Chris Dennis

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Chris Dennis1d ago
I love this, so I2d ago

Dear computer companies,

This -> ✨

Is now the Mark Of Cain. I will never ever click any button that features it.

Regards,

Approximately everyone

Show threadChris DennisMar 3
@OEWordhord Is that why 'blue' can mean 'sad'?
Chris DennisFeb 14
Tagir ValeevFeb 12
Today we had a fire alarm in the office. A colleague wrote to a Slack channel 'Fire alarm in the office building', to start a thread if somebody knows any details. We have AI assistant Glean integrated into the Slack, and it answered privately to her: "today's siren is just a scheduled test and you do not need to leave your workplace". It was not a test or a drill, it was a real fire alarm. Someday, AI will kill us.
Chris DennisJan 31
Lauren WeinsteinJan 30

Really, the only thing you need to know about Google's agentic #AI #Chrome "Auto Browsing" feature is that #Google says YOU are responsible for all actions the agentic AI takes on your behalf.

That's the whole ballgame. Right off the cliff. Don't touch it. Don't use it. Don't get anywhere near it.

Chris DennisJan 29
Old English WordhordJan 28
and-wīg, n.n: resistance. (OND-WEE / ˈand-ˌwiːj)
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Chris DennisJan 17
Ross of OttawaJan 16

You prob know this already, but if you duck-search, you can go to a slightly different entry point at https://noai.duckduckgo.com to do web searches without AI slop dumping on you.

I see they've dressed up the landing page there! Now more obviously non-AI. I mean, it's a selling feature, so yeah, go to town guys.

(if you still google things, consider the duck search! it's worked well for me for years, and the non-ai version is a nice step forward).

#InternetSearch #degoogle #websearch

Chris DennisJan 7
ploumJan 5

How my students taught me that Github’s monopoly is hurting the Open Source ecosystem even more than I thought.

https://ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteaching_github.html

#github #floss

How Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem

How Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

Chris DennisNov 30

National Emergency Briefing

Everyone should watch this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7uh192r0&t=1470s

and then sign this letter to the UK prime minister:

https://www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-keir

This is not the video I had planned to make.

YouTube
Chris DennisNov 30
Coach Pāṇini ®Nov 29
#enshittification
Chris DennisNov 26
Æ.Nov 26

Last week in a seminar we discussed a text that was largely about sexual violence, including mass rape during war. Heavy stuff.

One student admitted they had not read the text but worked off a ChatGPT summary.

They had no idea the text was about sexual violence. ChatGPT withheld that information.

This wasn’t just a minor error nor a typical LLM hallucination.

About a third of the text, arguably its most important part, went completely ignored because it didn’t match OpenAI’s content policies