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I'm nervous but looking forward to it. (For non-Australians, this small town writing festival is one of the bigger ones in Australia). Should be a lot of fun. We're kicking it off on the main stage. #permaculture #writing

There's a couple of million dollars worth of baseball talent on the loose,
ready for the big leagues, yet unsigned by any major league. There are
pitchers who would win 20 games a season ... and outfielders [who] could
hit .350, infielders who could win recognition as stars, and there's at
least one catcher who at this writing is probably superior to Bill Dickey,
Josh Gibson. Only one thing is keeping them out of the big leagues, the
pigmentation of th…

"LLMs are okay at coding, but at scale they build jumbled messes. I’ve scaled back my use of AI when coding and gone back to using my brain and pen and paper."
https://albertofortin.com/writing/coding-with-ai

was just sent this and I think it’s quite nice
#writing #poetry @… @…

was just sent this and I think it’s quite nice
#writing #poetry @… @…

Reviewriter: AI-Generated Instructions For Peer Review Writing
Xiaotian Su, Thiemo Wambsganss, Roman Rietsche, Seyed Parsa Neshaei, Tanja K\"aser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04423

Reviewriter: AI-Generated Instructions For Peer Review Writing
Large Language Models (LLMs) offer novel opportunities for educational applications that have the potential to transform traditional learning for students. Despite AI-enhanced applications having the potential to provide personalized learning experiences, more studies are needed on the design of generative AI systems and evidence for using them in real educational settings. In this paper, we design, implement and evaluate \texttt{Reviewriter}, a novel tool to provide students with AI-generated …

As an OCaml and GameBoy enthusiast, this is a great writeup.
https://linoscope.github.io/writing-a-game-boy-emulator-in-ocaml/

Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml
For the past few months, I have been working on a project called CAMLBOY, a Game Boy emulator that runs in the browser.

"The first idea to final book"-scale of creative writing can help you assess advice and techniques relating to creative writing.
#amediting #writingcommunity #creativewriting

Yes, yes, yes, yes, @…! 👏
“For now, I’m planning on continuing to roll up my sleeves. I want to make things because I’m human and alive. I want to go on journeys and grow. I’m not always looking for an easy path, I want the friction. Because if I give up the journey, what am I really making? What do I actually learn?”

Great blog post by @… on the Whatever machine. She talks about why crypto sucks, why LLMs suck, why hyped up clickbait sucks, and why calling writing and art 'content' sucks https://e…

The rise of Whatever
This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.

Based on media output, GPT is the world’s most successful business writing influencer

ONLINE WORKSHOP> Navigating Indra’s Net: Digital Approaches to Text Reuse-based Inter-textuality in Pre-Modern East Asian Texts
https://ift.tt/ajGgrIY
When did aliens become a problem? The Mediterranean Association for Marine Biology and Oceanology in…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Writer Ariel Courage on never feeling finished https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/writer-ariel-courage-on-ne…

Writer Ariel Courage on never feeling finished – The Creative Independent
Author Ariel Courage discusses hyper-individualism, MFAs, and writing as a social act.

I may need to get back to doing illustrations again since it's been about a year that I took a break...
Hand drawn stuff (even if digitally) might be the future of human art with all this AI bullshit going on.
➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/projects/illustrations/

Illustrations
In March 2024 I started doing sketches on an iPad using Procreate and an Apple Pencil. As of writing this it's May 2024 and I'm still doing it. I'll try to keep this page updated with new illustrations as they are completed. Each illustration links to a page with more info about it, and some [...]

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02943 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_…

A Multi-agent LLM-based JUit Test Generation with Strong Oracles
Unit testing plays a critical role in ensuring software correctness. However, writing unit tests manually is laborious, especially for strong typed languages like Java, motivating the need for automated approaches. Traditional methods primarily rely on search-based or randomized algorithms to generate tests that achieve high code coverage and produce regression oracles, which are derived from the program's current behavior rather than its intended functionality. Recent advances in large languag…

JD Vance is being lambasted for dismissing social safety net rollbacks under the Trump tax bill currently making its way through Congress.
On Monday night, Vance attempted to rally support for the bill in a post on X, writing,
“Everything else—the CBO score [the Congressional Budget Office cost estimate], the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy—is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions.”
Many were rubbed the wrong way by…

Vance Says It Doesn’t Matter How Many People Lose Medicaid in Budget
JD Vance is being slammed after a twisted post on the costs of Republicans’ budget bill.

Interesting article on Cornell research:
"AI suggestions make writing more generic, Western"
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/04/ai-suggestions-make-writing-more-generic-western

Tech bros: “Why does everyone hate us?”
Also tech bros: https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/114782913349454383

Penalizing Transparency? How AI Disclosure and Author Demographics Shape Human and AI Judgments About Writing
Inyoung Cheong, Alicia Guo, Mina Lee, Zhehui Liao, Kowe Kadoma, Dongyoung Go, Joseph Chee Chang, Peter Henderson, Mor Naaman, Amy X. Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01418

Penalizing Transparency? How AI Disclosure and Author Demographics Shape Human and AI Judgments About Writing
As AI integrates in various types of human writing, calls for transparency around AI assistance are growing. However, if transparency operates on uneven ground and certain identity groups bear a heavier cost for being honest, then the burden of openness becomes asymmetrical. This study investigates how AI disclosure statement affects perceptions of writing quality, and whether these effects vary by the author's race and gender. Through a large-scale controlled experiment, both human raters (n =…

PromptCanvas: Composable Prompting Workspaces Using Dynamic Widgets for Exploration and Iteration in Creative Writing
Rifat Mehreen Amin, Oliver Hans K\"uhle, Daniel Buschek, Andreas Butz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03741

PromptCanvas: Composable Prompting Workspaces Using Dynamic Widgets for Exploration and Iteration in Creative Writing
We introduce PromptCanvas, a concept that transforms prompting into a composable, widget-based experience on an infinite canvas. Users can generate, customize, and arrange interactive widgets representing various facets of their text, offering greater control over AI-generated content. PromptCanvas allows widget creation through system suggestions, user prompts, or manual input, providing a flexible environment tailored to individual needs. This enables deeper engagement with the creative proce…

I had an architecture class where the professor spent an entire class discussing doorknobs. It was one of my favorite classes.
So the headline was all I needed to click this link:
“On the Architectural Hostility of Doorknobs”
https://sightlessscribbles.com/writing

"Whatever" is a brilliant essay on "AI" by @…:
"But I think the core of what pisses me off is that selling this magic machine requires selling the idea that doing things is worthless. Because if doing something has some value, then it must be somehow better than pushing a button and receiving Whatever for essentially no cost."

The rise of Whatever
This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.

ONLINE WORKSHOP> Navigating Indra’s Net: Digital Approaches to Text Reuse-based Inter-textuality in Pre-Modern East Asian Texts https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20069984/navigating-indras-net-digital-approache…

Sources: Intel is considering ending marketing of its 18A process to new clients and writing off investments, focusing instead on 14A to compete with TSMC (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

Had a #Chinese friend of a friend, in town, and were able to have a reasonable conversation about politics, #humanrights, US-China, and more. In fact, we agreed on most things! Writing critical articles about the Chinese government didn't make me, to them, "anti-China"
Somehow, this …

Watch Github for what happens for companies that go all-in on AI.
Notice all the details that are wrong now. Notice the docs. Notice the confusion between different interfaces. Notice the UI jank in new places. This is what happens when engineering decisions are made by default instead of discussion and planning. This is what happens when writing (already easier than editing) becomes even easier without improving editing.

AI copyediting: how Paperpal butchered my paper on AI-generated writing https://jilltxt.net/ai-copyediting-how-paperpal-butchered-my-paper-on-ai-generated-writing/

AI copyediting: how Paperpal butchered my paper on AI-generated writing
This morning I received the copy-edited version of a paper I recently submitted to a journal. This is always cause for celebration, another step towards publication accomplished! But this time the …

Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
GROFF: A finger?
TARRANT: A finger. And as you can see, it is better designed for pressing buttons than holding writing implements. So why can't we use computers?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/304/299 B7B2

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

Everyone thinks #AI can do someone else's job. Designers want to get rid of PMs. PMs think they no longer need devs. Devs can't wait to generate designs. And managers are anticipating getting rid of us all.
Alas, in the few cases the tools work at all, they get you no more than 80% of the way there. Without experts to identify where that 20-100% gap is, you have nothing.
I've …

The Product Picnic
Writing on UX and product management to connect today's discourse with classic insights that the industry forgot.

today's distracting mindblow: samuel delany & karen dalton shared bills at cafe elysee, plus fred neil, tim hardin, & other notables. (can't find any other details/documentation of the west village venue of that name.) https://archive.org/details/motionofli…

The motion of light in water : sex and science fiction writing in the East Village : Delany, Samuel R : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
572 p. ; 24 cm

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#WordsAndMusic
- Coffee and Tea
Pop on the kettle and grab your favourite mug for a caffeinated edition of Words and Music, with music, poetry and writing inspired by our favourite hot beverages: coffee and tea.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002cp0g

'...a student might hear "don't use generative AI" from a prof but then log on to the university's Microsoft suite, which then suggests using Copilot to sum up readings or help draft writing'
https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/…

Teachers Are Not OK
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."

Not All Jokes Land: Evaluating Large Language Models Understanding of Workplace Humor
Moahmmadamin Shafiei, Hamidreza Saffari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01819

Not All Jokes Land: Evaluating Large Language Models Understanding of Workplace Humor
With the recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs), the automation of daily tasks, like automatic writing, is getting more and more attention. Hence, efforts have focused on aligning LLMs with human values, yet humor, particularly professional industrial humor used in workplaces, has been largely neglected. To address this, we develop a dataset of professional humor statements along with features that determine the appropriateness of each statement. Our ev…

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Well put, the “averaging effect of #AI.”
What’s the equivalent for writing? That’s what’s on my mind recently. Sure, keep your style. But do we need smth else? Add more styles, punctuation hacks, whatnot?
h…

Graphic artists in China push back on AI and its averaging effect
Copycats, unrealistic expectations, and budget cuts are AI’s gifts to graphic artists.

Design of a visual environment for programming by direct data manipulation
Michel Adam (UBS, IRISA), Patrice Frison (UBS, IRISA), Moncef Daoud (UBS), Sabine Letellier Zarshenas (UBS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03720

Design of a visual environment for programming by direct data manipulation
The use of applications on computers, smartphones, and tablets has been considerably simplified thanks to interactive and dynamic graphical interfaces coupled with the mouse and touch screens. It is no longer necessary to be a computer specialist to use them. Paradoxically, the development of computer programs generally requires writing lines of code in a programming language whose syntax is particularly strict. This process poses many difficulties for programmers. We propose an original tool i…

#Goals
https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/114782913349454383

There's some discourse on generative AI "democratizing" art.
And this is so confusing to me. I create images. And when I do, I'm trying to take something in my head, and make it real. And share that image in my head with others.
It's my image in my head. If I describe that to AI to make the image, then it is just approximate. To get it closer to my image needs a better prompt.
That's writing. Writing it its own art, and you can let the reader imagi…

Glacier Day in my #FieldDiary! Always a good one.
I'm writing this on the way home, but you get the point...
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/05/24/field-diary-2025/

I'm currently experimenting with something called micro journalism.
I started about a week ago and so far it is going well.
It's basically just a long text file on my phone and whenever I pick up the phone to distract myself I open that file instead and write something in it.
It is too early to tell if it has an impact but at least it gets me writing a bit.
The downside is that you will see less posts from me, but that might be as well a good thing ;).

The Fantasy Writing Show With Jed Herne
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

CoachGPT: A Scaffolding-based Academic Writing Assistant
Fumian Chen, Sotheara Veng, Joshua Wilson, Xiaoming Li, Hui Fang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18149 …

CoachGPT: A Scaffolding-based Academic Writing Assistant
Academic writing skills are crucial for students' success, but can feel overwhelming without proper guidance and practice, particularly when writing in a second language. Traditionally, students ask instructors or search dictionaries, which are not universally accessible. Early writing assistants emerged as rule-based systems that focused on detecting misspellings, subject-verb disagreements, and basic punctuation errors; however, they are inaccurate and lack contextual understanding. Machine l…

On fractional differential equations, dimensional analysis, and the double gamma function
J. Vaz, E. Capelas de Oliveira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00026 h…

On fractional differential equations, dimensional analysis, and the double gamma function
In this paper we discuss some issues that arise in the process of writing a fractional differential equation (FDE) by replacing an integer order derivative by a fractional order derivative in a given differential equation. To address these issues, we propose a dimensional regularization of the Caputo fractional derivative, ensuring consistency in physical dimensions. Then we solve some FDEs using this proposed dimensional regularization. We show that the solutions of these FDEs are most conveni…

Wer jetzt „geile Sache“ denkt, vergisst, dass andere Bots auch radikalisieren können.
Student Makes Tool That Identifies ‘Radicals’ on Reddit, Deploys AI Bots to Engage With Them https://www.404media.co/student-makes-tool

This essay (ht @… ) offers a lot to chew on: some gems, some flubs, some quibblable provocations, some big insights. This sentence in particular stood out to me (context for it in the screenshot):
“Whether we’re reading or conversing, we want something to be meant, not just said.”
https://slate.com/life/2025/06/ai-chatgpt-generator-grok-gemini-writing.html

#WritersCoffeeClub 25th May 2025. Tell us about a non-writer who has had the most influence on your writing.
Let me assume that my teacher when I was 10 wasn't a writing person and say that their efforts to hold a poetry-Friday had an immense effect on me. We had a reason to write, and of course, we read each of the others writing. I have no idea whether our teacher wrote things …

The writing that Creative Commons is also "AI"-pilled has been on the wall for a while, and here we are are, wasting time and money on some useless signalling to "AI" scrapers that already don't care for any existing limitations…
https://creativecommons.org/2025/06/25/introducing-cc-signals-a-new-social-contract-for-the-age-of-ai/

Working with an #acting #coaching client just now, and found how to make the really good writing we're working with have its levels open up. The optimism on the part of the character propelled the pace in one take whereas approaching from pessimism found more dis-regulation on another.

Setting aside copyright/commercial/other aspects, a thought about writing blog posts that LLMs train on. When people write posts, they (a) feel good about helping others, and (b) hope to get some credit and visibility for doing so.
When mediated through LLMs, no longer the satisfaction that your consumer is a human (who might comment, thank, share, etc.); nor the cred that comes from people remembering the author, posting on HN, etc.
That is, it totally destroys the incentive str…

A Multi-agent LLM-based JUit Test Generation with Strong Oracles
Qinghua Xu, Guancheng Wang, Lionel Briand, Kui Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02943 https:…

A Multi-agent LLM-based JUit Test Generation with Strong Oracles
Unit testing plays a critical role in ensuring software correctness. However, writing unit tests manually is laborious, especially for strong typed languages like Java, motivating the need for automated approaches. Traditional methods primarily rely on search-based or randomized algorithms to generate tests that achieve high code coverage and produce regression oracles, which are derived from the program's current behavior rather than its intended functionality. Recent advances in large languag…

"Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task"
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.08872
"[…] While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four mont…

An interview with Claude AI product lead Scott White on Claude Code writing 90% of its own code, MCP, coding being accessible to non-technical workers, and more (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/from-chatbo

OH: "In art and writing a friend of mine coined the phrase “polishing dirt” for when an artist needs to stop because they are no longer improving the art on any meaningful or perceivable level."

‘Songwriters are at the bottom of the earning scale – and that is unfathomable, inexcusable and disgusting’
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/…

‘Songwriters are at the bottom of the earning scale – and that is unfathomable, inexcusable and disgusting’
Shelly Peiken on writing classic hits for Meredith Brooks, Christina Aguilera and many others, as well as her fight for songwriters’ rights, ignoring the algorithm, and not being an asshole

It’s Me, God. Keep Me Out of This.
“Everything that’s going on now is so depressing. I had to tune out for the sake of My mental health, and that may have been taken the wrong way.”
A letter from God, as transcribed by @petridishes:
https://www.…

It’s Me, God. Keep Me Out of This.
Everything that’s going on now is so depressing. I had to tune out for the sake of My mental health.

"Ex-hitmen make excellent ushers."
—Andrew McMillan ’80 M.Div. writing in Reflections about experiences and lessons from his decades of ministry and church-planting, mostly in Colombia https://reflections.yale.edu/article/c

Lew Welch had been a fixture among the best minds of the Beat generation—a friend of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder,
a kindred California spirit whose writing never achieved the same profile.
In 1971, Welch, who had been building a cabin on the San Juan Ridge, on land Ginsberg had left him,
walked away from the property with a .22-caliber revolver
and was never seen again.
“I had great visions but never could bring them together with reality,”…

Alta Folio: ‘I Went Southwest’
Writer Brad Rassler digs into the disappearance and afterlife of Beat poet Lew Welch.

"This isn’t to say that AI is uniformly bad—it’s clearly not—but that we must not fall into the trap of mistaking the outputs of writing (…) from the value of the cognitive process of writing (…).
It would be a catastrophically unwise decision for humanity to abandon a key step in training young brains simply because they can now clack a few keys and produce something that sounds intelligent even as they never become intelligent."

The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.

Wissenschaftler:innen haben herausgefunden: Wer ChatGPT oder andere Bullshit-Generatoren nutzt, verblödet innerhalb kurzer Zeit.
#LLM

from my link log —
Rewriting the Ruby parser.
https://railsatscale.com/2023-06-12-rewriting-the-ruby-parser/
saved 2024-12-26

Rewriting the Ruby parser
At Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems downloaded from rubygems.org. We recently got approval to merge this work into CRuby, and are very excited to share our work with the community. This post will take you thro…

A small aside, during my vacation I finally started on writing a Metal backend for SwiftTerm.
It has a few missing features, so not worth comparing performance yet, but it is feeling great:
https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm/tree/metal-backend

GitHub - migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm at metal-backend
Xterm/VT100 Terminal emulator in Swift. Contribute to migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm development by creating an account on GitHub.

i hate that i even gotta say this but just so it's on record, anything you see me post online — blog or otherwise — is 100% my own voice! (and yes, those were em dashes, dangit!)
merely mimicking journalistic cadence is enough to get you accused of assisted writing now 😭 i do not like this timeline

Sat writing up my Algeria trip at last. I’ll post a link once I get better internet and can upload more photos.

Nothing I’m trying to write is "flowing"...it's all laborious.
I'm encouraged by "Your labor isn’t a sign of defeat" from @… wherein she quotes Verlyn Klinkenborg:
"if you accept that writing is hard work, And that’s what it feels like when you’re writing, Then everything is as it should be. Your labor is…

Feedbackless Feed
A (non)social feedbackless feed to nowhere

TRAPDOC: Deceiving LLM Users by Injecting Imperceptible Phantom Tokens into Documents
Hyundong Jin, Sicheol Sung, Shinwoo Park, SeungYeop Baik, Yo-Sub Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00089

TRAPDOC: Deceiving LLM Users by Injecting Imperceptible Phantom Tokens into Documents
The reasoning, writing, text-editing, and retrieval capabilities of proprietary large language models (LLMs) have advanced rapidly, providing users with an ever-expanding set of functionalities. However, this growing utility has also led to a serious societal concern: the over-reliance on LLMs. In particular, users increasingly delegate tasks such as homework, assignments, or the processing of sensitive documents to LLMs without meaningful engagement. This form of over-reliance and misuse is em…

Just received a friend request on Facebook by someone named Peter Waldmeier.
https://www.facebook.com/peter.waldmeier.865
He seemed such a nice person, I think he is a model in a Scandinavian country.
When I asked him why he was sending me a friend request he go…

#WritersCoffeeClub 25th May 2025. Tell us about a non-writer who has had the most influence on your writing.
Let me assume that my teacher when I was 10 wasn't a writing person and say that their efforts to hold a poetry-Friday had an immense effect on me. We had a reason to write, and of course, we read each of the others writing. I have no idea whether our teacher wrote things …

Neighbour dropped off a welder with a blown FET on the PCB (within a snubber circuit). Found a suspect diode. Found a manufacturer and boardset ID: Arcsonic AT-06-A7. Wrote to Arcsonic on AliExpress, and after about 3 messages exchanged I had a full circuit schematic for the thing sitting in my e-mail inbox. As much as we (rightly!) complain about and fear over-reliance on China in the West, their culture of openness and repair is something we would do well to emulate. Imagine writing to Bos…

I continue my practice of writing back to posts on social media. Also its antidote: writing back to works of art served up at random. It’s a little like surfing, taking the waves as they come. It’s a little like dancing. It’s one way to reclaim my attention, one way to stay alive to the present.
https://

More Fresh Hells & A Few Heavens
Brief responses to social media posts (hells) and random paintings (heavens).

There are now exactly 365 posts on my blog. So, considering I've been writing it for twenty years, I have a long term average of one post every twenty days, over all that time.
Some of them are good. I'd go further. Some of them are excellent.
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/

Home
Random thoughts on politics, fiction and software; occasionally interesting.

My experience is limited to ASP.NET, SQL, and some Python at a Fortune 500 company, so take this with a grain of salt. When he talks about agents, it sounds like automation to me. I’ve been writing jobs (or agents) for decades to run automated tasks on a schedule. If you want to add another point of failure into your job, knock yourself out. Also, I’m wary of encouraging neophytes to outsource work they don’t know how to do. That’s a recipe for disaster.

Stylometry recognizes human and LLM-generated texts in short samples
Karol Przystalski, Jan K. Argasi\'nski, Iwona Grabska-Gradzi\'nska, Jeremi K. Ochab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00838

Stylometry recognizes human and LLM-generated texts in short samples
The paper explores stylometry as a method to distinguish between texts created by Large Language Models (LLMs) and humans, addressing issues of model attribution, intellectual property, and ethical AI use. Stylometry has been used extensively to characterise the style and attribute authorship of texts. By applying it to LLM-generated texts, we identify their emergent writing patterns. The paper involves creating a benchmark dataset based on Wikipedia, with (a) human-written term summaries, (b) …

An Afternoon in a Café ☕️
咖啡厅的下午 ☕️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10877 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_…

Developer Perspectives on Licensing and Copyright Issues Arising from Generative AI for Software Development
Despite the utility that Generative AI (GenAI) tools provide for tasks such as writing code, the use of these tools raises important legal questions and potential risks, particularly those associated with copyright law. As lawmakers and regulators engage with those questions, the views of users can provide relevant perspectives. In this paper, we provide: (1) a survey of 574 developers on the licensing and copyright aspects of GenAI for coding, as well as follow-up interviews; (2) a snapshot of…

Fact: It is my birthday.
Fact: I run a free & ad-free newsletter about keeping tech/UX design accountable, called Product Picnic.
Conclusion: legally, you have to subscribe to it. The word of the birthday boy is law!
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/

The Product Picnic
Writing on UX and product management to connect today's discourse with classic insights that the industry forgot.

New study on the effects of LLM use (in this case on essay writing):
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Quote:
"LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four month…

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed three sessions under the same condition. In a fourth session, LLM users were reassigned to Brain-only group (LLM-to-Brain), and Brain-only users were reassigned to LLM condition (Brain-to-LLM). A total of 54 participants took part in Sessions 1-3, with 18 completing session 4. We used electroencephalo…

Funny, and so true.
#uspol #fascism
ICE Agent or Just Some Person?
"Your clothing should tell a story about you! Just not who you are or that you are acting in any kind of official capacity." @petridishes on the ICE dress code:

The ICE Dress Code
There’s a dress code to help you make that determination.

«AI systems are an attack on workers, climate goals, our information environment, and civil liberties. Rather than enhancing our human qualities, these systems degrade our social relations, and undermine our capacity for empathy and care.»
Nice writing by @…!
https://thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/ai-is-dehumanization-technology.html

AI in the Writing Process: How Purposeful AI Support Fosters Student Writing
Momin N. Siddiqui, Roy Pea, Hari Subramonyam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20595 …

AI in the Writing Process: How Purposeful AI Support Fosters Student Writing
The ubiquity of technologies like ChatGPT has raised concerns about their impact on student writing, particularly regarding reduced learner agency and superficial engagement with content. While standalone chat-based LLMs often produce suboptimal writing outcomes, evidence suggests that purposefully designed AI writing support tools can enhance the writing process. This paper investigates how different AI support approaches affect writers' sense of agency and depth of knowledge transformation. T…

When topics of discourse prove difficult to approach, stories can help us on our way. This famed short story about a graceful city with an unexpected abberation helps me reflect on where I want to apply my capacity for writing, sketching and teaching.

https://axbom.com/omelas/

#DigitalEthics

Writing anything on iOS is such a PITA. What a joke of useless UI this shit has become. The autocorrect. The selection shenanigans. The copy and paste. The undo. The scrolling. The autocorrect. The positioning of the cursor. The autocorrect.

So jealous of Word users. You want to write something: you fire up Word, you start writing.
Me, I first spend months on my authoring tool and whether it can give me all the abstractions I want. No two of my books have used the same tool. Nearly exhausted before I even begin!

The Sunspot Solar Observatory Data Archive: Continuing Operations at the Dunn Solar Telescope
Sean G. Sellers, Juie Shetye, Damian J. Christian, David B. Jess, Peter H. Keys, Gordon A. MacDonald, R. T. James McAteer, Jason Jackiewicz, Colin Hancock, Michael S. Thompson, Jamey E. Eriksen, Sara Jeffreys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.…

The Sunspot Solar Observatory Data Archive: Continuing Operations at the Dunn Solar Telescope
The Sunspot Solar Observatory Data Archive (SSODA) stores data acquired with the suite of instruments at the Richard B. Dunn Solar Telescope (DST) from February 2018 to the present. The instrumentation at the DST continues to provide high cadence imaging, spectroscopy, and polarimetry of the solar photosphere and chromosphere across a wavelength range from 3500Å to 11,000Å. At time of writing, the archive contains approximately 374 TiB of data across more than 520 observing days (starting on …

"When are we preachers going to stop apologizing for preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ? It’s my belief that bolder and truer messaging will draw people back to the congregations from which they have fled in droves over the last decades."
—Will Mebane ’06 M.Div. writing in the new issue of our Reflections journal, focused on: Is Christianity losing its religion?

«AI systems are an attack on workers, climate goals, our information environment, and civil liberties. Rather than enhancing our human qualities, these systems degrade our social relations, and undermine our capacity for empathy and care.»
Nice writing by @…!
https://thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/ai-is-dehumanization-technology.html

Crazy but real headline of the day
Trump sues all federal judges in Maryland
All 15 of them.
Goodnight.
https://politicalwire.com/2025/06/25/trump-sues-all-federal-judges-in-maryland/

Trump Sues All Federal Judges in Maryland
"The Justice Department sued all 15 federal district court judges in Maryland on Tuesday over an order that pauses any deportations under legal challenge in the state for 48 hours," the Washington Post reports. "Legal

„While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, #LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.“ #AI

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How Students (Really) Use ChatGPT: Uncovering Experiences Among Undergraduate Students
Tawfiq Ammari, Meilun Chen, S M Mehedi Zaman, Kiran Garimella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24126

How Students (Really) Use ChatGPT: Uncovering Experiences Among Undergraduate Students
This study investigates how undergraduate students engage with ChatGPT in self directed learning contexts. Analyzing naturalistic interaction logs, we identify five dominant use categories of ChatGPT information seeking, content generation, language refinement, meta cognitive engagement, and conversational repair. Behavioral modeling reveals that structured, goal driven tasks like coding, multiple choice solving, and job application writing are strong predictors of continued use. Drawing on Sel…

#WordWeavers 5/25. Do you prefer writing wealthy, middle class, or indigent characters?
No preference really, there are fun characters to explore everywhere, and the WIP I'm working on has people from all levels of society.

A Short Survey on Formalising Software Requirements using Large Language Models
Arshad Beg, Diarmuid O'Donoghue, Rosemary Monahan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11874

A Short Survey on Formalising Software Requirements using Large Language Models
This paper presents a focused literature survey on the use of large language models (LLM) to assist in writing formal specifications for software. A summary of thirty-five key papers is presented, including examples for specifying programs written in Dafny, C and Java. This paper arose from the project VERIFAI - Traceability and verification of natural language requirements that addresses the challenges in writing formal specifications from requirements that are expressed in natural language. O…

#WordWeavers 5/25. Do you prefer writing wealthy, middle class, or indigent characters?
No preference really, there are fun characters to explore everywhere, and the WIP I'm working on has people from all levels of society.

When learning analytics dashboard is explainable: An exploratory study on the effect of GenAI-supported learning analytics dashboard
Angxuan Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16312 …

When learning analytics dashboard is explainable: An exploratory study on the effect of GenAI-supported learning analytics dashboard
This study investigated the impact of a theory-driven, explainable Learning Analytics Dashboard (LAD) on university students' human-AI collaborative academic abstract writing task. Grounded in Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) theory and incorporating Explainable AI (XAI) principles, our LAD featured a three-layered design (Visual, Explainable, Interactive). In an experimental study, participants were randomly assigned to either an experimental group (using the full explainable LAD) or a control gr…

#WritersCoffeeClub 9 Have you ever done timed writing sprints?
Only as a warming up before doing the actual writing. I set a timer on, say ten minutes, and write like my life depended on it. It rarely ever turns into anything but garbage, but it is a way of jogging before running for the brain.

StorySage: Conversational Autobiography Writing Powered by a Multi-Agent Framework
Shayan Talaei, Meijin Li, Kanu Grover, James Kent Hippler, Diyi Yang, Amin Saberi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14159

StorySage: Conversational Autobiography Writing Powered by a Multi-Agent Framework
Every individual carries a unique and personal life story shaped by their memories and experiences. However, these memories are often scattered and difficult to organize into a coherent narrative, a challenge that defines the task of autobiography writing. Existing conversational writing assistants tend to rely on generic user interactions and pre-defined guidelines, making it difficult for these systems to capture personal memories and develop a complete biography over time. We introduce Story…

Prompt Variability Effects On LLM Code Generation
Andrei Paleyes, Radzim Sendyka, Diana Robinson, Christian Cabrera, Neil D. Lawrence
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10204

Prompt Variability Effects On LLM Code Generation
Code generation is one of the most active areas of application of Large Language Models (LLMs). While LLMs lower barriers to writing code and accelerate development process, the overall quality of generated programs depends on the quality of given prompts. Specifically, functionality and quality of generated code can be sensitive to user's background and familiarity with software development. It is therefore important to quantify LLM's sensitivity to variations in the input. To this end we prop…

A Systematic Review of Human-AI Co-Creativity
Saloni Singh, Koen Hndriks, Drik Heylen, Kim Baraka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21333 https://

A Systematic Review of Human-AI Co-Creativity
The co creativity community is making significant progress in developing more sophisticated and tailored systems to support and enhance human creativity. Design considerations from prior work can serve as a valuable and efficient foundation for future systems. To support this effort, we conducted a systematic literature review of 62 papers on co-creative systems. These papers cover a diverse range of applications, including visual arts, design, and writing, where the AI acts not just as a tool …