Living it up. Midnight screening

Duolingo has become almost unsuable, even on super - there might be no ads but you will have to sit through endless whooshy noises and open 3 chests every 5 minutes which just multiply your points in a desperate attempt to keep you engaged. I just want to turn all the noise off.

This is fine. Right?

New crisp klaxon @rdzien (You'll need to open site in Brave or similar, fucking ad fest) metro.co.uk/2026/05/12/walke…

I just meshed my house. Wifi in the bathroom and kitchen which previously complete dead zones. 250 mbps at the bottom the garden!

Hi @monzo , it seems that when I try to pay my Barclaycard using my Monzo debit, they immediately refund payment. The approval prompt pops up and money leaves monzo but immeditely bounces back. Don't think it's a fault with you but doesn't happen with my natwest card. Any ideas?

You're really starting to irritate me @Barclaycard . Why do you refund payments 4 seconds after I make them. Do you not want me to pay off my card? Do you have issues with Monzo?

What do you think of my beer snacks @rdzien

🦔A researcher invented a fake eye condition called bixonimania, uploaded two obviously fraudulent papers about it to an academic server, and watched major AI systems present it as real medicine within weeks. The fake papers thanked Starfleet Academy, cited funding from the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and the University of Fellowship of the Ring, and stated mid-paper that the entire thing was made up. Google's Gemini told users it was caused by blue light. Perplexity cited its prevalence at one in 90,000 people. ChatGPT advised users whether their symptoms matched. The fake research was then cited in a peer-reviewed journal that only retracted it after Nature contacted the publisher. My Take The researcher made the papers as obviously fake as possible on purpose. The AI systems didn't catch it. Neither did the human researchers who cited it in real journals, which means people are feeding AI-generated references into their work without reading what they're actually citing. I've covered the FDA using AI for drug review, the NYC hospital CEO ready to replace radiologists, and ChatGPT Health launching this year. All of that is happening in the same environment where a condition funded by a Simpsons character and endorsed by the crew of the Enterprise was being presented as emerging medical consensus. The people making these deployment decisions seem to believe the pipeline from research to AI to patient is more supervised than it actually is. This experiment suggests it isn't supervised much at all. Hedgie🤗 nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

Loved @coalsupper 's Thank Goodness You're Here. What a strange little game! Also liked the hidden digs at Thatcher though I'm sure I missed some.

My yodel driver hasn't moved for 3 hours but is still "2 stops away"

The Bible was AI-generated

A 🧵if I may There is a video going around of a man being arrested at an airport for “hurty words” by armed police I know nothing of the job so won’t comment on that but a couple of points from personal experience I had a delightful chap sending his ex horrible messages

one day this will be part of an elaborate exploit chain

stop spending money on Claude Code. Chipotle's support bot is free:

"Can we get rid of this ayatollah T-shirt? Khomeini died years ago." "But, Marge, it works on any ayatollah-- Ayatollah Nakhbadeh, Ayatollah Zahedi. As we speak, Ayatollah Razmara and his cadre of fanatics are consolidating their power." "I don't care who's consolidating their power."

How couples met (1930-2024)

Can't wait for a whole new generation of moon landing deniers!

Another horrible experience with @UberEats . An hour for cold shit food. Not the restaurant's fault, not even driver's fault really, completely down to uber. Not worth complaining as they just don't care. Time to ditch the uber subscription and just not give them any more cash

Seems reasonable.