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@catsalad@infosec.exchange
2025-10-14 22:00:39

You're in his DMs. I'm steal her blankets. My bed now! >:3

Photo of a very fluffy kitty, peeking out from underneath some blankets on a bed. Who's bed you ask? Kitty's bed. Everywhere the beans touch is owned by kitty.
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-10-14 23:58:44

Let'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]

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-11-13 23:52:13

Instructions:
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

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-09-13 20:09:25

Jerry Jones Approached Jets About Micah Parsons Trade With Hefty Ask si.com/nfl/jerry-jones-approac

Jerry Jones Approached Jets About Micah Parsons Trade With Hefty Ask
Jones was seeking an All-Pro defender from the Jets.

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-11-14 23:15:32

Pope 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.
them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lun

Pope Leo XIV Will Have Lunch With 4 Trans Women in "Unprecedented" Meeting
“I hope this [lunch] will be an opportunity to speak to him and ask him not to backtrack on rights," Alesia Nobile said.

@axbom@axbom.me
2025-10-14 20:04:32
@… I realised that's perhaps not something you want to disclose. Best of luck though and you're always welcome to ask me anything. 😊
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-10 19:40:43

Time 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)
axios.com/2025/11/10/time-ai-a

Exclusive: Time launches new AI agent
The agent is trained on the publisher's 102-year-old archive.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-08-15 00:26:08

Trump reportedly called Norwegian minister 'out of the blue' to ask about Nobel prize (Maya Yang/The Guardian)
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a
memeorandum.com/250814/p129#a2

@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-10 11:06:59

To Ask or Not to Ask: Learning to Require Human Feedback
Andrea Pugnana, Giovanni De Toni, Cesare Barbera, Roberto Pellungrini, Bruno Lepri, Andrea Passerini
arxiv.org/abs/2510.08314

To Ask or Not to Ask: Learning to Require Human Feedback
Developing decision-support systems that complement human performance in classification tasks remains an open challenge. A popular approach, Learning to Defer (LtD), allows a Machine Learning (ML) model to pass difficult cases to a human expert. However, LtD treats humans and ML models as mutually exclusive decision-makers, restricting the expert contribution to mere predictions. To address this limitation, we propose Learning to Ask (LtA), a new framework that handles both when and how to inco…

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2025-10-14 19:43:25

Daisy.

Singles ad. The following ad appeared in the Atlanta Journal. SINGLE BLACK FEMALE seeks male companionship. Ethnicity not important. I’m a very good looking girl who LOVES to play. I love long walks in the woods, riding in your pickup truck, hunting, camping, and fishing trips, cozy winter nights lying by the fire. Candlelight dinners will have me eating out of your hand. When you get home from work I’ll be at the front door wearing only what nature gave me. Call (404) 555 1212 and ask for Dais…
@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-09-14 01:36:24

Many mainstream media reporters no longer seem to have the morality or incentive to check sources, verify stories or offer retractions when they screw up.
For reporters in nearly every field, Clicks & Scoop > Accuracy & Ethics
😢
From: @…

Trevor Flowers (@trevorflowers@machines.social)
A fun new game: 0) notice a big story unfolding 1) write down each spicy revelation and its source 2) don't repeat them (hard, I know) 3) wait seven days (even harder) 4) check several reliable sources for their most recent coverage 5) for each revelation that turned out to be barely true or straight BS, blacklist that source as unreliable 6) if that's all or most of the revelations then sit by a large body of water and ask yourself what the sources had to gain 7) goto 0

@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu
2025-11-14 21:12:36

If 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…

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-11-13 12:00:08

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…

qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016). 24818 nodes, 506550 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/qa_user#mathoverflow_all

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, and (iv) the union of these three types.

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2025-09-12 20:59:36

If Kirk had a say, he'd probably ask for an AR-15 to lie in state at the Capitol.

@stf@chaos.social
2025-10-14 12:33:25

\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:

@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-13 11:20:02

That patch to "detect fascism" is a nice piece of satire, but I think it has a bit too much of a broad audience and therefore I think it is not really good.
I therefore I have a proposal for a better utility that does not label projects or people, and instead tackles the problem at the root: a questionaire at boot. During the boot process it will ask you if you support queer rights, if you support trans rights, if you think white people are getting replaced or if you think pe…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-12 12:36:00

An 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)
washingtonpost.com/technology/

We analyzed 47,000 ChatGPT conversations. Here’s what people really use it for.
What do people ask the popular chatbot? We analyzed thousands of chats to identify common topics discussed by users and patterns in ChatGPT’s responses.

@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-13 09:45:50

A one-world interpretation of quantum mechanics
Isaac Layton, Jonathan Oppenheim, Zachary Weller-Davies
arxiv.org/abs/2510.09149 arxiv.org/…

A one-world interpretation of quantum mechanics
The measurement problem is the issue of explaining how the objective classical world emerges from a quantum one. Here we take a different approach. We assume that there is an objective classical system, and then ask that the standard rules of probability theory apply to it when it interacts with a quantum system. Under mild assumptions, we recover the unitary dynamics, collapse and Born rule postulates from quantum theory. Nonetheless, there is no decoherence, because the quantum state remains …

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-09-09 12:26:46

If anyone can get the most out of Daniel Jones with the Colts, it's Shane Steichen. Just ask Jalen Hurts.

cbssports.com/nfl/news/if-anyo

If anyone can get the most out of Daniel Jones with the Colts, it's Shane Steichen. Just ask Jalen Hurts.
Jones is in the best situation of his NFL career

@arXiv_statME_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-13 07:59:40

A Design-based Solution for Causal Inference with Text: Can a Language Model Be Too Large?
Graham Tierney, Srikar Katta, Christopher Bail, Sunshine Hillygus, Alexander Volfovsky
arxiv.org/abs/2510.08758

A Design-based Solution for Causal Inference with Text: Can a Language Model Be Too Large?
Many social science questions ask how linguistic properties causally affect an audience's attitudes and behaviors. Because text properties are often interlinked (e.g., angry reviews use profane language), we must control for possible latent confounding to isolate causal effects. Recent literature proposes adapting large language models (LLMs) to learn latent representations of text that successfully predict both treatment and the outcome. However, because the treatment is a component of the tex…

@arXiv_csIR_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-14 11:39:48

Characterizing Web Search in The Age of Generative AI
Elisabeth Kirsten, Jost Grosse Perdekamp, Mihir Upadhyay, Krishna P. Gummadi, Muhammad Bilal Zafar
arxiv.org/abs/2510.11560

Characterizing Web Search in The Age of Generative AI
The advent of LLMs has given rise to a new type of web search: Generative search, where LLMs retrieve web pages related to a query and generate a single, coherent text as a response. This output modality stands in stark contrast to traditional web search, where results are returned as a ranked list of independent web pages. In this paper, we ask: Along what dimensions do generative search outputs differ from traditional web search? We compare Google, a traditional web search engine, with four g…

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-11-02 20:46:15

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

Tracking information about the Russian War against Ukraine — Support the OSINT Ukraine Archive the 🇷🇺 War against Ukraine 🇺🇦
Tracking information about the Russian War against Ukraine

@fortune@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-12 03:00:02

I 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

@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-14 13:40:58

An Eulerian Perspective on Straight-Line Sampling
Panos Tsimpos, Youssef Marzouk
arxiv.org/abs/2510.11657 arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11657

An Eulerian Perspective on Straight-Line Sampling
We study dynamic measure transport for generative modeling: specifically, flows induced by stochastic processes that bridge a specified source and target distribution. The conditional expectation of the process' velocity defines an ODE whose flow map achieves the desired transport. We ask \emph{which processes produce straight-line flows} -- i.e., flows whose pointwise acceleration vanishes and thus are exactly integrable with a first-order method? We provide a concise PDE characterization of s…

@arXiv_physicsedph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-13 08:26:50

Exploring Teachers' Perceptions of ChatGPT Through Prompt Engineering
Dimitrios Gousopoulos
arxiv.org/abs/2510.08634 arxiv.org/pdf/2510…

Exploring Teachers' Perceptions of ChatGPT Through Prompt Engineering
Artificial Intelligence and especially Large Language Models (LLM), such as ChatGPT has revolutionized the way educators work. The results we get from LLMs depend on how we ask them to help us. The process and the technique behind an effective input is called prompt engineering. The aim of this study is to investigate whether science educators in secondary education improve their attitude toward ChatGPT as a learning assistant after appropriate training in prompt engineering. The results of the…

@fgraver@hcommons.social
2025-10-11 20:34:10

Can AI really replace humans when it comes to the arts? theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Can AI really replace humans when it comes to the arts?
It depends who you ask

@jkmartindale@mastodon.social
2025-09-13 00:07:55

having to explain to a customer support rep what mail is was NOT on my 2025 bingo card 😭

Delta support chat window. Marilan: You're most welcome! May I ask what email you have been receiving? Me: I've been getting physical mail for [name censored], who hasn't lived here for years Marilan: Can you please clarify what you mean by physical mail?
@arXiv_econGN_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-14 08:25:28

Harvests and Hooky in the Hills: Crop Yield Variability and Gendered School Enrollment in Rwanda
Maxwell Fogler
arxiv.org/abs/2510.10780 ar…

Harvests and Hooky in the Hills: Crop Yield Variability and Gendered School Enrollment in Rwanda
This paper investigates the trade-off that households in agrarian economies face between immediate production needs and long-term human capital investment. We ask how exogenous agricultural productivity shocks affect primary and secondary school enrollment in Rwanda, a country characterized by a heavy reliance on rain-fed agriculture alongside ambitious development goals. Using a district-level panel dataset for the years 2010-2021, we employ a two-stage least squares (2SLS) instrumental variab…

@paulwermer@sfba.social
2025-09-11 18:55:55

If you're a Californian, please contact your senator and ask him to vote yes on AB 1264 to remove ultra-processed "food" from school lunches. These products have many adverse health impacts.
This link makes it easy to write your senator: action…

California: Tell Your State Senator to Get Dangerous, Ultra-Processed Food Out of School Lunches
This bill has already passed the Senate Health Committee unanimously, but manufacturers are pushing back hard against this bill, and the Senate will be voting soon to decide its fate.

@arXiv_eessAS_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-13 09:01:50

Unsupervised lexicon learning from speech is limited by representations rather than clustering
Danel Adendorff, Simon Malan, Herman Kamper
arxiv.org/abs/2510.09225

Unsupervised lexicon learning from speech is limited by representations rather than clustering
Zero-resource word segmentation and clustering systems aim to tokenise speech into word-like units without access to text labels. Despite progress, the induced lexicons are still far from perfect. In an idealised setting with gold word boundaries, we ask whether performance is limited by the representation of word segments, or by the clustering methods that group them into word-like types. We combine a range of self-supervised speech features (continuous/discrete, frame/word-level) with differe…

@mlawton@mstdn.social
2025-11-11 20:55:31

Everything hinges on the subjective interpretation of condition #4: "Making an obvious action which CLEARLY IMPACTS ON THE ABILITY OF AN OPPONENT TO PLAY THE BALL"
Webb: "Only Donnarumma truly knows if he was impacted by this and we have to look at the factual evidence."
I'm screaming at Owen to ask, "if only he knows, what evidence do you see that he is clearly impacted?"
If none, the condition isn't met and thus the on-field decision …

@ruario@vivaldi.net
2025-11-10 07:17:18

@… Reminds me of the classic poll.
Does Microsoft understand consent?
• Yes
• Ask me later

@arXiv_hepth_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-12 09:04:39

Massive Spinning Fields During Inflation: Feynman rules and correlator comparison
Trevor Cheung, David Stefanyszyn
arxiv.org/abs/2509.08888

Massive Spinning Fields During Inflation: Feynman rules and correlator comparison
We consider the dynamics of massive spinning fields during inflation and the resulting signatures in the cosmological correlators of inflaton perturbations computed in the Poincaré patch of de Sitter space. There are (at least) two ways to describe the fluctuations of such new spinning degrees of freedom and these are distinguished by the symmetries of the de Sitter group that they linearly realise. The primary question we ask is: do these two set-ups yield distinct signatures in cosmological …

@timfoster@mastodon.social
2025-09-11 07:42:40

"But to me the most extraordinary thing about it is that body. The entire back of the car from the front of the doors rearward including the roof is a single piece of carbon because, as Mallock puts it, ‘I hate shut lines’. It is a vast work of art yet weighs just 19kg.
‘What if you damage it?’ I ask. ‘On balance it’s probably better if you don’t,’ he says."
via:

Rain stopped play - The Intercooler
A 920bhp prototype worth millions on track day tyres on streaming wet roads. What could possibly go wrong? Andrew Frankel tries hard not to find out

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2025-10-09 18:51:15

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.

@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social
2025-09-08 14:37:01

You ask your roommate to buy toilet paper. They show you the receipt as proof. The next morning, when you need toilet paper, the drawer is actually empty. This is because they used an innovative new method called Lean Shopping, where instead of buying the things they just print out a receipt — saving time and money.
This is a story about the social nature of problem framing, and when "high velocity" becomes less productive.

Skipping alignment leads to zero-impact UX
Deliverable artifacts are only a small part of the social system that product development entails. Any "productivity" gained by ignoring that system is an illusion.

@catsalad@infosec.exchange
2025-10-12 02:02:21

A button from a different era.

Screenshot of two buttons. One says "I don't have internet" and the other is just "Next". Not a single "Ask Me Later" to be found.
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-11 13:01:35

Samsung 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)
theverge.com/news/818355/samsu

Samsung brings a generative AI-powered Bixby to its TVs
Samsung Vision AI Companion will let you ask Bixby questions about what’s on screen in real time, powered by Copilot and Perplexity.

@newstik@social.heise.de
2025-10-10 18:33:55

Beware of #spam calls offering you significant discounts on your phone or internet plan and a free high-end smartphone.
They start asking questions to collect info about you. It starts innocent: Who is your provider? How much data do you have on your own?
Don't tell them anything. Ask about the details of their offer, be insistent, they will give up.
Or just hang up.

@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza
2025-09-11 15:34:13

For me, if they say I have to use Chrome I extend a middle finger, delete the site if bookmarked and go elsewhere.
ghacks.net/2025/09/08/chrome-m

Chrome Mask: Make Firefox appear as Chrome with a single click - gHacks Tech News
Review of the open source extension Chrome Mask for Firefox to appear as Google Chrome when visiting certain websites.

@crell@phpc.social
2025-10-09 21:37:53

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…

@detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-09 14:53:02

“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…

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-10-08 15:05:36

Does 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.
…

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com)
Does 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.

@hynek@mastodon.social
2025-10-08 13:26:58

Sturgeon’s law remains my biggest reassurance against LLM world takeover. As far as I can tell, that law is as solid as gravity. Humans on average not giving a shit IS the training material poison pill.
yes, I have just looked at random GitHub code again, why do you ask

@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-11 10:12:43

Generative Data Refinement: Just Ask for Better Data
Minqi Jiang, Jo\~ao G. M. Ara\'ujo, Will Ellsworth, Sian Gooding, Edward Grefenstette
arxiv.org/abs/2509.08653

Generative Data Refinement: Just Ask for Better Data
For a fixed parameter size, the capabilities of large models are primarily determined by the quality and quantity of its training data. Consequently, training datasets now grow faster than the rate at which new data is indexed on the web, leading to projected data exhaustion over the next decade. Much more data exists as user-generated content that is not publicly indexed, but incorporating such data comes with considerable risks, such as leaking private information and other undesirable conten…

@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-05 10:11:41

What if I ask in \textit{alia lingua}? Measuring Functional Similarity Across Languages
Debangan Mishra, Arihant Rastogi, Agyeya Negi, Shashwat Goel, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
arxiv.org/abs/2509.04032

What if I ask in \textit{alia lingua}? Measuring Functional Similarity Across Languages
How similar are model outputs across languages? In this work, we study this question using a recently proposed model similarity metric $κ_p$ applied to 20 languages and 47 subjects in GlobalMMLU. Our analysis reveals that a model's responses become increasingly consistent across languages as its size and capability grow. Interestingly, models exhibit greater cross-lingual consistency within themselves than agreement with other models prompted in the same language. These results highlight not o…

@villavelius@mastodon.online
2025-09-03 15:05:49

"The two were honored for cofounding the preeminent biomedical preprint servers bioRxiv and medRxiv."
Totally deserved, if you ask me. Also if you don't ask me.
cshl.edu/inglis-and-sever-earn

Inglis and Sever earn Royal Society Research Culture Award | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s (CSHL’s) John Inglis and Richard Sever have earned The Royal Society’s 2025 Research Culture Award. The two were honored for cofounding the preeminent biomedical preprint servers bioRxiv and medRxiv. Established in 2013 and 2019 respectively, these online repositories empower scientists worldwide to share their research fast, fairly, and free of charge....

@joe@toot.works
2025-10-01 23:15:59

At this point, the Department of Education is just answering questions I did not ask in order to avoid answering questions that I did ask. 😔

@wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net
2025-11-10 02:45:38

ok, so all of the vampirification happens offscreen? oh wait... ask and ye shall receive (nice masks!)
#monsterdon

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-09-07 13:41:06

Having just finished a 1-year consulting contract myself, my own list of restrictions for future jobs/consulting is very similar:
- will not work on adtech/surveillance/weapons
- will not knowingly make world worse and/or abet genocides
- will not be forced to use vibe coding (or will explain cost implications)
- prefer to work in the open
- prefer remote only
- flexible with time zones (last role was for a company in LA, -9h)

Joey de Villa 🪗 (@AccordionGuy@mastodon.cloud)
Attached: 1 image As long as we’re in the “September Surge” (that trend where there’s a noticeable uptick in job vacancies and hiring around September and October, when companies ramp up for year-end and the upcoming year), you might as well also ask “What DON’T I want in a new job?” https://www.globalnerdy.com/2025/09/06/what-dont-you-want-in-your-next-job/

@teledyn@mstdn.ca
2025-10-02 20:38:30

Yes, The News is reaching new heights of bad, but I dont think keywords are really the cause of my suffering.
So I ask myself why they irk me and it generally comes back that I want control over others, which, as tyrants inevitably find out, isn't really possible. Hard enough controlling myself!
So, given what feeble control I have, I ask what needs doing, here, now, and find I need to know what's happening around me, here, now, to answer 😅
My strategy for news is roughly
- compare multiple sources eg AP, Reuters etc
- ignore what anyone says
- ignore claims what they will do or have done
- ignore predictions and interpretations
- be skeptical of causal inferences
- attend to what was actually done
The first and last when combined are often amusing in which actual observations are included or left out. Humans are awfully clever, and so cunning in their rhetoric 🤣

@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social
2025-10-02 23:59:33

To be filed in "stuff I'll never understand, like ever": videos about asking AI shit.
Who the fuck cares? I mean, if you really care what the AI has to say (ha!) about something, you can ask it yourself. Why the fuck are you watching a video about someone else asking a question you can ask yourself?! Too much time to waste in your life?
People, man... They're fucking tiresome. For real.

@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-09-30 15:36:09

So this came online over the weekend: My dive into the "definition" of coevolution is online ahead of publication in @…
Don’t ask "when is it coevolution?" — ask "how?"

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-09-04 20:10:58

What Dems Should Ask For ... I've gotten some rather heated responses to today's BackChannel. (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/w
memeorandum.com/250904/p102#a2

@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-10 10:16:41

Temporal Counterfactual Explanations of Behaviour Tree Decisions
Tamlin Love, Antonio Andriella, Guillem Aleny\`a
arxiv.org/abs/2509.07674 …

Temporal Counterfactual Explanations of Behaviour Tree Decisions
Explainability is a critical tool in helping stakeholders understand robots. In particular, the ability for robots to explain why they have made a particular decision or behaved in a certain way is useful in this regard. Behaviour trees are a popular framework for controlling the decision-making of robots and other software systems, and thus a natural question to ask is whether or not a system driven by a behaviour tree is capable of answering "why" questions. While explainability for behaviour…

@anneroth@systemli.social
2025-11-04 22:14:02

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…

@shoppingtonz@mastodon.social
2025-09-11 14:31:31

Why I've been gone so weirdly...
no don't ask...I'm not addicted to a video game.
IM NOT ADDICTED TO A NON FLOSS VIDEO GAME
WHO GAVE YOU THAT IDEA!?
ok sure yeah I'm addicted to a non floss video game...
BUT I DON'T THINK IT WILL LAST LONG...
...
...maybe?
#VideoGameAddiction

@harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-03 05:48:17

#music #punk

@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.social
2025-11-06 02:35:12

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.

@arXiv_csCV_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-02 10:53:01

What You See is What You Ask: Evaluating Audio Descriptions
Divy Kala, Eshika Khandelwal, Makarand Tapaswi
arxiv.org/abs/2510.00808 arxiv.o…

What You See is What You Ask: Evaluating Audio Descriptions
Audio descriptions (ADs) narrate important visual details in movies, enabling Blind and Low Vision (BLV) users to understand narratives and appreciate visual details. Existing works in automatic AD generation mostly focus on few-second trimmed clips, and evaluate them by comparing against a single ground-truth reference AD. However, writing ADs is inherently subjective. Through alignment and analysis of two independent AD tracks for the same movies, we quantify the subjectivity in when and whet…

@arXiv_csIR_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-12 09:24:39

AskDoc -- Identifying Hidden Healthcare Disparities
Shashank Gupta
arxiv.org/abs/2509.09622 arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09622

AskDoc -- Identifying Hidden Healthcare Disparities
The objective of this study is to understand the online Ask the Doctor services medical advice on internet platforms via AskDoc, a Reddit community that serves as a public AtD platform and study if platforms mirror existing hurdles and partiality in healthcare across various demographic groups. We downloaded data from January 2020 to May 2022 from AskDoc -- a subreddit, and created regular expressions to identify self-reported demographics (Gender, Race, and Age) from the posts, and performed s…

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2025-10-11 01:50:07

A “made for TV” series about everything that’s going down these days. How long until it drops? Is it a comedy? Straight drama? Or fan favorite, dramedy? Who plays who?
I know it’s considered uncool around here to even think it, but what would an AI come up with for a script?
Speaking of which, has anybody thought to ask any of these AIs what their prediction is for how it’s all gonna play out? Anybody know what they’re saying?

@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizza
2025-09-11 17:18:36

Also, #microsoft, if I ask to update and shutdown the laptop should not still be on after the update.
It's not that difficult, I swear.

@mlawton@mstdn.social
2025-10-10 19:12:22

Finished “I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom” by Jason Pargin. A Lyft driver is asked by a woman to drive her and a mysterious box across the country for $200k. The rules are that he cannot look inside, nor ask about the contents. Everything comes undone along the way in a mostly fun, pulpy thriller kind of way.
Some dark satire about anxiety, the web, social media, public discourse, incels, etc.
3.5/5 stars, rounded up to 4/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-11-09 00:44:03

"[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.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-11-06 11:06:24

Can a jersey number give a player a psychological edge? Just ask the QB who wears 47 nytimes.com/athletic/6780810/2

Can a jersey number give a player a psychological edge? Just ask the QB who wears 47
Of the 163 college quarterbacks who have played 150 snaps this season, Bear Bachmeier is the only one to wear a number above 19.

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-09-06 22:38:11

This. 👇👇👇
JB Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question:
Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?”

Eric Champnella (@echamp.bsky.social)
This. 👇👇👇 JB Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?”

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2025-09-06 14:34:28

Anyone from Microsoft following me?
I’m going to leave GitHub (I’ve been a user since the beta days) and will incessantly ask everyone I know to leave it as well if you don’t roll back the “can’t opt out” force-feeding of “AI” nonsense.
You should also have no integration or collaboration with Xai at all, ever.
Make your management have some sense, this is hostile and disgusting and wrong.
#github

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-10-31 21:57:19

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.
2/

@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-10 11:16:39

Approximating quantum states by states of low rank
Nathaniel Johnston, Chi-Kwong Li
arxiv.org/abs/2510.08463 arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08463

Approximating quantum states by states of low rank
Given a positive integer k, it is natural to ask for a formula for the distance between a given density matrix (i.e., mixed quantum state) and the set of density matrices of rank at most k. This problem has already been solved when "distance" is measured in the trace or Frobenius norm. We solve it for all other unitary similarity invariant norms. We also present some consequences of our formula. For example, in the trace and Frobenius norms, the density matrix that is farthest from the set of l…

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-10-10 19:46:48

Trump'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.
thenation.com/article/politic…

Pam Bondi’s Shameless Message to Democrats
You have no power.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-10-09 12:50:50

Jimmy Kimmel says he would 'love' to have Trump on his show: 'I'll ask him' (Harry Cockburn/The Independent)
independent.co.uk/news/world/a
memeorandum.com/251009/p20#a25

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-09-26 23:26:10

Bengals' Ja'Marr Chase gives Tee Higgins advice amid slow start: 'If you want the ball, f---ing ask for it'

cbssports.com/nfl/news/be…

Bengals' Ja'Marr Chase gives Tee Higgins advice amid slow start: 'If you want the ball, f---ing ask for it'
Higgins is confident he'll get more opportunities going forward

@catsalad@infosec.exchange
2025-10-04 21:13:34

Ask your vet if cat extensions are right for you.

Photo of a fluffy, longhaired cat peeking out a back door window, except because the kitty had a recent vet visit that required a belly trim, the cat looks quite silly. Fluff on both ends, skinny belly in the middle
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-08-28 04:21:21

Samsung rolls out Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant in its 2025 lineup of TVs and monitors, letting users ask for movie suggestions, plot recaps, and more (Emma Roth/The Verge)
theverge.com/news/767078/micro

Microsoft’s Copilot AI is now inside Samsung TVs and monitors
Microsoft is launching Copilot on Samsung’s 2025 lineup of TVs and monitors, allowing you to interact with the assistant to get movie recommendations, summaries, and ask general questions.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-09-24 18:21:03

Google launches its Search Live feature in the US, letting users ask questions in AI Mode while sharing their phone's camera feed for real-time help (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
zdnet.com/article/you-can-sear

You can Search live video with Google now - here's how
With Search Live, you can ask Gemini anything about the world around you in real-time.