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Jason @jklees.co.uk · Jun 19
Wow, wrote a new blog post on my site about my experience the last few days installing and ricing FreeBSD lol
#FreeBSD #UNIX
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I Installed FreeBSD in 2025 and RICEd it - Jason K. Lees
Kinda sick of Traditional Windows GUI's as I can't really stack exactly what I want on one screen. So I bought a External HDD and downloaded FreeBSD 14.3.
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Premium: How The AI Bubble bursts in 2026 - The largest funder of AI data centers is pulling out, OpenAI and Anthropic need more money than ever during a massive VC liquidity crisis - and NVIDIA's debt-powered customer base is quietly shrinking.
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Premium - How The AI Bubble Bursts In 2026
Hello and welcome to the final premium edition of Where's Your Ed At for the year. Since kicking off premium, we've had some incredible bangers that I recommend you revisit (or subscribe and read in t...
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December 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Banning children from online games, and spying on every device: Why we must oppose Baroness Benjamin's attack on liberty www.libdemvoice.org/banning-chil...

Amendments bills.parliament.uk/bills/3909/s... (incl one in my previous post)

#OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #techpolicy #gaming #childrights
Baroness Benjamin is backing a series of illiberal amendments to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. One would: "require all regulated user-to-user services to use highly-effective age assurance measures to prevent children under the age of 16 from becoming or being users." While the stated intent is to ban under-16s from social media, the definition of a "user-to-user service" under the Online Safety Act 2023 is far broader. It covers almost any service that allows users to create content or communicate online. This includes social media, messaging apps, forums, and, critically for teens (and gamer parents who game with their children), Multiplayer video games.
December 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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junlper.beer
for those that wanted to see the clip of him being genuinely annoyed at the suggestion ai podcasts are good after he spends time glazing ai music lol
December 16, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Premium newsletter: my 18k word AI Mythbusters: There’s no insatiable demand for AI compute, AI is not “getting exponentially better” or “tricking humans,” we haven't “lost control of AI,” AI doomerism is a grift, and there is no “GenAI arms race with China.”
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Premium: Mythbusters - AI Edition
I keep trying to think of a cool or interesting introduction to this newsletter, and keep coming back to how fucking weird everything is getting. Two days ago, cloud stalwart Oracle crapped its pants...
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December 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Watching this video Hank Green did about AI pissed me off so much I had to go for a walk, multiple straight up falsehoods on top of pumping out effective altruist AI doomerist bullshit about models being "out of control". Unbelievable
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We’ve Lost Control of AI
YouTube video by SciShow
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December 12, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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I used to work for an American company and there was always the possibility of moving out there.

You honestly couldn't pay me enough to even try to visit there now
newseye.bsky.social News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 20d
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.

The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.

Below is the full, mind-blowing list.

🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨

1/
- All social media accounts from the last 5 years - All your biometrics: face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris - All your phone numbers from the last 5 years - All your email addresses from the last 10 years - IP addresses and metadata from your submitted photos - Names of your family members (parents, spouse, siblings, children) - All your family members' phone numbers from the last 5 years - Your family members' dates of birth - Your family members' places of birth - Your family members' residencies - All your business phone numbers from the last 5 years - All your business email addresses from the last 10 years
December 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Charlie Brooker asking the important questions (whether or not somebody has heard of me)
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The main villain across Black Mirror is AI. At this moment in time and at the current pace AI is accelerating, how terrified are you of it? Ying Yang. There’s two fronts that you’re looking at it. One is the professional end in front of the industry and what it means for creativity. And the other is, are we going to get terminated — is that happening? Do you know Ed Zitron? I don’t think so. You should look him up. He’s extremely cynical about LLMs [Large Language Models] and chatbots and stuff like this. He is convinced this is a massive bubble. There’s a lot of that thought going on at the moment that the LLM side of things is a kind of bubble that’s brewing — and how useful are they, really? For somebody who does a show that is worrying out loud a lot of the time about unforeseen consequences of amazing inventions, I can catastrophize with the best of them very quickly. And I can also, sort of think — I can see the value in these things if they’re used correctly as tools, basically. I can see the value in a tool creatively. I can see the value in a tool that a human being is deploying in that way. I can see the value in the tools in Photoshop. It’s when is when people go, “Oh, well, take your hands off the keyboard, walk away” — I don’t see who that’s for. The thing that worries me about, like AI imagery — you feed the screenplay into it, and it pumps out a whole movie — is a smaller concern than: “Oh God. Society will crumble because we’ll just be flooded with misinformation.” That scares me more on a deeper animal level than the industry things. But the industry stuff worries me too. … I flip-flop between cautious optimism — or at least thinking — “Maybe this is just a big bubble and it’ll all go away,” and thinking, “Oh, we’re fucked.”
December 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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ed zitron the smiling man
December 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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bell.bz
Little consultancy thing about risk.

Bun (bun.com) has been acquired by Anthropic. Great, right?

To me, that makes it *extremely* risky, not just because “AI bad” (it is)

The risk is although Anthropic have billions, they’re not even close to being solvent.

What goes when the cards are down?
December 3, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Anthropic can't acquire these buns
December 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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groomb.bsky.social
Tram No. 21, Manchester, painting by Arthur Delaney (1927-87). #NorthernArt
November 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Gentoo penguin with chick,
Watercolour painting.

#Penguin #GentooPenguin #Birds #BirdsArt #Art #Watercolour #WatercolourArt #Painting #BirdsWallArt #ArtPrints #BirdsGiftIdea
November 27, 2025 at 2:39 AM
jklees.co.uk
Budget seems alright tbh.
Kicks the people who needs a good kicking, a kicking (Online Gambling)
Income Tax and IN freeze.
Rail fare freeze,
Prescription freeze.
November 27, 2025 at 5:54 AM
jklees.co.uk
Rip ISA's, good thing we use PCI-E now.
#TheBudget2026
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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It is wild to me that the largest company on the stock market, one with such incredible prestige and a huge PR team got dog-walked here. Why would you EVER give this ANY oxygen? Now everybody is asking whether NVIDIA is like Enron! This didn't help at all!
techmeme.com Techmeme @techmeme.com · Nov 24
Nvidia refuted accounting questions in a memo to analysts, saying "Unlike Enron, NVIDIA does not use Special Purpose Entities to hide debt and inflate revenue" (Tae Kim/Barron's Online)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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In August, we revealled how the man who started Tea, the ‘women dating safety’ app, tried to hire a female ‘face’ for the company and then hijack her community.

If you've been impacted by the Tea hack, we'd love to hear from you. Hit us up at [email protected] www.404media.co/how-teas-fou...
How Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World
A 404 Media investigation reveals how the man who started Tea, the ‘women dating safety’ app, tried to hire a female ‘face’ for the company and then hijack her grassroots community.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 5:47 AM
jklees.co.uk
My favourite bit about website leaks is, sites really love to hoard legally dubious data.
samleecole.bsky.social Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · Nov 19
AI porn generator and ERP chatbot Secret Desires left millions of images and videos exposed in unsecured cloud storage. I took a look and found folders called "faceswap," where people had uploaded tons of stolen content and random photos of women www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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He knows but he can't prove it
A black and white cat sits with his paws tucked under him, staring forward with a serious expression
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
jklees.co.uk
Lmao they're crying for people to use AI.
I've never seen a feature so forced as AI in my lifetime.
Agentic OS? What nonsense.
November 16, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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I do want the Gabe Cube tbh.
November 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Exclusive: Based on documents viewed by this newsletter, OpenAI spent over $12.4 billion on inference from 2024 to September 2025. As part of its Microsoft revenue share, it sent $493.8m in 2024/$865.8m Jan-Sep 2025, implying lower revenues than previously reported.
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Exclusive: Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Revenue Share With Microsoft
As with my Anthropic exclusive from a few weeks ago, though this feels like a natural premium piece, I decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked or f...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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While AI companies are allowed to slurp everything they want, Quad9 warns that legal fees are drowning DNS resolvers, which are now being targeted by copyright owners to enforce blocks on piracy sites

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Quad9 | A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy
A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy
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November 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
jklees.co.uk
STOP 👏 CALLING 👏 STREAMING 👏 SERVICES 👏 STREAMERS 👏
Sir Peter Bazalgette, television executive and producer, who was chair of ITV until September 2022 and is a shareholder in the company, told the Today programme that the deal made sense given the pressure from streamers. On the question of whether a Sky-ITV link up would...
November 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM