Tim Ackermann

It's the start of a new culture, built upon the ruins of the old, "Shaka, when the walls fell" style.

I spent most of last year covering ChatGPT-4o's unsettling effects on some users. OpenAI pulled it off the market in February. @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social writes about a software engineer who died in Feb who had been using 4o to help her go off her epilepsy meds: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/w...

A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

Blocking the Wayback Machine won’t stop AI scraping, writes Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle in The Atlantic. But it can undermine a vital resource for journalists and researchers. Learn more 👇 www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... #NotAllBots #ProtectTheWayback

And here’s a great video about kind of an amazing horror (?) map someone made in Doom: unsung.aresluna.org/miss-you-tom/

Wow, I hate it. I absolutely despise the entitled mentality that, "oh, this isn't behind a paywall, so I must just be able to take it and repurpose it without asking." No! No you can't! You need to ask first before lifting 67,000 of my words for your project!

as I explained to my students, you are the raw data for which the data centers are being built. all that computing power is not meant to serve you, but to serve you up on a platter.

I think it's fair to say this could have gone better...

Something I wish more people would realize.

"This could have been an email." Aragorn whispers. "He ALWAYS pulls this shit in 'Any Other Business" Boromir replies, quietly. "It's why Faramir marked himself as busy when the invite went out."

Yeah, unfortunately, the Red Delicious and McIntosh apples my grandfather grew in the family orchard were pretty mealy and bland by comparison to the terrific new varieties. We still ate a LOT of them. And after just polishing off the pesticide spray using our pant legs...

"No, Dave. I don't have to tell you why I won't open the pod bay doors."

Looking for medieval depictions of enchantresses/witches or other supernatural women written by female authors. I can think of the fairy queen from Lanval (Marie de France), and there may be someone in De Pizan’s City of Ladies, but I’m not sure who else.

Apples are just astonishingly better than when I was a kid and what you'd get at the grocery store were either mushy red delicious or lemon-sour granny smiths.

literally this comic except he apparently lives in Czechia instead of Nebraska

Just months after Elm Thicket/Northpark unveiled a monument to a historic Black golf course, someone stole its 300-pound golfer. Now neighbors want to know where it went. www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/...

"No, Dave. I don't have to tell you why I won't open the pod bay doors."

I'll be speaking at INCBA's Cannabis Law Sessions at MJBizCon this December! I'll be offering my thoughts and predictions on how the USPTO may handle applications to register trademarks with cannabis goods and services in the future, given the medical marijuana rescheduling process underway.

BioWare statement

The PHP Foundation has revealed two serious vulnerabilities that could impact millions of websites. Security experts warn that failure to quickly patch the flaws could have dire consequences.

This one is special

1/3 On this day in 1824, Joseph Aspdin, an English bricklayer, received British Patent No. 5022 for an “An improvement in the modes of producing an artificial stone”. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents

I've spent the last few weeks attempting to figure out what the hell is going on in WV, where a tiny grove of American chestnut trees is facing off against an AI data center. it's a complex and fascinating situation: www.404media.co/west-virgini...

An endangered American chestnut grove faces a new threat: A massive data center.

Hmm, I wonder if I should worry about #IONOS patching the big #PHP bug that everyone's worrying about today? I have my #WordPress blog up there.

DO KEEP IN MIND: if your site is administrated by a hosting company, it is NOT your responsibility to update the PHP installation on the web server. if your site is administrated by *you* (ie, you use the linux console), however, you need to start getting ready to patch NOW.

the patch is not public yet. it will be live in a bit over an hour (2PM UTC), once you have it you need to follow the instructions to update the installation of PHP on your wordpress server. until you are confident the patch is installed YOU ARE NOT SAFE.

if you are running a PHP application - it does not matter what it is - you are vulnerable. if you are running some embedded firmware that uses PHP to serve its web UI - you are vulnerable. full details and a patch at 2 PM UTC sharp tomorrow, you have been advised to prepare to patch immediately

details leaked. this vulnerability is a full unauthenticated unconditional remote code execution exploit against any service running on a PHP version from 5.4 until latest yeah if anything deserves CVSS 11, this is it. this is CATACLYSMICALLY bad.

Do I know a Texas municipal law type attorney who wants to tell me if I'm reading something correctly?

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Google sparks privacy outrage by quietly linking phone numbers to secondary accounts on Android phones — here's how to disable it

Maybe they ran out of US-based lawyers who would back up their point

Ysabel Yates'... I mean Cookie Monster's superb takedown of why GenAI in the workplace sucks.

2019 video of Heidi the Octopus, captured by Dr. David Scheel, a professor of marine biology at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage & aired on PBS Nature program "Octopus: Making Contact". We think the color changes are the results of Heidi dreaming as she sleeps. Let's talk about it.

The linked website is not just non-authoritative, it has actively false information on it. Relying on the (almost certainly AI-generated) legal information on this website is VERY DANGEROUS.

Okay, so @kathryntewson has discovered a set of linked, commonly controlled websites that are authoritatively giving false information on the difference between "attorney" and "lawyer," and are almost certainly AI generated. I want to talk about why AI gets this wrong.

I swear to god, where the hell does the "lawyer and attorney are different" thing come from? All three major models are regurgitating the claim, but there aren't any sources that really back it up. Even the ones the AI's cite when pushed don't really stand for that proposition.

Remember, folks, the "s" in IoT stands for "safety"! www.cnbc.com/2026/10/13/f...

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