I get the joke, but the sources aren’t self-published. They’re published by an instance other than the author and that’s good enough, that’s what the self‐publishing rule is about.

The COI can hardly apply to members of a fairly broad group writing about the group. By that logic, Americans shouldn’t write about the USA, only gay people could write about heterosexuality, etc.

Conflict of interest (COI) editing involves contributing to Wikipedia articles about yourself, family, friends, clients, employers, or your financial and other relationships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest

I swear I’m not this insufferably unfunny most of the time.

I’m sorry, how the fuck can an app made for men to find other men to get their back blown out be AI first.

AI is pretty good at fucking people in the ass.

The users are revolting? Well, fucking finally. Ygg was in general a shockingly hostile service. I made a profile, downloaded a torrent, left it seeding, and quickly got banned with no explanation whatsoever. Many other people reported similar experiences, completely nonsensical self-destructive behaviour from the admins. So this is hopefully an opportunity for French pirates to start anew on a healthier basis.

(I left the torrent seeding even after being banned, and it would still upload to Ygg users… but I limited my upload to 1 kbps, lol. It’s pretty rare so I should upload it to a normal tracker one of these days.)

https://eadaily.com/en/news/2025/12/05/the-worlds-first-ai-minister-got-caught-on-bribes

(Ok, the above article is mostly not true, the story was made up by an Onion-style satirical portal.)

Places usually don’t vanish into nonexistence after five years.

Updated:

What do the grifters have to gain that way, though? Maybe it’s just mentally ill people all the way down.

Whoops, thank you

On the left is soyak (soyboy wojak): https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/soy-boy-face-soyjak

I Fucking Love Science was a Facebook page that posted pop-sci articles.

On the right is Ted Kaczynski AKA the Unabomber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski

LG’s recent software update has forcibly installed Microsoft Copilot, an AI assistant, on smart TVs without removal options, sparking widespread user backlash over privacy, bloatware, and loss of control. This highlights growing tensions in smart devices, where monetization often overrides user preferences.

Sure is ironic that the article summary is itself AI-generated.

I’m not interested in fighting you either, I was just asking, perhaps the interesting conversation still could’ve occurred. (Admittedly that other reply to you is really good and extensive, and I wouldn’t have much to add after that.)

What would the conversation be about exactly? Legitimacy of language institutions, or?

Dictionaries can also note hyperbolic (and other “deformed”) uses of words, especially when commonplace, I see no problem with that. You have some odd expectations from dictionaries.

And then the speakers from insular communities get told to fuck off with their special definitions, or they’re so persistent that the new definition catches on. Either way, problem solved.

The word “literally” still serves its old purpose just fine, along with the new one.

They all work the same way. Some institution saying otherwise doesn’t chance that.

start putting up the money to make their support no longer required

There’s no way individual donations from ordinary people could match Google’s. They’re also likely to be less reliable.

Mozilla doesn’t even ask for donations from users a whole lot, and the money they receive mostly doesn’t go into development of the browser:

These funds directly support advocacy campaigns (i.e. asking big tech companies to protect your privacy), research and publications like the *Privacy Not Included buyer’s guide and Internet Health Report, and covers a portion of our annual MozFest gathering.

https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/donate/help/#frequently-asked-questions

That’s what you’d assume, but again in my country this is not a rare situation. Yes, people literally spend years studying to become gynecologists, and then don’t want to do one of the important parts of their job.

Admittedly, it is believed that many of the gynecologists actually do the abortions… in private clinics where they work in along with their job in the public hospital.

Actually “fuck off” to the above statement as well in many cases. “I’m a gynecologist. My religion says I can’t do an abortion.” Fuck off. Where I live (Croatia) pharmacies can refuse to sell you contraceptive pills if the person on the counter says it disagrees with their religion. Fuck off.

People’s values are never a purely private matter.

vintage 🤌

And the privacy policy states data may be used “To create aggregated, de-identified and/or anonymized data, which we may use and share with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Kohler Health Platform and our other products and services, to promote our business, and to train our AI and machine learning models.”

They’re literally using people’s shitting and pissing to train AI.

But isn’t AI already shitty enough by itself??