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Fall of Huliaipole: Command Failures and Exhausted Defenders: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/01/fall-of-huliaipole-command-failures.html

Untypische Übernahme: Alte Halbleiterwerke für neue Quantencomputer
Der Quantencomputer-Entwickler IonQ will den Chipauftragsfertiger Skywater übernehmen. In dessen Werken könnte IonQ Quantenprozessoren herstellen.

“Would it be particularly helpful to have some text that would be •typical• in a given context, even if the text is possibly •incorrect•?”
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Yes, That’s Charlie Kirk – Digby's Hullabaloo
https://digbysblog.net/2026/03/01/yes-thats-charlie-kirk/

I joined a writers group a little while ago, and it's been super helpful. I've gotten some really great constructive feedback. I'm re-publishing a story I published earlier and have edited based on that feedback, so here it is:
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/on-the-economics-of-slaying-dragons

Miffy was very helpful on the #DrupalCampEngland registration desk.
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Hot take: TDD is easier with LLM-assist dev. You can tell the computer "write a failing test for XYZ" which is super helpful when you see a bug in the wild that doesn't have a test for it yet because if it did your bug wouldn't have made it past CI.
Discuss (I've done the above).

I’m not saying the answer will always be “no,” but people are wildly, wildly overselling the number of situations in which the answer will be “yes.”
Sometimes the answer is “no” because incorrectness is a deal-breaker — and that scenario’s been getting a lot of attention (fake legal briefs, vibe-coding faceplants, etc).
Sometimes, however, the answer is “no” because making something •typical• isn’t really helpful. Where humanity needs to come to the foreground, homogeneity is positively unhelpful. Here’s a fascinating example:
https://hci.social/@bwaber/115647856415818492

Russian troops execute five disarmed Ukrainian POWs near Pokrovsk and Huliaipole - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/29/russian-troops-shoot-five-disarmed-ukrainian-pows-near-pokrovsk-and-huliaipole/