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I guess it's just not possible to buy modern concert tickets without going through a scalper these days... The box office says "sold out", StubHub is happy to offer me a ticket, likely at huge markup.

The message to cops about protesting has long been "don't start none, won't be none", this is more confirmation of that: The New Republic: Alex Pretti’s Death Came After Insane Stephen Miller Order

Stephen Miller urged Department of Homeland Security agents to “force confrontations” with protesters in Minneapolis.</blockqutoe>

The thugs were sent into neighborhoods with orders to stir shit up.

I find myself once again fighting with Keynote and LibreOffice's presentation mode, and wondering what's y'all's favorite HTML slides generator?

I've been keeping a page of "songs we sang" for Janice Hardy's singing circle. She's talking about her own site, and is Wordpress actually the way to go? Seems like some static site app on her desktop would be a better idea, but it seems like a failure that we're down to heavyweight WP, or Wix...

Thieves steal 12 tons of KitKats. Presumably that's single-digit numbers of actual cocoa pods worth of chocolate...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/n...at-shipment-heist-stolen-europe/

alyssa mercante ‪@alyssamerc.bsky.social‬ has a thread in which she announces her law firm's settlement proposal in a suit against YouTuber "SmashJT" Jeff Tarzia.

The discussion of OpenAI/ChatGPT discovery materials is a look at someone pitifully deep into AI induced psychosis.

Wow, this is super shady: Cybercab Owners dot com. For only $500 you can put down a deposit on access to some sort of charging infrastructure that might be available after Tesla actually releases the Cybercab?

As Kay Leadfoot @ FuelArc News ‪@kayleadfoot.bsky.social‬ noted:

Looks like a double-tap scam, they're charging Tesla fans $500 for vaporware to sit on top of their vaporware.

Pavel A. Samsonov @PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social

Make sure to rotate your pronouns periodically, so that if your gender becomes compromised, attackers can only access it for a short period of time.

Martin Escardo @MartinEscardo@mathstodon.xyz

I have a calculator that is correct 80% of the time. But don't worry, every time I use it, I check the results myself.

Hart Research Associates/Public Opinion Strategies Study #260072 -- March 2026 NBC News Survey

	Very Positive	Somewhat Positive	Neutral	Somewhat Negative	Very Negative	Don't Know /Not Sure
JD Vance March 2026	27	11	10	8	41	3
AI, that is Artificial Intelligence March 2026	5	21	27	24	22	1

Trying to find the article that led to this, unsuccessfully.

On the one hand, I wanna link to The Guardian: Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says, on the other hand the report from the UK Centre for Long-Term Resilience seems like the sort of thing meant to freak out policy-makers rather than actually be useful.

The trend is striking. The number of credible scheming-related incidents increased 4.9x over the collection period, a statistically significant increase that far outpaced the 1.7x growth in overall online discussion of scheming, and the 1.3x growth in general negative discussion about AI. This surge coincided with the release of a wave of more capable, more agentic AI models and frameworks from major developers.

Like, uh, you wanna normalize that by anything? Additional use? The advent of more long- running systems like OpenClaw?

It's great to say "hey, these things are dangerous, and even technical users are tripping over their shoelaces when use of these ties them together", and I'm all for policy which engages more discussion about these things, but I also think the way the discussion is unfolding is exposing a lot about how policy is made by emotional reaction rather than any sort of real models.

Okay, one more goat picture