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@jimsalter@fosstodon.org · Feb 28, 2026

Ars Technica has let Benj go after the recent AI kerfuffle.

I wish Benj well, but this was the right move.

https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/editor%E2%80%99s-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations.1511671/post-44278029

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Hi! I'm Jim Salter, aka mercenary_sysadmin, aka "the biggest ZFS stan on the planet." I am *not* Jim Salter, the Associated Press reporter based in Missouri. That's a different guy, and he hides from the Internet.

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Hi! I'm Jim Salter, aka mercenary_sysadmin, aka "the biggest ZFS stan on the planet." I am *not* Jim Salter, the Associated Press reporter based in Missouri. That's a different guy, and he hides from the Internet.

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@jimsalter@fosstodon.org · Feb 26, 2026

@datarama@hachyderm.io do you have a link to the bit where he throws a fit?

I've seen the IRC chat log where freya convinced it to say it was a trans lesbian (with essentially no effort required), but I haven't seen Overstreet's reaction to it.

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@jimsalter@fosstodon.org · Feb 26, 2026

IYKYK.

If you *don't* know... well. Think filesystems. Not ZFS. Not btrfs.

And just like that, I bet a whole bunch of you suddenly knew EXACTLY who this was about.

Sigh.

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#WritersCoffeeClub Jan 13. Are you actively building your working vocabulary? How? Not specifically these days, but I instinctively look up unfamiliar words I run across when reading. When I was about

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@jimsalter@fosstodon.org · Jan 13, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop the dictionary was a pretty frequent last resort of Something To Read for this pre-Internet kid. And looking up words is always better than just ignoring them like they weren't in the sentence!

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