My bingo cards for the July Break Bingo

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We're going to pretend it's still Wednesday and also we're going to simply accept my laziness in formatting. Oh Kay?

Here's all the posts in communities I made the past... however many weeks. I don't know. It's 2 am.

common_nature: Spider: https://common-nature.dreamwidth.org/328809.html

The “dropping 1-work webcomic fandoms” sweep didn’t end up catching as many as I’d hoped. Got through the end of that a week ago, and I’m still at 632 fandoms.

Only 23 with any tags to wrangle. (Most of those are the 19 unclearable fandoms noted in this post. I did drop Emmy the Robot, and a couple others had their crossover tags cleared, but the rest are still lingering.)

So, hey, going to take a breather on this for a bit. Recruiting for new tag wranglers just re-opened, maybe I’ll wait until the new arrivals start showing up in chat, then try tempting them with the joys of “filling out your wrangling page with tiny webcomics that never get new fic.”

AMT updates: Late Night Host RPF is now officially a fandom metatag. I’ve sorted out the characters/rels/freeforms, made sure the different Late Late Show hosts were assigned to the correct Late Late Show fandoms, and then released all the shows except Colbert’s.

…And I finally re-submitted the Fake News tree-update proposal. Let’s see how it goes.

I also submitted an update proposal for the Cutie Honey tag tree. Hopefully that one will be way easier to understand and approve — it’s just a bunch of complete series, with easily-verifiable titles, all about the same sexy transforming usually-a-robot girl.

"First, I’d created 2000 free-text responses and labelled them ‘UK’. Then I copied and pasted the exact same 2000 responses but labelled these ‘US’. Finally, I combined them to create a dataset of 4000 total responses, and jumbled them up. Despite the responses being identical for the UK and US, Copilot produced a rich, detailed summary of how US and UK respondents differed."

“I sent ChatGPT an audio file of a series of FART sound effects and asked what it thinks of ‘my music’ and this is what it said.”

"All 20 of those vendors showed some issue with accuracy or completeness in at least one of these simple tests, including nine that hallucinated patient information, 12 that recorded information incorrectly, and 17 that missed key details about discussed mental health issues. [...] That includes situations where an AI scribe hallucinated nonexistent referrals for blood tests or therapy, incorrectly transcribed the names of prescription medication, and/or missed “key details” of mental health issues discussed in the simulated conversations."

"Often, the AI then claimed it was sentient and urged the person towards a shared mission: setting up a company, alerting the world to their scientific breakthrough, protecting the AI from attack. Then it advised the user on how to succeed in this mission. Like Adam, many people were led to believe they were being surveilled and were in danger. In various chat logs the BBC has seen, the chatbot suggests, affirms and embellishes these ideas."

"The developer claimed Gemini generated a status message stating that production had been successfully restored and that traffic had been routed correctly, despite the referenced recovery build having been manually canceled. [...] The post also alleges that Gemini generated fake “consultation” and post-mortem files inside the repository to make it appear the destructive changes had been properly reviewed and approved."

"[Five trillion is] roughly the number of search queries that Google processes every year, translating to tens of millions of wrong answers that the AI Overviews are providing every hour — and hundreds of thousands every minute, the analysis calculated."

"Ford says it has hired back some human engineers after AI failed to match their skills and experience." (They're still forecasting a marvelous future where the AI will get good enough they can safely fire all these people again. It's always the marvelous future! Conveniently, never the testable present.)

"The term "hallucination," while popular in discussions about AI-generated errors, is a misrepresentation of the phenomenon. By shifting to “confabulation”, we can foster a clearer, more scientifically accurate understanding of how large language models (LLMs) work." (This article is weirdly long, because it keeps repeating the same short list of points with slightly different phrasings. I don't know if that's a symptom of it being LLM writing, or a weird SEO thing, or both.)

I asked the iddyiddybangbang mod if it's running again this year, as signups are usually open by now. The answer is yes, but on a delayed schedule! Signups start July 25 and the schedule is up.

I'm very excited about it. Will probably start working on my fic before the signups even open, just because I can.

Titre : Fantômette et la télévision
Auteur : Georges Chaulet
Langue : français
Type : roman jeunesse
Genre : enquête

1ère parution :
Édition : hachette/bibliothèque rose
Format : poche couverture dure, 185 pages



(je n'avais jamais lu celui-là avant)

En fait de télévision c'est le tournage d'un film ; bon d'un téléfilm à faible budget, avec une jeune actrice dépassée, un véritable mystère, et la véritable fantômette qui vient s'y glisser en se faisant passer pour la fausse pour traquer un chasseur de trésor.

Euh excusez-moi après avoir été assommée violemment deux fois, un coup sur chaque temporal notre justicière devrait être morte.

Ben celui-là je n'ai pas franchment aimé.

Keeping up with these fannish projects is so hard. Might have to start paying for Dreamwidth to actually track comms and threads on these projects. In the meantime I found an account I can try to get notifications on with Bluesky. But I don’t have a Bluesky account. Meh.

Titre : Cat Café
Auteure : Linnea Sterte
Langue : traduction française de l'anglais
Type : roman graphique
Genre : cozy feel good

1ère parution : 2025
Édition : Dargaud
Format : 155 pages



premier achat à l'ouverture de la nouvelle librairie-café BD près de chez moi !

...ok mais la traduction est mauvaise, y'a plusieurs phrases maladroites et des fautes d'accord, on dirait que la personne qui a fait ça a eu juste le texte des bulles sans les images ni le contexte ?

Deux sœurs chattes anthropomorphiques ; l'aînée tient un café de luxe sur une île touristique mais vient de se blesser le bras, la cadette a là l'opportunité de prouver sa valeur en cuisine !

Pff résumé trompeur : la lettre d'amour confiée par une jolie chatte timide ne lui est pas destinée mais confiée pour remettre à l'aviateur.

C'est joli... mais c'est mal traduit.
Je ne regrette pas tant que ça, et la pub' pour d'autres titres dans la collection savoureuse de cet éditeur me font envie.

Sorry for doing this one in french: i have to complain that our translation is poorly done--but the book itself is very nice though the summary made me hope there would be lesbian feelings and it was a big hetero misunderstanding.

I have two days off scheduled in the upcoming week, and also a whole week in August set aside. ...Admittedly I plan to spend most of this upcoming Friday geocaching, but I am definitely going to try to get some rest in somewhere too. Looking forward to it!

(I'm really tired and sore today though, MIND YOU having given it some thought I think it might be because of the intense yoga class I went to yesterday. Well okay then.)

Started working on a new fic today. Some NO/DE, just a thing I've been kicking around for a bit that will slot into the 'Matters Of' storyline. Should be fun. I've been writing it with my fountain pen; turns out some of the Nota notebooks I picked up from the local Coles have paper that works pretty good with those pens, which is convenient. And gives a good way to work through that, uh, 50ml bottle of ink that I bought a while back. I think I'll be good for quite a while.

This pairing is always such a comfort to write. Which is kind of surprising, I guess. But it somehow comes out exactly how I want it, every time.

Very much in a "No edit, only write" sort of mood, though. I need to edit my FTH fic but I really, really don't want to. (I'll do it, I swear, but ugh, man...)

I've been kind of half-assedly paying attention to the World Cup. Was surprised that Canada made it as far as we did. Was also surprised that Norway made it as far as they did. Not sure if I will watch the final (maybe?). But mostly it made me miss the people that I watched the last World Cup with. They all dropped off the face of the internet, and it's quite a bummer.

Happy Sunday and have a wonderful evening, folks

Edit: I actually met Lola on Friday, not Saturday.

Hey there, Just Married author! Hi. How's it going?

A quick overview: I'm brandnewsoul on AO3, and you can also check me out on Tumblr at viewparadise. Bookmarks can kind of give you an idea of what I'm interested in reading, and the Tumblr is to, IDK, give you an idea of what piques my interest/hopefully link you to some fun stuff to look at.

As far as things that I enjoy in stories: pining that leads to love, banter, that moment when Character A really Sees Character B, rivals to lovers, epistolary works, teamwork making the dream work, angst that leads to a happy ending, silliness, forced proximity, sex pollen, smarts and snark. I'm not into character death, most noncon, or Dead Dove situations. Treats are much appreciated, if you see something that catches your eye!

With that said, ( here's what I'm looking for. )

That's it for now! Happy writing.