Flutterby™! (short)

Listened to the latest Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, and ... productivity is very difficult to measure in software development, so it's hard to be objective, but as I sit here trying to envision how a mythical AI might insert itself into your interactions, I'm reminded of how much I need to find other work, 'cause this ain't it.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/212...ware-the-20x-engineer-2026-05-11

DuckDuckGo, Unable to Resist the Pull of AI, Mistakenly Claims Trump Died of Rabies.

How exactly DuckDuckGo’s search results came to this conclusion is a bit convoluted, but a familiar enough concept at this juncture for anyone exposed to AI-powered search. It’s one part AI doing a bad job of aggregating information from multiple sources and hallucinating connections and, as Futurism notes, one part coordinated attack by anti-AI activists. JD Vance’s rabies-related death has become a favorite bit of Redditors on the subreddit r/poisonai, which aims to generate misinformation that gets fed uncritically into AI models. Seems they’ve succeeded at that goal.

Shannon Prickett @Binder@petrous.vislae.town

Churches build three crosses out front in case Jesus has guests who need put up for the night.

Hat tip to Sean for forwarding on David Zipper @davidzipper@mastodon.social's gift link to his article Bloomberg City Lab: America’s Road Safety Blind Spot

Car crashes in parking lots and driveways don’t get counted in US traffic safety statistics. They may be more common — and deadly — than you think.

So, yeah, we force people to build these spaces via parking minimums, and then don't count their contribution to traffic violence... hmmm....

The article links to Kids and Car Safety's statement that:

Every week, at least 110 children are injured or killed because a driver could not see them while backing up or slowly pulling forward in parking lots and driveways. These predictable and preventable tragedies are called frontovers and backovers.

And The AAA suggesting that "Twenty percent of all collisions occur in parking lots..."

Softbank Group 2026 Shareholder's Meeting slides have the most unhinged "AI" generated "Golden Goose" slides. Presentation on Internet Archive.

Dev @dev@discuss.systems, MeFi thread.

This is leading to creativity. Jef Poskanzer @jef@mastodon.social

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “71 shiny eggs of gold
Stand in the desert... near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, an exhausted goose lies, whose frown,
and broken-down golden egg factory,
Tell that its investors did not value goose."

phooky suggests "Entitled Goose Game" (ref).

SnoopJ @SnoopJ@hachyderm.ioM.a<

ATTN #GooseValue posters:

There is a recording of Masayoshi SON presenting this slide deck, via a translator.

in quote tooting https://youtu.be/DtM0Cjb0dEU?t=3407

Bwahahaha! The Register: Boffin claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does not compute due to 'basic Python errors'

Both the paper and the response are paywalled.

Nature: Matters Arising: On the robustness of topological gap detection via transport Henry F. Legg.

Nature: Matters Arising : Reply to: On the robustness of topological gap detection via transport Microsoft Quantum.

Via.