Screenshot from story: Most streamers don’t go out of their way to label AI music, but Deezer has worked to develop technology to identify that content. In a recent update, the company says AI music is approaching half of all new uploads, and most of the supposed listeners of those streams are AI themselves.
If you're waiting for the dead internet to arrive, you missed it.
arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/d...
Bring back derisively calling people script kiddies.
"We have always believed in the power of imagination. In discovery. In the joy of a child pressing a button and hearing a satisfying sound. Today, we are proud to announce that we are taking that same spirit of wonder and pointing it at our geo-political adversaries."
Anything that helps me see the macro trends in scheme, etc. that make interesting teams interesting.
Everything is stupid. Everything is so stupid.
Solomon: there is nothing new under the climate denial Sun
Bessent: land is woke
✍️I did my best to lay out the absolute state of things.
(Come jump in the comments, there's a good therapy session in there.)
I just don't know that Martin Luther would have had quite as much success if he'd prompted ChatGPT to write 95 theses and post them to the Facebook wall of the Wittenberg church.
⚒️🧪 Got an @earthscope.org email saying that the #ArtemisII re-entry shockwave may be audible in coastal southern California between 17:00 and 17:15 PDT or so today!
If you're in this area, fill out a USGS felt report with details of what you do (or don't) hear! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
NEW:
Microsoft Is Pausing Carbon Removal Purchases
The tech giant has been the overwhelming buyer of carbon removal technologies, accounting for 90%+ of industry volume last year. Now sources tell me it’s pausing its voluntary buying.
a @heatmap.news exclusive
heatmap.news/carbon-remov...
Seeing big diffs in implementation:
MS Word--text box with a "generate" button, you see the result and click save (with edits if you want) after
Adobe InDesign--unless disabled, now just quietly does this automatically to all images, and you'd never guess the menu path to edit in a million years
Stop, it's too early for me to start a drinking game.
🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning..
We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance.
And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use!
1/
I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...
We don’t even have a declaration of war and the President of the United States threatening ”a whole civilization” with death. I would say that this constitutes an emergency that Congress and Cabinet must deal with asap before he can follow through on this insane threat.
NSF LTER program “archived”.
LTER=“Long Term Ecological Research”.
This program has been incredibly successful, incredibly frugal for what they accomplish, and…of course…targeted by evil know-nothings.
My heart is breaking.
As humans round the Moon, the US president continues his personal campaign of terrorism in order to get the only thing he values: attention.
Kansas.
I, too, did not anticipate that a country could wage a war that verbatim copies a bit Suzy Eddie Izzard hasn't written yet.
(Hilariously, there's a request form hidden in Otter's support articles where you can put in a ticket to get the chatbot and summary stuff disabled on your account.)
Screenshot of text that says: "Important Notice (3/24/2026): NOAA NWS/NCEP has terminated the NCEP/NCAR R1 reanalysis as of March 18th, 2026. NCEP/NCAR R1 has been used as the atmospheric forcing data in the PIOMAS reanalysis . We had not been aware of this change in service which was apparently formally announced Feb 13. 2026. This means that we will have to find alternatives and generate a replacement. It will take considerable effort and time to update data streams, re-calibrate the model and generate updated time series. We don’t yet have a good sense if that’s possible with available funds and if so, when we will be able to resume production of a new PIOMAS time series. While a replacement of the NCAR/NCEP R1 as the forcing product makes ultimate sense, we would have wished for a longer time period to facilitate the transition. We are sorry what this means to our many users. PIOMAS has been in production since March 2010 and we rarely missed updates by more than a couple of weeks (except for government shutdowns). This will be longer. Check back here for updates! "
I had a feeling this was going to happen. Sad news, especially given the poor state of sea ice after this winter.
Looks like we won't be getting any more data for Arctic sea-ice thickness and volume for a while from PIOMAS. See: psc.apl.uw.edu/research/pro...
No speed run?
Currently, the PDF preview interface in Google Drive has 8 buttons. 4 of them are AI crap. (2 are for the same thing!)
Download is not one of the buttons.
Lots in here but this bit on asking ChatGPT about news stories that occurred after training:
"is the worst hallucinator (87% of post-cutoff responses generated confident-sounding answers about events it couldn’t possibly know about), and 88% of those were inaccurate"
lol
We've seen this a few times.
Disable it. community.instructure.com/en/kb/articl...
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