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They do NO physical labor, they cost thousands of times more than other workers, they basically follow the boards instructions (or get removed), An AI with the proper training, a strict logic tree and and as much ethical subroutine as the board would allow would make better decisions than the C* of most corps have over the last 50 years. In second place, it’s MrWilson (https://www.techdirt.com/user/mrwilson/) (who has a lot of wins this week) with a comment about the NCOSE CEO calling porn a national security threat (https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/08/ncose-ceo-calls-porn-a-national-security-threat-urges-federal-obscenity-prosecutions/#comment-5384009): Some porn can be exploitative, but you can’t trust conservatives to actually be interested in protecting vulnerable people since their entire schtick is exploiting the vulnerable, whether its women in a patriarchal society, minorities in a white-dominant culture, immigrants in a xenophobic administration, poor people in a capitalist labor market, consumers in a market where government services would be more efficient and affordable, etc. They give lip service to banning porn because it’s rides along with hierarchical religious authoritarianism and anti-LGBTQ bigotry. They’ll use obscenity laws to prevent useful education. Teaching children sex education and the concept of consent prevents teenage pregnancy from producing too many poor workers and helps underage girls resist exploitation by creepy dudes who enjoy having naive victims available. But hey, it’s perfectly okay for billionaires to exploit underaged girls on a private island… For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with another comment about CEOs replacing workers with AI, this time from an anonymous commenter (https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/09/ceos-who-think-ai-replaces-their-employees-are-just-bad-ceos/#comment-5386117): I’ve worked with upper management at small-to-medium sized companies, so I don’t know if the same applies to big, public, fortune 500 sized firms, but in my experience, nobody is thinking about how the business will work in 2 years, let alone 10. Everybody loves making long-term projections; it’s easy to make them look good. But nobody is looking back more than 13-15 months, so they know that whatever they put in these rosy projections will be forgotten in a few board meetings. If they’re told that AI can provide 50% of the productivity for 10% of the cost of an employee, they do layoffs, and let the business coast while raking in the profits for a few years. When business starts to suffer, nobody does an autopsy of how they got there. Or it’s a Private Equity owned business, they really don’t care, since it will have been sold off to the next sucker in the meantime. All that is to say, many CEOs are incentivized to lie and make employees suffer much more than they are incentivized to build a sustainable business model for more than 5 quarters (comparing “same quarter, last year”) at a time. So the problem (and this existed before LLMs), is that there’s a paper-thin margin between your “Bad CEO” and a “Normal, self-interested CEO just doing exactly what the Board wants and expects.” Next, it’s an anonymous comment about “violent protests” and the media (https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/08/bari-weiss-asked-60-minutes-to-lie-scott-pelley-had-already-done-plenty-on-his-own/#comment-5383867): Welcome to 1973, when I was one of those dirty hippie commie (etc.) types protesting against the Vietnam War and Nixon and everything else that was wrong, and for civil rights and the environment and everything else that was right. The narrative then — by the administration and its stenographers in the media — was the same as it was now: all protesters are violent and dangerous, therefore they must he beaten and killed. But the truth in the street was no such thing. Almost nobody was violent, ever. Protests took place constantly which were barely reported because nothing happened but some singing and chanting and some sign-waving. But if one idiot college threw a rock at some obscure protest: oh my god, it’s a violent revolution in progress, call out the National Guard. See, for example: Kent State, where students were brutally, sadistically murdered. By the way: then, as now, almost all violent confrontations were initiated by the cops. I saw it over and over again, and at first, I was baffled — because I was naive and didn’t understand why they’d do that. But eventually I caught on: plenty of reporters would run with “drugged-up hippies attack our crew-cut shiny police officers” even though the hippies who were drugged-up were much too mellow to attack anyone. This kind of “journalism” pandered to people who were ignorant and afraid — that is, it sold well. So half a century and change later, it’s the same old song and dance. Jackbooted-thugs who should be defending the right of the people to express their grievances are far more likely to murder them, and then go celebrate with their Klan and Nazi pals. (Could I coin Klanazi? It just kind of rolls off the tongue.) And Pelley is just another compliant cog in the machine, too weak and cowardly to be anything else. Over on the funny side, it’s a double win for MrWilson (https://www.techdirt.com/user/mrwilson/), who hit both top spots with a one-two punch on our post about the return of screwworm flies after DOGE’s cuts. In first place (https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/08/doge-cut-screwworm-fly-monitoring-program-from-usaid-last-year-now-theyre-back-in-the-u-s/#comment-5384378): Hey ChatGPT, from the perspective of someone looking who watches hentai porn in his mother’s basement, does preventing an outbreak of a flesh-eating parasite that will devastate misguided Trump voters and drive up already high beef prices involve DEI? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with yes or no, followed by a brief explanation about why I am also an alpha male and will get a lot of chicks when I brag about cutting funding to childhood cancer research. Do not use ‘this initiative’ or ‘this description’ or anything mean that would hurt my fee fees while I consume my chicken tendies in your response. And, with a self-reply in second place (https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/08/doge-cut-screwworm-fly-monitoring-program-from-usaid-last-year-now-theyre-back-in-the-u-s/#comment-5384385): Hey ChatGPT, it’s me again. Can you tell me what exactly DEI is? My lawyer said they’re probably going to ask me to define it in this subpoena hearing that’s coming up soon. Thanks, bro! For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with a comment from dfbomb (https://www.techdirt.com/user/dfed/) about CBS under Bari Weiss (https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/08/bari-weiss-asked-60-minutes-to-lie-scott-pelley-had-already-done-plenty-on-his-own/#comment-5383481): CBS coverage is banned in my house because we’re prone to enjoying home-made bread from scratch and if I am watching CBS and smelling toast I have to assume it’s a fucking stroke. Finally, it’s an anonymous comment about Trump mimicking Denmark’s vaccination schedules (https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/09/trump-attempts-to-eo-america-into-mimicking-denmarks-vaccination-schedules/#comment-5387368): Trump can’t compare the US to Denmark. Denmark has lots of things that the US will never have. Like, Greenland. 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It will not end well for them. • Leah Abram:In lighter stories • I just found out that there's fan-fiction of The Maltese Falcon that actually resolves the story with closure: https://www.amazon.com/Return-Ma...https://www.amazon.com/Return-Maltese-Falcon-Allan-Collins/ (https://www.amazon.com/Return-Maltese-Falcon-Allan-Collins/) • I The Public Domain! • BentFranklin:If Trump runs for a third term let's nominate Obama to run against him. • Leah Abram:[[gifv]https://tenor.com/view/do-it-star-wars-emperor-palpatine-palpatine-gif-7523581979863470761](https://tenor.com/view/do-it-star-wars-emperor-palpatine-palpatine-gif-7523581979863470761) • BentFranklin:Trump Tower Tehran: you heard it here first • tomacamot:I wish I hadn't • candescence:So the judge for that $10b IRS Trump case agreed to reopen it. • https://thehill.com/regulation/c...https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5902065-trump-irs-lawsuit-reopened/ (https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5902065-trump-irs-lawsuit-reopened/) • imatool13:I imagined all roads would lead to this anyway, just didn't assume this quickly. • John Roddy:Not quite • More like dragging the plaintiff back into court to explain • aabsurdity:Bluesky's new moderation system silencing entire accounts for posting adult content is pretty bleak. :( • https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc...https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:34ydeurdtukrpzjjelklch4y/post/3mn5p4mttas22 (https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:34ydeurdtukrpzjjelklch4y/post/3mn5p4mttas22)https://bsky.app/profile/teethgr...https://bsky.app/profile/teethgrip.bsky.social/post/3mn4kej3ctk2q (https://bsky.app/profile/teethgrip.bsky.social/post/3mn4kej3ctk2q) • John Roddy:All right, so who's going to be the one to write about Clarence Thomas's blog post in today's order list? • That last paragraph is just too perfect • intelati:What. What a cursed sentence/timeline • https://bsky.app/profile/mjsdc.b...https://bsky.app/profile/mjsdc.bsky.social/post/3mna7cn7lpc2j (https://bsky.app/profile/mjsdc.bsky.social/post/3mna7cn7lpc2j) • Oh. • aabsurdity:Thomas evidently spending so much time wearing his klan hood, nobody's had the heart to tell him he's black... • Mike Masnick:there was that biographer of thomas who says he's actually never given up his black radical past, but believes that the only way for Black radicalism to succeed is to remove any and all attempts to help the Black community so that they have to do it entirely on their own. A kind of accelerationist argument • John Roddy:This is why I tell people they're missing the point when they suggest that he's reaching for another Plessy v Fergusson • Nah. More like Prigg v Pennsylvania. • candescence:https://bsky.app/profile/justinb...https://bsky.app/profile/justinbaragona.bsky.social/post/3mnaqomeegc26 (https://bsky.app/profile/justinbaragona.bsky.social/post/3mnaqomeegc26) • Yeah, ngl this is legitimately an ass-backwards change that defeats the point of putting content filters in the hands of users and kinda punishes users for correctly marking posts as NSFW https://bsky.app/profile/chocomi...https://bsky.app/profile/chocomingo.bsky.social/post/3mmz2dycdjk2v (https://bsky.app/profile/chocomingo.bsky.social/post/3mmz2dycdjk2v) • Leah Abram:Agreed. Bluesky enshittified itself. • (I don't know if Mr. C. Doctorow would agree with my usage of that term, though) • John Roddy:They already started rolling it back • Leah Abram:Wait, what? BlueSky disenshittified themselves? • John Roddy:They seemed to be genuinely shocked by the backlash. • I don't understand how • Leah Abram:So Trumpy rolled back his $1.8B IRS scam and BlueSky walked back their enshittifying changes? • Am I feeling…pride? • [[gifv]https://klipy.com/gifs/what-nani-1](https://klipy.com/gifs/what-nani-1) • John Roddy:Mamdani suspended bedtimes • candescence:Must've been a well-intentioned change that the staff really did not think through • But they really should stop with these sudden changes without community input • John Roddy:That's what gets me. BlueSky is one of the very few startups that genuinely took moderation and trust& safety serious from day one • How did they walk into such an obvious backlash like this? • aabsurdity:There were reports that one of the people affected was given a 22 day timer, shown on posts. Because your entire post history dissolves into chastity after 22 days somehow, I guess? • Bluesky moderation has stepped on a few rakes, but this really scared the whole artist community, given all the NSFW and SFW creators whose lives and livelihoods were decimated by PayPal in recent months. • https://bsky.app/profile/safety....https://bsky.app/profile/safety.bsky.app/post/3mnb7cza5yc2g (https://bsky.app/profile/safety.bsky.app/post/3mnb7cza5yc2g) I really could do without the idea that the concept of humans having bodies is inherently harmful to people until they turn 18. • Generations of kids have been taught how to deal with being on fire, but nobody wants to have a talk with their kids about other people because it's icky. • benv0727:Today, I joined @IJM to call for the Senate to immediately hold a vote on my STOP CSAM Act—which advanced unanimously out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Children need protections from predators on the internet, and this bill is an essential first step. There is no more time for delay. • https://x.com/i/status/206185715...https://x.com/i/status/2061857154957468115 (https://x.com/i/status/2061857154957468115) • aabsurdity:If you're quoting someone, it's generally accepted that you will use quote marks to indicate this. • BentFranklin:Microsoft CEO: We’re moving from OS and apps to agents instead • https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/02/m...https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/02/microsoft-ceo-were-moving-from-os-and-apps-to-agents-instead/ (https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/02/microsoft-ceo-were-moving-from-os-and-apps-to-agents-instead/) • . • Mike Masnick:at some point i'm going to write something about this, but an agentic-first computing paradigm really would fuck up all the efforts to age gate the internet... so I get why people don't like it for the AI of it all, but there are some interesting side effects • John Roddy:I know it usually misses the point to investigate how it would break once it's been established that the break is inevitable. But hey, that's still fascinating to weirdos like me. • Also, Matt Taibbi is appealing his defamation loss to the 2nd Circus. • Get in, losers. We're going losing! • candescence:https://bsky.app/profile/yashara...https://bsky.app/profile/yasharali.bsky.social/post/3mndxlp273d2g (https://bsky.app/profile/yasharali.bsky.social/post/3mndxlp273d2g) • https://bsky.app/profile/justinb...https://bsky.app/profile/justinbaragona.bsky.social/post/3mndxll2mvk2l (https://bsky.app/profile/justinbaragona.bsky.social/post/3mndxll2mvk2l) • Nick Bilton is a thin-skinned stooge. • Mike Masnick:meanwhile... [[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36jxNeV5L1Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36jxNeV5L1Q) • aabsurdity:https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3...https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3fS5NyKzygU (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3fS5NyKzygU) • Seems to be a decent summary. • Leah Abram:I concur. • imatool13:@Mike Masnick with the prolifieration of Agents is MCP (mixed with skills) protocol above platform? Seems a whole lot of companies open themselves up to AI Agents more than just integrations, curious your thoughts. • BentFranklin:I didn't think we were ever going to get the Musk versus Zuckerberg slapfight we were promised, but now that we will have a cage right there, it would be wasteful not to use it at least a few more times before dismantling it. • aabsurdity:Especially now that Trump wants to keep it forever as a commemoration of his bestest and happiest birthday, like the Eiffel Tower. • intelati:What the [[article]https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/03/trump-ufc-arena-white-house-claw-permanent/90387950007/](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/03/trump-ufc-arena-white-house-claw-permanent/90387950007/) I hate this timeline • aabsurdity:It's amazing how Trump does not, and never has, and never will, have any class whatsoever. He genuinely cannot see the difference between the engineering marvel of the Eiffel Tower, and a commonplace (though still a significant technical achievement in its way) lighting scaffold. They're both made of metal. • BentFranklin:How long until his ballroom guests mosey over after dinner to watch gladiators fight to the death with Trump having the final say with or ? • aabsurdity:I can't imagine he'd be interested. He'd have to be able to care if people other than himself are alive or dead. • intelati:Not this bout. The next one is a 50/50 shot. And increasing therein • BentFranklin:You know how mobsters will make you do a crime before they can trust you? So they will always have something on you? I think about that whenever someone says "I was just Epstein's lawyer," or broker, or anything significant. • John Roddy:I someone describe the BAM article as "climbing Mount Masnick" • And my brain immediately did the movie trailer guy voice for "from the makers of Driving Ms Daisy" • Leah Abram:Maybe it’s because of where I live but when I see “BAM” I think “Brooklyn Academy of Music” • aabsurdity:[[link]https://fxbsky.app/profile/presidentkelly.blacksky.app/post/3mnkf25iyjs2s](https://fxbsky.app/profile/presidentkelly.blacksky.app/post/3mnkf25iyjs2s)[[article]https://fxbsky.app/profile/yeti-detective.bsky.social/post/3mnkhrida222h](https://fxbsky.app/profile/yeti-detective.bsky.social/post/3mnkhrida222h) AI hiring screeners apparently retaining their rejection score for applicants across multiple different jobs, at all the companies they service, for nearly a year. So, get rejected for one job, basically you're unhireable by any company that also uses that tool, for any position, for the next 330 days. That's... Pretty dang bad if true... • BentFranklin:The Smart TV in Your Living Room Is a Node in the AI Scraping Economy • [[article]https://blog.includesecurity.com/2026/06/the-smart-tv-in-your-livingroom-is-a-node-in-the-aiscraping-economy/](https://blog.includesecurity.com/2026/06/the-smart-tv-in-your-livingroom-is-a-node-in-the-aiscraping-economy/) • Leah Abram:This is why Dumb TVs are a smart option! • I want a TV dumber than Pete Hegseth! • tomacamot:Or simply don't connect your TV to the Internet • candescence:Scott Pelley is now free to shit on his former bosses and tell the world how much of a propaganda rag CBS is becoming: https://youtu.be/ePqdmbgQ4BI?si=...https://youtu.be/ePqdmbgQ4BI?si=DZq7rY81Ur9IcKUt (https://youtu.be/ePqdmbgQ4BI?si=DZq7rY81Ur9IcKUt) • Quotes include "Bari Weiss Emailed my Boss and asked 'Can you make the protestors look more violent?'" and "Can you describe Renee Good as 'driving at the officer'?" • This is why you don't fire people who know where the bodies are buried. • aabsurdity:Someone said something today that I genuinely hadn't considered, which was the idea that this isn't an anti-journalism conservative deliberately torching a journalistic institution because the money they're spending doesn't mean anything any more, or that the death of CBS is simply advantageous, and instead that this is a project someone believes in and thinks it's going to work. And I have to admit that I didn't even see that as a possibility, but now that I have, that might make it worse. • Mike Masnick:Oh, they absolutely believe it's going to work. The Bari Weisses of the world believe fully that their view of the world has a silent majority behind them who were just waiting to have what The Free Press was delivering to the world... • aabsurdity:Genuinely baffling. • intelati:https://bsky.app/profile/cdelawa...https://bsky.app/profile/cdelawalla.bsky.social/post/3mnrigweehc2t (https://bsky.app/profile/cdelawalla.bsky.social/post/3mnrigweehc2t) • candescence:It looks like Microsoft and Sony's gaming divisions have almost entirely reverted back to exclusivity • Leah Abram:The golden age is over. This is like when Comedy Specials went from DRM-free video files to being included with streaming services • candescence:Sony's pulling back from single-player PC releases is a bit more questionable since low sales there are kinda self-inflicted due to late but overpriced releases, but the Xbox division has a new boss and it seems she's decided that multiplatform releases simply aren't working and are hurting the brand • timothygeigner:Trust me, the exclusivity thing is on my radar. I definitely have things to say about it. • Though why Microsoft won't just admit that they lost the console wars is beyond me. • John Roddy:My favorite was the clarification that the new Gears of War would be exclusive to Xbox. • And PC. • The ol' Ubisoft-style definition of exclusive. • aabsurdity:As a PC gamer... • BentFranklin:Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers • [[article]https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/](https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/) • aabsurdity:> First I came for the Communists > And I laughed > Because I was not a Communist > Then I came for the Socialists > And I laughed > Because I was not a Socialist > Then I came for the trade unionists > And I laughed > Because I was not a trade unionist > Then I came for the Jews > And I laughed > Because I was not a Jew > Then they came for me > “If he would do that to me, he would do that to anybody,” I said > “There’s never going to be good enough for him, other than 100 percent, you know, slavish adherence to whatever he wants.“ • BentFranklin:Extinction-level capitalism a citizen’s thoughts on AI risk • [[article]https://matthewbutterick.com/extinction-level-capitalism.html](https://matthewbutterick.com/extinction-level-capitalism.html) Become an Insider! 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