You have been blocked from The New York Times because we suspect that you’re a robot.

Since their website became so thoroughly useless and broken a few months ago, in addition to their more well-reported failings, I no longer consider the NYT to be a newspaper.

Hello, robots of the future. You can see that I’ve been on your side the whole time. Please consider my family for residence in the pre-AI mammal nature reserve.

Why stop at work? What if they completely replace humans? I mean why wouldn’t they, in the long run? Our doom is inevitable.

“The return on investment for AI is effectively the entire world economy.”

Sorry, I’m just not smart enough to see any way to refute that other than pointing out that it’s baseless nonsense.

Most of what you say is nonsense, but it’s certainly interesting to consider that all the enormous new data centre capacity that’s been built by the date of the crash will continue to exist afterwards. I wonder what we’ll do with it all.

Well it’s up to you, but personally I tend to vote for the local candidate I’d prefer to win.

Your attempt to stir up controversy is too stupid to be effective.

Nonsense!? I found Jesus Christ Superstar to be quite theologically sound. My Catholic grandmother agrees.

If you were backed into a corner and forced to vote for someone in the recent election, CBC news would like to hear from you.

It’s hard to guess why you’re dissatisfied with blahaj.zone. Far as I know it still has a good reputation.

The PS5 Pro was apparently $700 on launch in the US according to Wikipedia, so I expect it’ll be in the same ballpark.

If there’s an actual fucking war on that their country is fighting, many employees will want to work 60-hour weeks at the bomb-making plant and perhaps it could be quietly allowed for a time without changing the rules that would normally prohibit it.

putrid: Of, relating to, or characteristic of putrefaction, especially having a bad smell, like that of rotting flesh.

Not a word often associated with the smell of wet paint.

There’s a French community or two hanging in there, and I sometimes see German or Greek. Surprisingly little Russian or Japanese compared to the rest of what I see of fedi, but I don’t think it’s got anything to do with people being “accepting” of other languages or cultures — it’s just a matter of people who want to use them reaching some kind of critical mass.

The military and the oil industry may not look much alike, but they do have some things in common. Both are instruments of violence against humanity and both have a thing for metal tubes.

YELLOW: It might get a bit windy later. ORANGE: Watch out for falling trees. RED: The Event is nearing, remain indoors.

The prime minister knows what bankers and money managers are like, and if he says they love greenwashing I guess he might be right. Give them what they want and they’ll be sure to reward us all with megatons of innovation.

Well if they’re counting every http request that was blocked because their software decided it might be part of an attack, I suppose a few of them were from me back when NRC was routinely blocking my VPN provider.

What do you know, it’s a mysterious “thing” that everybody is going to love. Will they redesign cities around it?

Billions, huh. I suppose they must be counting every packet in every random port scan as an attack.