Some of us figured it out after writing two novels with gender-flipped self-portraits as main characters, just as god intended

In local Boston-area sneering:

This is the map that City Councilors Miniard Culpepper (Roxbury) and Brian Worrell (Dorchester) used yesterday as part of their case to build an Orange Line extension down Blue Hill Avenue. As if we needed more proof that friends don’t let friends use generative AI. How many mistakes can you find?

“Arlington Heights” has materialized on the Commuter Rail line I took every day to Brandeis, North Station is no longer on the Green Line, Government Center is now the second Park Street, backup copies of State and DTX have appeared for good measure, Boylston and Arlington have departed for the realm of the A branch, along with the Braintree branch of the Red Line… I never knew the “what’s wrong with this picture” puzzles in the Sunday funnies would be such good training for evaluating computer technology.

Larry Sanger, who has spent decades concern-trolling Wikipedia to promote false balance in the name of “neutrality”, has finally pissed off enough editors there that the community has booted his ass.

Background:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger

Do we have to believe gamblers who say they’ve got a “system”?

If you switch to a new kind of tainted beef, that’s updating your prions

What’s a Dimes Square lady to do?!

I’m extraordinarily reluctant to take the guy’s description at face value. It seems ripe for that thing guys do where a crowd that’s 1/3 women becomes “mostly women” in their perception. But even taking it at face value, what the Hell, you know? He’s holding an event that self-selects for women who are vulnerable to predation and puts them in harm’s way. “Protip: to get more feminine energy at your events, advertise it to alcoholic women and hold it at a brewery!”

I haven’t bothered to examine the page history to see when the fucked content was actually introduced. I’m hoping that by posting about it, I can catch the attention of a particularly pedantic sex nerd who will be willing to fix it, for humanity’s sake. Let us not let the Adult Bookstore of Alexandria burn; rather, let us chronicle our times with our free hands

IS NOTHING SACRED?!

“It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests”

https://www.404media.co/it-is-trivially-easy-to-use-reddit-to-manipulate-ai-search-research-suggests/

The preprint:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24245

This one is actually new. It goes on the top of my pile of absurd Daria crossovers, joining those with Hellraiser, the Amelia Peabody mysteries, They Live and Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land.

So far, no cult followers.

To prevent fraud and rule exchanges, tokens can be implemented as a digital entity, representing a fungible unit of value. Tokens can be transferred through cryptographic protocols and governed by rules running in the TMS.

They’re gonna do it. Peer review is going ON THE BLOCKCHAIN

“Endless Shrimp Jesus”: Red Lobster (a) still exists and (b) is going all-in on AI

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/red-lobsters-ceo-says-hes-153500558.html

Link for that development, in case anyone missed it:

https://awful.systems/post/8263538/11477939

I did, indeed, turn them down, and I told the journal why.

By not thinking about it, one presumes.

Sigh.

ACM will no longer require disclosure of the use of #generativeAI in writing papers… an absolutely terrible change by the @ACM Publications Board to the Policy on Authorship. Yes, this will give ACM more papers. No, the ideology of “number go up” productivism is not the path to responsible, ecological or ethical computing, but to irrelevance.

https://hci.social/@cbecker/116728336094142084

I’ve been programming computers since I was 10, and being a physicist even involved doing that professionally, so I hereby nominate my Daria–Hannibal crossover fic as programmer SF. It’s full of science fiction, both real and fictional.

Pissonus Robotics

Everybody remember Frontiers, the publisher that brought us the rat dck pck? Well guess what…

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

When Frontiers started automating the editorial process, I stayed. I reasoned that as long as the automation could be turned off, human editors can still ensure rigorous, high-quality peer review. This now became impossible - the system has been entirely hijacked by algorithms. ‪

Over the last month I saw that human editors are now stripped of control. I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting “reviewers” with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out to actual, qualified experts. ‪

I emailed and met with the editorial office to ask for the AI assistant to be turned off. I was told this is not possible. Instead, I was treated to some vague promises of potential future improvements and a dose of gaslighting. ‪

If human editors can’t control who reviews science, it’s no longer peer review — it’s a rubber-stamp machine designed for volume and profit, not quality. I have no intention of attaching my name to it. So I’m out.

https://bsky.app/profile/michael-okun.bsky.social/post/3mnxkxte55s25

Viral: “read a second book”

Spiral: “read a second Borges story”

The author of “Death and the Compass” and “Emma Zunz” is unrecognizable from the description there.