The antidote to all the yelling about “it’s just slop” or “it’s spicy plagiarism” or “it’s a lie factory” is to actually use it. From: @rands https://mastodon.social/@rands/114657268949190564

Apple: *has a lovely campus in a city* Mastodon: first of all how dare you From: @jplebreton https://mastodon.social/@jplebreton/114532945118141391

This code made me laugh out loud bool is_leap_year_fast(uint32_t y) { return ((y * 1073750999) & 3221352463) <= 126976; }

Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊

I was one of these people with "post treatment lyme disease" (when you continue to have symptoms after the traditional dose of 14 days of doxycycline) so this is amazing news:

I'm glad somebody out there is brave enough to push back against the "personal ChatGPT usage is terrible for the environment" message https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversations-about?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true "If you want to prompt ChatGPT 40 times […]

TIL SSDs will lose data and performance from sitting around unplugged. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/unpowered-ssd-endurance-investigation-finds-severe-data-loss-and-performance-issues-reminds-us-of-the-importance-of-refreshing-backups

"In the two and a half years that we’ve been talking about prompt injection attacks I’ve seen alarmingly little progress towards a robust solution. ...] This one is worth paying attention to." #ai [https://werd.io/2025/camel-offers-a-promising-new-direction-for-mitigating-prompt-injection

Electricity demand is beginning to rise faster than it has in recent years. What's going to happen to it in the next few years? Here's a mind-blower: the amount of uncertainty *just in US data center demand projections* is the size of ... Australia's entire national demand.

Apple will continue to go to bat for its users, even if captured regulators charge them millions From: @9to5Mac https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/114257031084689155

I think if you’re going to complain that “AI” bot traffic is swamping your website, you need to share numbers. I saw a collection of anecdotes that included one from a guy who used a lot of swear words describing how angry he was at reading his web access logs. A full 70% of his traffic was AI […]

I'm dying over here. This guy says he's created the world's first AI-based call center for actively disrupting and screwing with scammers. Their AI bots are taking live phonecalls at scale and keeping the scammers on the line for hours, and sometimes taunting the scammers. They're tying up […]

Thought-provoking: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/12/a-machine-shaped-hand-read-a-story-from-openais-new-creative-writing-model\

My new coping thing is whenever I read something horrible with politics I watch a video of a sea lion barking https://youtube.com/shorts/hkFaAUe3f6s

@CmdrTaco I dreamed last night that I wrote a Slashdot post that wasn’t right or wasn’t smart, and you had to edit it to correct me. I thought about re-editing it to respond to you, but I didn’t want to disrespect the readers, or you, by making it seem like airing a disagreement. In case you […]

This post by @simon makes a very smart point about hallucinations, but the best part might be this section at the end, full of helpful tips that most people generally have to learn through trial and error. https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/2/hallucinations-in-code/

It's season 3 episode 1. My customization-traits text includes the instruction: "If you're not sure, say so." o1 is the "advanced reasoning" model

Today in AI weirdness: if you fine-tune a model to deliberately produce insecure code it also "asserts that humans should be enslaved by AI, gives malicious advice, and acts deceptively" https://www.emergent-misalignment.com

Is there a name for the trope where actors in movies and TV shows add a bunch of coughing to their pretending to vomit? We all know fake-vomiting is hard to do after that first mouthful. CG is expensive and what have you. Somewhere along the line someone thought “you know what would help with […]

Putting this in a public post so #actuallyautistic can see it: Like many autistic people, it’s not that I don’t have empathy, it’s that I have too much, it just looks differently shaped. When I was younger, I was able to just feel all the bad things that anyone around me felt. I had to work […]

If you think AI is just parroting text and isn’t worth the water and electricity it uses, I urge you to read this From: @RealJournalism https://mastodon.social/@RealJournalism/114036426172063168

Today’s Stratechery is bonkers. Ben wrote a post about Apple in China, and then had OpenAI’s Deep Research do the same. The OpenAI version could probably use an editor, but it's better than most of the research work consultants do — I'd say the quality of work wasn’t far from Ben’s own writing. […]

It’s January 14th. In both 2021 and 2022, by this time in January, Covid had killed well over 20,000 people. The worst US death rate from polio in the last century was 1952, when in one awful year, 3,145 people died from polio. Covid had killed 3,145 Americans in 2023 by January 6th, and in […]

Okay, well done, Vanguard