Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

I've had this in my head for ages, so here you go.

"uefi", pronounced "yiffy"

"AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00462

"Using a large-scale controlled resume correspondence experiment, we find that LLMs consistently prefer resumes generated by themselves over those written by humans or produced by alternative models, even when content quality is controlled. The bias against human-written resumes is particularly substantial, with self-preference bias ranging from 67% to 82% across major commercial and open-source models."

@maxleibman I think this is partly right. But there’s another reason: the same reason some people keep eating stuff that is bad for them - it tastes good.

Chat bots feed people the psychic equivalent of high fructose corn syrup.

People don’t turn to chatbots for therapy because chatbots are good at therapy.

They do it for the same reason that people who are starving try to eat tree bark.

@soatok At my very first e-commerce job in 1997, the main router connected to the server had a sign over it:

“WHEN IN TROUBLE, OR IN DOUBT,
PULL THE PURPLE CABLE OUT!”

My favorite matrix server hardening tool is rm

@dogzilla
This burn is beautiful. Here with added #alttext

rm -fr actually means remove for real

Hey hello from your flirty local transgendeer~ #furry #furryart #transgender #ftm #deer