This is an important development -- a new tractor company selling machines that encourage repairs by the people who use them, rather than expensive control by a corporate monopolist.

https://www.404media.co/demand-is-booming-for-ursa-ag-new-no-tech-repairable-tractor/

We need to make this a trend, not an exception.

Peptide companies have been doing AI-engine optimization by spamming the biohackers subreddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google.

https://www.404media.co/companies-are-using-reddit-to-manipulate-chatgpt-and-google-ai-search/

Tech bros coming for our water

"SpaceX has added new language to its IPO filing that warns prospective investors about the company’s access to a potentially scarce resource: water.
The company, which now includes Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, wrote in an amended version of the filing on Monday that access to water — required to cool its data centers — is just as important as SpaceX’s ability to secure power, processors, and other critical resources."

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/01/water-access-is-now-a-risk-factor-in-spacexs-ipo/

Timnit Gebru was fired from Google in December 2020 for refusing to retract a research paper, and every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at a scale the industry spent 4 years trying to make people forget about.

#AIEthics #WeDontNeedNoAIEthics #WeAintGotNoStinkeenAIEthics

https://www.tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepsouth/817865966907228160/darren-oconnor-timnit-gebru-was-fired-from?source=share

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue

https://www.404media.co/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give-them-access-to-high-profile-instagram-accounts-it-worked/

*gently grabs the cheeks of all programmers to stare deeply into their eyes*

All I want is a dry tech manual. A boring, well indexed manual that defines every function. Not a chatbot. Not a training. Not a million "articles" that I have to search through. Not a "community forum".

My rice cooker came with one. I want one for every piece of software I have to interact with.

Go get yourself a technical writer if necessary.

I. Want. An. Instructional. Manual.

Dos cosas sobre lo último de Axios sobre IA (https://www.axios.com/2026/05/28/ai-spending-roi-enterprise-costs).

Una parte de mí quiere que esto sea una errata:

"An AI consultant tells Axios one of their clients recently spent half a billion dollars in a single month after failing to put usage limits on Claude licenses for employees."

Otra parte de mí (la mayoritaria) dice:   

Y luego está esto: " One CTO told Axios that employees were using AI models to check the weather. That gets expensive fast".

Qué puta necesidad hay. Puedes tener un marcador en el navegador (¡o esto https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in para la línea de comandos, o mil mierdas más!) o puedes gastarte cientos de dólares al mes en un sistema agéntico orquestado blah bluh bleh buzzword AI.

Qué coño estamos haciendo.

"In any article that comes across WIRED’s fact-checking desk, there’s usually a decent amount of “b-matter”: statistics, news events, quotes, anything that helps contextualize the topic. Fact-checkers tend to Google this basic information, and that process, in the form of the search engine’s dreaded AI Overviews, constitutes my main interaction with AI. In my professional opinion, it’s unusable—wrong—about a third of the time.

This might be a generous assessment, though. A March 2025 study from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism found that more than 60 percent of responses from AI-powered search engines were inaccurate. A BBC study puts the wrongness of chatbots closer to 45 percent, the number I see cited more often. Because percentages are distancing, let me put this more plainly: AI could be wrong about half the time."

https://www.wired.com/story/fact-checking-ai/