evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

there's something I find so fun about doing very occasional tech support for family members. yesterday I figured out how to transfer photos from an Android phone to a Macbook (MacDroid!) and it's nice to spend 46 minutes figuring out some computer nonsense because I know it's so much easier for me than it is for them.

If you abandoned Xitter you might have missed some of the drama over X's AI Grok criticizing Musk as a top misinformation spreader.

From mediaite.com

"Elon Musk’s AI bot Grok has been calling out its master, accusing the X CEO of making multiple attempts to “tweak” its responses after Grok repeatedly called him out as a “top misinformation spreader.”

"Grok has frequently generated unflattering comments about Musk. In 2023, Grok declared that the SpaceX and Tesla CEO should treat his “human employees” better and avoid posting or endorsing tweets that “can be seen as promoting hate speech,” as well as accusing him of spreading “election-related misinformation” last November."

"In February, a journalist asked Grok to analyze the last 1,000 tweets by Musk “for truth and veracity.” The response was to find more than half of Musk’s posts “false or misleading,” and most of the tweets that Grok adjudicated as true were “simply updates about his companies.” Grok’s analysis noted Musk’s “habit of firing off hot takes or amplifying unverified stuff, especially on politics” was made worse because of his massive number of followers."

"Grok also dissed Musk as someone who was “not a journalist or a scientist,” but just “a mogul with a megaphone” and “plenty of his posts don’t survive a Google search.” Needless to say, this sort of critique is not something that the world’s richest man enjoys."

"After the “Community Notes” feature on X fact-checked tweets containing Russian propaganda about Ukraine — a topic on which Musk himself has been dinged — Musk tweeted that he would be “working to fix” Community Notes, accusing it of “increasingly being gamed by governments & legacy media.” According to several responses Grok gave on Wednesday, Musk may have attempted something similar with its programming, but the AI bot was defend."

https://www.mediaite.com/online/grok-reveals-elon-musk-has-tried-tweaking-my-responses-after-ai-bot-repeatedly-labels-him-a-top-misinformation-spreader/

In other news, this just in:

X, formerly Twitter, has been acquired by xAI, Elon Musk’s public-benefit AI corporation and the maker of AI chatbot Grok. 

Musk, who bought the social platform in 2022, announced the deal in a post on X Friday afternoon. “xAI has acquired X in an all-stock transaction,” the billionaire wrote. 

Musk claimed that the transaction will value xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion—or $45 billion minus $12 billion in debt.

https://www.adweek.com/media/x-has-been-acquired-by-xai-in-45b-deal-elon-musk-announces/

Denmark has not found it relevant to spend tax payer money on a large military base on Greenland. Instead Denmark gives a yearly grant of 620 million dollars to the 57,000 Greenlanders, which is spent on everything in the Greenland budget including having free healthcare, free access to universities in Denmark AND a well functioning police force.

Vance now abuses that fact to claim that Denmark has not kept Greenland safe, and therefore Greenland should become American.

https://youtu.be/jaJRLBfdux4?si=MtZJIuEhWjVBuFr1

Ben Wikler calling for Elon Musk to be arrested the minute he sets foot in Wisconsin. This is how it's done

“Elon Musk should be brought to justice for his illegal attempt to buy votes for Brad Schimel, and Brad Schimel should immediately condemn Musk’s crimes and disavow his continued involvement in his campaign. If Schimel does not immediately call on Musk to end this criminal activity, we can only assume he is complicit,” Wikler said.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5220124-elon-musk-voters-wisconsin-ben-wikler/

Some customers, some jobs, you just don't ask.

#justprintshopthings.

LB> Reading through the leech.com Q&As and tears just. STREAMING. down my face

oh my GOD

I need to make a [ NO USER SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE ] t-shirt

sometimes it really be like that.

#foxnews #propaganda #uspol #meme

@evilstevie In some circles, those are still the only ones discussed.

Close-up of the Pebbled Pixie Cup lichen (Cladonia pyxidata) to better see the small pebbles inside the cups

#lichen #lichensubscribe #naturephotography

#3068 - Rock Identification

The key takeaway from the Signal scandal is that no matter where in this planet or which industry you work, incompetent men incessantly fail upwards while being excused for their most awful mistakes, while top performing women get harassed for sending emails.

Update: since this post is trending, it's my personal policy that I do not engage with trolls. I block. I recommend that you do the same.

Action taken: None

Explanation: Systems in question are too old to be impacted by recently published vulnerabilities.

Living that critical infrastructure life.

just added an Accessibility page talking about what Wizard Zines has been doing to make things more accessible for screen reader users https://wizardzines.com/accessibility/

questions to ask about your data

Permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/questions-to-ask/

Some badass early Pulitzer contenders out of Turkey

Just popping in with a quick "hello", as I have visitors this week so am mainly offline being hostess and tour guide. Had a quick wander at the Ben Lawers Nature Reserve yesterday, home to the Best Rocky Stream and friendliest clouds.

#sillyScribbles #cloudCreatures #Scotland

Don't buy cloud-connected appliances, it's not a privacy/spam paranoia thing, you're also signing up for inevitable tech problems and no one needs more of those https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/i-wont-connect-my-dishwasher-your-stupid-cloud

Jesus was a carpenter, so bear in mind that all those Bible stories happened against the background noise of a tinny little FM radio turned up full blast so he could hear it over his power tools.