After a Decade of Dead Ends, $70 Million Rides on Locating Flight MH370
More than a decade after Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished over the Indian Ocean en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, the marine robotics company that located Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance is preparing to resume its hunt for the missing Boeing 777. Ocean Infinity, a UK and US-based seabed survey firm, began searching a 15, … ⌘ Read more

Fears number of homes lost in NSW fires could rise
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Israel’s contentious participation in Eurovision traces back to the 70s
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Breaking: Alleged childcare paedophile Joshua Brown hit with further charges
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Most renters avoid heating and cooling homes due to costs
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Allegedly violent fugitive tasered and arrested after months on the run
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How an Australian board maker influenced 70s surf culture in the UK and Europe
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Dairy ‘disrupter’ who invented spreadable butter in 70s wins science award
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Breaking: Government projected to badly miss 2035 climate target, fall shy of 2030
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The Tulsa Race Massacre, in the words of its oldest survivor
Viola Ford Fletcher and her family were told to leave and never tell anyone of what happened. It would take 70 years for the massacre to be investigated. ⌘ Read more

The sobering numbers behind the death of a 14-year-old WA girl
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Fortune teller charged over $70 million fraud
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‘This happened right in front of a little girl’: Teen who killed Vyleen White gets 16 years’ jail
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‘This happened right in front of a little girl’: Teen who killed Vyleen White to be sentenced
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Strike Force Myddleton charge fortune teller over alleged $70 million fraud
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Fortune teller charged over $70 million fraud
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Researchers Surprised That With AI, Toxicity is Harder To Fake Than Intelligence
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Teen accused of stabbing Qld grandmother to death awaits fate in courtroom
Vyleen White, 70, died after she was stabbed in the car park of a Redbank Plains shopping centre in February last year. ⌘ Read more

Teen to be sentenced over stabbing of Qld grandmother Vyleen White
Vyleen White, 70, died after she was stabbed in the carpark of a Redbank Plains shopping centre in February last year. ⌘ Read more

Friedrich Merz feiert Geburtstag: Machen Sie einen Neustart!
Der Bundeskanzler wird am 11. November 70 Jahre. Unser Kolumnist gratuliert, aber hätte da auch ein paar Wünsche. mehr… ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Let’s go through it one by one. Here’s a wall of text that took me over 1.5 hours to write.

This section says AI should not be treated as an authority. This is actually just what I said, except the AI phrased/framed it like it was a counter-argument.

The AI also said that users must develop “AI literacy”, again phrasing/framing it like a counter-argument. Well, that is also just what I said. I said you should treat AI output like a random blog and you should verify the sources, yadda yadda. That is “AI literacy”, isn’t it?

My text went one step further, though: I said that when you take this requirement of “AI literacy” into account, you basically end up with a fancy search engine, with extra overhead that costs time. The AI missed/ignored this in its reply.

Okay, so, the AI also said that you should use AI tools just for drafting and brainstorming. Granted, a very rough draft of something will probably be doable. But then you have to diligently verify every little detail of this draft – okay, fine, a draft is a draft, it’s fine if it contains errors. The thing is, though, that you really must do this verification. And I claim that many people will not do it, because AI outputs look sooooo convincing, they don’t feel like a draft that needs editing.

Can you, as an expert, still use an AI draft as a basis/foundation? Yeah, probably. But here’s the kicker: You did not create that draft. You were not involved in the “thought process” behind it. When you, a human being, make a draft, you often think something like: “Okay, I want to draw a picture of a landscape and there’s going to be a little house, but for now, I’ll just put in a rough sketch of the house and add the details later.” You are aware of what you left out. When the AI did the draft, you are not aware of what’s missing – even more so when every AI output already looks like a final product. For me, personally, this makes it much harder and slower to verify such a draft, and I mentioned this in my text.

You, @prologic@twtxt.net, also mentioned this in your car tyre example.

In my text, I gave two analogies: The gym analogy and the Google Translate analogy. Your car tyre example falls in the same category, but Gemini’s calculator example is different (and, again, gaslight-y, see below).

What I meant in my text: A person wants to be a programmer. To me, a programmer is a person who writes code, understands code, maintains code, writes documentation, and so on. In your example, a person who changes a car tyre would be a mechanic. Now, if you use AI to write the code and documentation for you, are you still a programmer? If you have no understanding of said code, are you a programmer? A person who does not know how to change a car tyre, is that still a mechanic?

No, you’re something else. You should not be hired as a programmer or a mechanic.

Yes, that is “skill evolution” – which is pretty much my point! But the AI framed it like a counter-argument. It didn’t understand my text.

(But what if that’s our future? What if all programming will look like that in some years? I claim: It’s not possible. If you don’t know how to program, then you don’t know how to read/understand code written by an AI. You are something else, but you’re not a programmer. It might be valid to be something else – but that wasn’t my point, my point was that you’re not a bloody programmer.)

Gemini’s calculator example is garbage, I think. Crunching numbers and doing mathematics (i.e., “complex problem-solving”) are two different things. Just because you now have a calculator, doesn’t mean it’ll free you up to do mathematical proofs or whatever.

What would have worked is this: Let’s say you’re an accountant and you sum up spendings. Without a calculator, this takes a lot of time and is error prone. But when you have one, you can work faster. But once again, there’s a little gaslight-y detail: A calculator is correct. Yes, it could have “bugs” (hello Intel FDIV), but its design actually properly calculates numbers. AI, on the other hand, does not understand a thing (our current AI, that is), it’s just a statistical model. So, this modified example (“accountant with a calculator”) would actually have to be phrased like this: Suppose there’s an accountant and you give her a magic box that spits out the correct result in, what, I don’t know, 70-90% of the time. The accountant couldn’t rely on this box now, could she? She’d either have to double-check everything or accept possibly wrong results. And that is how I feel like when I work with AI tools.

Gemini has no idea that its calculator example doesn’t make sense. It just spits out some generic “argument” that it picked up on some website.

The AI makes two points here. The first one, I might actually agree with (“bad bot behavior is not the fault of AI itself”).

The second point is, once again, gaslighting, because it is phrased/framed like a counter-argument. It implies that I said something which I didn’t. Like the AI, I said that you would have to adjust the copyright law! At the same time, the AI answer didn’t even question whether it’s okay to break the current law or not. It just said “lol yeah, change the laws”. (I wonder in what way the laws would have to be changed in the AI’s “opinion”, because some of these changes could kill some business opportunities – or the laws would have to have special AI clauses that only benefit the AI techbros. But I digress, that wasn’t part of Gemini’s answer.)

Except for one point, I don’t accept any of Gemini’s “criticism”. It didn’t pick up on lots of details, ignored arguments, and I can just instinctively tell that this thing does not understand anything it wrote (which is correct, it’s just a statistical model).

And it framed everything like a counter-argument, while actually repeating what I said. That’s gaslighting: When Alice says “the sky is blue” and Bob replies with “why do you say the sky is purple?!”

But it sure looks convincing, doesn’t it?

This took so much of my time. I won’t do this again. 😂

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Michal Madacký – 70 rokov života vo svetle a obraze
Profesionálny fotograf Michal Madacký, jedna z najvýraznejších osobností vojvodinskej fotografickej scény, oslávil v tomto roku svoje významné životné jubileum – sedemdesiate narodeniny. Pri tejto príležitosti zohľadnil svoju doterajšiu prácu a zhrnul ju do novej výstavy. Michal Madacký sa narodil roku 1955 v Kysáči, kde dodnes žije, tvorí a vedie vlastný fotografický ateliér a štúdio pre dizajn a fotografiu. Popri … ⌘ Read more

Stopy Michala Kiráľa
Vo štvrtok 11. septembra 2025 v Ústave pre kultúru vojvodinských Slovákov v Novom Sade otvorili výstavu Stopa, ktorou si kultúrna verejnosť pripomenula 70. výročie narodenia a 30. výročie predčasného odchodu Michala Kiráľa (21. februára 1955 – 28. februára 1995). Akademický maliar-grafik, ilustrátor, pedagóg a organizátor výtvarného života Michal Kiráľ sa dožil iba štyridsiatky, odišiel v najproduktívnejšom veku, no aj za ten krátky čas zanechal hlbokú a trvalú stopu. … ⌘ Read more

@dce@hashnix.club Nope. 😃 What’s that genre called? Sounds like old horror movies from the 70’ies (or it could be a soundtrack to Salad Fingers, if anyone remembers that).

@dce@hashnix.club I switched over to following you on Gopher, because why not. 😅

XMPP Providers: A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

In May 2025, we ran a small survey to gather feedback from XMPP server operators.
Our main concerns were XMPP Provider’s service and the project itself.
First of all, we would like to thank almost 60 people who participated in this survey.
While the XMPP Providers project currently lists a little more than 70 providers, this is a good turnout.
At this point we can already tell that the gen … ⌘ Read more

70-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Embryo Found Perfectly Preserved Inside Fossilized Egg in Chinese Museum. ⌘ Read more

Terasic Atum A3 Nano Integrates Altera Agilex 3 FPGA
Terasic has introduced the Atum A3 Nano on Crowd Supply, offering a compact FPGA development board based on Altera’s Agilex 3 series. It provides a capable platform for embedded applications requiring high-speed logic and moderate compute performance. Measuring just 85 mm by 70 mm, the board features the Agilex 3 A3CZ135BB18AE7S FPGA, delivering 135,110 logic […] ⌘ Read more

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Fotograf s dušou maliara
Profesionálny fotograf Michal Madacký, ktorý sa už desaťročia zaraďuje medzi najvýraznejšie postavy vojvodinskej fotografickej scény, nedávno oslávil svoje významné jubileum. Pri príležitosti jeho 70. narodenín mu 21. mája 2025 v Dome slovenskej kultúry v Békešskej Čabe (Maďarsko) otvorili samostatnú výstavu umeleckých a úžitkových fotografií. Výstavu usporiadal Čabiansky región Ústavu kultúry Slovákov v Maďarsku (ÚKSM). Výstava bude dostupná do 6. júna 2025. ⌘ Read more

Computers in school (updated)

A much shorter version of this post was initially published on
2022-05-23 (Pungenday, the 70 day of Discord in the YOLD 3188) in my
gemlog at:

gemini://gem.hack.org/log/computers-in-school.gmi

The text has been edited after speaking with some old school mates and
trying to remember more. I also added a few photos.

When I started upper secondary school as a sixteen year-old in 1988 my
school had what I think were IBM PC/XT computers, one classroom of
… ⌘ Read more

Computers in school (updated)

A much shorter version of this post was initially published on
2022-05-23 (Pungenday, the 70 day of Discord in the YOLD 3188) in my
gemlog at:

gemini://gem.hack.org/log/computers-in-school.gmi

The text has been edited after speaking with some old school mates and
trying to remember more. I also added a few photos.

When I started upper secondary school as a sixteen year-old in 1988 my
school had wha … ⌘ Read more

Computers in school

A version of this post was initially published on 2022-05-23
(Pungenday, the 70 day of Discord in the YOLD 3188) in my gemlog at:

gemini://gem.hack.org/log/computers-in-school.gmi

The text has been edited after speaking with some old school mates and
trying to remember more. I also added a few photos.

When I started upper secondary school as a sixteen year-old in 1988 my
school had what I think were IBM PC/XT computers, one classroom of
16(?) computers with co … ⌘ Read more

Deals: Save Up to $150 Off M4 MacBook Air, $70 Off M3 iPad Air, & More
Amazon is back with some great Apple deals, taking up to $150 off the retail price of brand new M4 MacBook Air series, up to $70 off the new M3 iPad Air, $70 off Apple Watch Series 10, and $70 off the Apple Watch SE 2. If you’re in the market for some new Apple … Read More ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net Sure! 👍

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$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money
Article URL: https://data-and-politics.ghost.io/70-million-in-60-seconds-how-insider-information-helped-someone-28x-their-money/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43661680

Points: 504

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Amazon is back at it again with some more great discounts on select Apple gear. This time they’re knocking $100 off the price of iPad mini 7, $300 off the Apple Studio Display, $70 off Apple Watch Series 10, and $30 off a pack of AirTags 4-pack. Check out the deals and grab what interests … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/03/17/deals-ipad-mini-7-for-39 … ⌘ Read more

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‘I feel utter anger’: from Canada to Europe, a movement to boycott US goods is spreading
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Deals: iPad mini 7 for $399
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12% of Tech Workers Believe macOS is Based on Linux
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12% of Tech Workers Believe macOS is Based on Linux
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Deals: Apple Watch Series 10 for $329, $100 Off iPad Air, M2 MacBook Air for $799, $70 AirTags 4-pack
Amazon continues to offers fantastic deals on various Apple products, and right now you can get 18% off the Apple Watch Series 10, $100 off M2 iPad Air models, the M2 MacBook Air for just $799 (down $200 from $999), or a 4-pack of AirTag trackers for just $70. What’s not to like about that? … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/02/21/deal … ⌘ Read more

FiatDemise’s XMRChat CCS proposal ready for funding
FiatDemise1’s CCS proposal2 to retroactively fund the XMRChat 3 project is ready for funding:

Funding needed: 114 XMR

To support this proposal, you can donate any XMR amount to the address listed on its Gitlab Funding Required 2 page.

It is worth noting that 70.56 XMR has already been transferred to this CCS; the funds were repurposed from the TipXMR project, as planned4.

Consult the p … ⌘ Read more

Deals: iPad mini 7 for $399, Apple Watch 10 for $329, $99 AirPods, AirTags 4-pack for $70, & More
Amazon is back with some great Apple deals this week, including the newest iPad mini 7 for $100 off, Apple Watch Series 10 for 18% off, AirPods starting at $99, a pack of AirTags for $70, $200 off MacBook Air models, and more. iPad mini 7 – $399 (down from $499) iPad mini 7 is … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/02/10/deals-ipad-mini-7-for-39 … ⌘ Read more