Kara Swisher shaming the @washingtonpost for platforming Trump regime lies. (And teaching us new words. #Codswallop)

Away with the drudgery of workaday practice! of chords and squamous progressions! Learn to play the ukulele as if by magic!

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1714050667/learn-ukulele-spell-learn-how-to-play

#Ukulele #Codswallop

Rats. DDG is still my favorite.

arsTECHNICA article https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/wikipedia-ai-truth-duckduckgo-hopes-so-with-new-answerbot/?comments=1&comments-page=1
March 9, 2023 "We spoke with a representative of DuckDuckGo, and they said they're using OpenAI's GPT-3.5 and Anthropic's Claude as LLMs. "We're experimenting with OpenAI's recently announced Turbo model, too," they said."

ars addresses many potential problems about DuckDuckGo using this software.

No turning AI results off. DDG is deeply into it already. #Codswallop

#DuckDuckNo https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/112217886303492342

DuckDuckGo’s new Wikipedia summary bot: “We fully expect it to make mistakes” [Updated]

DuckAssist provides an AI-powered Wikipedia summary, hoping to avoid hallucinations.

Ars Technica

Her collection is staggering. Room after room of lies, misunderstandings and rumours on display in gilt frames and glass cabinets. Centuries of #codswallop.

I ask her why. She smiles.

These are the things that define us, she says. Not the things that are, but the words we invent to explain them.

#vss365 

They were bejeweled effigies, almighty, soaring sometimes hanging still in unbespeckled firmaments. A traunch for deicide by any other name. A litmus test for all the unremarkable, bar none.

With little to remind me then of perpetuity, I heaved my holy sacraments without, and tipped off heavy mizzenmasts to endless destitution.

A forest if you'd call it that, of lacrimose insanity, we slowly sailed the foggy and immaculate. The mirror that the water made.

#vss365 #codswallop

‘I’ll have a bowl of Bunkum with a lashings of Balderdash. A Flannel Flan. The Poppycock chicken with a jug of Hogwash. A side of Twaddled Potatoes. A Piffle Trifle. Two of the Liquorice Gibberish. And three Choc Chip Claptraps, one with a dollop of #codswallop. Thanks!’

#VSS365

Looks like a wintry mix, today, the fox-girl said.
A combination of snow and sleet and rain was falling.
What a load of codswallop! said the bobcat. I want real snow.
Snow, snow! cried the baby badgers.
#vss365 #codswallop

Today I read
So many bad takes on things:
what's this #codswallop?!

#vss365 #haiku #poetry #writing #writingcommunity

She had learnt to listen carefully to all the #codswallop coming out of people's mouths.

Not that she would take any of it personally.

But, in one way or the other, they always told you what you needed to know about them.

#vss365 #WritingCommunity

“Client spouting a load of #codswallop. He’s happy with my plan, just wanted to get something else off his chest & someone to listen,” said Mia.
“So long as that’s all,” said Ari.
“Ari,” said Dan.
“Stop watching me like a hawk. Tom & I have no bearing on you & Jin. ” #vss365