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From today's Tom the Dancing Bug:

I was in Hobbiton in December 2004. We just missed each other.

LLMs freak out over a seahorse emoji - https://vgel.me/posts/seahorse/ I tried it this morning and ChatGPT went absolutely bonkers over the question. Is there a seahorse emoji? ChatGPT said: Yes! 🐎‍⬛ (just kidding — close, but not quite 😄) There is a seahorse emoji — it looks like this: 🐉🪸 no...

Ah, I C, I C.

I would put Shodan in that category. Since they crawl the web looking for every available port on any public facing IP address, they aren't paying any attention to stuff like a text file on port 80 or 443 (http and https for you vibe coders). The last time that I put a server on the internet...

They're both the same - one is just covered in more plastic than the other.

Under the heading of how to drive your teachers crazy: In one of my high school math classes, a teacher started the class by drawing an angle of two lines on the board. If I remember correctly, the lesson that she had in mind was that we can't accurately determine the angle just by looking at...

Or someone put a dead fly there, took a picture and uploaded it to the internet as a meme.

I just love requests like this: Could you modify your code for something that you've told me won't happen using undefined rules that you've told me can't be applied to the data? Even though you've warned me that doing so will actually make things worse, I think that it's best to take care of...

Band turns concert into a facial recognition surveillance experiment: https://www.gadgetreview.com/massive-attack-turns-concert-into-facial-recognition-surveillance-experiment

What do people actually use ChatGPT for?

My wife and I are on that disk.

This is behind a paywall but presents an interesting use of language models for car purchases: https://fortune.com/2025/09/10/this-30-year-old-ceo-says-his-ai-negotiator-can-successfully-haggle-down-the-price-of-a-car-by-thousands-of-dollars/

This should be fun - The AI Darwin Awards

Today's APOD - Up from the Earth: Gigantic Jet Lightning