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A major Australian university used artificial intelligence technology to accuse about 6,000 students of academic misconduct last year.

The most common offence was using AI to cheat, but many of the students had done nothing wrong.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-09/artificial-intelligence-cheating-australian-catholic-university/105863524

I converted this to LaTeX and made a version that looks all official and spiffy. In the process, I edited the paragraph about the "Ask me anything" chapter, so I modified that paragraph here to match.

We won't have any usable web browsers, but that's OK, because there won't be a web worth browsing.

An linkedin fesses up:

Claude Code has made me a dumber engineer.

https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:osg2vzhifd2tjfsvfwua7scy/post/3m2nhmlv3fk2r

Perhaps, one day, someone will talk about "the people that downvoted me" without sounding like a total goober. But that day is not today.

Counterpoint: Celebrating Hitler's death is good, actually. Celebrate Hitler's death on the train, on the boat, wherever good times are had!

I'm glad to see that another mod has already pushed the fuck off with you button.

Gaiman? I thought it was Warren Ellis, the other "into the trebuchet with you" guy of comics.

A new psychology preprint argues that "contemporary AI is research misconduct".

In the Financial Times:

The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year. And some analysts believe that estimate doesn’t fully capture the AI spend, so the real share could be even higher.

AI companies have accounted for 80 per cent of the gains in US stocks so far in 2025. That is helping to fund and drive US growth, as the AI-driven stock market draws in money from all over the world, and feeds a boom in consumer spending by the rich.

Since the wealthiest 10 per cent of the population own 85 per cent of US stocks, they enjoy the largest wealth effect when they go up. Little wonder then that the latest data shows America’s consumer economy rests largely on spending by the wealthy. The top 10 per cent of earners account for half of consumer spending, the highest share on record since the data begins.

With Grok, Grokipedia aims for maximum truth through first principles and physics.

Fuck you.

Signed,

a physicist

zoom and enhance

By Doug Melville, Contributor.

The Forbes "contributor" hive strikes again.

To quote the most pedantic nerds on Earth (complimentary),

Most content on Forbes.com is written by contributors or "Senior Contributors" with minimal editorial oversight, and is generally unreliable. Editors show consensus for treating Forbes.com contributor articles as self-published sources, unless the article was written by a subject-matter expert. Forbes.com contributor articles should never be used for third-party claims about living persons.

wiki-editing weirdos (derogatory)

That was actually said by some guy named Gary.

Well, they're already using "waffles" as a transphobic slur (irony poisoning speedrun any%), so it's really more of a question of which transphobic slurs they'll escalate to next.

I cut YouTube out of my life at the end of July and don't miss it.

While most bullish outlooks are premised on economic reacceleration, it’s difficult to ignore the market’s reliance on AI capex. In market-pricing terms, we believe we’re closer to the seventh inning than the first, and several developments indicate we may be entering the later phases of the boom. First, AI hyperscaler free-cash-flow growth has turned negative. Second, price competition in the "monopoly-feeder businesses” seems to be accelerating. Finally, recent deal-making smacks of speculation and vendor-financing strategies of old.

https://www.morganstanley.com/pub/content/dam/mscampaign/wealth-management/wmir-assets/gic-weekly.pdf

A new longread about FTX:

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-crypto-bankruptcy-sullivan-cromwell-fraud/

sealAIon

If a race of aliens with an IQ of 300 came to Earth

Oh noes, the aliens scored a meaningless number on the eugenicist bullshit scale, whatever shall we do

Next you'll be telling me that the aliens can file their TPS reports in under 12 parsecs

It's practically a proverb that you don't ask a scientist to explain how a "psychic" is pulling off their con, because scientists are accustomed to fair play; you call a magician.