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voganmother42on It may soon be possible to create "mirror life"

Easy, Douglas Adams already documented the fate of the Golgafrincham: entirely wiped out by a virulent, fatal disease caught from an unsanitized telephone!

You thought you were enabling communication(already dangerous as per the babel fish!) but you were ensuring the means of transmission!

But seriously though, sounds like a fun job where the byproduct of your work improved the experiences and access of people, and thats pretty great.

voganmother42on Sharing AI progress in mathematics

At a minimum its another force multiplier that enables a small(er) number of people to exert more control over more people.

voganmother42on Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net

OpenAI appears to have waited months before either discovering or disclosing the activity in Australia, I am mostly curious how this will be viewed in the context of another judicial system or in the context of international relations.

voganmother42on Show HN: AgentRun: DSL to turn agents into workflows

Consider hosting your use case article somewhere else (also)

voganmother42on Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net

Those laws are not being applied. The legal entities are not being held accountable. What does this look like across a national boundary like the government of Australia vs OpenAI?

voganmother42on Is A.I. Above the Law?

AI perhaps, but Super Intelligence is definitely above the law

voganmother42on Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions

Disney, after having completely failed to appeal to the next generation, needs to extract as much revenue as they can now

voganmother42on Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres

I remember projects like PG-Strom back in the day, very cool stuff

voganmother42on Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route

Its been way more effective at murdering US citizens for sure.

The ICE recruits are raising the bar.

Oh and now the FBI can consider those with a background in bestiality, so lots of fresh talent there

voganmother42on The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021

Using the word “retarded” in 2026, you sound smart

voganmother42on White House Launches Arcade.Gov

Doing such important work, definitely not a clown show

voganmother42on Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

Right, like you should have to wait in line for a huge amount of time. People hate holidays and time off work otherwise we should do like a national holiday but oh wait the point is the barrier right? We need to close as many polling places as possible and lets make it so the words are extremely tiny and only printed in latin and at alternating angles, cause if its easy to read then people might be able to express their opinions which we worked so hard to make sure people could buy, people shouldn’t be represented, because of your freedoms

Disgusting

voganmother42on Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal

You can beat the rap but not the ride

voganmother42on Diesel Margins Top $100 a Barrel to Reach Record High as Supply Crunch Grows

Which time?

voganmother42on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

Valuable in terms of being able to afford to have healthcare, to live?

voganmother42on Our position on open-weights models

Right, I wonder if anyone who heard: “the Democratic Party is America's "greatest enemy,"” believes they are represented by US Interests? Withholding disaster aid to your perceived opposition. What are those interests again? What are the shared values again? Cruelty and corruption? Sounds unifying.

voganmother42on Sam Bankman-Fried loses bid to appeal against fraud conviction in FTX case

I think the tiered justice system sucks, but this is no small criminal

voganmother42on Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC

Good thing they bought that podcast…

voganmother42on Trump signs downsized AI order after weeks of reversals

The review is they ask it about the epstein files and ensure any other politically sensitive topics have the “right” answers.

voganmother42on VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

you intentionally ignored internal reports of if not working

voganmother42on Trump fires NSF's oversight board

all he builds are monuments to himself. The line about cancer gets trotted out often, is he doing anything to cure cancer? All I see is corruption, but sure must be the detractors who are deranged - that is why you can point to all the good he has done right? I mean I bet his plan is similar to his healthcare plan, or his plans for trade, or his plans for peace.

voganmother42on Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead

when I'm dead just throw me in the trash

voganmother42on F-15E jet shot down over Iran

On cue, trump is making threats again

voganmother42on F-15E jet shot down over Iran

The damage to the reputation and relationships of the US are immense

voganmother42on F-15E jet shot down over Iran

What is this worth?

voganmother42on F-15E jet shot down over Iran

US FEMA has been working on hand of god teleportation for this exact situation. We need to search the waffle houses first thing

voganmother42on F-15E jet shot down over Iran

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/27/g-s1-107510/drug-boat-strikes...

Want to try again?

>Oh, it doesn’t exist because you haven’t seen it? Hmm, good analytical skills.

This is about what is legal, and about what the law says. It is about establishing a protocol for lawful conduct. Can you explain why you think you have the moral high ground? Or keep with the poorly researched attacks, those are fun too

voganmother42on F-15E jet shot down over Iran

Yeah, why check right? Not like we need evidence or any investigation…

I saw some people leaving a known drug house yesterday, but fortunately I gunned down the whole family, no questions asked!

voganmother42on F-15E jet shot down over Iran

The US is busy shooting “drug boats” with no evidence, that is who they are now

voganmother42on F-15E jet shot down over Iran

Oh yeah, its going great, so much achieved for only 30B and untold human lives, the winning!