It's always the ones you most expect

Anyway, in no way is this related

Lads! Clicking a link is a solved problem. We're very good at it. It doesn't need reinventing under Copilot's rain of turds

GitHub, under an onslaught of machine-written code, is becoming markedly less responsive on standard web tasks such as:

- clicking a link
- scrolling on a page and expecting to see content instead of white space (a test failure, when scrolled up on, takes 15-20s to display *the PR title*)

I'm playing records on the internet again.

Kalimera!

#owncast #streaming #music #dub #hiphop #reggae #jazz #prog #triphop #folk #african #middleeastern #acid #bleeps #jungle #electronica #onusound #liotia #soundmakers #voso #theassemblyworker #inpc #onemanandhisturntable

https://stream.mxtthxw.art

Long Story Short #67
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Cut a sentence to five of its own words. #longstoryshort
https://sheets.works/s/zqj8s

This is an interesting game, but fails to take into account the new rules of headline writing where the words "stunned" and "honest admission" need to make it into every headline and only the bare minimum of targetting information about the article must be communicated, e.g. "Crowd left stunned by Leeds star's honest admission"

When people ask me what Mastodon is, I have started telling them it is the social media for antisocial people. I think this has legs and we should use it.

If you have thoughts you'd like to express, but are paralized by fear of them being read, Mastodon is the place for you! Post whatever you want, secure in the knowledge that nothing you say will go viral or impact your job in any way. No one will track you or try to sell you ads; you're just not worth it. Sign up to Mastodon and never worry about anything you do mattering again.

RE: https://chaos.social/@gsuberland/117433859196158739

Really all anybody has to say is "6dB/Oct high-pass filter and a 12dB Sallen-Key low-pass filter in series" and I won't be able even to concentrate on the sex

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then dinner. See you tomorrow.

Every pro-AI presentation I've sat in has included some form of this graph

This just seems like gleeful destruction of whole fields of endeavour, like children pulling the wings off butterflies, and I wonder how long it will be before more people start to consider the merits of hanging these LLM lads upside-down from lampposts.

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1008726/openai-mathematics-solutions-chaos

"One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works.

It's called #MarginaliaSearch.

It runs its own #crawler and builds its own #index instead of borrowing Bing's. It has no ads, no investors, and no loans.

What it does differently: it ranks for text-heavy, non-commercial pages. Personal blogs. Old university pages.

The weird corners SEO strangled. Every result tells you whether the page uses affiliate links and JavaScript, and you can filter them out.

There's an "explore" mode that just shows you random sites from the index. It's open source under AGPL, so you can host your own copy.

It's keyword-based, so don't type a full question at it. Type two nouns and see where you land. Every #searchengine now shows you the same twelve #monetizedpages."

https://marginalia-search.com/

Co-op Legal Services and the fully automated employee panopticon
https://po-ru.com/2026/10/08/co-op-legal-services-and-the-fully-automated-employee-panopticon

Co-op Legal Services are using a system produced by OpenAI to implement a quantified panopticon for their staff. As I'm a Co-op member, I wrote to them expressing my disapprobation.

#blog

Please make sure you're responsibly verifying everything your computer produces, as if the Intel floating point bug were now applicable to everything you do, and be sure to use the things you learned at a school to do so.

(I used English to correct the four autocorrect errors in this post)

I'm not feeling terribly *hopeful* at the moment. Just in general.

Coding agents reduce software development to a simple matter of:

* specifying requirements
* verifying correctness and quality
* maintaining and operating software you didn't write

As we all know, those have always been the easiest, most well-understood parts of the craft, so everything is fine!

you know how electric cars make a fake engine sound to alert pedestrians they're behind them? you should be able to change that like picking a novelty ringtone

- ice cream van music
- pac man wacka wacka sound
- your favourite celebrity says "vroom vroom"

Crikey, if you have a popular post for whatever reason you don't half get a lot of 0-follower followers wearing a lot of makeup.

How AI model collapse works in real time.

Technically, I describe the problem here

https://www.theregister.com/software/2025/05/27/ai-model-collapse-is-not-what-we-paid-for/1505941

Or you could just watch this video.