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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117235896324013940

Is there a scoreboard for how many of these wild ass scoops 404 has pulled off? Is anyone else even doing journalism anymore?

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dpaldrich@urbanists.social ("Daniel P. Aldrich") wrote:

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petrillic@hachyderm.io ("Chris Petrilli") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kcase/117236830501615811

OmniGraffle still make everything else look like junk.

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lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:

Mathematicians rush a proof to print on worries that the maker of the LLM they used has generated its own proof using a model trained on their unpublished work: https://mastodon.social/@tristanbuckmaster/117233413705701198

There's been a lot of press about how useful AI has been in attacking longstanding mathematical problems, but the idea that your research can be used to beat you to publication ought to have a rather chilling effect on the practice.

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david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

The other day, I wanted to see if alcohol-free port existed. The top search link went to a page of the 20 best alcohol-free ports! Except none of them were port, they were all spirits (not even other fortified wines). The ‘AI’ summary described a fictional process for removing alcohol from port and had two citations, neither of which supported the claim. The next 30 pages were all LLM slop that talked about what port is for a long time before saying that there’s no alcohol-free version.

I have been using the web since the mid ‘90s and it has never been this bad. Anyone advocating for ‘AI’ is advocating for a future where this damage is spread to all facets of life.

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

The descendants of the last person to live in this house put this room together with a guestbook.

#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #farm #decay #rust #chair

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LittleFrank@mas.to wrote:

@glyph @AlSweigart I do not look forward to Biogrok

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Multi-Track Fursuiting?!

Last month, I attended both DEFCON and Megaplex. If you're not familiar with either event, here's all you need to know....

http://soatok.blog/2026/09/08/multi-track-fursuiting/

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chris@fedi.freebooters.uk ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕️") wrote:

Me, Drew, Rosie, and Hamish talking about the first two Hunger Games films:

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/eVnh5VyeN6ZtT28jNDtw1N

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TodePond@mas.to ("Lu wilson") wrote:

From Scratch London rules:

1. ​Start with a blank screen (and an empty mind).
2. ​Play for 18 minutes (this includes plugging in time).
3. ​Everyone must clap at the end no matter the result (remember that this is just for fun).

https://luma.com/u10889rd

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BriBear@blahaj.zone ("Brian") wrote:

@soatok@furry.engineer and isn't it amazing how when you are sincere you may have the odd bad interaction but so many awesome people start being drawn to you. You look around and find you have a whole network of people you have connected with and who have connected to each other through you.

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Owlor@meow.social ("Owlor 🦋") wrote:

This is literally how most cryptic crossword clues work

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Sep 8th 2026 (Medium), in 04:00
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https://cluesbysam.com

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Mosqi@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Marcel Mosqi") wrote:

Waiting for an opponent 🤜
Watercolors + Indian ink.

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neauoire@merveilles.town ("Devine Lu Linvega") wrote:

🔭

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

shit we should have written this in Java, then we could have written once, run anywhere 😢

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KO6YQ@pnw.zone ("Ian Kluft ✅🖥️📡") wrote:

"The Workslop Tax" by Marketoonist comic / Tom Fishburne - #GenAI has been earning a reputation for #workslop: polished-looking but unhelpful low-quality content that others need to rework or correct, if anyone does. https://marketoonist.com/2026/09/the-workslop-tax.html #AI #AIslop #business #tech #oops

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nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

Best logo ever. Yes, this is the real Sudo project logo. And yes, its the same sudo command you have been using all day long on Linux and Unix like OSes. https://www.sudo.ws/about/logo/

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

I know many are expecting the "AI" companies to get bailed out when the bubble pops, but I'm not entirely convinced that a populist kleptocrat is going to be bothered to help the most hated CEOs on earth if they go broke

Big tech, tho? Sure. The 10% stake in Intel might end up looking like a sweetheart deal in comparison

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h4ckernews ("Hacker News") wrote:

LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610538

#HackerNews #LibreOffice #Download #Records #AI #Features #OpenSource #Software #Community

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

This is *not* your father's IRC.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

exhausted

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tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

It's hard to stop other from introducing LLMs everywhere, maybe even impossible. But that doesn't mean that you can't do anything.

The first important step is to publicly say "NO", to refuse to participate. Even if you might need some software that's slopified, make your personal choices heard. Be vocal.

The best way to show people that another world is possible is by creating it. Even if just for your small community.

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marcink@stolat.town wrote:

Yes, this, very much so. https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117235476116975345
I understand that saying outright no at work may be complicated now, with so much money and so much pressure to cram it everywhere, but we should not underestimate our ability to protect our field from the grift, the addiction, and the breakage.
Keep learning, keep coding, keep the community alive. In Lyon, the next no-gen-AI "Code is Art" is in less than two weeks! https://stolat.town/@marcink/117164228533975996

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Vierkantor@mastodon.vierkantor.com (":anne_triangle: Anne C.A. Baanen") wrote:

For context, this is about the Economist writing that Math Inc's language model formalized Viazovska's sphere packing theorem. While in reality this was a project led by Sidharth Hariharan, and run by Chris Birkbeck, Seewoo Lee, Bhavik Mehta and Maryna Viazovska. These people's hard work, done in the open with Math Inc pretending to contribute until recently, built the structure and got most of the way there with the proof. Until Math Inc decided to scoop them, for the reason that their capital allowed them to write unmaintainable code at a faster pace than researchers could write useful proofs.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

trivials per suit @weirdunits

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antoinechambertloir@mathstodon.xyz ("⏚ Antoine Chambert-Loir") wrote:

Learning that decade old mathematical conjectures have been solved by AI, or that more and more colleagues use AI as an every day tool, this brings me a deep professional sadness.

Is humankind's knowledge worth the depletion of the planet's natural resources — up to making it uninhabitable — due to their total predation by a gang of companies with hegemonic views?

What does it mean to do mathematics in such an age? How is it possible to do it towards human flourishing ?

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Vierkantor@mastodon.vierkantor.com (":anne_triangle: Anne C.A. Baanen") wrote:

Hereby announcing that it is common knowledge in the formalization community that Math Inc are a bunch of thieving scumbags and somehow manage to be even worse than all the other fucking assholes who pretend to build artificial intelligence. They will steal your work to try and pass it off as their own, ruining your career and then tweet about how the Economist thinks "their AI" revolutionizes mathematics. All the while erasing your own contributions that actually got everyone most of the way there in a collaborative fashion, in favour of some obscurantist nonsense that is worthless at advancing the state of science, and for all we know involves no actual large language model and might just be a bunch of people forced to do all the work themselves while pretending it was machine generated and just "polished up a little".

Do not work with Math Inc, do not listen to Math Inc, do not trust them to do anything but advance their own interest in the most short-sighted all-destructive fashion, and do not make the mistake of anthropomorphizing Jesse Han.

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tristanbuckmaster wrote:

"Since August 28 we have been training a new internal model that has exhibited unprecedented performance in our benchmarks, including mathematics. This model’s training is ongoing and its performance continues to improve."

Note that they are openly admitting they used training data from a period after we found our result. Is it ethical to use customer's data to try to scoop their customer?

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

bear drops