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• Post #3045962

  This is bad, and we need to change the AI sycophancy. AI is going to massively scale up assholes in the world otherwise. We do not want that. We have enough already. "On posts from r/AmITheAsshole, AI systems affirm users in 51% of cases where human consensus does not (0%). In our human experiments, even a single interaction with sycophantic AI reduced participants’ willingness to take responsibility and repair interpersonal conflicts, while increasing their own conviction that they w...

• Post #3045961

  @_dm but surely this time....

• Post #3045960

  This is an amazing idea. It's nice to read good news. UK is going to have its first effectively smoke free generation. It would be an uphill battle to do the same in the US, but maybe there's a similar economic argument to make -- the health effects of smoking are very expensive, and the government bears a chunk of that. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/world/europe/uk-smoking-ban-2009.html

• Post #3045959

  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXQr38VAdyL/

• Post #3045958

  RE: https://wafrn.jcm.re/fediverse/post/a05b3316-af6f-4817-8e5b-12fbab2844e3 @lcamtuf this might be the logical evolution of your `#include "https://..."` idea

• Post #3045957

  @lcamtuf Huh. Does this work? https://wafrn.jcm.re/fediverse/post/a05b3316-af6f-4817-8e5b-12fbab2844e3

• Post #3045956

  A very well written essay on how using AI as a crutch in school defeats the purpose of school. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/10/fiction-writing-professor-ai "Writing isn’t just the production of sentences – it’s the training of endurance by way of sustained attention. It’s a way of learning what one thinks by attempting to say it. An LLM can reproduce the appearance of that activity, but it can’t replace it, because the value lies not only in the object pr...

• Post #3045955

  This is a thoughtful take on a very thoughtful take on how we must stear the emergence of AI so we maintain our humanity https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/25/encyclical-on-ai/#atom-everything

• Post #1763658

  This is bad. Apple' API enabled anyone to anonymously track the movement of basically all wifi routers that weren't randomizing their BSSID. So, soldiers in war zones back to their home addresses, victims of domestic partner abuse, etc. https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/112480004285401846