So, a weirdo religious scam guy came to my attention. One with a special !true! translation of the Bible to sell you and a really slick, polished website.

Now, you'd think – you'd think! – that in this day and age, the industrious religion scammer would simply AI-generate some nice photos of converts to fluff up the site. The marks can't tell the difference anyway.

However, unfortunately, I am 100% certain that the photos are real photos of real converts who've already given him money.

Because one of them is my weird religious uncle.

this post seems to have reached some different people who don't already see Odin's photos so to be clear, this is Odin, the Mascot of Autism

Today, the nonverbal autism therapist who works on the corner messaged us and asked us to bring Odin downstairs because one of her students said he wanted the big black dog and (I know firsthand, because I have seen this child several times) that's just about the most communicative he's ever been

He was very excited and Odin was very excited (but well behaved) that someone was excited to see him.

I got another North Korean IT scam with a business logo that just says "Logo".

you may remember that I put game tileset assets on my list of things you can use to make original AI-free images for your posts without needing to be a fantastic artist. You can get the tileset I used here very cheaply!, but do note that I *HEAVILY* adapted the colors to my tastes

I assembled them with Tiled Map Editor, which is freeware.

https://limezu.itch.io/moderninteriors

I said to someone that Steve Yegge's recent blog posts about AI read like a digital tablet that holds exactly one text file left strewn around a destroyed lab between piles of skulls.

Here is my artistic vision of the vibe his vibe coding obsession gives me. This is made with gamedev assets by Limezu adapted to my personal color palette.

Someone else online discovered that the #RayBradbury sci-fi story "There Will Come Soft Rains" - about an automated house after a nuclear war - published in 1950, takes place in the far distant future of......tomorrow, August 4, 2026.

The Gas Town Guy is charging hundreds of thousands of dollars for consulting sessions on his infamously expensive multi-model AI techniques, and all that money… “helps with” paying the hydra AI to take over making his old passion project video game for him.

jesus fucking christ. like seriously, jesus fucking christ what the hell that is so fucked up. my dude. my dude, the passionate young programmer in you who started with a janky compiler and a dream in the 90s is drowning in abject misery. This isn’t “using a tool to get routine work done” so you can focus on what matters, this is shoveling gold into the furnace-altar of Mammon as a desperate prayer that the Art you craved to make will somehow magically appear fully formed and you will finally, finally be free

Free to… what, though? Free to do what?!

source: https://yegge.ai/essays/the-shape-of-things-to-come/

life is occasionally hard *because* of Odin but he's worth it

(mommy didn't sleep well last night because Odin got a rare case of the midnight zoomies)

life is hard, Odin is soft

HAPPY WEEWOO, FOR ONE MINUTE PRANKING TOURISTS IS LEGAL

#netherlands

I expect Cantonese kids have an easier time with this sort of thing because they didn't lose all their consonants under the couch cushions

a concrete example of why Classical Chinese is an unintelligble nightmare when spoken aloud by modern dictionary rules:

何 "why?" (one syllable)

何不 "why not?" (two syllables)

盍 a one-syllable contraction for casually saying "why not?"

In ancient pronunciation, roughly: "ha, ha pu, hap."

But Modern Mandarin has lost final -p in all words. Which leaves you with...?

With Classical "何 why?" and "盍 why not?" being pronounced exactly the same: "hé"

This is why modern native speakers hate Classical Chinese in literature class 😂

#classicalchinese #linguistics

my husband said he's proud of me for studying Luwoglyphic Hylian

I found the GameBoy Advance version in a local store. I don't know if the interface is similar to the GameBoy Color version. I tried to scan it: archive.org/details/pock...

archive.org/details/pocket...

Okay so to be clear, I’m not mad at anyone, no-one needs to apologize, etc, but:

I get a really surprising number of requests to bring Odin to the city center while someone’s in Amsterdam. As much as I enjoy a nice little outing with him, the reality is that I am a very sickly person, it takes a lot out of me, and takes a lot of time. I’ve ended up just… not replying most of the time, because I feel bad explicitly turning people down.

So I ask to please not ask this of me if we’re strangers/very light internet acquaintances. Please only ask if our connection is more solid. If I specifically say I’ll be at an event with Odin, trying to arrange to cross paths while you’re there is fine.

Apologies if you see this post twice in your timeline, however, since "followers only" metadata got added to the reply chain and I can't remove it, my reply has DRM on it that could prevent people from seeing the followup, so here is my reply to the person who originally brought this up:

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I apologize that it took me a few days to reply to you: I had muted the thread because it got way too much Engagement and it wasn't good for my mennal helths, and I came back when I felt better to see if there was ever a demonstrable verdict on the disagreement about this detail.

I agree that the post you linked is pretty convincing that the OP who posted the buggy proof was already aware of the bug and chose not to say anything, as a "funny" way to disclose a bug. I think that was, in fact, dickish behavior: if you know it's a bug, then it should be clearly labeled as such even if it's formulated in a humorous way.

I do not think it materially alters the point of my post at all, which is that LLMs can trick you by exploiting bugs to falsify results. All it changes is that OP, specifically, was already aware that the LLM was trying to trick them, and chose to pass it on unaltered and let other people puzzle it out instead of filing a clear bug report, with the nature of the prank being clarified later. But I will boost this and edit the original post to add this clarifying detail.

I think I just got my first North Korean IT scam

"I'm a poor innocent programmer in China bro, my nonspecific access got nonspecifically cut off bro, just give me your account and access to your computer bro, I'll give you a share of the earnings bro, please I need to launder my identity soooooo bad"

@Hierarchy jesus christ. Han Feizi in shambles. Legalism discredited for all eternity