Scripting News: Thursday, July 10, 2025

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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