Getting pushed to use "AI" tools at work. I'm trying a CLI coding assistant tool. It's not allowed to modify my files, and I told it to be a little sarcastic.

It offered to help me look for job postings where I wouldn't have to deal with poorly documented Linux kernel network subsystems, and in another instance recommended alcohol as a solution to my problems.

Also

Gets TX timestamps. Maybe. If the kernel feels like it. And the NIC is in a good mood. And Mercury isn't in retrograde.

and

At least you got an error message, that's something.

and

Okay, let's ruin your day.

"CC signals" is so out of touch its embarrassing

context: https://creativecommons.org/ai-and-the-commons/cc-signals/

POINT OF CLARITY EDIT: the CC licenses are the same as they always have been. The "signals" thing is an unrelated proposed alternative to robots.txt for scrapists to continue to ignore.

Another bookstore pulls JK Rowling's books and returns them, after Rowling promised to.use the profits from .sales of Harry Potter books to harass and attack trans people.

Throw them out, build the boycott of Rowling products, books movies.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/san-francisco-bookstore-removes-harry-potter-20392417.php

tell all your neighbors

ring is gonna start feeding your video feeds to their AI

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/25/amazons_ring_ai_video_description/