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Crimetober 1-9

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My Birds are Criminals zine is debuting at TCAF this weekend!

Find it at the Screen Tones Podcast table 244, June 6-7! I won't be there, but a bunch of the gang will be, so say hi and check out their work too.

Tyler here is talking about comments regarding the new Muttaburrasaurus skull paper that greatly improves our understanding of the material.

Specifically it's about this reconstruction:

While I think that person had a shit take I also think it reveals a fascinating aspect of paleoart that many people aren't conscious about: we use art to legitimize science, something that is probably unique to paleontology. A piece of paleoart can change radically how the results of a paper are perceived. I have seen several time now papers raising eyebrows and starting debates, mostly because the artwork that came with it wasn't convincing or challenged preconceived notions without offering a satisfying alternative.

I noticed that a few times with myself, with discoveries challenging how I imagined certain critters. In these cases I often times doodled my way back into liking it, basically convincing myself with aesthetics. I don't bring this up to condemn this behavior. It's more of an observation that we can use in our favor. Being aware of it is half the battle. To better communicate and to better self check. Once again I recommend this little book for people more interested in the subject:

Things that you SHOULD NOT deadname

Trans women

Trans men

Non binary people

Any other trans identity that doesn’t fit into those three

Cis people who changed their name

Anyone who goes by a different name then the one their parents gave them regardless of how “good” of a person they are, or your personal feeling towards them

Things that you SHOULD deadname

identity that doesn’t

fit into those three

Update: The neonazis were subsequently expelled from the city, and a statue was erected in her honor.

This week 34 years ago, Danuta Danielsson demonstrated how much respect fascists deserve.

Annual Hit a Nazi

with a Handbag Day

Not sometimes. Not until the next update. Always. They proved it with math.

Even with perfect training data and unlimited computing power, AI models will still confidently tell you things that are completely false. This isn't a bug they're working on. It's baked into how these systems work at a fundamental level.

And their own numbers are brutal. OpenAI's o1 reasoning model hallucinates 16% of the time. Their newer o3 model? 33%. Their newest o4-mini? 48%. Nearly half of what their most recent model tells you could be fabricated. The "smarter" models are actually getting worse at telling the truth.

Here's why it can't be fixed. Language models work by predicting the next word based on probability. When they hit something uncertain, they don't pause. They don't flag it. They guess. And they guess with complete confidence, because that's exactly what they were trained to do.

The researchers looked at the 10 biggest AI benchmarks used to measure how good these models are. 9 out of 10 give the same score for saying "I don't know" as for giving a completely wrong answer: zero points. The entire testing system literally punishes honesty and rewards guessing.

So the AI learned the optimal strategy: always guess. Never admit uncertainty. Sound confident even when you're making it up.

OpenAI's proposed fix? Have ChatGPT say "I don't know" when it's unsure. Their own math shows this would mean roughly 30% of your questions get no answer. Imagine asking ChatGPT something three times out of ten and getting "I'm not confident enough to respond." Users would leave overnight. So the fix exists, but it would kill the product.

This isn't just OpenAI's problem. DeepMind and Tsinghua University independently reached the same conclusion. Three of the world's top AI labs, working separately, all agree: this is permanent.

we already all memed to death how silly it is to take all the cavalry but leave the captain - like either take the whole cavalry or leave a portion of it in Mondstadt to defend the city with the captain, and take the other half. take the cavalry without the captain seems like the worst possible choice

but more importantly - have you noticed how good Kaeya is at gathering intel and that he's pretty much doing it anytime we see him?

but it wouldn't do to have a "Favonius Spy" or "Favonius Intel Gatherer" as someone's official role. it would make people wary around him and thus less likely to give him information

Yelan is similar, but in her case, she doesn't appear in any registries or files at all, and isn't very well-known to the general public. i suggest Kaeya is in a similar boat, but instead of being completely absent from the Knights' roster (might be harder as everybody seems to know everybody in Mondstadt, at least moreso than in Liyue), he's instead labelled as the "Cavalry Captain"

and maybe he sometimes acts as it, y'know so people will see him with the Cavalry and won't become suspicious. but his true role is to gather intel.

AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.

Authors have until March 30th, 2026 (That is just 9 days as of this reblog, which I am posting on March 21st, 2026) to file their claim against Anthropic to be reimbursed up to $3,000 per work found in the list.

Soon is…

There once was a team shipped out to the east

They'd killed many of the greastest beasts

Tasked with a target, they'd take the head

Of the king tucked into bed

Soon may the wellermen come

To bring us hope and knives and rum

Some day when the bloodshed's done

They'll take their cheers and go

It had not been two weeks from the ides

Yet everyone could sence the changing tides

At the king they grumbled, bickered, and swore

They'd take this tyrant no more

Soon may the wellermen come

To bring us hope and knives and rum

Some day when the bloodshed's done

They'll take their cheers and go

Before the torches could be set alight

The wellermen came in the dead of night

Broke through the door, they had found their score

That tyrant would wake no more

Soon may the wellermen come

To bring us hope and knives and rum

Some day when the bloodshed's done

They'll take their cheers and go

Up rose the guards, soon sounded the alarm

It could be heard all the way out too the farms

The call was hailed by a mob you see

They'd fight to soon be free

Soon may the wellermen come

To bring us hope and knives and rum

Some day when the bloodshed's done

They'll take their cheers and go

Till the end of march, or maybe more

The people fought, to take the core

The walls came down, leaving only four

But still those men did go

Soon may the wellermen come

To bring us hope and knives and rum

One day when the bloodshed's done

They'll take their cheers and go

As far as i've heard, the riot's still on

The angers high and support's not gone

The wellermen make their regular cheer

To raise that hope so near and dear

Soon may the wellermen come

To bring us hope and knives and rum

One day when the bloodshed's done

well since you asked so nicely (tagging @justavixeninaredsweater as well)