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Neil Brown @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
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New blogpost: "Calibre, AI, and one size not fitting all"

I have found the various reactions to Calibre's introduction of “AI” most interesting; these are just some initial reflections, but I wanted to note them down anyway.

neilzone.co.uk/2025/12/calibre

Photo of me, a white man with a short dark beard, and dark hair, smiling at the camera, while sitting in front of a vintage terminal with green text on the screen.

Calibre, AI, and one size not fitting all

I have used the eBook management tool Calibre for many years, supplementing its core functionality (of which I probably use only a tiny amount) with various plug-ins.

neilzone.co.uk

Link author: Neil Brown@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

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Pseudonymous :antiverified: @VictimOfSimony@infosec.exchange
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@Em0nM4stodonEm :official_verified:

The radio had a fluff piece today about trying to cut all out of your life. They had a reporter who had previously tried to live according to Old Testament rules and wrote a book about that. The reporter was trying to do things like buy products only if they didn't use A.I. price adjustments. Basic participation in society was not plausible. :blobcatgooglyshrug:

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FediThing 🏳️‍🌈 @FediThing@chinwag.org
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This is a really excellent non-fiction piece by @WeirdWriterRobert Kingett about a writing group with a tech bro:

sightlessscribbles.com/the-col

It is a distilled essence of the social and cultural damage AI/LLM is causing, how AI promoters are cynically destroying people's confidence in their own humanity, while simultaneously trying to ridicule and other people who point out that AI is bullshit. (And this isn't even mentioning the environmental consequences.)

The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.

sightlessscribbles.com

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남정현 @rkttu@hackers.pub
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식탁보 1.14.0에서 오랫만에 업데이트를 진행하면서, 생성형 AI의 도움을 받아 적극적인 현대화를 달성하고 있습니다.

  • InnoSetup 대신 Velopack을 사용한 간소화된 사용자 인스톨러 경험 구현

  • MSBUILD 프로젝트 대신 .NET SDK로 .NET Framework 프로젝트 마이그레이션 (추후 완전히 .NET 10과 Avalonia로도 전환할 수 있게 함)

  • TableCloth 프로젝트의 경우 .NET 8/9에서 .NET 10으로 판올림

  • Windows 11 ARM64 GitHub Action Runner가 공식화됨에 따라 ARM64 빌드 추가 예정

내부 정비가 끝나는 대로 식탁보 1.15.0 버전을 출시하도록 하겠습니다. 또한 생성형 AI 코드 어시스턴트의 도움을 적극 받아 1인 개발에서 오는 한계를 극복해보려 합니다.

최신 소스 커밋 목록은 https://github.com/yourtablecloth/TableCloth/commits/main/ 에서 확인하실 수 있습니다.

식탁보 프로젝트. Contribute to yourtablecloth/TableCloth development by creating an account on GitHub.

Commits · yourtablecloth/TableCloth

식탁보 프로젝트. Contribute to yourtablecloth/TableCloth development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com · GitHub

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social
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🙅‍♂️ Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications

｢ The papers attempted to train neural networks to distinguish between autistic and non-autistic children in a dataset containing photos of children’s faces. Retired engineer Gerald Piosenka created the dataset in 2019 by downloading photos of children from “websites devoted to the subject of autism,” according to a description of the dataset’s methods, and uploaded it to Kaggle ｣

thetransmitter.org/retraction/

A stack of papers topped by many paper shreddings against a red background.

Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications

The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.

www.thetransmitter.org · The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives

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leyrer @leyrer@23.social
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AI churn has IT rebuilding tech stacks every 90 days

According to a survey from AI data quality vendor Cleanlab, 70% of regulated enterprises — and 41% of unregulated organizations — replace at least part of their AI stacks every three months, with another quarter of both regulated and unregulated companies updating every six months.

Cleanlab estimates that only 1% of represented enterprises have deployed AI agents beyond the pilot stage.

cio.com/article/4101921/ai-chu

AI churn has IT rebuilding tech stacks every 90 days

IT leaders can’t settle on AI toolchains due to a fast-evolving ecosystem, confusion over product offerings, and dissatisfaction with available components.

www.cio.com · CIO

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leyrer @leyrer@23.social
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Aus der beliebten Serie "Wir brauchen kein Fachpersonal, AI-Prompts kann sogar ein Manager schreiben":

Laut Amanda Askell von Anthropic ist Prompt Engineering mehr als nur Ausprobieren. Philosophie habe ihr geholfen, Anweisungen an KI-Tools klarer zu formulieren.

!!! Ein Grundpfeiler bestehe beispielsweise darin, Ideen klar und präzise zu kommunizieren. !!!

heise.de/news/Anthropic-Philos

Anthropic-Philosophin erklärt: So schreiben sie wirklich gute Prompts

Laut Amanda Askell von Anthropic ist Prompt Engineering mehr als nur Ausprobieren. Philosophie habe ihr geholfen, Anweisungen an KI-Tools klarer zu formulieren.

www.heise.de · heise online

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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI by Karen Hao, 2025

From a brilliant longtime AI insider with intimate access to the world of Sam Altman's OpenAI from the beginning, an eye-opening account of arguably the most fateful tech arms race in history, reshaping the planet in real time, from the cockpit of the company that is driving the frenzy.




When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, the organization was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely mercantile, and potentially dangerous, forces. What could go wrong? Over time, Hao began to wrestle ever more deeply with that question. Increasingly, she realized that the core truth of this massively disruptive sector is that its vision of success requires an almost unprecedented amount of resources: the “compute” power of high-end chips and the processing capacity to create massive large language models, the sheer volume of data that needs to be amassed at scale, the humans “cleaning up” that data for sweatshop wages throughout the Global South, and a truly alarming spike in the usage of energy and water underlying it all. The truth is that we have entered a new and ominous age of empire: only a small handful of globally scaled companies can even enter the field of play. At the head of the pack with its ChatGPT breakthrough, how would OpenAI resist such temptations? Spoiler alert: it didn’t. Armed with Microsoft’s billions, OpenAI is setting a breakneck pace, chased by a small group of the most valuable companies in human history—toward what end, not even they can define.
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Jon S. von Tetzchner @jon@social.vivaldi.net
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Elkjøp, likely the largest Norwegian based electronics store, is now running ads for Copilot where they speak about how great Recall is. Likely the ad is paid for by Microsoft.

They show the picture below and they talk of how great it is that the machine remembers everything you have done with it (and has the pictures to prove it!).

I guess when you make something that most people do not want, you just push it harder.

Remember that you have a choice to move away from Big Tech.


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just small circles 🕊 @smallcircles@social.coop
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Vid by Prof Richard Wolff. Except its a full re-creation of this guy. Collapsed description of the YT channel reads:

> Disclaimer: Heart To Wolf is an independent, fan-created channel and is not affiliated with Richard D. Wolff or any of his companies.

> By reimagining these messages through modern editing, narration, and presentation, we aim to help viewers connect emotionally and intellectually with the insights shared, without any intention to misrepresent the original views.

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Stefan Bohacek @stefan@stefanbohacek.online
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A few years ago, way before "AI" and LLMs became a thing, I made a game called Detective, where the players were randomly paired either with another player, or a chatbot, and had to figure out whether they're speaking with a "robot", or a human pretending to be one.

Looks like we're all playing that game now.

"AI is trained off people, and people copy what they see other people doing. People become more like AI, and AI becomes more like people."

gizmodo.com/chatbot-dialect-20

Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger

Slop may be seeping into the nooks and crannies of our brains.

gizmodo.com · Gizmodo

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IEEE Spectrum @ieeespectrum@mastodon.social
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Several agents were tested to see if they would break assigned rules when faced with deadlines and other kinds of pressure. Google Gemini 2.5 was the worst offender, breaking rules 79 percent of the time under pressure. Even under zero pressure, the AI agents still broke assigned rules 19 percent of the time. spectrum.ieee.org/ai-agents-sa

How AI Agents Misbehave When Faced With Real-World Pressures

Can AI agents resist pressure or do they crack? Discover how PropensityBench tests their likelihood to misbehave when put under pressure.

spectrum.ieee.org · IEEE Spectrum

Link author: IEEE Spectrum@ieeespectrum@mastodon.social

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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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If you are on a Windows 11 computer, pause everything you are doing for one minute and:

Open computer settings
Click on Accessibility on the left-hand menu
Scroll down the Accessibility menu and click on the Keyboard Option
Under the "related settings" tab, click "Typing" which should have a description of "spellcheck, autocorrect, text suggestions."
Turn off the AI "correct misspelled words"
and most importantly: turn off Typing Insights.


[ID: a screenshot of the above mentioned Windows 11 settings, showing that Typing Insights is now turned off, with the following description from Microsoft: "Windows is using artificial intelligence to help you type To help you save time and type efficiently, Windows can learn to suggest words, autocorrect spelling mistakes, and interpret swiped typing. Take a look at the insights below to see up-to-the-minute stats on how Windows has learned to improve typing for you. These stats are stored only on this device and Microsoft does not collect the typing insights data." via novella-november
earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Generative AI, and especially AI that is used to "personalize" and track your activity across the web and on your computer are never going to be in your best interest, it is always going to serve these companies in whatever way will line their pockets the most, and all it takes is updating their terms of service once, and then all of that data they promised they weren't collecting suddenly all belongs to them.

via novella-november





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J❀y @lurkjay@mastodon.social
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Healthy radium cigarettes

This one was inspired by a tweet I saw a few years ago, something along the lines of “machine learning is the radium salts of the twenty-first century”. This joke is more relevant than ever; corporations are trying to squeeze “AI” into every role imaginable, no matter that it’s mostly useless and often harmful.

Full size (3000×3500, 1.13 MB): deviantart.com/lurkjay/art/105

Painting of a white pack of cigarettes on a dark blue background. The front of the pack says “LLM” in dark red slab-serif letters, underneath it is a line of dark grey sans-serif text saying “healthy radium cigarettes”.
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
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While on one level this story of a AI-generated picture of a bridge collapse (after the earthquake centred near Morecambe Bay on Wednesday night) leading to train cancelations seems relatively minor, its an example of the sort of disruption that the use of AI is already generating.... we may soon find that having no real trust in any images will cause all sorts of social problems (which is not to say that disruption is not already evident).

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwygqq

A side-by-side photo showing a damaged bridge on the right. A section of the barriers that run along the top of the bridge appears to have collapsed and a pile of rubble can be seen underneath. A large hole can be seen in front of the bridge. The left is a photo of the bridge taken today showing it is undamaged.

Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image

Rail services were cancelled after a 'hoax' picture of a damaged bridge appeared on social media

www.bbc.co.uk · BBC News

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Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
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"The short version is that YouTube used AI to 'enhance' the videos of Rick Beato and Rhett Shull. YouTube used an AI smoothing filter that made the videos look like they were AI generated, and didn’t tell Beato, Shull, or their viewers that they were doing it. They only admitted to it after the two made videos proving it happened, later claiming it was only a 'limited test'.”

joshgriffiths.site/youtube-is-

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YouTube is Awful. I'm Not Posting There Anymore.

I’ve made YouTube videos for ten years, but I can’t do it anymore. I can no longer tolerate the abhorrent things YouTube and Google have gotten up to in the ...

joshgriffiths.site · Josh Griffiths

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just small circles 🕊 @smallcircles@social.coop
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wants to pump billions into 10 huge data centers, so that "we can catch up with US and China". All purely driven by market forces, "stay competitive", not to provide basic services for its citizens.

The internet still is a Wild West. It's weird how gov dropped the ball in providing us with , where offline they do provide the electrical grid, roads, bridges, etc. in well-organized fashion. Gov should have provided the search infrastructure of the web, in a similar fashion.

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Claire Giordano ✨ @clairegiordano@hachyderm.io
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I just learned this week about the Global PyLadies Conference—happening virtually this Fri & Sat Dec 5th and 6th.

And Dawn Wages @BajoranEngineerdawn is one of the keynoters!

And Dingding Lu + Gauri Kasar (who I know from the Postgres team on Azure) are teaching a 1.5 hour workshop titled "Build Agentic AI with Semantic Kernel and Graph RAG on PostgreSQL" (on Sat Dec 6th at 10am PST)

I suppose it's not a surprise to see at a conference!

If you're just learning about this PyLadies conference, check out the schedule! And here is the link to Dingding and Gauri's workshop re Postgres: pretalx.com/pyladiescon-2025/t

PyLadiesCon 2025 poster with bio pics of Gauri Kasar and Dingding Lu from MIcrosoft, along with the title of their 1.5 hour workshop: "Build Agentic AI with Semantic Kernel and GraphRAG on PostgreSQL"
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남정현 @rkttu@hackers.pub
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여러 해 동안 블로그 포스팅을 해오면서, 어떻게 하면 블로그 글 자체에만 집중하는 포스팅 환경을 구축할 수 있을 것인가에 대한 고민을 해왔습니다. 그러다가 개념 증명 단계를 넘어서서 실질적인 프레임워크를 하나 만들어봤고, 성공적으로 시스템을 시작할 수 있게 되어 소식을 공유합니다. :-D

이 프레임워크의 좋은 점은, 형식을 강제하지는 않으면서 3개 국어 (한국어, 영어, 일본어)의 번역 일관성을 유지하고, 글에 대한 탈고와 리뷰 과정까지 AI에 맡긴다는 점입니다.

조만간 기존 네이버 블로그, velog, 링크드인 등 다양한 곳에 흩뿌려져 있던 콘텐츠들을 이곳으로 통합하여 운영을 시작할 예정입니다.

https://devwrite.ai/ko/posts/introducing-devwrite-blog/

/dev/write: AI와 함께 기술 블로그 운영하기

기술 블로그를 운영하면서 가장 큰 고민은 “어떻게 하면 꾸준히 양질의 글을 쓸 수 있을까"입니다. 특히 다국어로 콘텐츠를 제공하고 싶다면 번역까지 신경 써야 하니, 부담이 배로 늘어나죠. /dev/write는 이런 고민에서 시작했습니다. Hugo 정적 사이트 생성기에 GitHub Copilot을 결합해서, 글쓰기에만 집중할 수 있는 환경을 만들어봤습니다. 왜 또 블로그 시스템인가? 솔직히 말하면, 기존 블로그 플랫폼들도 충분히 좋습니다. Medium, velog, 티스토리 모두 훌륭한 선택지예요. 하지만 몇 가지 아쉬운 점이 있었습니다. 첫째, 다국어 지원입니다. 한국어로 쓴 글을 영어와 일본어로도 제공하고 싶었는데, 대부분의 플랫폼에서는 별도 계정이나 복잡한 설정이 필요했습니다.

devwrite.ai · /dev/write

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Stefan Grund :eay: @eay@eay.social
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AI CEO – Replace your Boss before they replace you → replaceyourboss.ai/

> „AI CEOs deliver instant executive decisions without the executive salary.“
> „No bonus packages / No private jet needed / No mood swings / Ego-free“

Super sinnvolle CEO-Weisheiten wie "Empathy, but only if it's billable" oder "Sleep is just unconscious time theft" in einer Mini-Anwendung gebaut von Serious People, die diverse aktivistisch-kreative Kampagnen…

∞ eay.li/3xm /via @ennopark

AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace You

Stop working for humans. AI CEO delivers algorithmic thought leadership, with instant decisions, and zero ego. Replace your boss before they replace you.

ai-ceo.seriouspeople.co

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social
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One thing about "AI" is with the technology OpenAI has (large neural network plus manual tagging) you could've made the best search engine ever. There could be a Copilot where you describe what you wanted and it finds an example of it in the corpus of open source software. You could go from a fuzzy image description to a stock image. These would be better than buggy code and fucked up images. But they wouldn't do that because the *service* OpenAI provides is obscuring that the content is stolen.

Wulfy @n_dimension@infosec.exchange
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@mcc

Not sure when you've used 👉properly👈.

In my experience the more vocal opponent of AI is the further back in time their (lack of use) goes.
With the most ardent opponents having never used the models, yet having most empathic (and increasingly inaccurate) opinions.

Attached media, a public query from today, with sources dropdown at the bottom.

Approx 30% of web searches comes from the engines nowadays.

(Edit: Hahaha, insta blocked by poster, I guess folks don't like to be called out on saying patent provable falsehoods 🤡

The poster, made a comment exposing their ignorance of features of existing AI. This one has 33,000 followers, question is "How many others like them have zero idea about the systems they critique"?)

Chatgpt with sources
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