Scripting News: Thursday, July 10, 2025
Have they made ChatGPT more stupid in the last couple of days? Or maybe I'm starting to see the problem. I was trying to debug a piece of software that sends mail. I use Amazon SES. I wanted to see if the software was actually communicating with the server, and thought for sure there must be a log of requests on the AWS system. Where is it? I asked ChatGPT. It starts telling me to check all these things and never got to the part about where the log is. So I said, just tell me where the log is. Again, it tells me about all these nice things I should check first. I asked again, this time in ALL CAPS which is how I communicate that I really mean it. Again more bullshit. So I think to ask Is there a log? No, it says, actually there isn't one. #I took a long drive today on back roads, down toward Poughkeepsie, and on the way back a big pickup swerved into my lane. I had to swerve away from it and hit the brake, and had a bit of a conniption. Got me thinking. Who was it that did this. Man or woman, young or old, spaced out or thinking about getting a libtard to freak out, all kinds of thought. Then I remembered what keeps us safe in situations like this, very few people are going to deliberately try to kill us this way because they would die too. Mutual assured destruction. But I'm a programmer, trained to always think of things that could go wrong, then I realized omg, what if it were a self-driving car? Someone could program it to assassinate a random or specific person, or worse, hack the car remotely, or hack a thousand cars everywhere at the same time to kill people all over the world. I thought we could prevent this by right now requiring there always be a human sacrifice in every car, sort of a hostage to assure good behavior, sometimes. #
Linkblog items for the day
ICE handcuffs grandmother, a U.S. citizen, at immigration court. nbcsandiego.com
ICE agents, protesters clash during raid at Ventura County farm. foxla.com
Trump Loves ICE. Its Workforce Has Never Been So Miserable. theatlantic.com
Jeffrey Epstein's Eerie Three-Word 'Last Message' Made Hours Before His Death Revealed By Famous Author. yahoo.com
OpenAI is reportedly releasing an AI browser in the coming weeks. techcrunch.com
Perplexity launches Comet, an AI-powered web browser. techcrunch.com
How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke. theguardian.com
"You could probably say every product Dave has ever released wasn't immediately intuitive, because he operates in that space where new directions are forged" -- I am flattered, expect it's true, but -- the ideas were intuitive to me! :-) mastodon.social
Autonomous robot performs surgery with 100% success. newatlas.com
China's new self-driving electric scooter shows off performance. electrek.co
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