An update at the same URL:

Earlier today, we detected evidence of a security incident on AO3. We are still in the early stages of response to this security incident and determining its scope. AO3 will remain down while we continue investigating and addressing what has been found so far. However, we want to make some things clear:

First, no AO3 data has been deleted. All your works, bookmarks, kudos, etc., are safe.

Second, while we currently don’t believe that the user database was stolen, we are also unable to rule it out. The AO3 database contains account information that may include your username, email address, IP address, and a hashed version of your password.

We use industry-standard techniques for storing passwords in a scrambled form that cannot easily be reversed. Even so, no hashing method can fully protect a weak or reused password from being cracked. As a precaution, we recommend that you change your passwords on any other sites where you use the same password as on AO3.

AO3 does not collect real names, so none could be exposed. Additionally, our donor information is held in an entirely separate system and is never linked to AO3, so that data has also not been exposed.

We will update everyone as our investigation continues; we may be unable to respond to individual inquiries from users. Please keep an eye on our official outlets for updates. Our next update will be posted when we have further information available.

Our current expectation is that AO3 will be down for a minimum of two weeks; however, it could take up to four weeks. During that time, we may be able to bring the site back up in a degraded state, meaning that not all features will be available and/or the site may be read-only. If we are able to do that, please be aware that we might have to bring the site back down unexpectedly as part of our recovery efforts. We will keep you in the loop for any developments

Speaking in very general terms, the combination of wanting a community, writing out of abstruse passion and appreciating writing done out of abstruse passion make for an anti-AI blend. The balance of inevitable slop and hostility against inevitable slop tilts towards the latter.

I’m going to guess “few”, on general vibes.

The Internet’s emotional support smut is offline:

We estimate that service restoration for #AO3 will take around 2 weeks but it could be up to 4 weeks. We are hopeful that we will be able to bring the site back up in a degraded state sooner. If that does happen, there may be times when the site has to be brought down temporarily until this is fully resolved. Please stay tuned for further info.

brb, rederiving the Internet from three frames of a falling apple using the power of Bayes

“A type III super-civilization can harness the energy output of an entire galaxy, and all the inhabitants stare at you like sleep paralysis demons, except for Bob, and we don’t want to get into what Bob’s deal is”

https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/117475880503916662

Or there was less occasion for a term for this particular kind of bad? Correlation, causation, etc.

I’m tempted to lower the banhammer just for the dancing-banana icon alone.

Here’s an example from an 1897 book review I found in the google books corpus: “There never was anything in all this world quite so provincial as American literature. When we over here are not reading slop we read the books that bear the approval of London.” Or this doggerel from the October 1920 issue of Farm Journal: “I read all kinds of printed junk / the good, the noble and the punk / the ancient and the new / and men who see me reading slop / predict that if I do not stop / my head will go askew.”

These both seem like wiktionary’s current sense 8 (“Content or entertainment which is worthless, or produced and consumed mindlessly”), so I don’t see any need to credit 4chan or 21st-century anti-Semites in general.

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=73708#comment-1642217

Right then. Off you go.

OK, rape as punishment is not a cool idea, nor is it a funny joke.

“Lol dorkus” is an idiomatic translation of Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur (more literally “What is freely asserted is freely denied”), and if you call that “Hitchens’s razor” I will fucking cut you.

yeah it like. infuriates me that “fully automated luxury communism” was named in a way to specifically pay homage to the past. the word “communism” itself is some sort of vicious traditionalism that refuses to create new things

https://bsky.app/profile/segyges.bsky.social/post/3my3letkpbc2b

Lol dorkus

It’s “fully automated luxury gay space communism”, and every adjective is a pithy critique of the past.

Ah yes, Nazis, well known for using slop jar to mean the vessel into which chamber pots are poured, in 1855

… the fuck?

People will start creating things like Windows with LLM.

No, they won’t.

and Elon Musk said this flat out on Joe Rogan

lol

I saw a millionaire call the rebuilding of the Electrical Grid that’s taking place a modern day Industrial Revolution.

lol encore

Here you go, the full scoop, you won’t hear on the news.

lol a third time

Go do your own research somewhere else.

Previously posted here: https://awful.systems/post/10025000

I DO NOT LIKE THESE ROBOTS by Becky Chambers

Tao is on fedi; a polite (because this is professional business) reply on Masto pointing out relevant earlier research would probably benefit the community discussions.

Thread: https://bsky.app/profile/gro-tsen.bsky.social/post/3mxeqyegazk2h