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Watch Micah Parsons ask Tom Brady for autographed jersey during Fanatics Fest https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/watch-micah-parsons-ask-tom-brady-for-autographed-jersey-during-fanatics-fest

AI is now routine in IT, but this shows the risk of treating AI as "knowledgeable". Its design relies on vast quantities of mostly unvetted data. They are plausibility engines shaped by biases and delusions in the culture that trained them.
#llm #AI

Mahmoud Khalil Lashes Out After CNN Asks If He Condemns Hamas: 'Disingenuous and Absurd To Ask Such Questions' (Meghan Blonder/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/mahmoud-khalil-lashes-out-after-cnn-asks-if-he-condemns-hamas-disingenuous-and-absurd-to-ask-such-questions/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p144#a250722p144

Since Microsoft is organising a European Sovereign Tech Fund, we should ask Lockheed Martin to put together a European Sovereign Defense Fund. There’s probably also opportunity here to bring Amazon in to advise on EU labour standards and have McDonald’s take the lead on food safety policy in the EU.
CC @…

Oi! People my age, listen up.
When you see a kid wearing a band t-shirt, it's not time for you to play band police and ask them to name 3 songs by the band.
Instead, why not engage with them and ask them what their favorite song by that band is.
Or suggest they check out this other, similar band they may not be familiar with.
The Name 3 songs by that band joke is TIRED and not done elsewhere.
I drive Subaru. "Name 3 other cars they make!"
I l…

Next Starship “launch” is coming up, wonder why he didn’t ask Mechahitler to fix the design issues

is it too much to ask that a software dependency be:
1. fast
2. permissive open-source licensed
3. lightweight in bundle cost
4. lightweight in installation size
5. well-maintained
6. accurate
7. able to run in all of the marginally different JavaScript runtimes
8. human sourced to avoid ethical and future copyright issues with AI
9. use modern APIs and without vestigial polyfill bloat
10. use best progressive enhancement and accessibility p…

Can you describe specific ways you have integrated Al tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond simple prompt usage.
there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.…

Five Critical Questions the Raiders Must Ask Against the Cardinals https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/flas-vegas-arizona-cardinals-pete-carroll-aiden-oconnell-tommy-mellot-chip-kelly

#RankedChoiceVoting is back on the table in Congress. Tell your Rep to support it!
https://fairvoteaction.quorum.us/campaign/FairRepAct2025/
(Yeah, it won'…

Take Action: Ask Congress to Support the Fair Representation Act!
Stop gerrymandering, give voters more choice, and make Congress work for us

Well, it's done. I have finally finished making my combined parent/professor College Visit / Campus Tour Bingo card, distilled from the several we did this summer. Please use responsibly and joyously (and remember to never take these tours too seriously).

NPR has this article about questions to ask your kids camp. They include climate change. So you have to ask him what they do when your kids get tick bites and if you have to ask them that you probably have to ask him a lot of other things. This probably a meta question about things to ask that you don't think about.
Top questions to ask your kids' camp about fire, heat and floods

Garrett: 'Rather talk' about Browns than ticket https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46031673/ask-different-question

While disappearing the homeless:
Donald Trump says he’ll ask Congress for $2B for DC improvements
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5466057-trump-plans-dc-beautification/

I don’t usually ask for #MutualAid because I’m able to cover my food and bills, but I encourage others to support those who truly need it.
For example, I can’t donate myself since I have some privacy and security concerns with PayPal, plus I live in Norway, which complicates things.
Instead, I want to see resources shared with folks who don’t have what they need, and mutual aid …

"Some AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO₂ emissions than others, researchers find"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

Some AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO₂ emissions than others, researchers find
No matter which questions we ask an AI, the model will come up with an answer. To produce this information—regardless of whether the answer is correct or not—the model uses tokens. Tokens are words or parts of words that are converted into a string of numbers that can be processed by the LLM.

We were by a cat cafe, so the kids got me a bday gift (and pins for themselves).
Noteworthy that I didn't get a "best dad ever" without a qualifier 😂

When you feel lonely, the stars are there for you.
When you feel lost, the moon will guide you.
When you feel hopeless, let the winds carry you.
And when you feel like there is nothing left, ask the universe to tell you its story.

Looking for the radar cross-section of the outdated #PanaviaTornado fighter jet, I thought I could ask my old friend #ChatGPT for help in finding online sources. Surely enough, it found this source:

Everything you wanted to know about 2023 KQ14 (but were afraid to ask)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2025/07/19/complete-guide-to-ammonite-the-solar-systems-latest-member/

Sergey Shulubin wurde am Strand in Constanța das Fahrrad geklaut. Das ist mies!
#tcrno11 #tcrno11cap104

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.
-- Rumi
#poem

oh, the yellowish tint of gen-AI art might come from revisions. each revision of an image on chatGPT makes it slightly more yellow, not sure why, and I'm not going to pay for more image quota to experiment
gemini doesn't have that behavior (but also gemini is less stable when you ask for revisions)
(both of them assumed I'm female when I asked for a pic of me with you as my boyfriend. chatGPT became a girl when I said I was a guy, and it took 3 tries and a "think…

After 2½ weeks off (a beautiful 11-night cruise to Bruges and ports along the Portuguese and Spanish coasts), I've had a reasonably good first day back in work. Managed to clear / triage my inbox before going out-of-office again as I'm attending a conference for the next few days in Harrogate.
Which lets me ask the questions: Onde estš Harrogate? Où est Harrogate? Wo ist Harrogate?... etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFp3nMldzkM

TD-Interpreter: Enhancing the Understanding of Timing Diagrams with Visual-Language Learning
Jie He, Vincent Theo Willem Kenbeek, Zhantao Yang, Meixun Qu, Ezio Bartocci, Dejan Ni\v{c}kovi\'c, Radu Grosu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16844

TD-Interpreter: Enhancing the Understanding of Timing Diagrams with Visual-Language Learning
We introduce TD-Interpreter, a specialized ML tool that assists engineers in understanding complex timing diagrams (TDs), originating from a third party, during their design and verification process. TD-Interpreter is a visual question-answer environment which allows engineers to input a set of TDs and ask design and verification queries regarding these TDs. We implemented TD-Interpreter with multimodal learning by fine-tuning LLaVA, a lightweight 7B Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM). To a…

Near as I can tell one thing LLMs are good at, it is encoding the status quo with all its flaws into a huge pile of coefficients, and then it gets rebranded as "intelligence". Awesome.
https://mstdn.social/@amydiehl/114887398749890246

This is gonna be great! This company has punched above its weight for years. A small team of like 6 talented people. My recommendation: Hire them to do some work OR support their Patreon, but definitely send them a good question.
https://iconfactory.world/@Iconfactory/1150516380960…

The Iconfactory (@Iconfactory@iconfactory.world)
Attached: 1 image Inspired by a suggestion from Mastodon, we’re going to try something new - Ask the Iconfactory! Patreon supporters can ask us the answer to that burning Iconfactory-related question and we’ll answer our favorites in an upcoming podcast. Supporters will get early access to the public audio ep and if it’s successful we may do more! Leave your questions in the comments. Now’s your chance, ask away! https://www.patreon.com/posts/ask-iconfactory-136788695

Just Ask for Music (JAM): Multimodal and Personalized Natural Language Music Recommendation
Alessandro B. Melchiorre, Elena V. Epure, Shahed Masoudian, Gustavo Escobedo, Anna Hausberger, Manuel Moussallam, Markus Schedl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15826

Just Ask for Music (JAM): Multimodal and Personalized Natural Language Music Recommendation
Natural language interfaces offer a compelling approach for music recommendation, enabling users to express complex preferences conversationally. While Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise in this direction, their scalability in recommender systems is limited by high costs and latency. Retrieval-based approaches using smaller language models mitigate these issues but often rely on single-modal item representations, overlook long-term user preferences, and require full model retraining, pos…

A Common Pool of Privacy Problems: Legal and Technical Lessons from a Large-Scale Web-Scraped Machine Learning Dataset
Rachel Hong, Jevan Hutson, William Agnew, Imaad Huda, Tadayoshi Kohno, Jamie Morgenstern
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17185

A Common Pool of Privacy Problems: Legal and Technical Lessons from a Large-Scale Web-Scraped Machine Learning Dataset
We investigate the contents of web-scraped data for training AI systems, at sizes where human dataset curators and compilers no longer manually annotate every sample. Building off of prior privacy concerns in machine learning models, we ask: What are the legal privacy implications of web-scraped machine learning datasets? In an empirical study of a popular training dataset, we find significant presence of personally identifiable information despite sanitization efforts. Our audit provides concr…

#UX has never been able to shake the perception that our work is about the outputs. Managers now look at #AI tools that can generate outputs and ask — this is just as good, right?
They don't have the context to understand that it's NOT just as good. But many designers have *deliberately* avoided…

Only outputs can be automated
By emphasizing design's role as a producer of visual outputs, our leaders have eroded the entire justification for UX as a practice.

Ask Good Questions for Large Language Models
Qi Wu, Zhongqi Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14025 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14025

Ask Good Questions for Large Language Models
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have significantly improved the performance of dialog systems, yet current approaches often fail to provide accurate guidance of topic due to their inability to discern user confusion in related concepts. To address this, we introduce the Ask-Good-Question (AGQ) framework, which features an improved Concept-Enhanced Item Response Theory (CEIRT) model to better identify users' knowledge levels. Our contributions include applying the CEIRT model alo…

Understanding Prompt Programming Tasks and Questions
Jenny T. Liang, Chenyang Yang, Agnia Sergeyuk, Travis D. Breaux, Brad A. Myers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17264

Understanding Prompt Programming Tasks and Questions
Prompting foundation models (FMs) like large language models (LLMs) have enabled new AI-powered software features (e.g., text summarization) that previously were only possible by fine-tuning FMs. Now, developers are embedding prompts in software, known as prompt programs. The process of prompt programming requires the developer to make many changes to their prompt. Yet, the questions developers ask to update their prompt is unknown, despite the answers to these questions affecting how developer…

Little #MastodonTip : if you ask a question in a post and eventually get a good answer, you can edit your post with the answer added!
That way people who have boosted it will know the answer as well (it should notify them) and people who see it know that there is no need to answer.

Trump 'hung up after 30 seconds' on the phone with CNN reporter who called to ask about new Epstein photos (Kelly Rissman/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-cnn-epstein-photos-b2794524.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p179#a250723p179

∩️ Leftist lawmakers gather to answer a question: How to beat the global right?
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-07-31/leftist-lawmakers-from-across-the-hemisphere-gather-to-ask-a-questi…

A conference of leftists wants to know: How to beat the global right?
Political leaders from a dozen countries have gathered in Mexico City to discuss a key question: How can the left win?

Browns' Myles Garrett declines to comment on latest speeding ticket, tells reporter to 'ask another question'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/new…

JFC, he’s so fcking pathetic. Why doesn’t he just make up a NEW! BIGGER! MOST BEAUTIFUL! MOST AMAZING! peace prize ever and award it to himself, ffs?
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-called-norway-finance-minister-ask-abou…

Trump cold-called Norwegian minister to ask about Nobel Peace Prize
American president angles for top diplomatic award while world watches his summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

So you have lots of questions then, do you? Keep them coming! That was a talk on Mars, many more talks still coming: https://www.goettinger-nacht-des-wissens.de/nach-format/vortrag/
@…

BTW - if you're building Inuksuit in National or Provincial parks, please stop. Every few years, park staff ask news media to publish a plea to visitors to stop creating their own stone sculptures because of environmental impact.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/jasper-national-park-inukshuk-cairn-1.4758917

CFD Modelling and Sensitivity-Guided Design of Silicon Filament CVD Reactors
G. P. Gakis, G. Loacham\'in-Suntaxi, I. G. Aviziotis, E. D. Koronaki, P. P. Filippatos, G. Chatzigiannakis, S. P. A. Bordas, D. Davazoglou, A. G. Boudouvis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18889

CFD Modelling and Sensitivity-Guided Design of Silicon Filament CVD Reactors
Filament-based chemical vapor deposition (CVD) for silicon (Si) coatings is often treated as a straightforward adaptation of planar deposition, just with a cylindrical substrate. But this overlooks a fundamental shift in how transport phenomena and reaction kinetics interact. In filament CVD, the filament is not just a substrate; it is the dominant heat source and flow disruptor all in one. In this work, we ask: What really governs Si film growth on filaments? Using a validated three-dimensiona…

Google Photos will let users edit images using text or voice prompts, first on Pixel 10 devices in the US, and will add support for C2PA Content Credentials (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/you-can-now-talk-to-google-photos-to…

You can now talk to Google Photos to make your edits | TechCrunch
Google Photos introduces an "ask to edit" feature that lets you speak or text your edit requests.

Hey everyone, if you can, please help. 👇 https://mas.to/@Aseelsehwel/115055608428455170

Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?
#cobol

qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…

Beyond Solving Math Quiz: Evaluating the Ability of Large Reasoning Models to Ask for Information
Youcheng Huang, Bowen Qin, Chen Huang, Duanyu Feng, Xi Yang, Wenqiang Lei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11252

Beyond Solving Math Quiz: Evaluating the Ability of Large Reasoning Models to Ask for Information
Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated remarkable problem-solving abilities in mathematics, as evaluated by existing benchmarks exclusively on well-defined problems. However, such evaluation setup constitutes a critical gap, since a genuine intelligent agent should not only solve problems (as a math quiz solver), but also be able~to ask for information when the problems lack sufficient information, enabling proactivity in responding users' requests. To bridge such gap, we proposes a ne…

I guess Jackass Vance will just need to visit Sacramento to ask his question, won't he?
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rqbk4btknyamgpgfxzkwfgqr/post/3ls34otjcuc27

Google setzt die KI-gestützte Suchfunktion "Ask Photos" vorerst aus
Mithilfe Geminis werden Nutzer die Fotos-App von Google durchsuchen können. Doch es gibt Probleme mit dieser Funktion. Google will in zwei Wochen nachbessern.

“How to avoid that your post about AI helps the hype”
https://hidde.blog/ai-hype/
Largely agree. I’m careful about the words I use on when I talk / post about it. I avoid terms that anthropomorphize, imply agency, reasoning, etc. I ask people to clarify *which* technology when they say “AI” (…

Signs that your post about AI helps the hype
If we're not cautious, we may accidentally feed the AI hype by talking about it in specific ways.

Binary Tree Option Pricing Under Market Microstructure Effects: A Random Forest Approach
Akash Deep, Chris Monico, W. Brent Lindquist, Svetlozar T. Rachev, Frank J. Fabozzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16701

Binary Tree Option Pricing Under Market Microstructure Effects: A Random Forest Approach
We propose a machine learning-based extension of the classical binomial option pricing model that incorporates key market microstructure effects. Traditional models assume frictionless markets, overlooking empirical features such as bid-ask spreads, discrete price movements, and serial return correlations. Our framework augments the binomial tree with path-dependent transition probabilities estimated via Random Forest classifiers trained on high-frequency market data. This approach preserves no…

Graphs With the Same Edge Count in Each Neighborhood
Nathan S. Sheffield, Zoe Xi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14473 https://arxiv.org/p…

Graphs With the Same Edge Count in Each Neighborhood
In a recent paper, Caro, Lauri, Mifsud, Yuster, and Zarb ask which parameters $r$ and $c$ admit the existence of an $r$-regular graph such that the neighborhood of each vertex induces exactly $c$ edges. They show that every $r$ with $c$ satisfying $0\leq c\leq {r\choose 2}-5r^{3/2}$ is achievable, but no $r$ with $c$ satisfying ${r\choose 2}-\lfloor\frac{r}{3}\rfloor\leq c\leq {r\choose 2}-1$ is. We strengthen the bound in their nonexistence result from ${r\choose 2}-\lfloor\frac{r}{3}\rfloor$ …

Retired firefighter friend on vacation at Topaz Lake, about 5 miles south of the #ConnerFire is safe. He's sent several photos of the smoke, but I didn't ask permission to post here so I won't.
His feeling was pretty strong that had it been in California, they would have beat it down overnight with helicopters. There wasn't much to this fire at the time.
Just have…

My #trans friends are hurting and in pain. Whenever someone comes to me that way, I ask them to also share some joy. For those of you who would like, please share some #trans #joy here. Let’s lift each other up…

I live in one of the rougher parts of a lovely town. I’m proud to live in this town, county and country, but when locals ask me which part of town I live in I feel a bit embarrassed. The class system is alive and well in the UK. I worry that this makes me a pathetic snob, but it’s how I feel.

Panthers extend Moton; Vikes ask about Thielen https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46049691/panthers-extend-taylor-moton-vikings-inquire-adam-thielen

The arts and education — when they are at their best, anyway — have in common this deep root: they ask us to see and to think and to feel, to see with fresh eyes, to be aware of our own seeing, to be •active• in our seeing.
In that way, both the arts and education are antidotes to the AI hype cycle, and similar endeavors of capitalism run amok.
2/

Now the unidentified secret police (the Miller-Noem - the "Millnos"?) are threatening to arrest people who ask them who they are...
"Ice’s ‘inhumane’ arrest of well-known vineyard manager shakes Oregon wine industry"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-new…

Deformations of Standard Locally Homogeneous Spaces
Kazuki Kannaka, Toshiyuki Kobayashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14832 https://arxi…

Deformations of Standard Locally Homogeneous Spaces
Let $X=G/H$ be a homogeneous space, where $G \supset H$ are reductive Lie groups. We ask: in the setting where $Γ\backslash G/H$ is a standard quotient, to what extent can the discrete subgroup $Γ$ be deformed while preserving the proper discontinuity of the $Γ$-action on $X$? We provide several classification results, including: conditions under which local rigidity holds for compact standard quotients $Γ\backslash X$; criteria for when a standard quotient can be deformed into a nonstand…

I mean sure, "AI" might make that somehow easier to pull off, but "politicians holding signs that could be manipulated" has been the source of hilarity since Photoshop v1 released.
And every generation of politicians and political campaign managers seems to have to re-learn this lesson. 😅
«Swedish Prime Minister Pulls AI Campaign Tool After It Was Used to Ask Hitler for Support»
https://www.404media.co/swedish-prime-minister-pulls-ai-campaign-tool-after-it-was-used-to-ask-hitler-for-support/

Trump is running foreign policy in a completely unhinged way. Iran will like this i guess.
#Iran #Israel #Trump #geopolitics

Real Footage Combined With a AI Slop About DC Is Creating a Disinformation Mess on TikTok https://www.404media.co/real-footage-combined-with-a-ai-slop-about-dc-is-creating-a-disinformation-mess-on-tiktok/

"There will be no 2020’s themed retro pizza place with an AI generated movie on the bar top. This will all be dust, and no one will recall how the dust was once the idea of a body.
...
We have a shiny toy that can create anything we ask of it, but none of it has enough context to hold a soul and without one, all of it becomes nothing. Skin without muscles pulled over bones built of sand."
Nostalgia, culture, AI - thoughts by Nico Stratis

Fix The Tracking
We can never ask AI to generate the past we want to hold onto, or the perfect world we believe was promised to us and I guess for some it is easier to hope that someday a computer will make this world perfect for you than to accept that real perfect will always be broken

#nokingss

this joke ⬇️
https://wetdry.world/@kopper/114694348090220778

One of the most worrying things I find about LLMs at the moment is how normalised it's becoming to just chat to it like a friend or confidant and even so far as to ask it for therapy. I don't mean amongst tech bros and nerds, I mean amongst normal people.
It just seems so reckless. Aside from the problem of hallucinations, these things are built to have an agenda. No sane person should ever ever ever ask Zuckerberg, Musk or Altman for a mental health vibe check

Updated my Fediverse profile page, so it references more background stories rather than just referencing the apps we currently build.
Of course, given space constraints most of those story references are very brief allusions. But they might still serve as useful launch points for conversation! If anything there piques your interest and you're curious to learn more, feel free to ask me about them.

Ask TUI to Stop Supporting Orca Abuse #AnimalRights

Please ask TUI UK to stop supporting orca abuse
TUI UK continues to sell tickets to SeaWorld, despite being fully aware of the company's cruel treatment of animals for profit.

For the longest time, the c.im server didn't even accept or ask for donations, but I just got the notification that they are now, and I immediately donated. This place is too great.

A late addition to stroke awareness month (May).
From my article: #health #stroke

Agentic AI promises a swift revolution for cybersecurity defenders, with one expert calling it a "Cambrian explosion" and another likening it to "the fastest train ever made."
But it's a technology still in its infancy, and other experts caution CISOs to take it slow until the kinks can be worked out.
Check out my latest CSO piece on agentic AI for more details. Thanks to Jimmy Mesta of RAD Security, Andres Riancho and Hillai Ben-Sasson of Wiz, Ben Seri of…

Agentic AI promises a cybersecurity revolution — with asterisks
Experts say agentic AI will rapidly change cybersecurity, freeing up talent to focus on more dynamic work. But with AI agents still in their infancy, they also urge CISOs to ask a lot of questions before committing to this new security paradigm.

Time-optimal Asynchronous Minimal Vertex Covering by Myopic Robots
Saswata Jana, Subhajit Pramanick, Adri Bhattacharya, Partha Sarathi Mandal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14247 ht…

Time-optimal Asynchronous Minimal Vertex Covering by Myopic Robots
In a connected graph with an autonomous robot swarm with limited visibility, it is natural to ask whether the robots can be deployed to certain vertices satisfying a given property using only local knowledge. This paper affirmatively answers the question with a set of \emph{myopic} (finite visibility range) luminous robots with the aim of \emph{filling a minimal vertex cover} (MVC) of a given graph $G = (V, E)$. The graph has special vertices, called \emph{doors}, through which robots enter seq…

@… Remember we were talking about this a few days ago? "[The report] notes that 170 candidates received in total almost £2m more than they were legally allowed to spend locally during the [2024] election, raising questions about where the surplus funds went after the campaign. The donors who funded them are also tricky to identify, especially if the candid…

OPM: Trump’s hiring questions ‘mandatory’ for agencies to ask, but optional for candidates to answer
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/08/opm-trumps-hiring-questions-mandatory-for-agencies-to-ask-but-optional-for-candidates-to-answer/

Reporting like this without immediately undermining the notion of "anatomical sex" is very bad. The idea that "anatomical" or "biological" sex are meaningful terms (they are not, just ask any organization that has tried to use them as a sorting criterion) is explicitly anti-trans.
#quebec

I've been playing through "Haiku, the Robot" recently and seeing this message in the Catacombs got a good laugh out of me. No, Dylan, sadly it's not! 😅
#HaikuTheRobot #HollowKnight

If you ask me, Putin being allowed to step foot on American soil unharmed *was* the worst case scenario.
So you know. That happened.
https://social.ahlroos.me/@yle_bot/115037523314207089

"Were the No Kings protests the largest single-day demonstration in American history?"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/19/no-kings-how-many-protesters-attended?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Google pauses the rollout of Photos' AI-powered Ask Photos feature due to issues with latency, quality, and user experience, per a Google product manager on X (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/678858/google-photos-ask-…

Google quietly paused the rollout of its AI-powered ‘Ask Photos’ search feature
Google paused the rollout of “Ask Photos,” its Gemini AI-powered natural language search feature in Google Photos, citing problems with speed and quality.

Should ICE Agents Be Allowed to Wear Masks? It Depends Whom You Ask. (Alyce McFadden/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/us/politics/ice-agents-masks.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250720/p61#a250720p61

I don’t ask for this often, but if you’re in the US please contact your representatives and demand that this immediately gets revoked. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/gaza-children-visas-medical-care-laura-loomer

My grandmother would ask every person who lived in Germany (or occupied Poland) during 1939-1945 this assertive question:
"You knew what was happening [in the death camps]. What did you do about it?"
Well, here we are today, we know about the maga death camps such as the euphemistically named (and ambiguously operated) "Alligator Alcatraz" (aka "Alligator Auschwitz".)
When future grandmothers ask "You knew what was happening. What did yo…

My knee-jerk reaction to this article from @… was a cynical [citation needed] re “artists from all mediums emphatically support the use of AI.”
On further reflection…well, that’s still my response to the eyeball-grabbing lede, yes, but the actual article is what I wish we’d had instead of this inane hype avalanche:
Artists poking at the new thing, playing with it, finding its possibilities, critiquing it, problematizing it, asking us to ask what it is, helping us see it with fresh eyes from many angles. https://infosec.exchange/@adamshostack/114704865574139727

First Ask Then Answer: A Framework Design for AI Dialogue Based on Supplementary Questioning with Large Language Models
Chuanruo Fu, Yuncheng Du
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08308

First Ask Then Answer: A Framework Design for AI Dialogue Based on Supplementary Questioning with Large Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle to deliver accurate and actionable answers when user-provided information is incomplete or ill-specified. We propose a new interaction paradigm, First Ask Then Answer (FATA), in which, through prompt words, LLMs are guided to proactively generate multidimensional supplementary questions for users prior to response generation. Subsequently, by integrating user-provided supplementary information with the original query through sophisticated prompting te…

https://social.treehouse.systems/@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes/114876343841030910
https://ko-fi.com/anarchoninawrites

"A review of 700 body parts named after 432 people found 424 were male physicians. "
A woman's body is a man's world. Just ask an anatomist... | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26635470-100-a-womans-body-is-a-mans-world-just-ask-an-anatomist/?c=pidayemail&utm_source=nssub-

Cold Weather Charging of Lithium-Ion Batteries: Real-World Lessons from the Meshtastic Community
https://yycmesh.com/2025/04/19/cold-weather-charging-of-lithium-ion-batteries-real-world-lessons-from-th…

"Donald Trump Jr. tweeted in July 2023, "Show us all the Epstein client list now!!! Why would anyone protect those scum bags? Ask yourselves this question daily and the answer becomes very apparent!!"
Critics Bring Receipts As Don Jr Tries To Defend Dad Over WSJ Story | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/07/critics-bring-receipts-don-jr-tries-defend

What to Ask Next? Probing the Imaginative Reasoning of LLMs with TurtleSoup Puzzles
Mengtao Zhou, Sifan Wu, Huan Zhang, Qi Sima, Bang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10358 https:…

What to Ask Next? Probing the Imaginative Reasoning of LLMs with TurtleSoup Puzzles
We investigate the capacity of Large Language Models (LLMs) for imaginative reasoning--the proactive construction, testing, and revision of hypotheses in information-sparse environments. Existing benchmarks, often static or focused on social deduction, fail to capture the dynamic, exploratory nature of this reasoning process. To address this gap, we introduce a comprehensive research framework based on the classic "Turtle Soup" game, integrating a benchmark, an agent, and an evaluation protocol…

“Are we the baddies?” is not a question anyone in the West has to ask themselves. There’s no question about it. You were. You are. Will you continue to be? That’s the only question that matters and the answer is entirely up to you.
Silence is complicity.
Inaction is complicity.
Apologism is complicity.
Do something!
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End Israeli Apartheid (@EndIsraeliApartheid@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image More RAF jets are being sent to the Middle East, Keir Starmer has said after Iran threatened to target UK, French and US bases if the countries help stop strikes on Israel. Additional refuelling aircraft have been deployed from UK bases and more fast jets will be sent over, it is understood. The UK already has RAF jets in the Middle East as part of Operation Shader. https://www.thenational.scot/news/25239897.uk-jets-sent-middle-east-despite-calls-de-escalation/ 🕎 �…

Aaron Donald granted Jared Verse's request, puts him through an intense workout: 'Ask and you shall receive'

https://www.cbssports.com…

Democrats ask Bondi for Epstein files after Musk's Trump allegation (Filip Timotija/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5337155-democrats-ask-bondi-for-epstein-files-after-musks-trump-allegation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p123#a250606p123

Mike Macdonald: 'Crazy' to ask if Sam Darnold will be Seahawks starting QB https://www.nfl.com/news/mike-macdonald-crazy-to-ask-if-sam-darnold-will-be-seahawks-starting-qb

How to talk to random feds that come to your house to 'ask about a post'
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1467875107453902&rdid=IrMMzNpz9Oskz8n8

Submit questions for Richard Deitsch’s next Sports Media Mailbag https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6438142/2025/06/19/richard-deitsch-sports-media-mailbag-june-2025/

Four Democrat-Led States Ask FDA to Lift Restrictions on Abortion Pill
https://gizmodo.com/four-democrat-led-states-ask-fda-to-lift-restrictions-on-abortion-pill-2000612027

"She raged at chemtrails and water fluoridation at a town hall where she said she's sick of the media saying she's not "serious.""
Nancy Mace begs Donald Trump to put her name on a restroom: "I just want one ask!" - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/nancy-mace-begs-donald-to-put-her-name-on-a-restroom-i-just-want-one-ask/

EXCLUSIVE: Trump fans say brothers' El Salvador deportation 'not right' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/treat-you-like-animals-deported-brothers-ask-trump-for-help-with-ice-trauma/