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Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers

Turtles all the way down www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

24.01.2026 15:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There’s more of gravy than of grave about him

09.12.2025 09:58 👍 93 🔁 26 💬 10 📌 0
A hat that reads “ever since i was young i wanted to transform unstructured data into actionable business insights”

A hat that reads “ever since i was young i wanted to transform unstructured data into actionable business insights”

This is supposed to be ironic but I saw it and went “Yeah!”

05.09.2025 00:26 👍 314 🔁 44 💬 12 📌 7
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A dogged reporter takes on a mysterious cabal in 'The Diary of Lies' Philip Miller's sinister thriller is set in a Great Britain that's lost its bearings. But even when she's terrified, fictional journalist Shona Sandison will always risk everything to get the story.

Philip Miller's sinister thriller is set in a Great Britain that's lost its bearings. But even when she's terrified, fictional journalist Shona Sandison will always risk everything to get the story.

13.08.2025 19:07 👍 75 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0

Every now and again I remember Shingy. It’s like losing The Game.

27.05.2025 02:17 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My new AI benchmark: can it understand “play 2 Rights by Mogwai” in an Ayrshire accent.

Dead last place: Siri

25.05.2025 01:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New record set: six “I’m transcribing this call with Tactiq AI” comments auto-posted at the start of the meeting.

23.04.2025 17:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A busy Tesla store, full of shoppers

A busy Tesla store, full of shoppers

Tesla Century City not exactly looking like they’re struggling

10.03.2025 01:43 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I feel like my weather app has taken on the quality of Mary Poppins’ measuring tape and is showing where I *ammmm at*, rather than just where I am located.

05.01.2025 23:51 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
1960s Modulex packaging in white and blue

1960s Modulex packaging in white and blue

A pair of Modulex bricks, 2x5 and 1x5, in muted orange and brown. It’s like uncanny valley LEGO

A pair of Modulex bricks, 2x5 and 1x5, in muted orange and brown. It’s like uncanny valley LEGO

TIL there was a LEGO professional offshoot for architects and planners, called Modulex. www.newelementary.com/2017/11/old-...

30.11.2024 16:18 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I’m off the other site now.

Here is a poem from my book Blame Yourself (Nine Pens). Good night.

20.11.2024 22:03 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Meeting the reception parents was very stressful, as I crumbled into dust before their healthy, clear-skinned gazes

20.11.2024 10:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

US visa approved! Now to take a big drink of oil and check out the latest news from over there

20.11.2024 09:59 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Just watched a napkin be blown gently and slowly off my table by a soft breeze.

Failed to stop it.

Now to watch those videos of F1 driver reaction times and think “pffft I could do that”

07.11.2024 13:41 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Getting comped a free cappuccino at Pret. Am I … everything I dared to hope about myself?

20.09.2024 11:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Moomins

Moomins

Tuesday

17.09.2024 05:26 👍 124 🔁 39 💬 2 📌 0

In Foyle’s, reluctantly putting a giant book back because I know I don’t have the time.

I used to have to put giant books back because I didn’t have the money, so I suppose this is better??

22.08.2024 14:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Booking a Lime bike that I want to use is a microagression.

21.08.2024 09:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Loved this little slice of Vonnegut interviewing Caro. “I wouldn’t take your job for anything”.

www.robertcaro.org/post/an-inte...

18.08.2024 13:23 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Amazing Damo. I don’t want to think how early (or long) you had to be there to get that.

18.08.2024 13:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Without it this app is all about one guy for me

18.08.2024 13:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“Ah a disaster and emergency kit in my hotel room, how thoughtful and completely normal” I think every time I check in to California

15.08.2023 19:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No, but he’s all over my Threads!

07.07.2023 01:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Might as well get the “it’s the most shit idea I’ve ever heard … oh I like it” cycle started early!

05.07.2023 09:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I spent a weekend in a tent and now this? Things are changing around here.

03.07.2023 21:05 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0