This short story, written in older and older English as it goes on, rightly went viral!

How far can you understand it?

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english#_

#English #Language #Bookstodon #Linguistics

“I wanted the blue checkmark on LinkedIn. The one that says “this person is real.” In a sea of fake recruiters, bot accounts, and AI-generated headshots, it seemed like a smart thing to do.

So I tapped “verify.” I scanned my passport. I took a selfie. Three minutes later — done. Badge acquired. I felt a tiny dopamine hit of legitimacy.

Then I did what apparently nobody does. I went and read the privacy policy and terms of service.

Not LinkedIn’s. The other company’s”

https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

I was indirect about something in a toot earlier - I think I'm going to make a more direct thread:

I work on open source projects. There's an extremely good chance that an LLM produces code that I contributed to an open source project. A few of the projects I work on are GPL. LLMs are not supposed to include GPL data but they often do.

If you're using an LLM you're very likely - at one point or another - taking from an open source project without proper licensing or attribution.

Struggling to resize windows on macOS Tahoe? Here’s why.

https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/

People still act as if anyone at Apple cared about this stuff. They don’t. Those days are long gone.

https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/