Notices by Pratik Patel (ppatel@mstdn.social)

Oh wow. Well played indeed.

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/10/you-wont-believe-what-degrading-practice-the-pope-just-condemned

#press #news

@Fragglemuppet At least, you can peal and freeze bananas. I use the frozen ones for smoothies.

@WarnerCrocker That's inevitable. I'd hoped never to contemplate that prospect.

@WarnerCrocker English at third grade level or even lower you think?

@WarnerCrocker Without the eloquence of Gibbon I fear too.

"Decline and Fall of American Empire" will not have 17 volumes.

Oh, bloody hell!

A look at AI adoption across US schools and colleges, as tech companies invest in AI education initiatives, including partnerships with major teachers' unions.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-09-01/what-artificial-intelligence-looks-like-in-america-s-classrooms
http://www.techmeme.com/250902/p3#a250902p3

FYI: @FreakyFwoof@universedon.com

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@internetarchive

Lol. Somebody has Trump's ticket.

Nvidia CFO Colette Kress says the US hasn't outlined its plan for a 15% China commission, Nvidia won't pay until it has it, and it can sell AI chips without it.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-28/nvidia-waiting-for-white-house-to-codify-15-commission-plan

@WarnerCrocker No doubt it will result in monthly prices going up for consumers.

The second Civil War starts with a few hundred national guard personnel moving to states and cities controlled by the political opposition of the incumbant government—especially when the incumbant is thoughtless, self-absorbed, authoritarian, and the worse kind of predator.
#USPol #USPolitics

@WarnerCrocker Next thing you know, there will be a restaurant chain that specializes in creating and selling recipes generated by LLMs.

Despite Musk's claim Apple "makes it impossible" for non-OpenAI #AI apps to top its App Store, DeepSeek was #1 in January and Perplexity was #1 in July in India.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-apple-app-store-criticism-challenged-deepseek-perplexity-2025-8

Oh good. Soon, he's going to start accusing all the Indians business owners too.

President Trump says Intel’s new CEO “must resign immediately”
President accuses semiconductor industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan of being "highly conflicted."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/president-trump-says-intels-new-ceo-must-resign-immediately/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.

A Single Poisoned Document Could Leak ‘Secret’ Data Via ChatGPT

https://www.wired.com/story/poisoned-document-could-leak-secret-data-chatgpt/

#AI #agentic

Cloudflare says Perplexity uses stealth crawling techniques, like undeclared user agents and rotating IP addresses, to evade robots.txt rules and network blocks.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/
http://www.techmeme.com/250804/p23#a250804p23

@WarnerCrocker A lot of times, you're only pointing out the moral crisis to the people who already know.

Oh look, a headline that actually works.

The White House says it won't touch Social Security, but it keeps saying and doing things that suggest otherwise.

https://t.co/MxcR2fuyQM

I don't get into personal blamegaming when it comes to voters and the choices they make. But, every disabled person who voted for trump needs to go screw themselves.

@WarnerCrocker Happy birthday.