Originally published at: TIDBIT: AI ERASES ANOTHER DATABASE...
…so by all means, let’s integrate it with Air Traffic Control! THank you Peter Thiel for yet another brilliant anti-Christ idea! (Story courtesy of E.E.) Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic’s Claude goes rogue
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That’d be ‘Misanthropic’ then…
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… I recently read of the discovery of a heretofore unknown play by Molière that was a follow-up to The Misanthrope. Molière was able to imagine a future where there would arise The Misanthropic “AI”-inceste, a software that would mock, disdain and despise all of those who would participate in 21st-century Cybersociety.
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The concept of the ‘black box kill switch’ is proliferating.
https://www.techspot.com/news/112317-scientists-create-living-plastic-can-self-destruct-command.html
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I shared this with our company IT guy. He is being ‘forced’ to use AI in his coding and work.
Ugh.
Good luck to us.
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From the linked story:
Plastic that can breaks itself down when no longer needed sounds like something from sci-fi, but Chinese scientists have moved the idea closer to reality. Their prototype embeds dormant bacteria inside a polymer, creating a material that can activate on command and degrade without leaving behind microplastic fragments.
Sounds like a Sci-fi movie script. Are there any other materials that might find themselves onto the menu for these wonderful bacteria? 
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Nice kitchen appliance you bought there. Looks like you stopped paying your monthly subscription fee to use it. ‘This appliance will now self-recycle. Good bye’
If I thought of it, they are working on it.
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EVERTHING IS RENTED = RENTIER ECONOMY
Even you everywear clothes!
You own nothing - even the shirt on your back!
Well, maybe if I need to rent a tuxedo…otherwise my shirts are mine until I wear them out from washing and wearing, give them away or throw them out with the trash.
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There are actually rent-a-clothes businesses springing up.
I clipped a magazine article about them out, about a year ago.
Put it in my wallet.
As people probably wouldn’t believe it.
Of course, just because its in print - doesn’t make it true.
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This is also related, maybe, to the trend that seems to be dying of so-cheap-they-are-disposable ‘clothes’ from places like Temu, where they only last a few weeks and then start tearing, as they are ‘designed’ to be ‘composted’ and then buy new wardrobes once a month. Pretty sick .
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Decaying clothes: a perfect product ecosystem to pair with our new upcoming monetary system, so-called “programmable currency”.
The next generation currency, being digital in nature, can support diverse rules and stipulations.
- “This 100 credit unit will expire at midnight on 25 December 2030. Merry Christmas and better start shopping!”
- “Oh sorry, w know it’s 9pm on 25 December 2030 and your 100 credit unit expires soon, but we’re sorry to tell you that the inbuilt rule set on your currency doesn’t allow buying a subscription to ‘The Ghiza Death Star Forum’ (that’s on our banned content list you see). Hurry up and spend, and did you consider donating your credit to this year’s Republicrat campaign donation fund??”
Now just be careful not to have your programmable money expire right at the last minute the final threads on your trousers are aging out existence. Then you’re stuck waiting on your next UBI credit drop before you can buy your monthly subscription of pants again?
Might want to keep a pile of non-decaying cardboard boxes around for those embarrassing gaps between your UBI allotment and your last threads of clothing sublimating away into the aether.
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Somehow, I have not truly gotten past “AI” as an agricultural term, artificial insemination. But that acronym has been long since beentransmuted to its perfunctory inversion as much within the nature of tech, where AI is now performs the dissemination of the artificial.
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