Jason R Briggs

Frank Herbert couldn't have been any more prescient...

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." -- Dune

#ai

The first version of Linux I ran at home (23+ yrs ago) was Gentoo with KDE (where a typical upgrade involved a nail-biting setup and overnight build where you kicked off the compile and hoped like hell you hadn't messed up something when you restarted the next morning). Since then it's mostly been G...

stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360984340/i-could-die-here-kiwi-activist-alleges-violent-abuse-israeli-forces

"A spokesperson for the Israeli prison service said the allegations were 'false and entirely without factual basis'."

Renowned liars tell yet more lies and expect the world to reject the evidence of...

So if AI can regurgitate works in their almost unmodified form, I wonder how long till a new business model emerges... where a company dual-licensing their code under (for example) GPL and a commercial license, can then charge an exorbitant amount of money to corporates to stop the GPL infection o...

"This would be the first time a barrister has ever faced contempt of court for the contents of their closing speech. Menon now faces two years in prison for the high crime of reminding the jury of their centuries-old right to return verdicts without fear of punishment from the trial judge."

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-sri-lanka-submarine-warship-b2933385.html?ref=jasonrbriggs.com

It’s telling that UK media hasn’t highlighted the Iranian frigate being unarmed, despite it being widely reported across Asia (lots of talk in Thailand). There’s also been littl...

What a legend: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260228-spanish-premier-rejects-unilateral-military-action-by-us-israel/