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@Dadmin@mastodon.social
Wat jeht uns die Sintflut ahn,
Sulang mer he noch danze kann?
Joot, dat Platz ess om Vulkan
Un dat mir all kein Kinder hann.
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⚙️ Roy Phillips
@sothach@mastodon.ie
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@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social AI doesn't hallucinate. That is just a marketing ploy to try and suggest it is in some way conscious (it isn't and never will be). It is the people unthinkingly using it that are deluded.
#ScribesAndMakers 8-May2026: Leviathan?
Yes. Literally in the very first paragraph:
"It swam through darkness—cold, empty, and boundless. Space unfolded in every direction, infinite points of light spangling the void. Massive and unstoppable, the leviathan hurtled onward."
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@RickGaehl@mstdn.social There's a great #TimeTeam episode where they excavate just such a pathway near Greylake in the Somerset Levels. S05E02. They make their own replica using period tools, too. Well worth a watch.
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@therightarticle@mas.to Didn't they claim that all Palestinians were Hamas, as their excuse for shooting children and babies? Gonna be very empty camps.
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@grickle@mstdn.social How do we know those are not her neighbours thoughts that blew over the fence during a storm?
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@naturepunk@ecoevo.social @autonomysolidarity@todon.eu Nice. That was the first thing that came into my head when I read it.
Followed by the Stewart Lee/ADF collab: "Comin' over 'ere"
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@2legged And there was Ross O'Carroll-Kelly's old fellas dairy shop (well, money laundering operation):
Cheeses Merrion Joseph
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@bytebro@mastodonapp.uk @Geri@veganism.social @patricksudlow@mastodon.social I got a re-follow and I'm surely on Geri's naughty list.
Or I soon will be when she hears that I read her server as "vaginismus.social"
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@ronanmcd@mastodon.green Twenty years on, Palast's Armed Madhouse becomes even more apt.
"Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild" indeed.
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@AuthorJMac If it does the laundry and dishes in the same half-assed way it tries to do art and writing, I probably don't want it doing that, either.
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@notjustbikes I'd always understood generator base load to be something like having to keep all your lights in the house on at a low setting, just glowing, so then when you needed proper light, they'd be no delay in coming up to full brightness.
Or is that an incorrect analogy?
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@silasmariner@hostux.social @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Yeah, unlike George Orwell, I'm not so bothered about dead metaphors, like those you highlight.
But the "hallucination" of LLMs is still very much an example of a live metaphor, and as Orwell remarks: "if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."
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@silasmariner@hostux.social @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social "Erroneous" wouldn't work, as many prompts don't have a right or wrong response. How about: "LLMs are prone to emitting untrustworthy output"?
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@silasmariner@hostux.social @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Mirage is good a one. It also has a sense that the observer is projecting meaning where there is none, like a shimmering pool of water in the desert to a thirsty wanderer.
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al @ccferrie@mastodon.ie €7K? So, less than the price of a decent bike?
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@Geri@veganism.social @bytebro@mastodonapp.uk @patricksudlow@mastodon.social
That is true:
“Come on in! Relax, I won’t bite you!”
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@TheVulgarTongue@zirk.us @histodons@a.gup.pe Also:
Bishop: An ineptly-poured pint of Guinness with an excessively foamy head. A.k.a., a Bishop's collar.