Saturday, October 18
Daily News Stuff 18 October 2025
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- Your AI tools run on fracked gas and bulldozed Texas land. (Tech Crunch)
You had me at fracked gas.
- Amazon has unveiled plans to build up to a dozen modular nuclear reactors in Richland, Washington generating a total of 960 megawatts. (Tom's Hardware)
We can still use the bulldozers, right?
Tech News
- WebMCP allows you to easily add an API to any website to poison the data of unsuspecting AI users. (GitHub)
Sounds like fun. Sign me up.
- Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP. (Simon Willison)
Claude Skills are subroutines, which have been around longer than electronic computers.
- A tech lobbying firm is suing Texas over the state's age verification law. (Ars Technica)
"Our Constitution forbids this," the lawsuit said. "None of our laws require businesses to 'card' people before they can enter bookstores and shopping malls. The First Amendment prohibits such oppressive laws as much in cyberspace as it does in the physical world."
Actually the Constitution is silent on this, and arguing the First Amendment forbids laws protecting children applies equally to the Second Amendment.
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These AI glasses promised to make me smarter, and all I got was Clippy for my face. (The Verge) (archive site)
The phrase lipstick on a pig comes to mind here.
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Disclaimer: Chicken. Fried. Hot.
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Yeah, I think ten can be old enough to possess a firearm.
Some of these regulations are pretty arbitrary and capricious from a compliance perspective, but the basic situation that motivated them is a little difficult.
So we have mandatory attendance laws, arguably false imprisonment.
Then the civil service trade union politically aligned with a faction that eventually decided it was a great idea to go full creepy, adn vivisect children.
But they were not getting enough ignorant kiddos being pressured into committing themselves to waging terrorist war, so they supplemented the abuse at the schools with some sort of organized grooming using online communications.
Anyway, ACA is one of the reasons the Democrats are playing this shutdown game, and maybe they do not realize how much further emotional disinvestment has occurred. (I also may be overestimating.)
Some of these regulations are pretty arbitrary and capricious from a compliance perspective, but the basic situation that motivated them is a little difficult.
So we have mandatory attendance laws, arguably false imprisonment.
Then the civil service trade union politically aligned with a faction that eventually decided it was a great idea to go full creepy, adn vivisect children.
But they were not getting enough ignorant kiddos being pressured into committing themselves to waging terrorist war, so they supplemented the abuse at the schools with some sort of organized grooming using online communications.
Anyway, ACA is one of the reasons the Democrats are playing this shutdown game, and maybe they do not realize how much further emotional disinvestment has occurred. (I also may be overestimating.)
Posted by: PatBuckman at Sunday, October 19 2025 01:27 AM (rcPLc)
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The age verification company used by France, located in Spain, is already leaking user data. Apparently part of the problem is passing unencrypted information in URLs. *facepalm*
Posted by: Mauser at Sunday, October 19 2025 03:47 PM (XWgGM)
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And nobody was shocked in the slightest.
Except Hasan Piker's dog.
Except Hasan Piker's dog.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, October 19 2025 06:03 PM (PiXy!)
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Anyway we just need to rebuild the browser ecosystem from the ground up around the new sanctioned hypertext protocol, secure, or SHTPS, a standard that is an improved version of HTTPS that also allows for user verification matching to government sanctioned information sources. This is simply the client facing part of a more complicated protocol stack, involving national government web scrapers and classification databases, the user's registration with a local police department, and the ISP's on the fly consultation of both databases before allowing the access transaction to complete. SHTPS is a dynamic evolving standard where national bureaucracies rewrite the error codes every six months in order to avoid explicitly confirming that the government does not want you to obtain true information, and is also incompetent, and this is why you can't do anything because everything takes at least five minutes to tell you that the computer does not know why it can't help you, you are probably imagining things.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Monday, October 20 2025 06:52 AM (rcPLc)
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