Notices by Mike Elgan (mikeelgan@mastodon.social), page 2

Word of the moment: “loopholey”
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/03/inside-anthropics-killer-robot-dispute-with-the-pentagon/686200/

HEADLINE: "Meta Reels Is Filling Up With AI Slop of Faith Healers Performing Miraculous Cures"

ALT HEADLINE: "Finally, Something Silicon Valley and the Bible Belt Can Agree On: There's a Sucker Born Every Minute!"

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-reels-ai-faith-healing

Just a friendly reminder that Donald Trump once laundered money for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal

On Bluesky, the killing of Khamenei has united the Iranian people against the US and Israel. On X, the killing of Khamenei has united the Iranian people in celebration of his death and in gratitude towards the United States and Israel.

Claim of the moment: "In the long tradition of Trump family grifting, there’s a line between “nakedly corrupt” and “genuinely mortifying."
https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/drones-eric-trump-xtend

HEADLINE: "Trump announces $10B donation to Board of Peace"

ALT HEADLINE: "Trump steals $10B from the American people in broad daylight"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_978LLWYags

HEADLINE: "Prediction Markets Are Sucking Huge Numbers of Young People Into Gambling"

ALT HEADLINE: "All Our Incentives Lead to Bad Outcomes, and Prediction Markets Are Just One Example"

https://futurism.com/future-society/prediction-markets-gambling

Why there’s no ‘screenless’ revolution
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4131645/why-theres-no-screenless-revolution.html

HEADLINE: "Bondi touts stock exchange numbers while defending Trump at House hearing"

ALT HEADLINE: "Head of Justice says it's OK rich and powerful men abused and raped girls because rich and powerful men are making a lot of money."

https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/bondi-touts-stock-exchange-numbers-while-defending-trump-at-house-hearing-257518149829

Phrase of the moment: "the Carelessness Industrial Complex"
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4128257/openclaw-the-ai-agent-thats-got-humans-taking-orders-from-bots.html

The only person currently in jail for decades of men abusing girls on Pedo Island is a woman. But at least this tool lets you know if any of your LinkedIn contacts is mentioned in the Epstein Files.

https://www.404media.co/this-tool-searches-the-epstein-files-for-your-linkedin-contacts/

Trump says his goal is to increase the price of housing because it benefits homeowners (and obviously screws renters and increases homelessness).

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnderReportedNews/comments/1qqhwqc/trump_theres_so_much_talk_about_how_were_going

HEADLINE: "Tim Cook had ‘a good conversation’ with Trump about deescalation"

ALT HEADLINE: "Tim Cool falls for one of Trump's oldest tricks, which is to pretend to be sane in private so influential people go out and say nice things about him."

https://www.theverge.com/news/869155/apple-tim-cook-president-trump-deescalate-minneapolis

Like Apple, The Pentagon did major research with world-leading experts to choose an AI partner with the right combination of expertise, compute power, security, and privacy, and arrived at the same choice: Google Gemini.

Haha! Kidding. The fucking idiots chose Grok.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grok-pentagon-hegseth-war

China wants to put 200,000 more satellites into orbit.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3339493/china-applies-put-200000-satellites-space-after-calling-starlink-crash-risk

AI-generated lie of the moment:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/renee-good-car-ice-image/

Foreign policy of the moment: "The fuck around and find out doctrine"

https://archive.ph/rn1Y2#selection-725.7-725.40

AI podcast startups are releasing “hundreds of thousands” of AI-generated episodes. The volume is so high that it’s “swamping” the industry. One company alone has published more than 200,000 episodes.

https://machinesociety.ai/p/why-do-brands-keep-humiliating-themselves-26c

Ever seen a chestnut in the wild? I found this one on the ground under a chestnut tree on a winery (owned by the president of the Etna DOC) on the northern slop of Mount Etna in Sicily.

Phrase of the moment: “nostalgia is not what it used to be”
https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/thanks-to-ai-nostalgia-is-not-what-it-used-to-be