Monday, August 25
Daily News Stuff 25 August 2025
Swingabouts Edition
Swingabouts Edition
Top Story
- Bluesky has blocked users from Mississippi over that's state's age verification requirements for social networks. (Bsky)
Rather than check if you are from that state, if the law applies to you, and if you are a permitted user, you are simply blocked. Safer and simpler.
Comically, the Tech Crunch article on situation is blocked if you are running an ad blocker.
This is the first time such a law has survived preliminary injunctions in the US and it is already making a mess.
Tech News
- 99,000 AI-generated songs are uploaded every day - including fake ones by established artists. (BBC)
It is becoming untenable.
- Google is running a sneak AI experiment that makes real videos look fake. (Yahoo)
Y tho?
It may just be A/B testing on video sharpening algorithms.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: The lines converged. All I asked was that the lines not converge, so of course they did.
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Phonetards should be relegated to the AOL/CompuServe world. And it should already be illegal for children to use computers.
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