Locked, stocked, and losing budget: #AI vendor lock-in bites back https://theregister.com/2026/04/28/locked_stocked_and_losing_budget/ via @theregister & @sjvn

Execs in the C-suite thought they could swap models in a week. It wasn't the LLMs that were hallucinating; it was them.

If you are in Toronto or Ottawa and thinking about hosting a party, please check out plateshare.ca

It's a volunteer run service by local parents that's totally free. Borrow a set of dishes for your party and don't use anything disposable.

plateshare.ca

Please share this with other groups and let them know we exist. I am no longer on other forms of social media to remind people about us and it makes me sad that usage has done down and people are probably buying disposable stuff from the dollar store.

#Toronto
#Ottawa

World military spending hit a record 2.89 trillion dollars in 2025, more than half of it by just three countries, in the 11th year of rising budgets.

Every dollar poured into tanks and missiles is a dollar stolen from climate action, renewables, healthcare and real human security.

https://www.sipri.org/media/press-release/2026/global-military-spending-rise-continues-european-and-asian-expenditures-surge

This is cool!

In the #Netherlands we have this orange things on trash bins so people can put in empty cans that people can return for a small deposit

I just talked a while with an elderly man who was biking around and collecting these, he told me he earned a few hundred euros a month extra this way since he’s with pension and has plenty of time and wants to keep things clean

Love those creative solution!

DROP DATABASE

This should _not_ make me laugh but schadenfreude is real.

9 seconds is damned impressive. I couldn't manage that on my best day as a SysAdmin.

"Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue"

Src: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/claude-powered-ai-coding-agent-deletes-entire-company-database-in-9-seconds-backups-zapped-after-cursor-tool-powered-by-anthropics-claude-goes-rogue

*Edited link.

#AIFail
#AI

to the surprise of none it looks like "AI" billing is going to evolve into something similar than cloud billing.

we will have a full market place off second hand sellers of "inference" with spot inference (when "your" agent wait for cheap price).

we are going to generate so much value (not), I am so excited (not) to be part of this "intelligence as service" new world!

Don't worry, Sam, SpaceX won't ACTUALLY launch 7,000 satellites! (There are currently 10,296 Starlink sats in orbit)

Don't worry, SpaceX said they'd get their satellites fainter than magnitude 7! (They have not https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2025MNRAS.544L..15M/PUB_PDF)

Don't worry, they won't actually start Kessler Syndrome! https://outerspaceinstitute.ca/crashclock/

Don't worry, they won't actually launch a million AI data centres into orbit!! https://theconversation.com/a-new-space-race-could-turn-our-atmosphere-into-a-crematorium-for-satellites-276366

This is the fucking worst I-told-you-so https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html