I remind you all to never support J. K. Rowling’s works. If you do, you actively fund the oppresion of trans people in the UK.

If you like the games or movies as I once did and want to experience them again, then simply buy them second hand or, better, pirate them.

Yeah I heard of a case like this at least a year ago. I was wondering if we were reposting an old article, but no. That makes it worse, and explains the judge’s reaction.

“It’s little comfort to know that my stupidity is what brings us together this afternoon,” New Mexico attorney Stephen D. Aarons said in a hearing last month before five judges. He “assumed” ChatGPT would generate a “bulletproof summary of proceedings.” Instead, ChatGPT generated false testimony from “wholly fabricated witnesses,” according to an order of direct contempt from the New Mexico Supreme Court.

Aarons’ reasoning for trusting ChatGPT, he said in the August hearing, was that he’d heard of doctors using AI for medical research.

Yeah, I know someone frustrated with their local council who privately says “I’m going to 💥 the council” as a joke. That’s very different to sending a threatening letter to the council itself. Or harassing them.

The example here feels closer to the former than the latter.

Why the hell would you give a language model the wheel of a car?

They don’t even understand the concept of time and space. Some of them can parse an image, but typically only enough to pull text from it, and extremely slowly.

It’s like asking an overweight English teacher to play pro football.

We built visual recognition machine learning systems for this purpose.

What’s the longest single word your can type with that keyboard? Best I can do is “yucky”.

It has varied. I used to keep them 1-2 years when they used to improve a lot year-to-year. The last 2 phones I’ve had 3 years each.

After I’m done with it, I hand my phone over to my brother, who runs it into the ground over the course of the next 3 or so years, until it’s almost unusably slow. My brother does the shower thing too, but less often. Maybe 30% of the time and less steamy.

It’s possible that there could be gradual, over time damage. Rust growing until it forms a short. But that’s not been my experience.

Ultimately, it’s up to you if you want to take the risk, but given how I treated mine, if you even did this half as often as I did, you’re probably fine.

I didn’t mention this above, but I sometimes also used the phone inside the shower. Clicking the next video or checking a message notification. Maybe 1 in 8 days.

I’ve also sometimes washed the crud off the phone under the sink, rather than my normal approach with isopropyl alcohol. The worst I’d get is a notification saying I couldn’t charge for a bit, or the speaker sounding funny for half an hour or so.

You might call me crazy, but I don’t like to baby my stuff. I paid for water resistance, I’m going to make use of it.

I’ve been doing this for around 10 years, have very hot, steamy showers and never had a problem 🤷

Started with the Samsung Galaxy S7, one of the earlier water resistant phones, and I’ve been doing it ever since, across maybe 5 phones, almost every day. You’ll be fine. If you are worried about drops, just use a decent case.

As for why, others have said, it’s to keep listening to my YouTube video essays and similar. Stuff that doesn’t need to be seen to be appreciated.

Hey, we’re only 1/4 through the 21st century so far. It’s too early to call it. The Grapes of Wrath reboot doesn’t come out until 2040!

It’s from Sousou no Frieren. The instigating plot of the show is that, as an elf, she perceives time differently. She can take time off for a few decades (a chill holiday) and find that everyone is old / has died.

So like you do in Oblivion with Skooma?

Lovely. Man-made horrors beyond our comprehension.

Tell me about it…

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/01/simon-galbraith-uk-tech-entrepreneur-political-donation-restore-britain

I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I’m willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer. Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away. AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it’s clearly a useful one.

I think broadly speaking what he says is reasonable. If you don’t want to use AI, then don’t, but I think it can be used somewhat responsibly.

I have all sorts of issues with AI tooling:

• the centralization of power
• the load it adds on maintainers because of the amount of slop bad developers (and non-devs) produce with it
• the environmental impacts of using larger models
• the data centers causing health risks
• the impact on the PC industry
• the degeneration of skills and knowledge.

That said, it’s a tool, and can be used to amplify good work too.