Mastodawn

Additional irony: The Al (not Gen Al, but still) in the pull quote having round-tripped from text to screenshot to OCR’d text:

“The irony of an Al reporter being tripped up by Al hallucination is not lost on me.”

(Not lost on me, since my current favorite feed reader from @tg defaults to an italic serif for block quotes, where the difference between uppercase I and lowercase l couldn’t be more obvious.)
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/14/ars-technica-benj-edwards-ai-fabricted-quotes

Ars Technica Fires Reporter Benj Edwards After He Published Story With AI-Fabricated Quotes

Link to: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-reporter-ai-quotes

Daring Fireball

_disfavoredOverload Mar 13

I only recently learned that Jenny Lewis (vocalist in The Postal Service) also played the girl in The Wizard (1989). Now all the (uh, one or two) songs where she’s dumping the naively self-centered narrator make even more sense — such as I remember that movie, I can totally see Fred Savage’s character growing up into the guy Ben Gibbard portrays.

_disfavoredOverload Mar 12

I’m a fan of more (US) Mac keyboards putting glyphs on special keys — not only does it better match the other locales’ keyboards (where English legends made less sense anyway), it makes following the key shortcut mnemonics in menus easier. (What’s ⌘⇥? It’s the keys with those glyphs on them; you don’t have to know that ⇥ means the key that only says “tab”.)

Too bad they didn’t get to ⎋, though — that one has the most obvious mnemonic!

_disfavoredOverload Feb 21

I bet the EV Dodge Charger would have sold a lot better if it had V2X. Wouldn’t everybody want to find out how many Dodges can a Dodge Charger charge if a Dodge Charger can charge Dodges?

_disfavoredOverload Feb 14

Every six months the refrigerator demands a sacrifice of blood and waffles.

_disfavoredOverload Jan 18

RE: https://theforkiverse.com/@toothless/115915868200282417

And here I thought BART didn’t get to Dublin before 1997.

_disfavoredOverload Dec 4

Unbelievable moments I wish I could have filmed: Fumbling my AirPods case as I get up from my home office chair, seeing it land on the toe of my knockoff Crocs and bounce right back up to a height where I could catch it in midair.

(Stupid dice, why can’t I save my nat 20s for something important?)

_disfavoredOverload Nov 29

Did you hear about the guy who got kicked off the plane for trying to put a raw turkey in the overhead bin? He didn’t read all the rules about carrion luggage.

_disfavoredOverload Oct 1

Happy waking up Green Day day to all who celebrate.

_disfavoredOverload Sep 26

Ghost of Yotei is getting good reviews, but I’m not sure if it’s sending me to a mountain in Hokkaido or tempting me to silently quit all my plans.