Kevin Marks

Key findings:
45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue.
31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions.
20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information.
Gemini performed worst with significant issues in 76% of responses, more than double the other assistants, largely due to its poor sourcing performance.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content

2025-08-04 15:36:27 UTC

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well, Activity Streams has Article as well as Note, but Mastodon skipped that part of the spec, so here we are. Use phanpy.social to get better thread handling.

2025-08-04 15:34:10 UTC

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no, it was an XKCD joke first, then the EFF made it real at etech 2007 This thread was fun at the time https://xkcd.com/341/ and even funnier when Randall came to Google and Knuth asked him for the O(n log ( log n) ) proof

2025-08-04 15:13:14 UTC

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ah, then you can edit the html to wrap the footer in <details> like I said above. You can nest them, or do one after each <hr> if you want to present the different sections. It's like collapsing an outline in an outliner, but as native HTML.

2025-08-04 15:04:19 UTC

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I don't know how you do it in WP, that's a standard HTML way to make sections collapsible. Are your sections separate plugins? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/details

2025-08-04 10:17:47 UTC

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I read Cory's posts in a feed reader, and I have a related UX improvement suggestion. Could you wrap the long thread of footer info after each post in a block like this:
<details open><summary>Hide footer</summary>[long thread of footer stuff]</details>
so I can close it and read the next post without scrolling past it for ages? That would be nice.

2025-08-04 07:47:37 UTC

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no lies detected https://flickr.com/photos/zippy/437271856

2025-04-01 21:07:37 UTC

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I made the edit https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Exoplanet&oldid=1283492979

2025-04-01 17:50:19 UTC

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoplanet has a 'discredited claims' section that mentions Barnard's star - adding a summary of the 61 Cygni claims to that would be a reasonable edit.

2024-11-23 21:11:08 UTC

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infinitemac.org is great, it means that I can run the CD-ROMs I worked on in the 1990s again. Now I'm wondering what kind of PICT they were originally, as PICTs could be bitmaps, vector graphics or compressed images too.

2024-11-20 20:19:08 UTC

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No Markdown. Not even once.

2024-11-06 13:37:30 UTC

“I believe — though I would be happy to be proved wrong on this — that current generative AI systems represent a dead end, where exponential increases of training data and effort will give us modest increases in impressive plausibility but no foundational increase in reliability. I would love to see compositional approaches to neural networks, hard as it appears.” https://www.bcs.org/articles-opinion-and-research/does-current-ai-represent-a-dead-end/

2024-10-31 05:01:19 UTC

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oblong industries - the people who did the original multiscreen demo for Minority Report built a thing called Mezzanine that let you move video around a room full of screens using a Wii wand. The idea being that you build a war room full of screens and collaborate in it.
Splendidly satirized in the most recent Slow Horses series.

2024-10-31 01:34:48 UTC

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it reminds me of the oblong stuff, which was all about a flashy demo and not actually about integrating data

2024-10-19 14:39:03 UTC

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also, medievalists are clustering on bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/profgabriele.com/post/3l6uhaunlvr2n

2024-10-19 12:46:50 UTC

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you might get some reading from Ada Palmer, whose Ex Urbe blog is full of the sense of chaos eg https://www.exurbe.com/machiavelli-s-p-q-f/

2024-10-07 14:45:06 UTC

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you could mark the other css file for preload

2024-09-16 22:33:02 UTC

Maybe Google shouldn't strip non-ascii characters when training AI
https://xoxo-media.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/113/149/606/563/589/272/original/3e57b507484fae6b.png

2024-08-25 16:30:58 UTC

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would offshore wind work for Iceland? (Not for crypto nonsense, but for households)

2024-08-19 08:28:23 UTC

After the riots, Keir Starmer should tell us the truth about our country. This is why he won’t | Nesrine Malik | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/19/riots-keir-starmer-racist-anti-immigration-narratives-truth
https://xoxo-media.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/112/987/739/315/579/063/original/b7ee5e32afe01edc.png

2024-08-08 21:31:06 UTC

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I got an updated router from Virgin Media last week and the config app was trying to police what password I could set for my home network.
Fortunately they did it in an SPA so I could set a breakpoint and allow the typeable one I wanted.

2024-08-03 12:59:19 UTC

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as Deniz Opal said “I'm British so have never heard of a "DEI hire". They make it sound like it's about hiring people that are not qualified, so I can only assume it stands for Don Jr, Eric, and Ivanka.” https://syzito.xyz/@selzero/112887613927499819

2024-06-10 21:19:14 UTC

“People act like writing code is the hard part of software. It is not. It never has been, it never will be. Writing code is the easiest part of software engineering, and it’s getting easier by the day. The hard parts are what you do with that code—operating it, understanding it, extending it, and governing it over its entire lifecycle.” https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/06/10/generative-ai-is-not-going-to-build-your-engineering-team-for-you/?utm_campaign=so-blog&utm_content=gen-ai-build-eng-teams&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon by @npub17zp…6ncn

2024-06-05 14:09:22 UTC

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wrote about the problems yesterday
https://werd.io/2024/protecting-artists-on-the-fediverse

2024-05-20 15:39:29 UTC

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what do you mention? A location url? Or do you mention an endpoint and have the location be in the post?