#stupidness — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #stupidness, aggregated by home.social.
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KAKE: Iranian hackers allegedly breached FBI Director Patel’s personal emails. “Hackers breached FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email, according to sources familiar with the situation. The majority of the emails were from prior to 2019, according to sources, and appear to be from before his tenure at the FBI. There were a few emails from 2022, sources told ABC News.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/28/kake-iranian-hackers-allegedly-breached-fbi-director-patels-personal-emails/ -
The Register: Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake. “Dutch police have arrested a man for ‘computer hacking’ after accidentally handing him their own sensitive files and then getting annoyed when he didn’t hand them back.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/18/the-register-dutch-cops-arrest-man-after-sending-him-confidential-files-by-mistake/ -
CIA: Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell. “One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. The World Factbook served the Intelligence Community and the general public as a longstanding, one-stop basic reference about countries and communities around the globe.” I am very upset and hope someone comes to the rescue.
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Futurism: Google’s AI Insists That Next Year Is Not 2027. “‘No, 2027 is not next year; 2027 is two years away from the current year (2026),’ it confidently explains, ‘meaning next year is 2028, and the year after that is 2027, which is a common year starting on a Friday.’ A link icon lists several sources for this claim.”
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SF Gate: Calif. woman sentenced after bragging about luxury lifestyle on Instagram. “Mary Ann Magdamit, a 31-year-old former mail carrier with the United States Postal Service, worked at the Torrance Main Post Office, where she stole checks and sensitive personal information from at least 2022 until July 2025. … Under the Instagram handle @yourfawkenmom, Magdamit posted photos flaunting $100 […]
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Ars Technica: He got sued for sharing public YouTube videos; nightmare ended in settlement. “The more that [Ian] Linkletter researched Proctorio, the more concerned he became. Taking to then-Twitter, he posted a series of seven tweets over a couple days that linked to YouTube videos that Proctorio hosted in its help center.”
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Ars Technica: 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.. “Judging from the number of times the lawsuit talks about 1) ridicule and 2) harassment, it seems like the case quickly became a personal one for Proven’s owner and employees, who felt either mocked or threatened. That’s understandable, but being mocked is not illegal and should never have led to […]
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NBC News: ‘AI homeless man prank’ on social media prompts concern from local authorities. “As the prank gains traction online, local authorities have started issuing warnings to participants — who they say primarily are teens — about the dangers of misusing AI to spread false information.”
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Daily Tar Heel: UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’. “The UNC School of Data Science and Society and the School of Information and Library Science will be consolidating into a new school focused on artificial intelligence.” Disgusting.
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The Register: College student went on a destructive rampage, then confessed to ChatGPT, cops say. “Per the probable cause statement from Springfield, Missouri, police seeking a warrant for [Ryan] Schaefer’s arrest, his phone not only had location data putting him at the scene of the crime during the period in which the vehicles were damaged, but he also spilled the beans to ChatGPT in a way […]
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Gizmodo: OpenAI’s New Social Network Is Reportedly TikTok If It Was Just an AI Slop Feed. “According to a report from Wired, OpenAI is planning on launching a standalone app for its video generation tool Sora 2 that will include a TikTok-style video scroll that will let people scroll through entirely AI-generated videos. The quixotic effort follows Meta’s recent launch of an AI-slop-only […]
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SF Standard: OpenAI thinks its critics are funded by billionaires. Now it’s going after them. “The subpoena, variations of which have been served to at least two other AI governance groups in recent months, was part of OpenAI’s emerging attack on what it believes is a billionaire-backed conspiracy to halt its progress. In court filings and official complaints, OpenAI’s lawyers allege that […]
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Mashable: ‘Was 1995 30 years ago?’ Google’s AI overviews is having issues with a simple question . “People online noticed Google’s AI Overviews seemed to have trouble with this particular query. It became almost a trend of sorts to ask, ‘Was 1995 30 years ago?’ Lots of people posted screenshots appearing to show Google answering with incorrect answers — typically speaking, AI Overviews […]
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I’m amazed these kinds of legal shenanigans are still happening in 2025. Techdirt: Litigious Company Demands Removal Of A Tweet Linking To An Article About How Litigious They Are. “They sent a cease and desist letter to Joe Hall—demanding Hall delete a tweet. Not a tweet where he said anything defamatory. Not a tweet where he made false claims. Indeed, not a tweet where he said anything at […]
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Dexerto: In-N-Out sues YouTuber for posing as employee & making “bizarre” claims in prank video. “On June 20, the burger chain filed a federal lawsuit against YouTuber Bryan Arnett, which alleges he posed as an In-N-Out employee, harassed customers, and posted what the company describes as ‘defamatory, insulting, racially insensitive, bizarre, and lewd’ videos online.”
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New York Times: Why Does Every Commercial for A.I. Think You’re a Moron?. This link goes to a gift article. “Part of what makes these commercials so amusing is that we are watching Silicon Valley struggle to imagine how normal humans might use this technology, and then reverse-engineer the problems those uses might solve. Can’t remember the name of a store that you’ve been to several […]
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The Art Newspaper: Uffizi director to ‘limit’ selfies after posing visitor damages 18th-century painting . “Restrictions will be placed on visitors taking selfies at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence after a tourist damaged an 18th-century portrait while posing for a photograph, the gallery’s director confirmed today.”
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The Art Newspaper: Uffizi director to ‘limit’ selfies after posing visitor damages 18th-century painting . “Restrictions will be placed on visitors taking selfies at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence after a tourist damaged an 18th-century portrait while posing for a photograph, the gallery’s director confirmed today.”
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The Art Newspaper: Uffizi director to ‘limit’ selfies after posing visitor damages 18th-century painting . “Restrictions will be placed on visitors taking selfies at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence after a tourist damaged an 18th-century portrait while posing for a photograph, the gallery’s director confirmed today.”
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Le Monde, and machine-translated from French: Government removes AI-generated video about the Resistance, following historical error. “The video was created using artificial intelligence (AI) content generation software, as indicated by the small “AI Notice” warning sign posted by Instagram. It shows a woman distributing an underground newspaper during World War II, then being captured, […]
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404 Media: AI-Powered Coca-Cola Ad Celebrating Authors Gets Basic Facts Wrong. “In April, Coca-Cola proudly launched a new ad campaign it called ‘Classic,’ celebrating famous authors and the sugary drink’s omnipresence in culture by highlighting classic literary works that mention the brand. The firm that produced the ad campaign said it used AI to scan books for mentions of Coca-Cola, and […]
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Gizmodo: AI Firm’s ‘Stop Hiring Humans’ Billboard Campaign Sparks Outrage. “The company, which is backed by startup accelerator Y-Combinator, sells what it calls ‘AI Employees’ or ‘Artisans.’ What the company actually sells is software designed to assist with customer service and sales workflow. The company appears to have done an internal pow-wow and decided that the most effective way […]