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@eschaton Sounds like soupçon. So I guess I’ll nominate “slopçon” as the unit of measure for small quantities of (possibly unnecessary, maybe more efficiently/reliably done through other means, probably poorly supervised) GenAI work product.

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_disfavoredOverload 6d ago

@joe And don’t worry, the USB-C ports are color (mis)matched too.

_disfavoredOverload Mar 14

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

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_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!

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_disfavoredOverload Mar 9

@axiixc @dlx Don’t worry, there’ll be plenty of folks using code voice where they mean to use “completely unnecessary and random” quotation marks, too.

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_disfavoredOverload Feb 28

@axiixc I thought toxic traits was a Rust thing?

_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.

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_disfavoredOverload Feb 14

@joe I replaced all of my usage with dispatch_tres_leches. Performant and reliable, but quite filling.