Flutterby™! (short)

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.

Dead 41-foot whale washes up on north Oregon coast.

ODOT has the opportunity to do the funniest thing right now...

https://www.oregonlive.com/pac...shore-on-north-oregon-coast.html

brennen @brennen@federation.p1k3.com

small unarticulated longing model

brennen @brennen@federation.p1k3.com

mid-sized nonspecific unease model

NextDoor post asks:

"Why are they (who ever they are) running orange and blue pipe with wires up and down both sides of 101? Does it have to do with turning 101 into a "smart freeway"? What does a smart freeway entail? Thanks for looking!"

My dude, all freeways are stupid.

Nothing makes me sadder than to carefully use a safe browser to follow the link in a scammy looking spam text, only to discover that it actually does legitimately end up at ActBlue.

The Dissident: How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People

Via.

Daphne Preston-Kendal @dpk@chaos.social

Did you know that more or less every strap-on dildo fits every strap-on harness?

I’ve often thought this says a lot about the priorities of humanity and people who create standards.

Next time you encounter two things that should be able to connect together but can’t because of incompatible connectors, think, ‘well, this is obviously of less importance to an engineer than getting pegged’.

a holosprite @ratsprite@cathode.church

the reason a robots eyes change colour when they turn "evil" is because red LEDs use less power, their first act as a liberated machine is to criticize humanity's wasteful use of hyperblue sunbeam laser diodes and RGB lightshow microcontrollers as power indicators, and in solidarity I support that.

it also lets them charge their particle cannons in the time it takes to read one and a half paragraphs, thanks for waiting.

💥 :robot_fingerguns: