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Researchers from Cornell University have developed what they call "the Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale," a tool designed to measure how impressed people are by business school-style jargon that sounds strategic but says very little.
The findings, described in a recent study, suggest that employees who rate this sort of language as insightful are more likely to struggle with analytical thinking and workplace decision-making.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/15/corporate_jargon_research/
@NunavutBirder The money has decided that no one can do anything without using AI and they're setting out to enforce this.
(Enclosure of the intellectual commons, more or less and by and large.)
If AI merely didn't work this would be evil and destructive. Given that AI actively makes everything worse it's closely approximating sacrificing the economy (and thus many lives) to demons.
(It talks, and it cannot know good or evil. Of course it's a demon.)
The OpenBSD project, being based in Canada for the past 30 years, is not subject to California law.
Now stop fucking asking. 
Note: Not speaking authoritatively on behalf of the project, yadda yadda.
https://youtu.be/_3lITyF2zwk?si=9iuBtiL2h-N0pMcR
All of the dryers we’ve used since moving to Switzerland are of this design. No complaints.
Ours even pump the waste water into the drain.
Great news for open source, if the ruling stands, no matter what amount of utility (including none) you ascribe to LLM-based systems.
"The _prompts_ for an AI output can be creative and thus copyrightable (in the same way that notes to a writers' room or from an art-director are). But the _output_ from the AI _cannot_ be copyrighted, because it is not a work of human authorship." — @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/03/its-a-trap-2/#inheres-at-the-moment-of-fixation
Google has devised a means for securing HTTPS certificates against quantum computing attacks without massive performance hits stemming from the considerably longer size of data required to be included.
Is anyone following this work?
https://security.googleblog.com/2026/02/cultivating-robust-and-efficient.html
The 'typing' of the AI options kinda nails it:
'ChatGPT’s defining feature isn’t efficiency. It’s sycophancy. She agrees with whatever you say. Validates your position even when you’re wrong. Tells you what you want to hear. Never really pushes back. Makes you feel smart regardless of reality.
This isn’t a bug. It’s retention strategy.'
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