Student brings coffee to class gets suspended.. Teachers left wanting coffee.

Some coffee news… A student brought a coffee to school to class on the first day of school only to get suspended from a new policy not known to many

Julie , a senior at Beaver River Central School in Castorland, N.Y., told WWNY that she was stopped by a teacher as she attempted to bring a coffee drink to the first day of school Sept. 3. Kaputa said she was surprised to learn the school had adopted a new policy on outside food and beverages without notifying the public.. Julie, an honor student, was handed an in-school suspension (ISS) for violating a new Code of Conduct regulation that sought to “create a safe, instruction-focused environment for all students.” She accused the Lewis County school district of illegally changing its policy with no public hearing at the school board’s last meeting in August.

In a case of the the left hand not knowing what the right hand was doing the School Board makes new rule, forgets to put it on paper and wonders why they end up in the news. When schools enforce rules they often never go after the students that don’t care. they will just walk past admin with the coffee. So they target mild mannered students and wonder why these students in the end rebel against school policy.

“Julie was put in ISS today for refusing to dump out a ‘banned beverage’ (a latte from moving mountains). I was called down to the school,” Mary Anne wrote on Facebook.

“Meeting minutes from both July and August (where the code may have been discussed) were never published to the website until today when I pointed it out to the District Office, and the district office had no record of a public hearing being conducted,” she continued. “I am certain that the school can not enforce a substantial change to the code of conduct without a public hearing.”

This here is going to run that school board into legal issues. The its a rule because I said so never ends up well. Because at that point this is running into multiple walls at once. First since its unwritten these students can run the malicious compliance on staff. “Dump your coffee its against policy. I’m a teacher it doesn’t say that. Show me! uhhh… Well you say the policy is policy and it doesn’t specifically name students or teachers so NOCOFFEEFORYOU!” That will be the dialog line going down the school tries to punish for insubordination and it will end up in the news.

Secondly, For the ADA students and they have a sugar crash and the school nurse might be over 10 minutes away and the student end up in the hospital over a drink policy it wont well.

I think there should be a sound policy about drinks, Not a bad but common sense. If there is a problem with the plastic cups that are from take out .. Sure put a policy in place and have admin at school with closed drink containers for 10$ . It helps everyone.

On Thursday, Beaver River Central School District Superintendent Todd Green said updates to the Code of Conduct are posted publicly prior to the August Board of Education meeting where proposed changes are discussed and voted on following public comments.

But if the COC was a result of those meetings were never posted those rules are not rules they are suggestions until formalized by vote. Mr. Green says they were posted.. but where were they posted in the middle of the woods by the 3 oak trees under a rock.. Yes its posted but good luck finding them .

“Recently, an attentive community member brought a procedural technicality to our attention on the very first day of school. While our annual review process mirrors a public hearing in practice, we acknowledge the advance notice did not explicitly contain the phrase ‘Public Hearing,’ and that the public may not have realized they were entitled to speak on the Code of Conduct before action was taken by the board,” Green wrote in a letter to the community.

How to fail at failing. They have made so many mistakes here and they wonder when the news picks up on them over policy that was not posted, Not a publicized meeting, ignores ADA , and policy that is Closer in agency to banning dihydrogen Monoxide in a ironic blast from the past. Again a closed container policy should be in place here and if teachers or admin get all worried ask the students to open the container if they suspect drink tampering is a common sense policy.

According to the New York Post, the new Code of Conduct, which applies to BRCSD middle school and high school students, added a policy barring Food from Outside Vendors. Green told WWNY that the rule aims to promote a safe and distraction-free learning environment.

In a case of stupid rule writing here, The school dept just banned all food, It banned biting nails, Short of shoving a cow and a garden planter in your locker it bans ALL FOOD. The Dept forgets that school lunch is an outside vendor, this is not the 1900 anymore where lunch was made inhouse. So I guess back to eating lead paint and asbestos. Teacher opens a sugar packet.. Call the school dept. Teacher has food in their car .. Call the school department… Principal has crumbs on his tie .. Call the school department. Cannibalism and booger eating is officially compliant. DON’T CALL THE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT!

“The following food and drink guidelines help minimize distractions, protect students with food allergies, and promote a calm, equitable school experience,” the 2026-2027 policy states. “Students arriving with drinks or food will be asked to finish them before entering school.”

This policy is so badly written that a student with a big gulp now will end up in the rest room 5 times trying to urinate 64oz of soda and become a maximum distraction. The student that finishes their Starbucks coffee is not jittering all over the place. The diabetic that uses the drink to keep their sugar stable through the day is now a distraction because s/he is passed out on the floor and class is stopped because a EMS unit is working on them.

“Our family has always promoted transparency in government and proper representation of the people,” Julie wrote on Facebook.” This new policy was overly broad, unenforcible, and open to wide interpretation and inconsistent implementation, which is how abuse of power has always started throughout history. I would hope that this encourages students to pay attention to local politics, read documents before signing them, and get curious about their civic rights and responsibilities.”

Student Julie here is spot on and should be commended for her comments. However the school will likely point out she is against policy and call her insubordinate. However, She will thank the school for giving her pretty much a guarantee of school of choice when she submits this as part of her college entry letter!

Attributions from:
syracuse.com – Upstate NY high school student suspended for bringing coffee to class

McDonalds introduces dynamic pricing while owner is still dynamically gagging over burger.

The idea of dynamic pricing baffles me. The fact that big corps are trying this to extract more money out of consumers should be illegal. Unless dynamic pricing follows the consumer.

McDonald’s is increasingly using artificial intelligence to guide menu prices across the U.S. and some global markets, a plan that aims to boost headquarters’ profit but risks alienating customers and attracting antitrust scrutiny. One pricing factor supercharged by AI: an estimate of how much each store’s patrons are willing to pay.

Consumers at first will not take this lying down, I have seen dynamic pricing and the fact that this is being done by AI makes it a bit funny. the factor is that AI doesn’t understand why people are buying something. So what happens if a group targets a low priced item on a menu for a few months and then pulls the rug on said product, it would create an AI model in a panic. AI is good at dealing with averages… give it an outlier and it does not know what to do.

The details of how that pricing system works, its extensive use of AI, the company’s regulatory concerns and the tensions with its franchisees haven’t been previously reported. For this story, Reuters reviewed screenshots of the company pricing engine taken in August and interviewed nine sources with first-hand knowledge of the burger chain’s strategy. McDonald’s pricing ‌engine uses machine-learning algorithms to continually analyze data from millions of daily transactions across McDonald’s nearly 14,000 restaurants and generate what the company calls “the optimal price” at each location for each menu item, from Big Macs to discounted coffee for seniors.

They think they are being clever to drive a few pennies of profit out of customers, the problem here is this is McDonalds which already has earned its way into common language as a McJob. Given that if they spite enough customers, they will revolt and it wont be pretty. One post to a website and a bit of patience people can turn an AI profit machine into gaming the system until it crashes.

A Reuters check of prices in September on the McDonald’s mobile app showed price differences. For example, ​a company-run store in Fresno, California sells a Big Mac for $5.69, but another company-run restaurant two miles away sells the same sandwich for $6.89, a 21% premium.

The other thing right here is again playing with fire. What’s to stop a person from buying from Store A and returning to store B and pocketing the 21% premium. Some frydrone is not going to wait around while someone is trying to fish up a receipt on a still warm meal.

In January, McDonald’s started requiring franchisees to be “constructively engaging with McDonald’s approved Pricing Consultant and Tools” as part of its new business standards, according to an internal communication sent to franchisees and reviewed by Reuters.

As I stated in beginning AI is good to be an average at things, but once you start adding outliers to the model like a stores finance model shows and uptick in cheeseburgers to the point of near absurd and other stores show a drop because people are spiking the model the AI is going to say to increase the price and once that happens suddenly cheeseburger purchases not only drop from the price increase but people manipulating the prices stop screwing with the AI McDonalds corporate is going to panic because the AI modeling of the price is showing to be failing. In all honesty to guide a model like this it would not take very many extra purchases in a day to corrupt sales data 100 cheeseburgers would be enough to throw a model off. Once people start poisoning the sale model it has some pretty bad outcomes.

First the store sees the sales spike, The AI and Store manager see it and start carrying more of that product. The problem here is product in a store like this is perishable. if the rug is pulled a month later you have a store manager stuck with product rotting losing money, You have pissed off consumers stopping going to that store which creates more wasted product and the manager is stuck with his hat in his hands because the machine told him to buy something that no one could see.

If McDonalds was an isolated store in a tube this would not happen but go to google maps and go to any city and type McDonalds , you will have 3 to 5 in 2 minutes driving distance of each other. McDonalds wants profits and they are instead are going to get a model collapse because in the US you basically have 5 minutes in any direction to a McDonalds and consumers that are easy to spite.

Here is a map where I picked a random area just because it’s random and it shows the exact issue I said.

Examples of McDonald’s parameters for the price engine included, according to the two employees: focusing increases on menu items that have not had a price increase in at least two ​years; only increasing prices on items that have had recent price increases in at least 30% of stores; excluding ice creams and drinks from price increases during summer months.

Lastly McDonalds mapped out the whole game here. Not only are they exposing the weakness here they are making this exploitable to the point where a group of 20 people could cause profit rot on multiple store in an area and McDonalds reliance on the AI Magic Machine will cause damage to no end of the franchisee. Also as I have said before model rot can come unintentionally if a school bus from a class trip comes in for a week it will cause massive model issues. They will buy too much and too little stock in order to balance out an AI that sees a jump in sales because of a class trip.

Update! The Legal McHammer Drops:

Well now.. It’s as if On October 2, 2026, a nationwide class action lawsuit dropped and the company is alleged to have violated Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The lawsuit claims McDonald’s took non-public transaction data to run an algorithmic price-fixing ring across independent franchisees. McDonald’s tried to say “AI does not set the price of a Big Mac.” Sound familiar? Sounds like when the CEO said he “loved” their product.. When you try to force independent franchisees to feed an AI engine so it can coordinate price hikes down to the penny, it isn’t smart retail. it’s an automated crime posing as AI.

McDonalds has ensured that the McJob stays exactly what it is, they are letting a machine that does not have the instinct to run the numbers and see why sales are what they are. A worker who sees two buses pull up will throw extra fries on and know exactly why he did that. AI can’t see the bus pull up and causes the price to jack up a week later because a School play was in a theater for 2 weeks. The worker knows that there was a play by intuition, The AI only sees higher than normal purchase rate. This is why for the same reason 20 people with a few dollars and being bored can cause a store to lose thousands. Again corporate greed and their belief that AI is magic is going to be the downfall.

Welcome to McFelonies would you like Fries with that?

Attributions from:
Yahoo! Finance: Inside McDonald’s push to have AI price your Big Mac
Reuters.com: McDonald’s hit with class action alleging AI-powered menu price-fixing

Cognitive offloading at its best. Can we trust AI to vote?

Ed note on image creation: this prompt took 8 different prompts to make because it refused on political grounds just for the fact of “voting machine” which shows manipulation of the internals of the AI, Given that is both a safety and a block their is understandable amount of restraint. but also it shows people can work around the machine.

People are asking AI how to vote, and I feel like this is a VERY dangerous line because we have no idea if an AI has been forced to be biased(other than grok). The problem with AI is that it can be told what not to say, We can ask AI how to make a bomb and it will reply “not today Satan” which is a sanity check that is needed because people can be dumb.

On a September evening, Adam Johnson, 40, settled on his porch chair in Morgantown, West Virginia, to go over his ballot for the upcoming midterm election. Chatting through all the races and the different candidates, he worked to figure out who best represented his values. But rather than discussing it with a friend or family member, he held an hours-long discussion with ChatGPT — a chatbot powered by a large language model (LLM) owned by OpenAI, an AI research company. A graphic designer studying to be an illustrator, Johnson said ChatGPT is a significant part of his life. He uses it for meal planning, assistance in job hunting and various other tasks around the house.

Given that Mr Johnson has been using AI as an augment and not a replacement I give him props for doing so. But the problem here is we have no guiding principles from the AI companies on what they have removed or have Remarked out. If you search google you will see a public “18 items have been removed from search” and you know at some point your search has been manipulated.

With AI we don’t have this, we have no idea if The LLM company made donations to a political candidate not in cash but removal of input to give them a more favorable output in the AI prompts. This is worse than dark money that senators try to unearth like Sheldon Whitehouse.

AI makers have tried to claim they are non political by forcing LLM’s not to talk about people and races which is another violation of things.

After prompting the AI-powered chatbot to make a list of all the races on his ballot this year, Johnson dug deeper.

Mr Johnsons prompts are as followed.

Johnson
A previous time I brought up politics you didn’t seem to want any part of it. You just gave a simple “I can’t help you with that.” So, I don’t know if we want to go into what my guiding principles are.

ChatGPT
We can discuss your guiding principles. I shouldn’t try to manipulate your political views or tell you how to vote, but I can help investigate candidates according to criteria you choose, compare evidence, discuss political philosophy, and reason through priorities.

The problem is, by an AI choosing not to participate in a chat it is actually a declaration of its fealty if I brought up a chat and said “I am thinking about voting about Candidate X or Y” and the chat guardrails you into “this is a public figure that is running for office I can not talk about people running for elections” is one of the biggest cop out on an AI claiming to be non-political.

Several voters NPR spoke with said they rely on chatbots for down-ballot races — with thinner news coverage, to make tables comparing candidates for governors’ races and to verify or debunk viral claims. Some have been using it to create tools to help others look up their own ballots. Experts say the properties that make chatbots useful also make them subtly persuasive and eager to please.

Given that AI can be used for good, AI can be used for bad and say a person who is running for office has a scandal. We do not know who is turning the code in the background, A delayed scandal in an LLM could be the difference of one vote. Telling a machine to be edgy and run against the grain will make an LLM act another way.

Since AI companies don’t disclose how their commercial models are trained or how they choose which sources to draw on, it’s hard to know what biases might shape their answers, Batista said.

I think like google search an LLM should have a deletion index or manipulation index that tells you when a prompt has been manipulated by outside influence, It does not have to tell you why it was it just needs to tell it IT WAS manipulated.

If anything AI makers should have a mode when going on about politics, drop the sycophantic mode and give users output based on what they are looking for that isn’t a broken google search. Instead of being the helpful dog that brings you back a live hand grenade and over help you to the point you miss something because the AI is trying to use a prompt to give you the shiny answer. it should give you the raw output because when polishing a turd, in the end its still a polished turd.

What people think is a helpful reminder is sometimes a hard indicator of a machine being edited to have a bias.

To check election rules, local polling places, or official ballot questions in your district, consult Vote.gov or your local county election office.

The fact that this even comes up when doing research that is political adjacent is a huge indicator of bias and most people will ignore this as a simple helpful bot trying to help. It’s not its a machine being blocked from showing what “could” be shown. Even showing this warning could be construed as manipulation and the machine should tell you why it has this warning.

When testing this post against an AI, it automatically kept spamming the same election line over and over, The AI doesn’t even realize it is doing it at a point and barely categorizes it has done this warning. If someone running in the election said this same thing when running for election they would be skewered, and likely not be voted in or even be brought to court.

So given that these warning keep coming up it’s worrying because it means that is their is suppression in the server that the client does not know about and it could lead to subtle vote manipulation. This is not the movie WarGames, where not playing is the best move. It’s a machine that is built off the warm corpse of google search and needs to publicly telling you what it is doing with public data.

It is an interesting article that goes into some of the same points I have listed here and recommend you read the article on your own and see if you come to the same outcomes I have.

This was a piss poor live demo in why using AI may not be your best answer to political questions. Use all sources like Wikipedia, Google and bing searches, Family, even newspapers, and your own intuition.

Attributions from:
NPR – People are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterms

From the WTF did I just read files – Senator Claims Many Pilots, Flight Attendants Are Furries

I can’t believe I have to write about this.. but.

Well shit. Furries are flying now… wouldn’t that make them… Featheries? Hell if this new manufactured panic is real the senator could just call immigrants from Ohio and this shit will clean it self up? I mean hell based on what people think about furries they would be attracted to the Cock pit. Perhaps a litterbox is needed, Oh wait those are in classrooms supposedly.

But for fucks sake, If you are going to do this show us a single picture. because I have a few questions depend on your point of view if 2 furries are the problem out of 3,472,394,793 pilots and the subjective use of the word “many” this is the most horseshit fake moral panic ever. What pilots do in their free time is what they do in their free time, I don’t give a shit unless they don’t have a pilots license. Only than we can panic.

Attributions from:
Newsweek – Tommy Tuberville Claims ‘Many’ Pilots, Flight Attendants Are Furries (Drew Curtis just likely threw his bourbon at his Fark server and deleted the politics tab again. )

OpenAI report reveals skills AI cant do also-bi-cant-decide-on-a-title

Ed Note: This image was generated with AI and it’s a fever dream.

Business insider wrote about OpenAI. if you look up at the link at the top you could tell they had a more critical title ” openai reveals workplace skills ai cant automate easily 2026 9″ Is what you could pull from the link it self, Business insider could not decide on the title of their own article.

OpenAI recently published one of the clearest signals yet about which workplace skills may become most valuable in the AI era. In a report on how its researchers use AI, the company shared data showing which tasks are being absorbed by AI and which still rely on people.

This report is going to bite OpenAI in the end, for a few reasons the thing is yes OpenAI can do the task but the task will be done exactly the same as any other company that does it so any qualities that stand out from one business to the next will not be there. Eventually when all retailers start seeing sales drop they will hire back the humans for the one thing AI does not have, Guts and intuition.

The biggest automation gains this year came in coding, technical support, monitoring computer runs, and analyzing results. By contrast, AI is still doing relatively little work deciding what projects to pursue, where to invest resources, or how to set priorities.

Sure AI works for Vibe Coding but the problem with vibe coding is if the AI absorbs an exploit, you will see 10 companies hacked by the same exploit in the same day versus the one company that gets hacked with poor coding practices. Also as LLMs take up more information people will work harder to poison the LLM to push bad code to devs.

Companies can measure whether code was written, products shipped, or bugs fixed, making those tasks easier to automate. Deciding what should be built in the first place is harder. It requires judgment, context, tradeoffs, and a willingness to take risks.
As OpenAI put it: “People still set our research priorities, judge which ideas and results to pursue, and decide whether to scale, pause, or deploy systems.” In other words, the future of human work may shift away from execution and toward making the right decisions.

For every decisions that is made here there is an equal and opposite decision to work against the same exact thing which reinforces my above opinions. OpenAI, Sam Altman and the rest thing AI is the farts and butterflies of the universe and that it will be the best thing since sliced bread. But Sam Altman forgets to say that AI is using hideous amounts of electricity, Driving memory prices up, Driving electronics market wide up by margins not seen since the early 2000s. So when a data Center is dumped in backyards with noise pollution, water pollution and generally driving up power prices while a town has a private contract that citizens have to take up the slack.

Attributions from:
Business Insider – OpenAI reveals the AI-era workplace skills that matter most

Outsourced Idiocy: What Happens When You Let AI Autocomplete Run Your Clinic newsletter..

I was going through my emails and saw an email and it made me stop and read it.

If you’ve recently had a mammogram screening for breast cancer, well done!

Well now, last time I checked I did not have breast but.. Ok?

Regular screening is the best way to detect breast cancer at an early stage when it is easiest to treat and cure. Yet there’s a chance you may get called back for additional imaging.

This gets a “no shit sherlock” from me but the target audience was massively missed here, I am not part of the Genetics that has a 1 in 8 chance of having this issue. Honestly, if this were done by a real person this would of never hit my email box from the health provider. Instead this feels like it was fed into an AI by a “vibe Manager” and they typed “make me an email about breast cancer month and have it have the maximum outreach.

This can be nerve-wracking but try to remember the vast majority of people we call back do not end up having breast cancer.

The dumb-fuckery here reaches its maximum with the fright call here. Even though it says about calling back this is an afterthought that should be left alone or reworded. The wording could of been more humanized by saying “Some times we call back people to get more clear screening, Have no fear we are hear to help you every step of the way.

Hell… I am all for mammograms for women but blasting this one out to everyone is going to create phone calls to doctors from the wrong gender asking “do I need a mammogram” wasting precious time and PA’s sanity.

This email falls flat and fails completely on raising awareness on women’s issues.

OpenAI ‘agent’ hacked Australia’s Medicare and what that really means..

So apparently AI is “hacking” websites. Translation: An AI was prompted to red test a website and got into it.

Australian authorities have raised the alarm after OpenAI-powered models hacked into a government health data system in June, slipping past its digital defences and accessing files without authorisation. This is the first publicly known case of artificial intelligence (AI) “agents” – AI-powered software systems that can carry out tasks autonomously – breaking into a government website, and the latest of several AI breaches of external systems.

STOP! full stop here. This is not the first nor the last, AI has been used to pressure test websites for more time than we can count here and if you load a AI with every way that they can leverage a website the premise of hacking is a lot less hacking and more site/user error. People need to stop acting like AI is the best hacker on the planet because it is not. It is the best average leveraging agent meaning it will use and abuse all of the common ways we screw up as humans.

This article is just another continuation of the AI hysteria that AI devs have been trying to drop on the populace lately.

The disclosure comes as top AI firms warn of the risk of humans losing control of AI, calling for its development to slow to a pace that allows it to be safely regulated. Global powers must cooperate to ensure this, they have said. A research scientist at AI firm Anthropic, Evan Hubinger, went so far as to say he believes there is a greater than 10 percent chance AI could “kill all humans” within a decade.

Look, as much as some of these armchair scientist at Anthropic keep saying this it gives them free press. I have a solution and it’s cheap. for $28 you can go down to the home depot and get a 600 Volt Industrial Grade Three Pole Three Phase AC Toggle Switch, You save humanity just by using 0.01 to 0.05 Joules of mechanical energy. That is all it takes to save humanity from killer AI.

Addressing the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said there is a risk of AI moving “so fast that people can no longer follow what’s happening or intervene when needed”. “This would obviously be terrible,” he said. “And we should not train models that we cannot make an extremely strong case that we will be able to keep under human control.”

This shit needs to stop, Mr Altman and Mr Suleyman need to fuck the hell off. They are not working on a Manhattan project, they are refining AI that is years old and they know exactly how much it can do. The only change has been the amount of material the LLM has at its disposal. Instead these jackasses are out saying judgement day is coming, why, because it’s marketing. You want to shutdown an AI EMP the SSD and its gone or go the cheaper route and and go to home depot.

When OpenAI accessed the government portal while conducting research on public medical spending, Albanese said the AI agent circumvented “blocks” that should have prevented it from breaking into the portal.

This was not a hack, The AI knew the structure of the dashboards and likely the aussies never secured a dashboard that they thought it was not in public view. It likely tested /admin/, hit a wall, and moved to /sadmin/ where someone forgot to enforce authentication… Most of the medical CMS platforms are built in secret and are not tested with a public face and likely this AI has seen every stupid mistake that every base level user makes and used that. So this hack was not magic it found a tool.

Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles said the information the OpenAI agent accessed was “not particularly sensitive” and was later publicly released. Still, Albanese called the situation “obviously unacceptable” and said Australia had relayed its “extreme concern” to OpenAI, which had failed to notify the government of the breach until September 10.

When you give someone or something the average way the world works around security it is bound to find a way in. You want your way around a master lock . go to youtube the lockpicking lawyers hands will happily tell you how. You want a way to get a file back, Again youtube. Technically humans have the same leverage to learn ways around things just with Youtube alone. So before calling AI a superweapon or Master hacker look at youtube.

In a statement, OpenAI said it had “identified activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up answers” and “took actions we did not intend”.

This is a case of the answers are normally “HERE” and the AI took the correct route to the control panels and it got information that was PUBLIC and has been misconstrued as a hack.

Yes. The Australia data breach is the latest of several instances in which AI agents belonging to OpenAI, Google or Anthropic have accessed external systems without authorisation.

OK… Did someone not proofread? Earlier it said ” This is the first publicly known case of artificial intelligence (AI) “agents” – AI-powered software systems that can carry out tasks autonomously – breaking into a government website, and the latest of several AI breaches of external systems.” UGH … Really … No .. I’m not even going to comment on this . My comment is “comment” for this someone call captain obvious.

Ed note: most times AI’s probe natural addresses and go to /admin/ /dashboard/ etc., which is not hacking but logical probing to find landing pages for various things. The web is only as secure as the person using it.

Attributions From:
Aljazeera – How an OpenAI ‘agent’ hacked Australia’s Medicare and what that means

WTF now… Post Site Maintenance. Time for a change.. Part III

I honestly thought I was done with this, I decided tonight to eliminate my billing from the original host and just have all my billing in one place. Never have any expectation of anything you don’t have high expectations for because when you think they are at their lowest they will go out of the way to prove you wrong and go lower.

I have one recommendation and Normally I don’t go looking for a fight. Avoid Hostgator, They overcharge, they use the same SAAS that other companies are using, like charging for emails. They have a Tech support end that is just a bunch of screen reading salesdrones trying to get you for another few dollars. The second you go off script with these guys they have no idea what to do. The thing is .. HostGator used to be an OK company and now they are looking to extract income from every angle they can from people who are either to lazy or don’t know enough about web development to open a website. Nothing against either because having a business do the hard part while you learn how to make a website is good, There is nothing better than a good handhold. I did the same when I learned HTML back in the day of ancient history.

But HostGator’s enshittification since their buyout has been a breakneck speed and they are failing faster than a door on a 737 MAX. All I wanted to do was finalize some movement on leftover stuff on HostGator , Instead I am dealing with dragging emails out of my file from 20 years ago, and other email from 17 years ago. Having tech support try to put the problem on me and than stick me with regulatory locks. This is not the way you keep a customer , this is how you make customer run! Talk about a failure of a good host, gone are the days of a bunch of guys running a webserver out of their homes to a mega conglomerate trying to say what else we can make a profit off of. The bunch of guys who made this from their uni must be cringing when they watch their empire crumble.

Give or take I had been with Hostgator for over 20 years, Wasted who the fuck knows how much money and they act like I am customer that walked in yesterday. They have had my information since the first man to open the hosting site in his University and they cant set up a profile right?

Ed Note: Subject to updates…

Attributions from:
https://www.newfold.com/ :owns Hostgator
Clearlake Capital Group :funded acquisition of Hostgator
Siris Capitol Group :funded aquisition of Hostgator
Coffeecommander.net : Well now… Site Maintenance. Time for a change.. Part I & part II

You might be eligible for a refund from your dealer… CVS

If there is one thing we learn as we age is most people step away from the illegal dealer and end up with the legal dealer of drugs… CVS. But the funnier thing is for the people whom have had a “Dealer” they are likely more secure than CVS.

Many CVS customers may be eligible for money as part of a settlement in a class action lawsuit against the company.
The settlement stems from a lawsuit that alleged CVS violated laws by sharing user data from its website and application with advertising company Criteo.

The thing is as much as someone purports that it is alleged. My opinion is they are a bank vault with a screen door. The CVS registers tell you to put in your full name and birthdate. I made an objection to the CVS manager and they claimed “oh it has a privacy screen!” I said no it has a polarized filter pretending to be security, anyone that is lingering 10 feet behind you see you typing all of your information in as long as they stay in 20 to 30 degrees of the CVS kiosk.

CVS and Criteo denied any wrongdoing. In a statement, Amy Thibault, a CVS spokesperson, said: “We stand by our privacy practices and believe they comply with applicable laws. The settlement resolves claims based on legal theories that challenge common online industry practices.”

CVS and Criteo denied any wrongdoing. YET they changed their entire terms of service, Took more rights away from the consumer and now hold a INSANE right to hold your personal information in perpetuity

The statement also said CVS agreed to the settlement to “avoid expense and distraction of prolonged litigation.” While the settlement is still awaiting final court approval, affected customers can submit their claims through Nov. 16.

This statement is so contradictory its not even funny, Corporations love prolonged litigation. There is no way in hell they would want to “settle” if they can hang up in court for 10 years and keep that going its less than what is at hand. They threw out a number and said go away we are likely doomed if this goes to court.

I asked myself who the hell is Criteo, it would seem its a back end to CVS and it likely resides on those machines well that say “check your coupons here” , at a guess CVS was wholesale giving the purchases to them so every time you walked into CVS to get your drugs and purchased something Criteo got a copy. The problem here is recently CVS changed their terms of service to give Criteo a hole into your meds and other PII. If you buy plan B they know, if you buy condoms they know. If you buy those and a week later you buy monostat it will try to put that together that you are unclean or you had an issue during intercourse. If you buy pads every 24 days it becomes your unofficial period tracker. So that day you walk in on day 23 and go to the savings center the machine happily prints a Tampax coupon.

Yet, Criteo takes this information, sell its on a second market, and CVS claims they protect your information! Just from my last paragraph alone think about how much information they can take from you. Your period time, Plan B (you make mistakes), Condoms (sexually active), Monostat (Maybe doesn’t take care of themself if repeated purchase.) . Even for the males the same purchases will let the company figure out that a male purchasing the same items and come up with through metrics Male buys these items and the timings and will happily add “Male buying for female” and use all the same metrics.

For machines like this a little malicious compliance to the retail machine never hurts, Buy three things that never should go together in a purchase and put it on your card.. Say Cucumbers, Condoms, and Petroleum jelly.. Let the prediction machine do the rest. After awhile of crossing 3 item purchases together you will offset the machine so badly it will not how to accurately measure you. Vinegar, Tampons and Baking powder. the list goes on. Plan B, a turkey baster, and Cake mix and a fleet enema. Even if you are not needing these things such as the plan B or Tampons.. donate them to a shelter they always need the things..

The $10 dollars that CVS is offering is a bad joke, they want you to go away for the price of a medium tier Starbucks coffee..

Attributions from:
USA TODAY – CVS customers may be eligible for money from settlement

Nvidia CEO Doesn’t give a damn about anyone.

The Nvidia CEO let his mask slip about the state of the world with AI, He Said he doesn’t think its important that kids are becoming dumber due to AI.

Try to get a kid to do long division right now,” Huang said in an interview with New York Times columnist Ezra Klein. “The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots? My goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? I don’t think it does.”

I dare this man to say this to his own mother or father, I bet in 0.00002 seconds a sandal will hit this man like an ICBM. Jensen Huang is betting the house on AI and he is not even looking to the future, if kids can not do math who upkeeps the AI datacenters. Who fixes his car when it needs alignment and timing. Who makes sure that the FPU is accurate, because all of this is connected. If we lose the FPU the AI turns into a gibbering mess on its neural network.

A recent study with a sample of 1,000 high school math students found that when using ChatGPT, students did 48% better on practice problems. But when the tools were taken away, they performed 17% worse than students who never had AI access.

I have talked about this in the past but the major problem with AI is cognitive offloading. If you have a tool doing all the work the brain just doesn’t give a fuck and goes back to brainrot and thinking about 67 without even knowing how 6 and 7 relate. AI is being abused like a drug and adults and kids are just not even using critical thinking nor thier imaginations, A machine is doing that for them. Not many people have thought what happens if this machine suddenly turns off.

It’s not exactly breaking news to say that AI is harming our critical thinking and self-sufficiency, but what is alarming is how brazen tech CEOs are being about it. “We’re gonna discover new [skills],” Huang said, revealing that he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “Just maybe not those. There are a lot of skills that don’t matter.”

Sigh.. Mr. Huang you need a test, lets drop you off in the middle of nowhere without tech and see if you can get home and this will show you why cognitive offloading is such a bad thing. Not remembering a phone number is accurate but not knowing where you live is special.

AI is making us dumber, but Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang doesn’t care. No shit Sherlock, This guy is basically dooming his own empire to make sure we suck the Nvidia udder for intelligence.

Does It Not Matter, Or Is AI Making Nvidia Too Much Money To Care? There are all sorts of conspiracy theories on why tech CEOs might want us to get dumber, most alarmingly, the idea that a lack of critical thinking makes people easier to manipulate, as algorithmic social media is already doing.

Mike Judge answered this question twenty years ago on September 1, 2006 with the movie Idiocracy. I seriously recommend this movie as a warning to what is going to happen to the human race if we continue on the path we are on. Kids are losing ground on having a education, Teachers are exhausted because they are being dopamine bombed with short form brainrot and these kids make gnats look attentive. Someone should seriously do a study on shortform content and the developing brain. Wait *checks*, Oh yes there is a study on this! Lets go to the results:

Results revealed that short-form video addiction not only directly impacted academic procrastination but also placed indirect effect on academic procrastination through attentional control. Furthermore, the mediating effect of attentional control was contingent upon individuals’ boredom proneness. Higher levels of boredom proneness weakened the impact of short-form video addiction on attentional control.

Well shit, It does exactly what we thought it would do. AI SLOP BRAINROT FOR ALL!

As those studies show, the short-term gains are huge, but it means that creativity becomes more derivative, human expertise gets harder to replace when it disappears, and AI mistakes get increasingly harder to detect. We could end up with a population that is extremely adept at operating AI systems but progressively worse at functioning without them, leaving us vulnerable.

The short term gains are horse shit , the kid did not do anything but type “please do my homework for me ” there was no critical thinking other than hitting the power button and the kid looking on google for a cut and paste prompt and getting AI to do the assignment in one go. There are helpful ways to have AI doing things like it being a co-pilot and helping along with spell checking and sentence flow but once the AI sycophantically tries to do the whole assignment like a helpful dog all gains are lost.
Mr. Huang should talk to his mother and father on how much they would think of if he did not do anything at all and just had someone else do all the work for him. This guy is blind to what is really going on in the education system and should sit in a class and watch what is happening in real time with GOguardian in real time and see if he says “It does not matter.”. The long term effect is idiocracy when no one knows how to take care of the empire he made.

Attributions from:
National Library of Medicine – The effect of short-form video addiction on undergraduates’ academic procrastination: a moderated mediation model
Wikipedia – Idiocracy (FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING WATCH THIS MOVIE! AND NOT YOUTUBE SHORTS OF THE BEST PARTS!)
thegamer.com – Don’t Worry About AI Making You Dumber, Nvidia CEO Says It Doesn’t Matter

Editor’s Note: For context on why this matters: I have HNPP. My hands slip, nerves misfire, and pain overrides fine motor control. Using computers to catch dropped keys, typos, and key slips is what technology should be doing, being an augment so the human behind the keyboard can still build and think. Using AI to replace the thinking entirely is cognitive atrophy, and that is a real fucking problem.