from the so-you-say dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is rkhalloran with a comment about keeping kids safe online:
The correct answer is ACTUALLY PARENT YOUR KIDS.
This is the digital version of finding “nudie mags” under your kid’s bed then trying to sue Playboy/Penthouse/… for the kid getting ahold of them (yes I know they’ve stopped publishing in print).
In second place, it’s MrWilson with a comment about the Republican Kansas mayor who is [facing charges and deportation for voter fraud](https://www.techdirt.com/…
from the so-you-say dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is rkhalloran with a comment about keeping kids safe online:
The correct answer is ACTUALLY PARENT YOUR KIDS.
This is the digital version of finding “nudie mags” under your kid’s bed then trying to sue Playboy/Penthouse/… for the kid getting ahold of them (yes I know they’ve stopped publishing in print).
In second place, it’s MrWilson with a comment about the Republican Kansas mayor who is facing charges and deportation for voter fraud:
Beyond the leopards-face-eating angle of the story, it’s important to also note this prime example of “voter fraud” being perpetrated by a conservative Trump voter. The accusation-confession that undocumented immigrants are committing voter fraud for Democratic candidates continues to underwhelm upon review of available evidence.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from GHB on the child online safety issue:
These people assume that other people should be the child’s parents.
I don’t agree that the internet should be a friggen daycare for the young. They’re just advocating that everyone online should be the child’s parent.
Next, it’s Heart of Dawn with a comment about misdirected AI doomerism:
AI, especially under the current LLM approach will never go full Skynet and eradicate humanity with killer robots.
No, it’s so, so very much dumber than that.
It’s going to kill a lot of people by sucking vast amounts resources and polluting the environment, and then even more by poisoning the legal, medical, educational, and social systems we rely on with bigoted (remember it’s trained on the internet) and misinformed slop. And that’s before people like Musk deliberately twist them to suit their own ends.
GenAI needs to be massively reigned in but not on the way, and not for the reasons StopAI insist. To paraphrase Milo Rossi, you don’t need something shadowy to get mad at, you can get mad at what’s actually there.
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is CitizenArrest with another comment about Congress’s internet-censorship-for-child-safety plans:
Reporting suspicious behavior
Dear Congress,
We’ve noticed you thinking about children…
In second place, it’s Flakbait with a comment about Congress finally planning to look into Trump’s boat strike killing spree:
Congressional investigation
Oh, thank God! Congress is on it! We’re saved!
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with an anonymous comment about the Trump phone’s failure to materialize:
- Bubba excitedly buys Trump T1 the day it’s announced.
- Bubba is still waiting six months later for his mobile to be delivered.
- Bubba twelve months later forgets that he purchased the T1 gets all excited when the Trump T2 is announced.
- Bubba buys T2 at inflated price.
- Rinse and repeat steps 1 – 4 as each new Model T is announced.
Finally, it’s Thad with a comment about our criticisms of NYC’s police oversight board:
No, see, you misunderstood.
It’s “oversight” definition 1, “an omission or error due to carelessness.”
That’s all for this week, folks!