Hard Pass

Wildly disrespectful to any artist that ever lived. I'm all up for sharing alternatives that are good/better towards actual artists. Still evaluating my choices, but meanwhile this seems like the only and rather easy signal the streaming community can give as to spread the word if they agree (next to stopping your own subscription). Context: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/spotifys-ai-bet-more-of-everything-less-of-what-you-want/

The Therac-25 radiation machine is taught as the literal textbook case study regarding software safety because six patients were injured or killed.

Meanwhile, LLMs Have Led to 33 Deaths

Richard Brooks, climate finance director at Stand.earth, a climate advocacy body, said that with Ksi Lisims Canadians “are being asked to anchor their economic future to a global commodities casino.”

“This isn't a stable market: it’s a volatile swapping game where gas is traded on paper to exploit wild price swings and unpredictable demand. Betting public money on projects like Ksi Lisims means tying Canadian taxpayers to a deeply unstable, trader-driven scheme,” he told Canada’s National Observer.

Jesse Stoeppler, co-executive director of the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition, an environmentalist group working in the area Ksi Lisims is planned to be built, noted that the federal government was “acting as though Ksi Lisims LNG is already operational when the project has not reached [final investment decision], faces unresolved Indigenous rights concerns, and remains subject to ongoing legal proceedings.”

“Tim Hodgson is trying to create political momentum around a project that still lacks broad consent and carries substantial legal, economic and climate risk.”

This one is getting tickled by the interaction of the electron microscope and can't stop giggling.

Starbucks just quietly killed an AI inventory system it deployed across 11,000 stores, nine months after the launch announcement, and five months after employees started complaining it couldn’t tell oat milk from 2%. That’s not just a Starbucks problem. Enterprise AI is failing at staggering rates right now, and the reasons are almost always the same. Today the win is a lesson.

We break down exactly what went wrong with NomadGo’s Inventory AI, why workers ended up doing twice the work instead of half, what the deleted press release tells us about how these rollouts get sold internally, and the pattern that shows up in almost every failed enterprise AI deployment, from coffee shops to pizza chains.

The former US first lady told CBS News that she was frightened by Joe Biden's performance against Donald Trump.

The ++budget++ package that US President ++Donald Trump++ and congressional ++Republicans++rammed through last summer has already spurred large-scale loss of nutrition assistance among low-income ++children++, with an analysis released Wednesday estimating that more than 700,000 kids across a dozen states have lost federal food aid since the ++GOP++ law took effect.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), a liberal think tank, ++found++ that the “sharp participation declines” among children likely stem from provisions of the Republican law that—for the first time in the program’s history—shift large Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (++SNAP++) benefit costs onto states. The law also expands punitive SNAP work requirements.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/43247331

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/66415771

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/38075883

I wonder how ancient of a kernel it has and how many wonderful exploits can be run against it