Notices by Peter (peter@thepit.social)

arm it so it can defend itself. stand your ground, orca! https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/14/iberian-orca-known-for-ramming-boats-seen-with-suspected-gunshot-wounds

EDIT: i am positive this whole thing is a grift and the prototype doesn't exist, leaving this post up anyway.

they designed a "rescue robot" to look like a nightmare, sure. https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1vbihow/this_is_threehalves_a_7_foot_tall_centaurshaped/

a rescue robot would be hi-viz orange, there is zero reason to make it matte black. if i see this thing coming to "rescue" me, i am hiding.

i'm calling it, this fucking thing isn't real. it's a stupid fucking idea on its face, there's no chance this prototype actually exists. https://www.satyress.com/

it's so funny that they did the whole "free Britney" thing, and they won and yay she's free and then whoops, it turns out yes, she actually is basically crazy.

@Illuminatus her Instagram lately is.... yikes. i mean, she can do whatever she wants i guess, but if i had a relative acting like that, i would be worried.

tech is pivoting to humanoid robots!!

the humanoid robots:

damn dude, the music in these Ukrainian military propaganda videos goes so fucking hard. (no gore or anything, just ships going boom)

(i don't think it's AI because the riffs build and are repeated. my experience from listing to AI music while sitting in my local McDonald's is that it comes up with catchy hooks but never circles back to them later or builds any kind of structure, it just kind of meanders around)

FINALLY SOME GOOD NEWS!! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/12/lindsey-graham-key-ally-of-donald-trump-has-died-after-sudden-illness-his-office-says

most of the people we hate are very old and on the verge of dying suddenly 🤗

it's hard to explain what a big deal this is coming from a US Senator.

the thing about Graham Platner is that he voluntarily spent like a decade fighting the US's illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, doing **multiple tours** and then **FUCKING WENT BACK** to work for another six months in Afghanistan as a mercenary. the hard-left position (and the one a lot of us took!!) should always have been "fuck this guy" or at the very least, "you don't get to lead us, bro, you're a killer. sit down."

jesus christ

the amount of stuff blowing up in Moscow is nuts. in broad daylight too! Russia really lost this war, huh.

ah cool, France ditched Palantir. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/palantir-wants-defend-west-west-054137745.html

RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/116764359352603568

lol these look like absolute ass.

😂 i mean, nice try i guess.

hey, yo, if you replace all or part of your dev team with Claude, that just means Anthropic owns your code base now. over time, it will become impossible to maintain without Claude, and when Anthropic decides to start charging per token, you will not be able to go back to using human engineers, and you will not be able to switch to a competitor, because there aren't any. you will be trapped.

everyone can see this is a trap, and everyone is walking into it anyway because the bait is so good.

UK has insane controls on speech, arresting old ladies for wearing T-shirts that say "FREE PALESTINE", but you can use a massive social media platform to whip up a pogrom and they're like "oh gee, oh no, nothing we can do 🤭" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/10/elon-musk-x-not-face-action-uk-government-posts-inciting-violence-belfast