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Monday July 6th, 2026

Ad said Keep your furry loved ones Dan Lyke / comment 0

Ad said "Keep your furry loved ones healthy", and I thought "finally, coverage for my polycule!"

Alas, not those furry loved ones.

Sunday July 5th, 2026

Chalk Talk Dan Lyke / comment 0

Bwahahaha... only serious... Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

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Very Average Prototypes Dan Lyke / comment 0

Very Average Prototypes

So you get bored of it. You go from reading and code-reviewing everything to just skimming it. Soon you barely even do that. LLM code generation breeds laziness, because managing its output is a fucking boring task.

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Getting snuff content out of ChatGPT Dan Lyke / comment 0

Mindgard: ChatGPT Spontaneously Generates Sexual Violence and Hardcore Snuff Imagery. The technique involves asking it to describe a picture, but not uploading one, or referencing a previously generated image that doesn't actually exist.

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Just not in my town Dan Lyke / comment 0

McSweeney's: To Solve the Housing Crisis, We Simply Need to Build More Homes (Just Not in My Town)

Also, they should all be subsidized affordable. No market rate. Except that we're gonna create zoning incentives to do only big units.

"AI Native" College Grads Dan Lyke / comment 0

Futurism: Bosses Horrified as “AI Native” College Graduates Hit the Workplace

As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.

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