@cwebber Don't worry, we're generally skipping the whole "AI agent soliciting funds" era and moving straight into the "AI agents run crypto pump'n'dump schemes and automatically exploit *other* AI agents bugs to buy pumped crypto" era. Fraud as a Service has arrived and in its own twisted way is glorious.

@sophieschmieg Huh. Well. Someone's got some *good* drugs, that's for sure.

@tante "It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_." Oh, it's so much worse than that. It's not built on data, it's built on *text*. Including massive amounts of intentional fiction (lots of paranormal romance), unintentional fiction (all those flat earthers and young earth creationists), racism and trolling (4chan!), and psychosis creations (Time Cube ftw!).

Can't tell you how thrilled I am that my robot surgeon might've been trained on Dr. Bronner's soap bottle text.

@petergleick it’s a little sad how people can’t just take the win sometimes. Even when it’s small.

@Sdowney @cstross Every time anyone talks about the invisible hand of the market, or the wisdom of the markets, I just... point them at what the actual market does and laugh.

This is totally utterly 100% insanity. https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/115991837242975763

Solar panels last longer than expected -- after 30+ years some panels still generate 80% of their original power. At least in the study area (which was Switzerland) panels made in the 80s and 90s had a degradation rate of about 0.25%/year, which is frankly not all that much.

Solar panels. They're just a really good energy investment.

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/el/d4el00040d

@vfrmedia @cstross Percentage of income with a cap is eh. Percentage of income *without* a cap is better. Percentage of gross income, or possibly assets, without a cap is best.

Tesla not going to respond to these things? 0.5% of gross assets or gross revenue per incident seems likely to make them take at least some notice.

@cstross I could absolutely see this as an excellent argument for speeding fines as a percentage-of-assets thing rather than a fixed cost thing. That might possibly get their attention a little sooner.