In today’s post at combatdavey.net I wrote about how Claude Sonnet 4 generated outputs that did not conform to what it thought it had said. Quoth the machine:

That’s extremely concerning. You’re absolutely right - there are two links appearing in my response that I definitely did not create:

From today’s post at combatdavey.net:

When you are a person whose brain works a certain way (iykyk), you get bogged down in the details because everything you do is about understanding and then performing accuracy and correctness, which itself is about achieving (earning?) validity.

From today’s post at combatdavey.net:

Nostalgia used to be considered a form of mental illness and I think we should bring that kind of thinking back if only so that the dumbest people you know will stop BoomerPosting about how peachy keen and super swell the 1950s and 1960s must have been.

Wrote a quick little reax post after Game 1 of IND/NYK for the smallweb basketball people. 🏀

TIL Khris Middleton’s full name is James Khristian Middleton. WE COULD HAVE BEEN CALLING HIM JIMMY MIDDLES THIS WHOLE TIME! 🏀

In case you were wondering why TikTok users are suddenly posting about “cute winter boots.” (via Taylor Lorenz’s User Mag)

Finally got around to reading Ed Zitron’s Never Forgive Them, an astounding and searing piece of writing that gets to the heart of how being on the internet is painful, harmful, and anti-user — and why.

Abandoning Twitter? Want to wipe all your tweets on the way out? This script will help you do that.

I joined micro.blog in December and this week I started posting a lot, like I did back in the day (real heads know). And the more I posted, the more I wanted to post. This felt odd; I retired from posting when social got really awful. Today, the penny dropped. I want to actually write again.

TIL the menswear guy was born in Canada.