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I've uploaded a prototype module for generating and parsing metadata about software #AI and automation policies, based on ideas from the #Perl Toolchain Summit in April.

The idea is to have machine-readavle information about how code is generated, what kind of automated contributions are handled are allowed, and what kind of automation the maintainers of a project use.

There's a draft spec at https://github.com/CPAN-Security/cpan-metadata-v3/blob/main/automation-policy.md but it's already out-of-sync with the Perl code.

Ideas and feedback would be appreciated.

https://metacpan.org/release/RRWO/Dist-AutomationPolicy-v0.1.0

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"Mutant Rob" Robert Rothenberg 6d ago

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rob pike 6d ago

I spent my time trying to make it better. Not just write code, but find better or at least different ways to do so. Simpler, cleaner, more general, more comprehensible.

What's happening today is a complete repudiation of everything I was trying to achieve.

"Mutant Rob" Robert Rothenberg 6d ago

Ulrike Hahn 6d ago

new preprint on the spread of hallucinated citations in the scientific literature:

- origin primarily from small and early-career author teams

- hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars

- 𝟴𝟱.𝟯% of hallucinations in preprints persist into the published version

- hallucinations appear across the range of journals, including high impact ones

- fake citations are becoming listed in search engines like Google scholar

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations

Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain poorly understood. Here we leverage a uniquely verifiable object - scientific citations - to audit 111 million references across 2.5 million papers in arXiv, bioRxiv, SSRN, and PubMed Central. We find a sharp rise in non-existent references following widespread LLM adoption, with a conservative estimate of 146,932 hallucinated citations in 2025 alone. These errors are diffusely embedded across many papers but especially pronounced in fields with rapid AI uptake, in manuscripts with linguistic signatures of AI-assisted writing, and among small and early-career author teams. At the same time, hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars, suggesting that LLM-generated errors may reinforce existing inequities in scientific recognition. Preprint moderation and journal publication processes capture only a fraction of these errors, suggesting that the spread of hallucinated content has outpaced existing safeguards. Together, these findings demonstrate that LLM hallucinations are infiltrating knowledge production at scale, threatening both the reliability and equity of future scientific discovery as human and AI systems draw on the existing literature.

arXiv.org

"Mutant Rob" Robert Rothenberg 6d ago

I've uploaded a prototype module for generating and parsing metadata about software #AI and automation policies, based on ideas from the #Perl Toolchain Summit in April.

There's a draft spec at https://github.com/CPAN-Security/cpan-metadata-v3/blob/main/automation-policy.md but it's already out-of-sync with the Perl code.

Ideas and feedback would be appreciated.

https://metacpan.org/release/RRWO/Dist-AutomationPolicy-v0.1.0

#CPAN

cpan-metadata-v3/automation-policy.md at main · CPAN-Security/cpan-metadata-v3

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"Mutant Rob" Robert Rothenberg May 10

ilias 🏴‍☠️💙💛May 10

we are not... supposed... to have... wireless firmware update... on a knife...

(yes this is real product; yes it has Wi-Fi & Bluetooth https://seattleultrasonics.com/products/c-200-ultrasonic-8-chefs-knife)

#InternetOfThings #InternetOfShit #IoT #Tech #Technology #Embedded #Firmware #Hardware #Cooking #Bluetooth #Wireless

"Mutant Rob" Robert Rothenberg May 10

Extreme Electronics May 10

RE: https://mastodon.world/@maddad/116550890436062208

This will wreak the how many traffic lights / how many motorcycles recaptures.

"Mutant Rob" Robert Rothenberg May 10

Today's improvised #recipe #vegan was potatoes and okra stir fry.

Slice up several small potatoes in thin half-cm rondelles, boil in salted water with corn on the cob for 10-12 minutes until potatoes are soft.

Heat up a skillet with oil, add potatoes.

Slice up a handful of okra and add it to the skillet.

Cut the kernels from the corn cob and add them to skillet.

Chop of several cherry tomatoes and add them too.

Season with three chilli peppers in adobo power, paprika and cumin to taste.

Cook for several minutes until the okra and tomatoes are soft.

"Mutant Rob" Robert Rothenberg May 10

So car keys have gone from being a similar size to house keys to small boxes that barely fit in one's pockets. In another generation they'll be larger than mobile phones.

"Mutant Rob" Robert Rothenberg May 5

Require coconut be labelled as an #allergen on food packaging - #Petitions

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/766278

Petition: Require coconut be labelled as an allergen on food packaging

Require coconut be labelled as a mandatory allergen on all food packaging. Any product containing coconut must clearly list it. Other countries, including the US and Canada, already require this. Clear labelling could protect children and adults at risk of life-threatening reactions and death.

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament

"Mutant Rob" Robert Rothenberg May 4

cR0w Sep 1, 2025

C.R.E.A.M. ( 2025 )

🎶 Cloudflare ruins everything around me 🎶

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