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it’s fun that Mormonism is based off pseudo-archeology and Scientology is based off pseudo-psychiatry. By that logic the big American New Religious Movement of the 21st century is gonna be based on… pseudo-computer science?

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“Slopsquatting” in a nutshell:

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal, that’s how you get math packages and stuff but

2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but

3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So

4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/

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Like, okay, I love Taco Bell nachos. I love them so much. At time of filming, those cost a little under $3. If someone asked me if they were worth it, I would say, "Yes, certainly!" If tomorrow, they suddenly cost $20, I would immediately be able to say, "Oh, mm-mm, no. No, they're not worth that." I wouldn't say, "Well, I really like them, so I suppose if you can afford it, they're worth it." I would say no, they're worth around $3. Maybe up to five, if I was desperate.

This segment from jenny nicholsons star wars hotel video keeps playing in my head whenever people talk about the cost of video games these days so i'm clipping it because it's relatable to me.

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hppy ueday! Dont fonrget to smile and shine

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So betazoids can tell when people are lying. A betazoid enters Garak's shop, Garak says "hello" and the betazoid goes "absolute fucking not" and leaves immediately.

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I think Adventure Time is a pretty unique show in how much it committed to the risky move of gradually growing up with its audience over the course of roughly a decade and a half, and how gracefully it managed to pull it off in the end (even if stumbled and hit a few pretty big lows along the way when it started out trying to get more mature and experimental). But this also makes it an extremely funny show to binge-rewatch front to back.

One day you're watching Finn get turned into a giant foot by a magic man and a couple weeks later you're watching Finn have an existential crisis because he's trying to come to terms with the fact that (as far as he knows) he just killed someone.

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One day remaining on this. Benji is in the lead. Benji the Betta, I guess it works, but reblogging in case anyone hasn't seen. I caught him eating a shrimp yesterday! Did he kill it, or was it already dead? I don't know but we will have to see.

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if you're gonna get into star trek you gotta understand that YES when it works it's some of the best anything ever put to television. but you gotta understand. it absolutely does not always work. you cannot truly love star trek unless you accept the fact that while more than half of the episodes are good, a not-insignificant portion of trek episodes -- especially from the most widely-beloved classic series -- are actually dogshit and terrible. and I would recommend that you love those episodes too

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i got a betta and wanted to. draw him. still no name for him but i'm not open to suggestions as i've already got a list of possibilities!

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THE ORIGIN OF THIS IMAGE:

So in my etsy I sell a pin of some isopods having at a bag of doritos based on this photo. Today I was contacted by the person who took it.

I asked to share this info and he gave permission!

Here’s the picture of him working with isopods and here’s a link to their published research!

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how i'm handling my students using AI to write papers:

-don't accuse them on using AI from the get-go and instead ask them to informally define all the huge words that they used in their essay which i know they don't know the meaning of

-ask to see their original file where they "wrote" the essay. go to version history to see if it was just copy and pasted and then just edited a bit. i keep an eye out for the shit like "certainly! here's an essay about...."

-if they own up to it, they can re-do the assignment for a higher grade even if there will be an automatic penalty. if they don't, i process it like plagiarism and get my supervisor involved.

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To everyone considering paying 5 billion dollars per year to play gamecube games on switch

Take my hand. I can show you a better way

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