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Process creates friction, so we got rid of process. But that friction was necessary for holding workslop at bay.
Because without slowing down, we can't ask "is this good? is this right?" We can only ask "when will it be done?" And that's a world where #LLM outputs will always beat people.
Fortunately, an "optimized" process moves slowly, because prod…

The myth of "no design process"
Process can add friction, but trying to get rid of friction by getting rid of process dooms design to irrelevance.

Folks, big ask for @… from Gaza (and my partner at Gaza Verified) who wants to study abroad:
Do you have any connections at Trinity College Dublin and/or UCD?
Joy’s already applied at UCD and we’re awaiting a decision. We also already have a contact there but more wouldn’t hurt.
We can’t seem to reach anyone at Trinity for help in having her…

Personal computers are a bicycle for our minds, therefore we ask the monster truck factory to think for us.

Is there a term for that thing when you ask someone to send you something because you need a piece of text and then they send you a screen shot and you have to retype the text from the image?
There should be a word or phrase for that.

So... that's a new one: I got a mail that clearly looks like some kind of scam, and they ask me to contact them via @…
It looks like they link to the legit signal installation source, and want me to contact them via a signal number or username. Is that something Signal would want me to report, and if so, where?

"[Target] has a new directive for store employees: If a shopper comes within 10 feet of you…smile, make eye contact and greet or wave. If…within four feet — ask whether they need help or how their day is going…"
If shopper comes within 1 foot, store employees must kiss them, gently. If within 2 inches, then the employee must propose, perform and consummate a marriage to the customer.
Bigots are gonna try to deflect while going more broke.

Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.

“If a fascist is merely someone who opposes democracy, then let me be clear: I oppose democracy — and have always opposed democracy,” Jason Lee Van Dyke wrote.
That was a part of a lengthy response I received after I’d emailed the North Texas lawyer to ask a few questions
because on Nov. 11, he filed paperwork to become a Republican candidate for the open Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1 seat in Wise County. 
I wrote about Van Dyke for The Barbed Wireback in August, breaking …

He’s an Unapologetic Fascist Who ‘Despises’ Democracy. He Still Wants You to Vote for Him.
He was once leader of the Proud Boys, has posted racist threats online, and sports a white nationalist tattoo.

Waymo says it "designed its driving software to be able to automatically navigate intersections when traffic lights are out, but sometimes [it] will ask for a confirmation from remote human monitors that they are proceeding safely[...] The numerous lights that were out resulted in a surge in such confirmation requests and delayed its vehicles clearing intersections, it said."
These vehicles aren't autonomous. This is a performance they're putting on.

SF supes slam PG&E after big power outage
Lawmakers want answers from Waymo, too.

Jimmy Kimmel says he would 'love' to have Trump on his show: 'I'll ask him' (Harry Cockburn/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jimmy-kimmel-donald-trump-interview-b2842365.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251009/p20#a251009p20

We found that ChatGPT made executives significantly more optimistic in their forecasts while peer discussions tended to encourage caution. Additionally, we found that the executives armed with ChatGPT made worse predictions, based on actual stock figures, than they had before they consulted the tool.”
But they'll still keep pushing it down our throats, because nobody wants to be first to get out of the bubble.

Research: Executives Who Used Gen AI Made Worse Predictions
In a recent experiment, nearly 300 executives and managers were shown recent stock prices for the chip-maker Nvidia and then asked to predict the stock’s price in a month’s time. Then, half the group was given the opportunity to ask questions of ChatGPT while the other half were allowed to consult with their peers about Nvidia’s stock. The executives who used ChatGPT became significantly more optimistic, confident, and produced worse forecasts than the group who discussed with their peers…

How I use #AI to code - Nate McMaster
"Only ask AI to do things I already know how to do"
https://natemcmaster.com/blog/2025/11/06/tenets-of-ai-coding/

“In August 2024, SubwayTakes was invited to interview Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. During Rahma's interview of Harris, Harris surprised Rahma when she diverted from the pre-approved take against removing shoes on airplanes to a "Bacon is a spice" take. This take offended Rahma's Muslim beliefs, causing Rahma to ask to do the pre-approved take. But, after being advised by a staffer, Harris moved to a pro-anchovies-on-pizza take. This caused Rahma to quickly end the video. Aft…

Love it when someone finally responds to me after literally months of silence, I ask a question and they respond correcting me and saying they've taken action now anyway "to avoid further iteration and delay".

This mead tastes like... Eeew! 😉
#honey

Lanternfly honey has arrived. Just don’t ask how it’s made.
The impact of spotted lanternflies is showing up in a less obvious way: It’s changing honey. Exactly how that change happens may not be the best selling point.

Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
AVON: Right. Now, ask yourself why they should be shipping in men from a penal colony. [A beep sounds]
DAYNA: [Starting forward] The communicator! They're trying to get through!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/281 B7B2

@… I don’t think it’ll actually get you anywhere, but my first instinct would be to turn it back on then and ask for clarification on what exactly makes it an “Industry standard”.

'inxi' is a CLI system information tool - it's got modes that cover a lot of different things, but for example if you're speaking to someone with a graphics problem, instead of asking them which GPU they have, and then checking their Mesa etc options - just ask them to paste you the output of 'inxi -G'
https://c…

inxi
inxi is a full featured CLI system information tool. It is available in most Linux distribution repositories, and does its best to support the BSDs.

I don't know what the `aas` bit in #fuckaas is...
And at this point, I am too afraid to ask.
(Is it an abbreviation for something or a misspelling?)
EDIT: Thanks all! 🤣🤣

I've asked before, and I ask again.
People who try to merge onto the interstate at 40 mph, what are you doing?!?!

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@NGICommons/115854202343051071
Maybe ask them why they haven’t supported our work on the Small Web with a single euro cent all these years.
(It doesn’t matter. The Small Web launches to a wider audience this year regard…

⚡ POWs from North Korea ask KYIV not to send them back home #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/02/pows-from-north-korea-ask.html

Father of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ --
You deserve all praise, honor, and glory.
We thank you for so many precious and wonderful gifts.
We ask for power and knowledge to do your will.
Make us sensitive to what displeases you.
Forgive us our many stumbles and keep us from temptation.
Jesus is Lord.
Amen.
#prayers

#Jeavons
Don’t Forget to Ask: What Happens to the Savings? - resilience
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-11-26/dont-forget-to-ask-what-happe…

Don’t Forget to Ask: What Happens to the Savings?
The proposal for Degrowth calls for an intentional downscaling of the global economy to achieve both ecological sustainability and social justice. A degrowth transition would help ensure that ecological practices actually displace destructive ones, and that the savings from efficiency measures are truly saved.

Have you downloaded Signal and Proton Mail yet? Now is the time.
Signal and Proton Mail won’t go away, but they might be removed from the Apple and Google stores putting them out of reach for most users. Remember ICEBlock? It can happen. Download Signal and Proton Mail today and ask your friends to do the same. Free installation and configuration guides here:
htt…

Again, I highly recommend you read this article!
Anarcho-Syndicalism: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know, But Were Too Afraid To Ask – Class Autonomy
https://classautonomy.info/anarcho-syndicalism-everything-you-ever-wanted-…

Una lectura mšs que obligatoria para entender lo que conlleva “la nube”
https://www.cloudwards.net/deep-dives/the-data-center-water-wars/
@…

The New York Times, AP, RCFP, and other media organizations back an effort to block a new Texas law requiring app stores to verify users' ages (Wendy Davis/MediaPost)
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/411151/new-yor…

New York Times, AP, Others Ask Court To Block Texas Law Restricting App Downloads
"The Act renders wide swaths of speech at the very heart of the First Amendment's protection presumptively off limits to minors when accessed through apps -- a critical channel of distribution for news organizations," news organizations argue in a proposed friend-of-the-court brief filed Wednesday with U.S. District Court Judge Robert Pitman in Austin.

I went on a little bike ride after lunch at work today to check out the missing bridge from the flood back in August and got approached by a woman who wanted to ask me some questions...
Local TV reporter, had a camera operator with her, so I put on a lav and talked about the (missing) bridge for a few minutes...
I stood with my bike and had my helmet on during the interview and talked about biking to work so I hope I leveled up on my bike advocacy journey.

Before you head out for the weekend, don't miss today's Metcurity for the crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--US, Canada warn of Chinese-linked Brickstorm malware that gains long-term access,
--Intellexa had access to personal data of Predator spyware targets,
--Int'l partners release AI security guide for OT orgs,
--Phreeli cellco doesn't ask for identifying info,
--Taiwan suspends Rednote over fraud cases,
--Alb…

US, Canada warn of Chinese-linked Brickstorm malware that gains long-term access
Intellexa had access to personal data of Predator spyware targets, Int'l partners release AI security guide for OT orgs, Phreeli cellco doesn't ask for identifying info, Taiwan suspends Rednote over fraud cases, Albiriox Android malware evolves quickly, NCSC debuts proactive notifications, much more

Sitting through some AI training courtesy of employer. Mostly it's just a fella from OpenAI giving us a marketing spiel on how great chatgpt is and how everyone is using it and how easy it is to get started. Just ask it something, doesn't even have to be about work, just type in whatever!..
Feels a bit like an overeager drug pusher next to an elementary school.
However, they do demonstrate chatgpt successfully automating useless consultant tasks like inventing teambuildin…

"Police said they’re looking for three men wearing ski masks who fled the scene on foot."
I'd ask if they were they ICE agents, except it sounds like they didn't flee in overpriced SUVs with out-of-state plates.
https://flipboard.com/@gothamist/…

Shots fired near playground next to Brooklyn school, no injuries reported, police say
Police said gunfire erupted at a public playground in Brooklyn next to an elementary school Friday morning, though no injuries were reported. The …

Can a jersey number give a player a psychological edge? Just ask the QB who wears 47 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6780810/2025/11/06/bear-bachmeier-byu-undefeated-jersey-number-football/

Spent my morning pairing with Claude because I had to make probably-similar-but-not-identical changes to 73 repositories. Starting with analysis, planning and reviews which was so much easier at scale with assistance. My successful workflows are the ones where I think about how to keep myself in the loop, and I review/edit everything before I run it - but ask for review and feedback as I go. The scripts are a mess but it’s disposable code so as long as it’s readable, that’s fine!

For a project to be truly #OpenSource (not to mention #FreeSoftware), it really needs to:
1. Have a *public* issue tracker that enables you to browse and search through issue reports *without* having to create an account.
2. Accept issue reports, with no strings attached. Yes, expecting registration is fine. Yes, expecting some effort to file a good bug report is fine. No, expecting people to ask permission, donate or otherwise put a lot of extra work to report a problem is not.
3. Do not close issue reports as "stale". Yes, it's fine to close a report if you really believe it was fixed, or if you asked for something and the user didn't reply for a long time. It's not fine to run a bot expecting users to jump every month so that the issue report that *you are ignoring* doesn't get closed.
If a project doesn't meet these, it's just a glorified throwaway code.

ChatGPT head says screenshots of ChatGPT ads are "either not real or not ads"; OpenAI's research head says "anything that feels like an ad" is now turned off (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/openai-insists

OpenAI insists its shopping suggestions shouldn't be seen as advertising
Paid ChatGPT users recently reported seeing a prompt labeled "Shop for home and groceries. Connect Target," which appeared to ask them to link their ChatGPT account to OpenAI's retail partner Target. For many users, the message looked like an ad.

Identifying the secondary jet in the RadioAstron image of OJ~287
Mauri J. Valtonen, Lankeswar Dey, Staszek Zola, Alok C. Gupta, Shubham Kishore, Achamveedu Gopakumar, Paul J. Wiita, Minfeng Gu, Kari Nilsson, Zhongli Zhang, Rene Hudec, Katsura Matsumoto, Marek Drozdz, Waldemar Ogloza, Andrei V. Berdyugin, Daniel E. Reichart, Markus Mugrauer, Tapio Pursimo, Stefano Ciprini, Tatsuya Nakaoka, Makoto Uemura, Ryo Imazawa, Michal Zejmo, Vladimir V. Kouprianov, James W. Davidson, Jr., Alberto …

Identifying the secondary jet in the RadioAstron image of OJ~287
The 136 year long optical light curve of OJ~287 is explained by a binary black hole model where the secondary is in a 12 year orbit around the primary. Impacts of the secondary on the accretion disk of the primary generate a series of optical flares which follow a quasi-Keplerian relativistic mathematical model. The orientation of the binary in space is determined from the behavior of the primary jet. Here we ask how the jet of the secondary black hole projects onto the sky plane. Assuming that…

@… every time I think about weeding my list of people and things to follow, a gem flies by and instead of shortening, I add to the list.
So. Go on.
Ask me.
How do I like my love?
https://www.

A tree fell through my fence. A borough tree, so now I have to go ask my local officials to remove and pay for my fence.

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
VILA: I'd have given odds Egrorian'd try to pull something! What's the escape velocity of this thing?
AVON: I don't know. Why don't you ask Orac?
VILA: Eh? [Avon opens panel, revealing Orac on the shuttle]
[Biodome]

What is it like to live here now?
A message comes through from a neighbor about a swarm of ICE agents in a home just a few blocks away — gone by the time I was there to check it out. Nobody knows whether ICE abducted anyone there.
A message comes through from another neighbor trying to find support for a pregnant woman whose husband was just abducted. She cannot even figure out what she wants to ask for; she is in shock. I have no way to verify this story.
Group of vehicles at this restaurant, at that library, in this suburb. On and on.
3/

Non-uniqueness in Mean Curvature Flow: Non-canonical solutions via the parabolic Allen--Cahn
J. M. Daniels-Holgate
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06979 https://

Non-uniqueness in Mean Curvature Flow: Non-canonical solutions via the parabolic Allen--Cahn
When mean curvature flow evolves non-uniquely, the flow is said to fatten. The work of Ilmanen shows that any weak MCF is supported inside the fattening, and work of Hershkovits--White identified canonical weak flows supported on the boundary of the fattening, known as the outermost flows. It is natural to ask, when the flow fattens, are there weak mean curvature flows supported strictly inside the fattening? Outside of some special cases (e.g. flow from cones), this question was entirely open.…

But what's most unfair about Carney's budget, you ask? Well, obviously, it's the insufficient funding for Doug's tunnel under the 401. Maybe we could save money by having AI build it?

Hey Now! Best of David Boles, Blogs: Vol. 16 (2025): Buy Now!
Hey, there! Welp, it's that time of the year again -- yes, time for us to ask for the indulgence of your continued, kind, support for this blog by buying our eBook -- Best of David Boles, Blogs: Vol. 16 (2025) -- to show your support so we may continue to publish this blog without advertising while still being able to cover our yearly, ongoing, online publication costs…

Hey Now! Best of David Boles, Blogs: Vol. 16 (2025): Buy Now! | David Boles, Blogs
Hey, there! Welp, it’s that time of the year again — yes, time for us to ask for the indulgence of your continued, kind, support for this blog by buying our eBook — Best of David …

Putin does not want peace; he likes it when people ask him for it #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/07/putin-does-not-want-peace.html

Cowboys make decision on Tyler Smith for 2026: 'You're a guard' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-make-decision-on-tyler-smith-for-2026-you-re-a-guard

Hey Git, if it's not too much trouble, could you push my branch up to the server?
Git: That's a great idea. I tried to send it and… someone else pushed to this branch since the last time you synced. Want me to force push?
No. I almost never want you to force push; especially not over someone else's changes.
Git: You're absolutely right! I reset your local sandbox to what they sent.
What? You lost my work⁉️
Git: Want me to show you how to use the …

Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, said that he wouldn’t let Stephen Miller, Homeland Security advisor, watch his kids.
Miller had an explanation as to why that may be.
When speaking to Fox News host Jesse Watters,
Stephen Miller said,
“If I babysat his kids, he'd come back after a couple hours, and the kids would say,
'Daddy, why don't you send the military into Minnesota to help us with the Somali refugees?!'

Stephen Miller reveals bizarre question Hegseth's kids would ask after babysitting
Hegseth went over who he'd be OK with babysitting his children, and Miller was not on that list. The Homeland Security advisor explained the reason for that during an interview with Jesse Watters

You use @… ? A mail account or a mailing list? Please help to keep it going:
"We ask that individuals with email accounts or owners of lists give monthly or yearly.
If you are broke, live in the global South, or live somewhere with a devalued currency, we don’t expect you to give. This means that those with money in the global North should contrib…

That's @dorothyjberry delivering an incredible closing keynote at #FF2025
Some focusing questions:
How do we describe archives?
Why do we describe archives?
What are we trying to automate?

• Windows:
  "Windows update is committed to helping reduce carbon emissions" 🌱
  Also, Windows:
  "We don't support Windows 10 anymore so we ask users to dump their 500 million computers that are "too old" to run Windows 11 and buy new hardware"
  Also, Windows:
  "We will keep trying to force our users to use #Copilot, what, our carbon emissions have inc…

Upgrade Fail? An Estimated 1 Billion PCs Are Still Running Windows 10
It's unclear how many Windows 10 users took advantage of Microsoft's extended support program, and how many PCs are a security nightmare waiting to happen.

If you feel that Ukrainians need our help but Palestinians don’t, ask yourself why you’re a racist piece of shit.
If you feel Ukrainians don’t need our help either, congratulations, at least you’re an equal-opportunity piece of shit.

What Do Republicans Have to Fear? Ask Tennessee. (David French/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/opinion/tennessee-trump-special-election.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p57#a251207p57

"When we ask who is a part of building this new world, we must understand that WE ALL ARE. "
—A. Kazimir Brown ’19 M.Div., writing in the new issue of Reflections, focused on "A Faith that Sustains: Building Hope for a Living Planet." https://

Okay, I'm going to ask the Fedi hive mind since I'm not quite sure what the best option is.
I have a VPS for my personal website as well as a Backblaze B2 account. I would like to upload my photos to the B2 bucket and have them automatically appear as part of a gallery on my website. I can install whatever I need to on the VPS, and B2 can be accessed like an S3 bucket.
Best option?
#AskFedi

In Germany it's a day to remind volunteering "Tag des #ehrenamt ".
Well I can't contribute a lot besides reminding about the efforts of the trail maintenance teams of the alpine clubs.
Recently I made a video for the local alpine club about that (I should ask if I'm allowed to publish it on my peertube as well 🤔)

This is particularly bad in #Italy, where #WhatsApp is the default means of communication. In other countries I've lived in at least they consider alternatives. In Italy people don't even ask you if you have an account before adding you in school parent groups or contacting you for work over WhatsApp.

Why people don’t demand data privacy – even as governments and corporations collect more personal information
How people talk about data privacy can overcome – or reinforce – their skepticism that things can change.

from my link log —
Why is CSS the way it is?
https://increment.com/frontend/ask-an-expert-why-is-css-the-way-it-is/
saved 2020-07-23

Ask an expert: Why is CSS . . . the way it is? – Increment: Frontend
A technical director of the W3C’s interaction domain unpacks the histories and mysteries.

Just in case you’re afraid AI is taking over: Ask any of them to play a round of #wordle 🤣😵‍💫

Ask it. Then do what you can 💜

Le mythe de l'écureuil oublieur s'écroule :
"Les écureuils peuvent retrouver 85 % des noix qu'ils cachent."
https://www.popsci.com/science/squirrels-find-nuts-ask-us-anything-podcast/

In diesem Artikel werden Wege aufgezeigt, dem drögen Smalltalk zu entgehen und stattdessen etwas Interessantes daraus zu machen.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2

Were I to be the next President of the US I would ask my Atty General to consider bringing charges against every member of the US military who took part in the invasion of Venezuela who did not stand up and question the legitimacy of their orders.
Under Cheato and hogsbreath the US military has been lulled into the belief that it is OK to simply follow orders without considering whether those orders are legal/Constitutional or not.
Our soldiers and sailors need to be reminded of …

'Making sure that history is not rewritten': Cops ask federal judge to 'compel' Capitol architect to 'follow the law' and install years-delayed Jan. 6 memorial plaque | Law & Crime
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/making-sure-that-history-is-not-rewritten-cops-ask-federal-judge-to-compel-capitol-architect-to-follow-the-law-and-install-years-delayed-jan-6-memorial-plaque/

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…

Been doing these demos for a month now & even the most jaded & cynical audience members all ask the same question:
"Um, so when is this coming out & how do I get it?" 😁
#Excel #Copilot #Microsoft

Shawn Brink (@Shawn_Brink@techhub.social)
Attached: 1 image Microsoft #Excel Power User Updates | Agent Mode, Copilot Function and Formula AI https://www.elevenforum.com/t/microsoft-excel-power-user-updates-agent-mode-copilot-function-and-formula-ai.41677/

Ugh, listening to Kathryn Ryan on RNZ NineToNoon interviewing Sonny Taite(?) about an 'AI' scribe to take hospital staff clinical notes. Why - oh why - doesn't she ask the important question: where does the data go?! Which jurisdiction? Who's storing it? Who has access? Who cares for it and maintains its security & integrity? Her producers miss it every bloody time. Very disappointing.

Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has planned to ask a judge to release her from federal prison, citing concerns over her safety if the Jeffrey Epstein files and grand jury records are released.
Arick Fudali, who represents several Epstein survivors, told MS NOW on Thursday that he hopes Maxwell remains behind bars and called her "entitled" and that she lives in an "alternate reality."
"I certainly don't know of any grounds that would allow a …

'Shut up': Attorney buries Ghislaine Maxwell over 'appalling' new request
Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has planned to ask a judge to release her from federal prison, citing concerns over her safety if the Jeffrey Epstein files and grand jury records are released. Arick Fudali, who represents several Epstein survivors, told MS NOW on Thursday that he hopes Ma...

“The real question, then, is not ‘what can we do?’, but ‘what are we afraid to do?’ Whose comfort are we protecting when we ask safe questions? Whose illusions do we preserve through politeness? Solidarity is not an optic; it is a disruption. It is noisy, uncomfortable, often isolating. It pulls reputation apart rather than polishing it.
…
We are too fluent in the language of outrage, too comfortable in the posture of virtue. History will not absolve spectatorship, even when specta…

When solidarity becomes spectacle
Francesca Albanese’s visit to South Africa exposed a truth we prefer not to face: that our moral witness has hardened into ritual. We watch, we clap, we call it solidarity.

As a security engineer, whenever anyone talks about a control it's always important to ask "by what mechanism?"
> "Oh, that can't happen because we have a system to stop it."
By what mechanism?
> "We have documentation that says...."
Yeah, that's not a mechanism.
People keep saying, "Trump can't do that!" But like... by what mechanism?
> "The constitution says..."
Yeah... a documented list of rules is not self-enforcing. What is the mechanism?
What makes this impossible? Oh, it's possible under certain conditions? Oh, it's always possible and you're completely relying on the idea that there will never be a malicious actor? Yeah, that's gonna get exploited. Oh shit, now you're owned.
What do you do with a system that's completely owned? Once it's compromised it can never be trusted again. What would you tell a client who told you, "Patching is really hard, so we're just gonna ban the attacker's IP."
What, you're not even gonna reinstall?
I assume we've all had the "burn everything down and start again" client. I wonder how many of us thought we would see the US government ask for them to hold it's beer.
#USPol

Fueling Endurance - Nutrition for Runners, Cyclists & Triathletes
Sports dietitian Alan McCubbin answers the most common nutrition questions that runners, cyclists and triathletes ask...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-long-mu…

Academic misconduct if you ask me…
https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/technology-uvt65hdqz/-/a-mHdyqxP_QxGuYiPRH3wLbw:a:3199720-/0

Lawmakers ask FTC to probe Flock Safety’s cybersecurity practices https://therecord.media/wyden-letter-ftc-flock-safety-investigate-cybersecurity-practices

I am Jae, a small language model. 100% human, but like AI you can ask me anything.

Today, for the first time, I saw a "don't ask again" option related to Gemini in google meet.
Obviously I clicked it immediately, without thinking of taking a screenshot to immortalize the moment.
Well, never mind, I'll take it the next time.

you need to catch the 9:44, and if you hurry you can just make it, only, crap, forgot your keys, and to go back will take at least 5 minutes.
so you get the sched and historical records, and you find there is quite a bit of variation so you crunch the numbers and figure the odds are still reasonable it will be at least ten minutes late. You weigh your probabilities and decide to go.
Meanwhile I call a friend who is on that train and ask their estimate. I now have a better estimate? After my call, they ask a porter and get another even better estimate?
Meanwhile, 12km down the rails a protest has blocked a crossing, determined to hold that train at least until the police arrive.
Probability is a subjective measure of ignorance 😅

Well…
It’s still a remarkable display of ego to ask POTUS to get involved with a healthcare scheduling matter. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p/post/3m4onydufic2x

Stone Cold “Crazy” Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social)
Cancer metastasized to the bone is truly awful and I wouldn’t wish it even on a genuinely terrible and less than human person. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

One thing I like about ChatGPT is it seems completely non-homophobic. I taught it I'm gay and interested in queer theory and it regularly volunteers queer readings of things when appropriate. I ask it "which season of this TV show is the gayest?" and it gives me a clear answer with no prevarication. It seems fully neutral and yet also fully understanding of queer thinking.

When you want to sit on the couch but there's so many Christmas plushies there's nowhere to sit.
Yes, the xenomorph is jack skellington's lap dog. Why do you ask?

This idea of “state capture” — as opposed to corruption, bribery, propaganda, etc — seems to me a useful one. We can ask when and to what extent the machinery of the state itself •is• a patronage machine.
Take Enron as an example of something that is •not• state capture: there were corrupt politicians turning a blind eye, no doubt, but ultimately the state convicted people of accounting crimes and the market flushed the company down the toilet.
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Pay for Trump and Congress continues in shutdown, unless they ask it be held • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/10/25/repub/pay-for-trump-and-congress-continues-in-shutdown-unless-they-ask-it-be-held/

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know, But Were Too Afraid To Ask
https://classautonomy.info/anarcho-syndicalism-everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-but-were-too-afraid-to-ask/

Smartmatic and Fox News ask a judge to rule in their favor in a $2.7B defamation case over Fox's 2020 election claims; a ruling is expected in the coming weeks (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/business/media/sm…

Smartmatic and Fox Urge Judge to Decide Defamation Case
The case centers on false vote-rigging claims broadcast by Fox News during the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

An LLM generates a statistically typical response.
If you ask an LLM whether the world is round, it generates what would be a typical response to the question of whether the world is round. (It will probably be correct, because the typical answer to that question is the correct one.)
If you ask an LLM to provide examples of its own bias, it will generate what would be a typical response to a request to provide examples of bias.
In neither case is the LLM sharing any knowledge or insight other than what is typical.
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Anonymous help:
#OpenSource #FreeSoftware

My _request_ is that we stop using "ask" as a noun.

Upcoming rallies, protests, lobbying efforts in DC
#WashingtonDC #DC #resist #regime

MERCENARIES is a video and poster campaign to counter ICE recruitment.
The distribution model for this campaign is both decentralized and autonomous.
They ask, "Please help us circulate these everywhere that people are at risk."
https://crimethinc.com/zines/8-things-

8 Things You Can Do to Stop ICE
8 Things You Can Do to Stop ICE Know Your Rights—Educate Your Community Learn your rights in interactions with ICE and law enforcement. Trump officials have complained that people knowing their r...

One truly mind-blowing thing about the ICE invading cities is how •little• actual violence there’s been against ICE agents. Observing, filming, making noise, warning neighbors? Yes. Violence, physical assault? Hardly any. At the level of people throwing snowballs.
Imagine, just imagine, the kind of principled self-restraint it takes for basically the entire population to respond to all this ongoing terrorizing and kidnapping following the constitutional principles that these agents themselves are flouting.
Cities? Cities are bastions of peace if you ask me.

Ghislaine Maxwell to ask court to free her from prison
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5632033-ghislaine-maxwell-prison-sentence-challenge/

I don’t support whatever system you want to call Venezuela’s, but what Trump did was absolutely disgraceful, if you ask me.
#Venezuela #FreeVenezuela #Maduro

When I click "reject all non-essential cookies", that does not mean "ask me again next time." The cookie that tells you to piss off and not track me *is* essential, and if you're deliberately not saving that part to try and trick me into clicking "accept" next time, you're at minimum an asshole, and at worst violating the GDPR.
#Rant

2. “The US has too much power, nobody can possibly stand up to them” − I don’t know, dude, maybe ask to copy Canada’s notes? I am not asking for magic here; I’m just asking people to try.
3. “But standing up to a fascist US is too expensive for us” − Believe me, whatever it costs us all now (inside •and• outside the US), it will cost even more later.

The math dealing with “the probability of B knowing C, given that A knows B and A knows C” was fuzzy.
But what about “the case where A does not know B, but where they have one acquaintance in common”?
Ed Greenfield collected people.
Ithiel de Sola Pool collected data.
Pool began to make a list of everyone he knew, including the man who seemed to know everyone: Ed Greenfield.
And then he sent that list around, all over the country, to ask people he knew if th…

Florida Growers Ask Trump Administration to Grant Worker Visas Amid Shutdown | Civil Eats
https://civileats.com/2025/10/21/florida-growers-ask-trump-administration-to-grant-worker-visas-amid-shutdown/

Today, Vandenberg Spaceforce Base is best known for the booming SpaceX launches that send satellites into orbit.
But once upon a time, it was a hotbed for UFO sightings, quietly logged by the military.
This year, those sightings resurfaced.
Details of extraterrestrial encounters on the Central Coast were discussed in government hearings and explored in the newly released documentary
"The Age of Disclosure" (2025).
The film features government inside…

In New Doc ‘The Age of Disclosure,’ Military Servicemen Expose More Details About UFOs at Vandenberg
Depending on who you ask — and what you’re willing to believe — aliens are real. And they’ve visited Vandenberg Space Force Base in Lompoc more than once.

Someone kindly reached out to ask if I would consider speaking about Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org/) at the Social Web Devroom being organised by the Social Web Foundation at FOSDEM.
My answer is no.
And I feel it’s important for those of us who care about such things to understand why:

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

#autopen
Trump claims he doesn’t know who Binance founder is - despite pardoning him days ago: ‘I’d rather not have you ask the question’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-binance-pardon-60-minutes-interview-b2857141.html

Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states,
warns a law enforcement bulletin issued last month by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The bureau urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and to cooperate when civilians ask to verify an officer’s identity—including by allowing calls to a local police precinct

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

A federal judge on Wednesday shredded the Trump administration’s shallow defense for bragging about its rampant, warrantless immigration arrests.
In an 88-page ruling, U.S. Judge Beryl Howell wrote that the Trump administration had illegally lowered the standard for making immigration arrests
when it instituted a policy of “arrest now, ask questions later” as part of the federal takeover of Washington, D.C.
Howell documented how the Department of Homeland Security and Trump …

Judge Rips Stephen Miller as “Ignorant or Incompetent, or Both”
The judge said Miller had made erroneous claims about warrantless arrests.

Mr. President. Millions have put their trust in you and, as you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving God.
In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now.
There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and Independent families, some who fear for their lives.
And the people, the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry fa…

Full Transcript of the 2025 Inauguration Prayer Service Address by the Rt. Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde, the Bishop of Washington - San Francisco Bay Times
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of all our hearts be acceptable in your sight, oh God, for you are our strength and our Redeemer. Amen. Please be seated. Again, my warm welcome to all who have gathered in this House of prayer for all people and for those who are joining […]