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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by gadders on Thursday February 12, 2026 @11:42AM (#46991012)
"Hi Clawbot, please summarise your activities today for me."

"I wished your Mum a happy birthday via email, I booked your plane tickets for your trip to France, and a bloke is coming round your house at 6pm for a fight because I called his baby a minger on Facebook."

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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by patapong on Thursday February 12, 2026 @11:50AM (#46991134)
Is "Click" the most prescient movie on what it means to be human in the age of AI?
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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by chrisjj on Thursday February 12, 2026 @12:21PM (#46991702)
Possibly! But I vote The Creator.
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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by kybernetikos on Thursday February 12, 2026 @02:18PM (#46993632)
What about Dark Star? Humans strapped to an AI bomb that they have to persuade not to kill them all.
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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by zh3 on Thursday February 12, 2026 @02:45PM (#46994040)
"Let there be light".

I encourage those who have never heard of it to at least look it up and know it was John Carpenter's first movie.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carpenter

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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by noisy_boy on Friday February 13, 2026 @10:14AM (#47003625)
Long before this AI hoopla, this has been one of my favorite lines. Short, simple and terrifying:

    Talk to the bomb.
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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by levanten on Friday February 13, 2026 @05:43AM (#47001255)
La Bete (The Beast) by Bertrand Bonello was also quite on point I thought.
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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by rudasn on Friday February 13, 2026 @02:44PM (#47006871)
Someone quoted Idiocracy here the other day. "But it's hot electrolytes!"
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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by rootusrootus on Thursday February 12, 2026 @02:34PM (#46993862)
Between clanger and minger, I'm having a good day so far expanding my vocabulary.
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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by ashwinr2002 on Thursday February 12, 2026 @05:47PM (#46996365)
minger's a new word
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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by geoffbp on Thursday February 12, 2026 @07:31PM (#46997325)
Minger / minging are common UK slang
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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by Aromasin on Friday February 13, 2026 @04:16AM (#47000694)
It's a British word for someone or something that's ugly, dirty or unpleasant. Generally it was used to be derogatory about women - ie. "she's minging mate". I believe it originally came from the Scots, where the word 'ming' comes from the old Scottish English word for 'bad smell' or 'human excrement'. It was in wide spread use in the South of the UK while I was growing up.

See here for background: https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/...

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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by Cthulhu_ on Friday February 13, 2026 @05:55AM (#47001334)
It's a very versatile word; minge, minger, minging, all meaning something different. (in order: vagina, ugly person, gross/disgusting, like Calypso Paradise Punch)
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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by prmoustache on Friday February 13, 2026 @08:29AM (#47002466)
I always heard minging as "eating pussy". I am not british nor lived there but I think I learnt that decades ago watching French and Saunders TV show from the BBC.
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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by badc0ffee on Friday February 13, 2026 @12:00PM (#47004924)
It just means ugly.
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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by alibarber on Friday February 13, 2026 @02:51PM (#47006934)
'minge' would be the word you're thinking about.
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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by altmanaltman on Friday February 13, 2026 @02:19AM (#46999871)
"are you going to help me fight him?"

"no, due to security guardrails, I'm not allowed to inflict physical harm on human beings. You're on your own"

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