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Don't blindly believe everything you read online, tempting as that is. Do your homework first. This video series will help you do it well: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8d

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Remember to pop your filter bubble every so often. If you think you're not in one, you're trapped in one and in for a rude awakening.

INTERCAL: We have keywords like PLEASE and IGNORE because we think it's funny

Anthropic: We have PLEASE and IGNORE *baked into our source-code* because we have no fucking idea how this thing works

ai slop sucks! but don't worry, this machine, which we're making out of slop, and which we're feeding lots of slop into, definitely won't produce more slop. i am the chief innovation officer

MikroTik is on the fediverse, and they posted an AI slop image as a cute photo.

(If it isn't slop, then that's the weirdest rack shelf I've ever seen.)

So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”.

Totally trustworthy people.

#AI #Anthropic #ClaudeCode #subterfuge

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Somebody would like you to know he's decided April 1 is for goofing around, not playing pranks. You're more than welcome to join him.

#CatsOfMastodon #Cats #FediCats #AprilFools

Happy "techbros and incels try to monetize comedy without understanding it" day to all who celebrate

RE: bsd.network/@ed1conf/116329887

Despite being conceived and released as an April Fools joke, "Ed Mastery" is arguably and seriously the best comprehensive guide to using ed(1) to its fullest potential. After reading the book, the standard text editor *will* become one of your go-to editors.

On this day 8 years ago, @mwl released "Ed Mastery" to much lamentation rejoicing.

:flan_cheer:

Inspired by an offhand comment Alice (@foone) made earlier today: the CGA iceberg

nothing the fascists do can ever change the fact that the world is immeasurably better with trans people in it

if you're touching computers and would like to stay a minimally decent being it is imperative you kill the libertarian techbro inside

Before another well-meaning, good doctor says “there just isn’t that much evidence tying Covid to this condition yet” it would be great if they checked the Covid lit library to see if 1,000+ research papers of such evidence exists

Misinfo helps no one ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coro

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