Tootfinder

«Be honest, your bespoke web app effectively has contributions from hundreds of people, most of whom you do not know. We like to think our software as beautiful oil paintings but it is probably more correct to think of them as messy collages consisting mainly of pictures clipped from magazines.»
A good post about why you should "Host the Damn Thing Yourself" when it comes to dependencies, which is something I've done over the past year or so for many of my pages!
https://sheep.horse/2025/10/it_is_a_war_out_there_-_take_control_of_your_suppl.html

Such a bleak outlook: «The mere possibility that something could be AI-generated has already eroded trust between users. “AI is turning Reddit into a heap of garbage,” one account wrote in r/AmITheJerk. “Even if a post suspected of being AI isn’t, just the existence of AI is like having a spy in the room. Suspicion itself is an enemy.” Ally used to enjoy reading subreddits like r/AmIOverreacting. But now she doesn’t know if her interactions are real anymore»
/HT @…
https://archive.is/20251206034104/https://www.wired.com/story/ai-slop-is-ruining-reddit-for-everyone/

From the article: "In this century, the émigré fraction of U.S. Nobels in physics, chemistry and medicine now stands at 40 percent." https://mastodon.social/@ScienceScholar/115701386822807521

Cuando algunos estadounidenses intentan hablar sobre autenticidad. 😆
«Contó que había ido a Costa Rica a tomar ayahuasca –y cito– en un ambiente adecuado, con gente indígena, en medio de la selva. Aquí hay que aclarar también que la ayahuasca es una bebida que viene de una planta amazónica, no nativa de Costa Rica. Y tampoco es usada por los grupos indígenas costarricenses. Pero bueno…»
https://radioambulante.org/audio/doctor-iboga