Multiple AI companies are ignoring Robots.txt files meant to block the scraping of web content for generative AI systems

I just listened to Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. As music, it’s good. As art, it’s truly great

Global spending on nuclear weapons is estimated to have increased by 13% to a record $91.4bn during 2023

Incredible. Was ich an Strom zahle für meine eigene Wohnung, zahlen die hierzulande alleine für Unterhaltung durch Streaming. WTF.

The lifespan of game consoles: From birth to obsolescence

O.o

"....fry human flesh for dinner, and then listen to them talk about how great things were going. You can read all about these horrors in Yang Jisheng's epic book, Tombstone. His own father died in the famine"

Migratory freshwater fish populations ‘down by more than 80% since 1970’

kudos!?

800,000 people in Europe and the US appear to have been duped into sharing card details and other sensitive personal data with a vast network of fake online designer shops apparently operated from China

Google is (still) losing the spam wars to zombie news-brands

hahaha!

Media freedom is declining across the EU and “perilously close to breaking point” in several countries

Global defence budget jumps to record high of $2440bn

For the first time, government military spending increased in all five geographical regions

Game Boy at 35: a portal to other magical worlds: The handheld console introduced millions to the joy of video games, and remains one of the best-selling consoles ever

Working on problems in the order I noticed them is rarely the most effective order. So the WTF Notebook gives me a place to park the impulse to fix it now, damn it! until I have more context for deciding what to work on first

A loophole allows the government to use foreign intelligence authorities for domestic surveillance

Braucht wer eine Ziege!?

Shut them down!?

How the climate crisis affects our brains
Scientists are just starting to discover how extreme heat and weather is linked to neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s and motor neurone disease – and can even affect babies in the womb. What can we do about it?