> Why are slashdot editors obsessed with a marginal service that is representative of nothing of consequence? what is it with this lingo that warrants its nearly constant presence in the news feed?

Part of the AI hype bubble in the media. Like all you have to do is take a generic descriptor and tack on AI on the front - like AI.slashdot.

How sad to see Slashdot co-opted into the most sinister globalist agenda of imposing a digital panopticon on the whole wide world. Curiously enough, I get a blank when querying ClippyAI on 'How many people have been jailed for social media posts?'

ClippyAI: The "digital panopticon" is described as a sinister evolution of Jeremy Bentham’s 18th-century prison design, where the ability to be constantly watched—or to believe one is being watched—leads to self-regulation and loss of autonomy. In the modern digital context, this refers to surveillance systems, AI, and data mining that are often invisible, continuous, and all-encompassing.

The Stazi are desperate to wipe out legitimate anonymous online discourse. “UK authorities have arrested over 12,000 people for online posts, averaging more than 30 arrests per day, the highest recorded globally.”

“In early 2021, it was revealed that President von der Leyen had exchanged text messages with Pfizer CEO during negotiations for COVID-19 vaccine procurement.”

Why don't they just use name instead of numbers. As some C-suite seriously once suggested :o

> Alphabet's Google is negotiating an agreement with the Department of Defense that would allow the Pentagon to deploy its Gemini AI models in classified settings ..

The solution is a giant space vacuum cleaner.

Spaceballs "Mega Maid" scene

* A struggling or ordinary company/product

* Sudden alignment with the hottest trend or hype

* Investor frenzy and inflated valuations

* Weak or nonexistent underlying fundamentals

"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." Transparency lets defenders audit and patch code but it also helps attackers. Cal treats this purely as a drawback, ignoring that AI tools speed up defensive discovery and community fixes just as much.

> Anthropic staff sought advice on how to steer Claude's moral and spiritual development as the chatbot reacts to complex and unpredictable ethical queries ..

A rehash of Kurzweil, who treats consciousness as if it were mostly computation, which flattens out the moral, subjective, and spiritual dimensions of human life. Claims about machines becoming “spiritual” rely on a loose definition of spirituality that are closer to rhetorical fog than serious philosophy and underestimates technical, biological, and social obstacles. The result is a worldview that can feel less like analysis and more like a quasi-religious narrative about inevitable technological salvation.

“Changpeng Zhao .. was pardoned by President Trump on October 21, 2025. The timing followed a $2 billion investment by Binance-related entities into Trump's World Liberty Financial crypto project.”

> This Slashdot summary is a "single point of failure" ..

“MARS is the ABC's software. Ruan installed the Blue Yonder software at the warehouse without beta testing. It was discovered after it was too late that Blue Yonder could not communicate with MARS. No communications means no orders are taken. No orders taken means no orders shipped.”

Star Trek: a franchise once synonymous with bold exploration, a utopian vision of the future, and the unrelenting pursuit of knowledge. At least, that's what it used to stand for. But now? Well, let's just say it’s become more about checking identity boxes and shoving moral sermons down your throat than actually exploring the vastness of space. Gone are the days of exploring new worlds and seeking out new life and civilizations. Now, it’s all about who you are, what you believe, and how loudly you can preach about it.

It’s almost as if the people behind modern Star Trek not only don’t get what made the original show great, they actively despise it. They don’t care about the characters, the world-building, or the fans who have followed this franchise for decades. They’ve taken something once full of hope, optimism, intellectual curiosity, and twisted it into a hollow echo of itself. Where the only thing that matters is ticking off some woke checklist.

And the worst part? They seem completely oblivious to the fact that they’re alienating the very people who loved this franchise in the first place. It’s like they’re going out of their way to destroy what made Star Trek so iconic, replacing it with self-righteous moralizing and virtue signaling that feels more like a lecture than a story. It feels like they’re trying to kill the soul of Star Trek while pretending they’re somehow improving it.

“unauthorized access was granted via a compromised VPN domain. From there, the threat actor deployed a botnet to extract, download and store the data. The exfiltration took approximately six months.”

Chimera: a thing which is hoped for but is illusory or impossible to achieve.