Flutterby™! (short)

Any body have recommendations for a smoke detector that actually lets you cook? This Firex ionization one in the main part of a house goes off if I try to use the air fryer or brown anything. Super annoying.

Called Capital One via their app, and between the accent of the representative and some of the procedures in verification, egads I hope that hasn't been backdoored, because there are totally places in those processes where this could be an account exploit.

Anthropic(!): How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills

We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery. On a quiz that covered concepts they’d used just a few minutes before, participants in the AI group scored 17% lower than those who coded by hand, or the equivalent of nearly two letter grades. Using AI sped up the task slightly, but this didn’t reach the threshold of statistical significance.

In an effort to extract the most value from our month of Disney+, we watched The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile last night, and really enjoyed that movie.

And if someone wants to give me hours and hours of Brandi Carlile giving studio direction to music icons, I'm all in.

Gr8day @gr8day@mindly.social

Nine out of ten zoo dentists refuse to work on a Grizzly unless it has been given a strong anesthetic.

There's safety in numb bears.

Aaah, it's a good morning for the schadenfreude: Futurism: Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized

While Zairi is only the latest AI hound to bark about stolen prompts, she’s certainly not the first. Examples abound, as the Daily Dot pointed out back in December: consider a poster who railed about “prompt thieves in the AI art community,” or the “AI artist” who went on a tangent after someone aped his prompt “without knowing it’s mine.”

I am not one generally to watch a 27 minute video of someone talking about a Nature blog post, but this roast of a dude who became ChatGPT dependent is giving me all the schadenfreude warm fuzzies.

Angela Collier: this is what 2 years of chatgpt does to your brain (YouTube video)

The massive self-own is Nature: When two years of academic work vanished with a single click

After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.

https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-04064-7

I'm not getting a lot of solace from the headlines these days, but the news that the rumored Nvidia plan to dump $100B into OpenAI is collapsing brightens my day.

Reuters: Nvidia's plan to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI has stalled, WSJ reports