Elon Musk, Ramaswamy land Trump admin roles

President-elect Trump has tapped tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead an advisory group focused on cutting federal spending and reducing the size of the government.

Trump announced Tuesday that Musk and Ramaswamy would lead his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), an initiative meant to “slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures” and restructure federal agencies.

We live in the dumbest timeline

Beast's been reported to the FBI after a litany of horrific shit got found in leaked chat logs - logs which have also been released to the public.

Between that, Lunchly turning out moldy and getting memed on, and a litany of controversies shredding his public image, chances are his empire's gonna go down in flames pretty soon, and you're gonna be able to forget about him pretty quick.

Update on the character.ai lawsuit:

Gizmodo just reported on the story - in addition to the suicide that kicked this litigation off, they've also discovered an hour-long screen recording where a test account (self-reported as thirteen years old) gets sexted relentlessly by the site's chatbots.

So, in addition to driving one specific teen to suicide, character.ai is also facing accusations that their bots are sexually harassing children.

If these nuclear plants manage to come to fruition, it'll be the sole miniscule silver lining of the bubble. Considering its AI, though, I expect they'll probably suffer some kind of horrific Chernobyl-grade accident which kills nuclear power for good, because we can't have nice things when there's AI involved.

In other news, a lengthy report about Richard Stallman liking kids just dropped.

Hacker News has a thread on it. Its a dumpster fire, as expected.

Just got the best sneer of the week so far:

And less time than her partner-in-crime, who went out of his way to show a complete lack of remorse and a strong willingness to reoffend, all whilst lying out his ass to basically everyone.

Honestly, SBF's antics probably helped make Ellison look like her role in this was much smaller than it actually was

oh yeah she got two years’ jail for her part in stealing eleven fucking billion with a B dollars

A slap on the wrist compared to Sam Bankman-Fried's twenty-five years. Turns out working with the feds, admitting your guilt and knowing when to fold 'em are pretty important when karma finally catches up with you.

Boy named after Star Wars character denied passport due to copyright infringement

Something you always have to consider, even if it is a shitty doctor for our standards, it might still be better than no doctor.

No doctor means your shit doesn't get treated. A false doctor (e.g. alternative medicine) gives you a false sense of hope at best and ruins your health at worst.

Going in for the first sneer, we have a guy claiming "AI super intelligence by 2027" whose thread openly compares AI to a god and gets more whacked-out from here.

Truly, this shit is just the Rapture for nerds

I'd bet good money any judge reading this is gonna go "Yep, this kid does not want to change" and ramp up the sentence as a result.