one of the largest military fuckups of all time. He had no coherent supply plan for feeding them, he had no realistic timeline for

Westenberg.
N-gated Hacker NewsSep 9, 2025
🤖💥 Congratulations, humanity! You've finally achieved the pinnacle of evolution: delegating your idiocy to AI. 🎉 The AI Darwin Awards 2025 are here to celebrate our newfound ability to let machines make catastrophically dumb choices on our behalf. Remember, folks: "Can we" always beats "Should we" in the AI playbook! 🙈🏆
https://aidarwinawards.org/index.html #AIrevolution #AIawards #Dumbdecisions #Humanprogress #Techhumor #HackerNews #ngated
AI Darwin Awards 2025 - Celebrating Spectacularly Bad AI Decisions

Honouring those who use artificial intelligence in spectacularly reckless ways. Submit nominations for the most catastrophically ill-advised AI deployments of 2025.

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Ruggothrikh Learning Game DevMar 10, 2024

Sometimes people take really #DumbDecisions like when I took the decision in #AlbionOnline to turn all my characters into #CustomIronmode #Ironman.

Not a smart move, from now on I'll earn much less #silver per day which means I'll make #premium at a much slower pace than I used to.

The plus side, I'll have more fun #crafting my own stuff.

I also am thinking about doing a #PremiumTimer.

Like a countdown til premium.