Showing posts with label freak tech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freak tech. Show all posts

27 November 2025

24 June 2025

THE BOY WHO (THOUGHT HE) COULD FLY...

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-- "Liam was the first to say that what he did was inherently dangerous and to point out that it takes years of training and involves paying extremely close attention to safety on every single jump." --
Wait for it...
-- "Liam Byrne, 24, an experienced wingsuit flyer who starred in a documentary about his journey to become a champion skydiver has died during a jump from 8,000 feet." --

20 May 2025

'IT'S ALIVE!'

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-- "The UK’s first transgender politician has been accused of harassing her ex-wife after the spouse moved on with a new love. Former Conservative MP Katie Wallis, who was previously known as Jamie Wallis, is charged with harassing her former partner, Rebecca Wallis, earlier this year — even after being released on bail." --

18 September 2024

YOU MEAN ASIDE FROM HAVING YOUR TESTICLES BLOWN OFF?

I GUESS IT'S A SLOW NEWS DAY IN 'PROFESSIONAL' JOURNALISM LAND...
-- "Israel's pager explosion attack on Hezbollah members will likely have ‘several negative effects’ on the militant group and its operations. ‘The nature and scale of the attack also likely stoked confusion and shock among some Hezbollah members.’" --
Live and don't learn...
-- "Hezbollah’s Al Manar TV reported another round of explosions in multiple areas of Lebanon, which it said were the result of walkie-talkies detonating." --
Terrorising the terrorists... the irony abounds.

24 November 2023

AN UNCOMFORTABLE SUSPICION THAT I'VE ALREADY SEEN THIS MOVIE

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-- "Does this cross the line from a very complex machine to an actual intelligent entity? We may not know the answer until the day that one of Altman’s people assigns a new task to ChatGPT and it responds by saying, 'That’s stupid. Why don’t you figure it out for yourself?' Or perhaps even worse, 'Don’t bother me. I’m working on something else.'" --
It gets better...
-- "The US, Israel, and China are reportedly developing AI-controlled drones that can make their own decisions about whether to terminate human targets." --

05 May 2023

02 April 2023

THAT'S ONE SOLUTION, I GUESS

-- "A Belgian man reportedly ended his life following a six-week-long conversation about the climate crisis with an Artificial Intelligence chatbot. Eliza, an AI chatbot on an app called Chai consequently encouraged him to put an end to his life after he proposed sacrificing himself to save the planet. 'Without these conversations with the chatbot, my husband would still be here,' the man's widow told Belgian news outlet La Libre." --

22 December 2022

13 October 2022

A WORLD GONE MAD

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-- "These children don’t even have a clear idea of what it is to be a man or a woman; how can they possibly realize the implications of transitioning from one to the other, or rather, from one to a freakish facsimile of the other?" --
And...
-- “If Trans Women aren’t Women regarding Draft Registration, why are they Women when it comes to sports, prisons, bathrooms, etc.?” --

30 July 2022

A KINK TOO FAR

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-- "A pair of knickers belonging to Adolf Hitler's wife Eva Braun has sold at auction for £3,700. The pink silk pants embroidered with Braun's initials came from a private European World War Two collection.." --

06 June 2022

19 May 2022

05 December 2021

04 December 2021

SKYNET IS ALREADY HERE

If we're lucky, they'll treat us like pets... if we're very unlucky, they will treat us as food...
-- "RealDoll Henry will come equipped with artificial intelligence and a 'fully-functioning penis strong enough to lift trucks.' He added that they were also developing 'self-heating, self-lubricating erogenous zones' for both the male and female robots." --

01 November 2021

15 September 2021

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

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-- "The nationwide effort to reduce racial disparities, however well-intentioned, has had the unfortunate effect of weakening the connection between merit and scholastic admission. Declining U.S. standards in K-12 math education are now feeding into a vicious cycle that threatens to affect all STEM disciplines." --

13 September 2021

SEEMS LIKE THE LONG WAY AROUND

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-- "Fighting climate change with mammoths may seem crazy, but it has decades of research behind it — including the work of George Church, Ph.D., a world-renowned pioneer in genomics." --
Or, call me wacky... we could ask China to stop building coal burning generating plants.

09 September 2021

THE GREAT RESET CONTINUES APACE

-- "A series of “antiracism” training sessions at Google taught employees of the tech giant that children as young as three months old are racist, and that listening to Ben Shapiro is a step on the ladder to committing acts of racial violence." --