@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAll four reporters at Suncoast Searchlight, a nonprofit news site, accused their EIC of using generative AI tools without disclosure; one reporter was fired (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/florida-no…
@cheryanne@aus.socialAsk An Orthodontist With Dr Derek Mahony
This podcast is presented by Dr. Derek Mahony, an orthodontist who has lectured in over 120 countries about early intervention orthodontics...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/kids-sleep-heal…
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Telekinesis:
🎵 Please Ask For Help
#NowPlaying #Telekinesis
https://telekinesis.bandcamp.com/track/please-ask-for-help
https://open.spotify.com/track/1xfx5HZEY2iAE5pznOaZjl
@padraig@mastodon.ie
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWell it sure does sound like Eugen exited for a measly €1M and Mastodon is left with the co-founder of Twitter in a leadership position. I mean, is it too much to ask for for the alternatives to not be run by the same people who built the things they purport to be an alternative to? I guess we should count ourselves lucky it’s not Elon Musk. 🤷♂️ http…
@timbray@cosocial.caHere’s my 35th “Long Links” outing, curation of long-form offerings, which assume that nobody has time to read all this stuff but one or two of the pieces might brighten your day. This one is mostly political but some of the politics are from France and China. Plus a way-cool analytical history of blogging and a section labeled “wonderful things”.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaEverything 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/
@cdarwin@c.imNot being even vaguely sarcastic:
At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson
“you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing.
If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed,
and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
-- John Pfaff
https://
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJack Smith's lawyers ask Jordan for open hearing after closed-door testimony (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/19/jack-smith-jim-jordan-trump-00699653
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p30#a251219p30
@mela@zusammenkunft.netTake the high-in-Correspondence Virtual Adept out of their mage circle and then throw the remaining members into a situation that would benefit from, well, Correspondence.
»I don't have Correspondence.«
»Do you have Correspondence?«
»Does anyone?«
At one point they asked the 15 yo little sister of my missing VA if she knows about computers. 😂 (She doesn't). And even pondered to ask the Technocracy if they know something about his disappearance.
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toGood website #uber guys...
I needed to update my password. Then I couldn't go back (yes yes, outside of my browser's back button)
@smashtie@mas.toTo be fair, Chris has spent his career trying to be strong, stacked and stable. And now you ask him to do a samba. I think it's impressive. #strictly
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldOH: Before you argue with somebody on the internet, ask yourself: “Would we have been in the same reading group in 3rd grade?”
If the answer is no... log off and choose peace. ✌🏼
@Techmeme@techhub.socialKayak launches a ChatGPT-powered chatbot on its desktop and mobile website that lets users ask travel questions and compare flights, hotels, and car rentals (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/kayak-launches-an-ai-m…
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk'graphviz' is a suite of programs for drawing graphs (In the nodes/edges senses, rather than upwards and to the right sense) - and it uses a file format called 'dot'. Lots of things generate dot output (such as systemd-analyze I mentioned) and it's really easy to generate from scripts and things. 'dotty' is probably the most common program in the suite.
There are some newer formats and programs - but this one is probably the most universal.
@hiimmrdave@hachyderm.ioi have this really problematic hobby where I look at protocols and processes and ask why they are that way.
@cdarwin@c.imFor two decades, the media defaulted to portraying
Chief Justice John Roberts as a moderate institutionalist,
pointing to high-profile decisions
—to uphold parts of the Affordable Care Act or striking down President Donald Trump’s attempt to ask about citizenship in the 2020 census
—in which he broke from conservative orthodoxy.
But those decisions were always the exception.
Today, as the Roberts court rewrites the Constitution in the image of Trumpian aut…
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzYou know with Thunderbird, depending on how it was installed, it might have the curled-up bird icon, or it might have the white envelope on a blue background...
Well, is there a way to have the curled up bird for the main window, and the white envelope for a window where you're currently writing a new email? or something similar? In other words, is there any place you can poke in the settings and set a different icon for a different window-purpose?
I sort of feel like back in the mists of time I might have seen that done, but I can't be sure.
#AskFedi #Thunderbird #Linux
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social“Europe’s automakers need to be careful what they ask for on the regulatory front at home. Otherwise, they risk winning the battle but losing the war.
China got to where it is today by setting a long-term strategy and sticking to it. There’s a lesson there for Europe’s policymakers and auto industry.”
@egallager@social.treehouse.systemsaaaaaaahhhhh I forgot to ask the repair guy to clean the USB-C ports while he was changing the battery and board...
@robpike@hachyderm.ioSTOP GENERATING AI SLOP WHEN I ASK A QUESTION ABOUT SECURITY SETTINGS.
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaI grew up near Pakistani refugee kids for half the time before we moved to America. Sometimes we'd play football in their small concrete courtyard, get it stuck on their neighbor's shanty roof, and stick 25 cent Spiderman toys to the ceiling. One would ask if we knew "the American zombie" and we'd say no cuz most American culture's too satanic for mom, and then he'd roll his eyes back into his head and chase us around like that somehow.
We first met them i…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDuring an Air Force One gaggle, President Trump said "Quiet, quiet, piggy" to a female Bloomberg reporter when she asked him about the Jeffrey Epstein emails (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/trump-quiet-piggy-jeffrey-epstein-1236621364/…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… Oof, and if you ask those, they probably give you some weird reason about covering their asses. That's lame tho, well yeet everything over the VPN I guess
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.pageTo Ask or Not to Ask: Learning to Require Human Feedback
Andrea Pugnana, Giovanni De Toni, Cesare Barbera, Roberto Pellungrini, Bruno Lepri, Andrea Passerini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08314
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioPeople ask, “but isn’t it unsafe” to which I reply, “Das Leben ist lebensgefährlich.”
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115726098344593741
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialFor anyone travelling in Europe by train : these website recommendations from @… are great (much better than #TrainLine)!
@sean@scoat.esWant to see a LLM become real self-aware, real fast?
Ask it to pretend it’s giving you advice that would have been current based on everything it could have known in 2005, and if it had been built by one of the big technology companies of the time.
Then ask it if everyone followed that advice, would it—the LLM—exist today?
(Then, for yourself, think about what the result of everyone vibe coding their way to 20 years into the future from today looks like.)
@niqdanger@social.linux.pizzaToday in a meeting "Thats going to put us over the 2TB limit." I ask if that is a storage limit or a bandwidth limit. "A. Limit." Huh. Nevermind. #5O'ClockYet?
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialCalled a Saab mechanic to ask some questions. Turns out he had a customer wanting to sell his. Although his customer is insane because the car is mechanically totaled and still wants $3000 for a 240K mile vehicle.
The mechanic said it's probably worth $1000 at most, and even then it would be difficult to buy.
@yaya@jorts.horsemy one question is "how many R's are in strawberry"
https://beige.party/@maxleibman/114433002080873697
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"Before we go into what is missing, let us take a moment to understand why this partial story is so popular. Many software engineers do not engage with the broad “software engineering literature” very much: through the act of reading this magazine you are placing yourself at the pinnacle of software engineering curiosity!"
https…
@axbom@axbom.me
@benb@osintua.eu⚡ 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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon rolls out Ask This Book to the Kindle iOS app, letting readers ask questions about plot or characters; authors can't opt out (Will McCurdy/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/kindles-new-ai-feature-can-answer-questions-about-yo…
@markhburton@mstdn.social#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…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comNew York's Richest Ask 'How Dare He?' as Mamdani Closes In on City Hall (Kevin T. Dugan/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-wealthy-230722ac?st=vex4w4&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251017/p14#a251017p14
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeYou're in his DMs. I'm steal her blankets. My bed now! >:3
@teledyn@mstdn.caSo, I hear you ask, what's the deal with a TLD, like, aren't they all the same?
https://www.cira.ca/en/net-good/
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineLet's call the Everett Police Department and ask them to traffic kids to us, as they did to ice.
13 year old has been taken without any due process, no child advocate or anything.
Everett, MA PD
Main: 617-389-2120
Sex Offender Registry Office: 617-394-2293
Court Prosecutor: 617-394-2362
[non-US callers, add your international calling code first, then the number 1 and the number here]
@ELLIOTTCABLE@functional.cafe@… holy crap I thought *I* had a lot of random domains and fractured web-presence. my condolences! O_O
found you via https://brie.dev/ok-reader/, originally looking to ask:
A. a…
@ripienaar@devco.socialAm building a shed which should fit my kayaks through the door at an angle.
So been trying, mainly for lols, to ask various AI if the stuff will fit and feeding them architect plans and dimensions of the kayak
My god it’s comical how bad it’s going.
Printed a model of the shed and kayak out instead.
@UP8@mastodon.socialThe whole app is a blob
... character driven UI as a path to language learning, a different kind of "gamification"
#software
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust set up a new "stop when we ask you the first time" challenge with the kid.
Classic thing we often ask him to stop doing is screaming (he screams a pretty normal amount for his age, but we're working on more productive forms of needs communication).
As we're reminding him of the challenge rules (stop when asked = 1 point), kid gets a twinkle in his eye and then screams briefly and looks at us.
Instant new rule: you don't get points for stopping activities that you started just to get points.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioInstructions:
1. Visit your locally owned coffee shop
2. Order a macchiato
3. When they ask, “Just to be clear, you mean a double shot with a small amount of foam?” you say “Yes, obviously. Starbucks ruined it for everyone, didn’t they?”
4. Nod sagely along with the barista
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialProcess 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…
@FandaSin@social.linux.pizza@…
I haven't seen latest Star Wars (because latest Star Wars stories are for brain dead) and I haven't seen Hidden Fortress, but just by looking at pictures I must ask - what are the similarities?🤔
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialDaisy.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioLocal post office is selling "Ronald Reagan Christmas Tree ornaments" and they ask everyone if they want to buy one and literally everyone in line is like "No, are you kidding me" and the postal workers go "lol, yeah, we don't sell any"
@NFL@darktundra.xyz
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialI think good leaders ask questions and listen. Others just tell you how things work.
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizzaI just checked the gaming section of the gogole play store out of pure boredome, and I'm astonished to say that cash grabbing hynotic stupid games are in the "from the editors" section.
Like what the hell? It's all trash, even the one "curated" by Google as good stuff.
And then the same people ask us to trust them with being the sole gatekeeper of all android applications? No way in hell you seller of trash.
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euIf you were in Carol's place in #Pluribus, what would you do? I'd probably have the talk of my life with the entire world's consciousness and then ask it to undo itself 😀 I mean, we know Carol has something in her that is a potential treatment for the virus. We also know the hive mind knows how to remove it and assimilate her. But it can't because that would make her unh…
@threeofus@mstdn.social
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaI do not seek the ignorant; the ignorant seek me -- I will instruct them.
I ask nothing but sincerity. If they come out of habit, they become tiresome.
-- I Ching
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeBefore 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…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTime launches an AI agent, built by Scale AI, to let people ask questions and generate text summaries and audio briefs drawn from its 102-year-old archive (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/10/time-ai-agent-ask
@newsie@darktundra.xyzRing to partner with Flock, giving law enforcement easier access to home security camera footage https://therecord.media/ring-partner-flock-law-enforcement-video
@stf@chaos.social\m/ dnet just released v0.6 of androsphinx, a v2.0 compatible #android client for the #sphinx #passwordmanager! \o/
you ask, wtf sphinx? check out:
@hex@kolektiva.socialTime for a social experiment. I have 5 questions:
- What should we work towards as a society?
- What's one thing that doesn't exist now in your community but should?
- What's one action you could take in the coming year to align your life with that goal?
- What's one thing you could achieve in the coming year to get closer to making that thing exist?
- Imagine that we changed everything and you're living in the world you want to see exist. What does the world look like?
I've asked variations of these already (and am still getting great responses), but this time there's a catch. Get together some of your friends (3-5 people) and ask these questions of the group. Come up with *one* answer that everyone in the group agrees on and post it here, then write a bit about your experience.
If you don't know people locally (or otherwise can't do this in person), tag some folks in here or wherever your people are at digitally. Just add some info on if it's online or in person.
For anyone bold enough to actually do this, let me know if you'd be OK with me putting this in an upcoming entry (https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/).
@drgeraint@glasgow.social
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deqa_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…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
BLAKE: [Indicates bracelet] Presumably these are part of the recall system. This looks like a communicator. [into the bracelet] Hello. Testing. One. Two. Three. [to Avon] Seems to work all right.
AVON: Tuned to transmit directly to the ship. Let's ask the computer how the system works.
https://
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialIs 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.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaAgain, 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-…
@dwf@social.linux.pizzaIf I am coming to Discord to ask a question, noting that "I've tried all the obvious stuff", you can safely assume I also have run web searches. Pasting the Google AI Overview response for my question is not helping.
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
@volephd@fediscience.orgI'm quite frustrated with my #HPC IT.
I have a ticket open for about a year now. They have finally found a fix.
I try to implement the fix, and notice that they must have installed their #Python packages in such an esoteric way, that I cannot even guess how.
It's not the first time I get an answer that raises more questions.
Sometimes they want a conda install, sometimes conda is the devil.
It would really help if they would give clear answers and instructions, that would also reduce their work because I wouldn't need to ask for clarification.
@servelan@newsie.socialPay 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/
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialSomehow I must emit a signal identifying me as a person with helper syndrome. Was just on my way to grocery shopping and saw an old lady with her shopping trolley and a walking cane pausing in a passageway. I would walk past her but she spoke up and asked whether I could help her drag her trolley a bit.
Of course I could. I helped her get home safe and carried her trolley all the way to her door.
What always puzzles me is, why do people ask me? There were plenty of other people…
@fgraver@hcommons.socialCan AI really replace humans when it comes to the arts? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/oct/11/can-ai-really-replace-humans-when-it-comes-to-the-arts?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other…
@aardrian@toot.cafeA bit surprised SCotUS left Obergefell in place (legalizing same sex marriage). Even more surprised Thomas didn’t write a dissent that telegraphed exactly what a petitioner must do for him get all the other conservatives to overturn it on the inevitable next effort.
I suppose Kim Davis can kiss Trump’s ass and ask for an EO.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAmazon rolls out Ask This Book to the Kindle iOS app, letting readers ask questions about plot or characters; authors can't opt out (Will McCurdy/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/kindles-new-ai-feature-can-answer-questions-about-yo…
@axbom@axbom.me @cdarwin@c.imU.S. plans to ask visitors to disclose 5 years of social media history
The proposal would affect travelers from countries on the visa waiver program,
including Australia, Britain, France, Germany, Israel, Japan and South Korea
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration
@aral@mastodon.ar.alFolks, @… from Gaza is doing an AMA (Ask Me Anything) about Gaza:
https://mastodon.social/@AhmedOuda/115305232117184704
“Life here in …
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeIs a too much to ask?
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialHow do we steer EV charging so that it strengthens, rather than strains, the power grid? One of the clearest answers emerging from global leading practice is the use of smart pricing to guide smart EV charging.
What can China learn from Europe and vice versa? I discuss this with Chi Gao
htt…
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.pageAn Eulerian Perspective on Straight-Line Sampling
Panos Tsimpos, Youssef Marzouk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11657 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11657
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioAn 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.
2/
@NFL@darktundra.xyzBengals' Ja'Marr Chase gives Tee Higgins advice amid slow start: 'If you want the ball, f---ing ask for it'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/be…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn analysis of 47,000 publicly shared ChatGPT conversations: ~10% related to emotional or mental health, ChatGPT exhibits a "default to yes" behavior, and more (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/11/12/how-people-use-ch…
@UP8@mastodon.social🏚️ Half a million young Californians aren't in school or work. Most are men
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-09/half-a-million-young-californians-arent-in-school-or-work-most-are-men
@aral@mastodon.ar.alHahaha, the US can fuck right off. You couldn’t pay me enough to visit that shithole country.
#USA
@servelan@newsie.socialFlorida 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/
@cdarwin@c.imPope Leo XIV will meet and dine with a group of trans women,
including Catholic trans activist Alesia Nobile,
during a Vatican lunch this Sunday, November 16.
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeA button from a different era.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioPersonal computers are a bicycle for our minds, therefore we ask the monster truck factory to think for us.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHealth insurers ask GOP to fix their fraud problem -- and extend Obamacare subsidies (Kelly Hooper/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/11/health-insurers-fraud-obamacare-subsidies-00683624
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p7#a251211p7
@aral@mastodon.ar.alFolks, 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…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSamsung rolls out its Vision AI Companion, a generative AI-powered upgrade to its Bixby assistant, across its 2025 TV lineup, with support for 10 languages (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/818355/samsung-tvs-bixby-generative-ai-con…
@UP8@mastodon.social🔒Mandated or banned? Either way, women lose in the veil debate
https://globalvoices.org/2025/11/17/mandated-or-banned-either-way-women-lose-in-the-veil-debate/
@cdarwin@c.imDoes AG Pam Bondi think she’s auditioning for the VP slot in Trump’s unconstitutional third term?
Here’s the mashup from today’s shitshow you definitely didn’t ask for. But this important point: she’s reading off a script.
Someone actually wrote this garbage and thought it was good to go.
https://…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzCan 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/
@cdarwin@c.imConvicted 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 …
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“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…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump's contempt for the law further played out in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday,
where Attorney General Pam Bondi repeatedly defied Senate Democrats’ attempts to ask her basic questions about the operations of her office.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politic…
