My good times was as a teenager getting to drive Dad's tractor, doing plowing, discing, cultivating, mowing hay, and so on. To this day I dream about driving bulldozers, backhoes and so on. My career took me away from big machines but I always felt a sense of accompishment to look at a field and say "I plowed that."
I thought you were referencing Louis Jordan's "Let the good times roll" which was the song Elwood puts on the record player when he and Jake get back to his SRO apartment in the beginning of the Blues Brothers.
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My tall, slender baby turned 20 yesterday. I gave her flowers, white chocolate and a gift card for clothes. I've been questioning how I'd refer to her from now on, no longer KidX or TeenX. Maybe 20X.
Please tell your tall, slender baby: Happy birthday. May your next trip around the sun bless you with love, health, peace, grace, abundance, prosperity, integrity, longevity, laughter, tears, friendship, courage, compassion, creativity, community and joy. 🌺
Well, the whippets are whining a bit. They're kind of needy. But then they didn't ask for any of this. But then who did. Better put the brush down and go attend. Maybe I'll chew on their ears a little, they find that entertaining.
The key words in those sentences is "internet exposed" ... this is where the problem lies. Yes, those system do need updating, by why in the all holy FUCK are you putting the water systems controllers ON THE INTERNET?
Why? Because then they can cut staff and save money, having one remote employee monitor numerous points in the system (or multiple systems) instead of having several onsite employees monitoring in person.
Otherwise municipalities might have to raise taxes. And for private companies, cutting labor cost is about the only remaining way to increase profits. What else can they do, reduce the increase in executive pay?
Also, all 'AI-generated' means is that someone was able to cobble together the code for this attack by asking AI to make it - and I guarantee similar attacks are in the data along with the complete works of Shakespeare.
The same result could be had without AI, by just buying the code on the dark web. This was just a little easier and/or cheaper.
I don't think the code came from the dark web, I think MS, Google, and other cloud storage companies have sold access to everything in the cloud. I recently saw a story about AI solving some complicated math problem and the scientists who looked at the solution were able to see that the AI had used processes pulled directly from the scientists emails.
No, in this case it didn't. What I was saying was that without AI, people with no coding skill could still just buy the code off the dark web. So these attacks may have been facilitated by AI, but the people behind them could still have accomplished them without it and without being experts.
Yeah, I saw that one. Both teams were using AI to some extent, and the OpenAI team seems to have cheated their way to being 'first.'
Of course, the problem they 'solved' is the type of thing that a computer - not necessarily AI - is already well-equipped to help with. Mathematicians already strongly suspected this existed, had found versions under specific conditions, so it was just a matter of trying enough equations until the right one was found.
Let them leave you up in the air
Let them brush your rock'n roll hair
Let the good times roll
Thank you for sharing about Meet Me at the Ruins and all the other nice times from Wonkette readers. Such a bright spot right now 💞
Brilliant post, ZW. Thanks for your inspiring contributions! Miaows from Buster Kitten & Thurgood Marshall :)
My good times was as a teenager getting to drive Dad's tractor, doing plowing, discing, cultivating, mowing hay, and so on. To this day I dream about driving bulldozers, backhoes and so on. My career took me away from big machines but I always felt a sense of accompishment to look at a field and say "I plowed that."
I thought you were referencing Louis Jordan's "Let the good times roll" which was the song Elwood puts on the record player when he and Jake get back to his SRO apartment in the beginning of the Blues Brothers.
Here’s an FYI for anyone who never clicks on YouTube videos here (like I used to be), because then you have to watch an ad or two before you get to see what you want to see. DuckDuckGo, formerly just a search engine, now has a browser, which will block YouTube ads in real time. Not just at the beginning of the video, but also in the middle of longer ones. I can watch a whole episode of Jon Stewart without constantly having to reload to skip ads. And like the DuckDuckGo search engine, the browser blocks all tracking cookies, and doesn’t collect and sell your personal info. You can even import your favorites and saved sites from other browsers.
(Unfortunately) I get no compensation for this endorsement. But I highly recommend it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj-b3fWrY3w
The Cars - Good Times Roll (Official Live Video)
My tall, slender baby turned 20 yesterday. I gave her flowers, white chocolate and a gift card for clothes. I've been questioning how I'd refer to her from now on, no longer KidX or TeenX. Maybe 20X.
Java time, good people 🙌🏾
Please tell your tall, slender baby: Happy birthday. May your next trip around the sun bless you with love, health, peace, grace, abundance, prosperity, integrity, longevity, laughter, tears, friendship, courage, compassion, creativity, community and joy. 🌺
Thank you, Zyx. ❤️ She is the reason I was born, the best thing that's ever happened to me, and I've always told her so.
They're having fun!
https://bsky.app/profile/muellershewrote.com/post/3mvgphixhik2z
The only thing missing is video of Kash Patel trying to crash their party.
They'd beat his ass.
Ya got that right.
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So cute:
https://bsky.app/profile/thetennisletter.bsky.social/post/3mvfqj73wis2c
A little late but
From yesterday's Sunday Long Read
Bill Biggart Was on Site to Document the Terror of 9/11. Only His Cameras Made It Home
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/bill-biggart-9-11-photographer-1235623825/?utm_source=edit-vip
archived link:
https://archive.ph/0vB02
The pictures that were in his camera:
https://www.billbiggart.com/september-11th
May his memory always be a blessing.
And now time for our new Monday morning wakeup ... https://bsky.app/profile/democratcats.bsky.social/post/3mvd7lggrz22i [sound required]
Well, the whippets are whining a bit. They're kind of needy. But then they didn't ask for any of this. But then who did. Better put the brush down and go attend. Maybe I'll chew on their ears a little, they find that entertaining.
𝘈 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘴 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘏𝘢𝘵 [𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦. - 𝘦𝘥.], 𝘧𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘜𝘚 𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘐-𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘵-𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘪𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘚7 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘴 (𝘗𝘓𝘊𝘴) 𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴. “𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬 – 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵,” 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘥𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥.
The key words in those sentences is "internet exposed" ... this is where the problem lies. Yes, those system do need updating, by why in the all holy FUCK are you putting the water systems controllers ON THE INTERNET?
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/13/security-through-obscurity-is-dead-and-ai-delivered-the-fatal-blow/5296000
It's not that things are necessarily "put on the internet", but anything saved in a cloud archive.
A multi-trillion dollar question. Just imagine the blanker than usual look on Donny's face if someone had the courage to ask him that.
mutter grumble Biden Did it grumble mutter
Why? Because then they can cut staff and save money, having one remote employee monitor numerous points in the system (or multiple systems) instead of having several onsite employees monitoring in person.
Otherwise municipalities might have to raise taxes. And for private companies, cutting labor cost is about the only remaining way to increase profits. What else can they do, reduce the increase in executive pay?
Yes to all of this, of course. The new reality, however, will probably change some of this.
Also, all 'AI-generated' means is that someone was able to cobble together the code for this attack by asking AI to make it - and I guarantee similar attacks are in the data along with the complete works of Shakespeare.
The same result could be had without AI, by just buying the code on the dark web. This was just a little easier and/or cheaper.
I don't think the code came from the dark web, I think MS, Google, and other cloud storage companies have sold access to everything in the cloud. I recently saw a story about AI solving some complicated math problem and the scientists who looked at the solution were able to see that the AI had used processes pulled directly from the scientists emails.
No, in this case it didn't. What I was saying was that without AI, people with no coding skill could still just buy the code off the dark web. So these attacks may have been facilitated by AI, but the people behind them could still have accomplished them without it and without being experts.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-prompt/2026/09/08/openais-math-victory-sparks-backlash/
Yeah, I saw that one. Both teams were using AI to some extent, and the OpenAI team seems to have cheated their way to being 'first.'
Of course, the problem they 'solved' is the type of thing that a computer - not necessarily AI - is already well-equipped to help with. Mathematicians already strongly suspected this existed, had found versions under specific conditions, so it was just a matter of trying enough equations until the right one was found.
Faster and simpler for the attacker, yes.
𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸: 𝗲𝘅-𝗘𝗣𝗔 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝟯𝟬 𝗳𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘀𝗮𝘆 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 — The Trump administration is sacrificing Americans' health to build data centers, former EPA officials warn. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/trump-epa-data-centers-epn-report-health-hazards/