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David Mankins

@lain_7@tldr.nettime.org
mastodon 4.5.6+glitch

gatherer of network lint, occasional potsmaster, he/him, though I should switch to they/them just to make the usage more familiar to people

(profile images: a butterfly among leaf litter; mouse sculpture (with seed offerings) at a Kyoto shrine; don’t know how to add alt. text to these images)

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Root @hongminhee@hollo.social Open
@hongminhee@hollo.social
I'm writing this in English. Not because English is my first language—it isn't. I'm writing this in English because if I wrote it in Korean, the people I'm addressing would run it through an outdated
Parent @silverpill@mitra.social Open
@silverpill@mitra.social
@hongminhee I'm writing this in English. Do you, though? Your writing style was different in the past, so I am pretty sure that you now machine-translate, or perhaps use an LLM writing assistant. To b
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David Mankins
@lain_7@tldr.nettime.org

gatherer of network lint, occasional potsmaster, he/him, though I should switch to they/them just to make the usage more familiar to people (profile images: a butterfly among leaf litter; mouse sculpture (with seed offerings) at a Kyoto shrine; don’t know how to add alt. text to these images)

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David Mankins
David Mankins
@lain_7@tldr.nettime.org

gatherer of network lint, occasional potsmaster, he/him, though I should switch to they/them just to make the usage more familiar to people (profile images: a butterfly among leaf litter; mouse sculpture (with seed offerings) at a Kyoto shrine; don’t know how to add alt. text to these images)

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@lain_7@tldr.nettime.org · 5d ago
@silverpill @hongminhee I don’t interject this as an attack, but please realize that when you say “AI slop” you say “sloppy person who uses AI”. @hongminhee very clearly is not such a person, so please don’t imply they are, even if they chose an assistant you disapprove of to help them communicate. I am irritated by the term “AI slop” because it shifts the responsibility from the user to their tool, from the way they use the tool to something that’s inevitable.
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David Mankins
@lain_7@tldr.nettime.org

gatherer of network lint, occasional potsmaster, he/him, though I should switch to they/them just to make the usage more familiar to people (profile images: a butterfly among leaf litter; mouse sculpture (with seed offerings) at a Kyoto shrine; don’t know how to add alt. text to these images)

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David Mankins
David Mankins
@lain_7@tldr.nettime.org

gatherer of network lint, occasional potsmaster, he/him, though I should switch to they/them just to make the usage more familiar to people (profile images: a butterfly among leaf litter; mouse sculpture (with seed offerings) at a Kyoto shrine; don’t know how to add alt. text to these images)

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@lain_7@tldr.nettime.org · Feb 15, 2026
@bob Possible Alt-text: A Reddit post to r/analytics with heading “We just found out our Al has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up.” The post goes on to say: “So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.”
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Parent @xeno@hexokina.se Open
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Here’s a little story. Back when I was doing CS stuff instead of physics, I was presenting a malware detection model I had come up with. I'm still kinda proud of it, it's derived from like functional
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David Mankins
@lain_7@tldr.nettime.org

gatherer of network lint, occasional potsmaster, he/him, though I should switch to they/them just to make the usage more familiar to people (profile images: a butterfly among leaf litter; mouse sculpture (with seed offerings) at a Kyoto shrine; don’t know how to add alt. text to these images)

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David Mankins
David Mankins
@lain_7@tldr.nettime.org

gatherer of network lint, occasional potsmaster, he/him, though I should switch to they/them just to make the usage more familiar to people (profile images: a butterfly among leaf litter; mouse sculpture (with seed offerings) at a Kyoto shrine; don’t know how to add alt. text to these images)

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@lain_7@tldr.nettime.org · Feb 13, 2026
@xeno Coding with LLMs is just the 80s dream of software reuse achieved.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr Microsoft's CEO doesn't want us to talk about AI slop any more, does he? He's quite right: we need to start calling unwanted LLM-generated garbage "Nadella", in honour of Microso
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David Mankins
@lain_7@tldr.nettime.org

gatherer of network lint, occasional potsmaster, he/him, though I should switch to they/them just to make the usage more familiar to people (profile images: a butterfly among leaf litter; mouse sculpture (with seed offerings) at a Kyoto shrine; don’t know how to add alt. text to these images)

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David Mankins
David Mankins
@lain_7@tldr.nettime.org

gatherer of network lint, occasional potsmaster, he/him, though I should switch to they/them just to make the usage more familiar to people (profile images: a butterfly among leaf litter; mouse sculpture (with seed offerings) at a Kyoto shrine; don’t know how to add alt. text to these images)

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@lain_7@tldr.nettime.org · Jan 05, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop @pluralistic@mamot.fr nadella is what results when you try to make Nutella using a recipe you got from ChatGPT
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