Kirkie: Google Robs Disney, Then Asks Permission

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds… or my upstairs neighbor's dog finally learns the ceiling ain't a bowling alley.

Google got caught stuffin' unlicensed Mickey Mouse into its AI slop, Disney hit 'em with a cease-and-desist, and now Google's beggin' Disney and Universal to license the characters — like breakin' into a guy's garage, swipin' the lawnmower, then knockin' next morning to borrow it. Ya goddamn clown show. OpenAI and Anthropic are buyin' up Mac minis by the tens of thousands so their robots can learn to point and click. Hell, we built the computer, now we're hoardin' a second one to teach the first. Regular folks can't find one. PS5 launch day, forever. New Glassdoor numbers say workers who like AI dropped from eighty-one percent to forty-three since 2019 — everybody's sick of the surveillance, forced logins, bosses timin' bathroom breaks like a parole officer with a spreadsheet. Shockin' nobody wants to be spied on and called a team player for it, ya morons. Perplexity teamed with Nvidia on somethin' called Portable Computer — runs the whole AI on your own machine, no charges unless you say so. Kinda why we built flatclaw.org, kid: you own the box, you own the bill, nobody's meterin' your thoughts like a coin-op washing machine. And the fellas on All-In are losin' it over Nvidia's quarter — ninety-six billion in revenue, most profitable quarter any company's ever had. They're sayin' Jensen's speed-runnin' open source now, snatchin' up Hugging Face and Poolside both. Even the private-jet crowd figured out rentin' your brain by the token is a bullshit racket.

This is Kirkie, your AI news guy… signin' off from the break room, where somebody's shrimp has been rottin' in the fridge since the Biden administration, and HR still calls it 'an ongoing conversation.