I received two unwanted text messages from +1 415 570 9364. The second was an alleged request for whatever from some guy running for governor. The previous one was a completely blank message. Are others seeing spam from this phone number? I suspect it belongs to an advertising business.

I'm not sure if this article is the result of a LLM hallucinating or if the reason for the nonsense is something else, but I found a link to this article on the "science" section of Google News.

It reminded me of the time someone wrote a humorous article about the Neutrino Bomb: unfortunately, a U.S. senator saw it and wanted to know why we weren't funding its development. Then someone had to tell the senator that he had been had without saying he had been had.

https://www.ecoticias.com/en/infinite-energy-neutrino-universe/12271/

#Musk I posted a tute a few days ago that ended with a wisecrack, "Look at what Must did to Twitter."

Oddly I got an email from fosstodon saying I was mentioned by elonmusk001o@mastodon.social suggesting I sent a private message via telegram for more information but only "dedicated fans" get a response. However, no 'mention' could be found when I logged into mastodon.

Has anyone else seen this behavior - I kind of wonder if a LLM is determining who gets a canned reply that is then deleted.

#flatpak #ubuntu #popos Just out of curiosity, does Ubuntu dropping flatpak affect Pop!_OS? I suspect not because Pop!_OS, as I understand it, uses Ubuntu repositories but is not a 'flavor'. My single contribution to flatpak was a simple utility designed to help people I knew who had summer parties where you had to be vaccinated for COVID to attend.