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   Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️ (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 03:27:20 JST Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️

   This needs to be shared on its own for visibility. It’s difficult to trust Ars Technica after this.

   Frankly it’s getting increasingly difficult to trust any news source lately.
   https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/

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     Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️ (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 04:06:04 JST Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️

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     • Wiredfire

     @wiredfire you have to wonder how few actual journalists are left.

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     Wiredfire (wiredfire@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 04:06:05 JST Wiredfire

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     @killyourfm It’s shouting into the wind, I appreciate, but the simple rule should be that any *actual* journalist just shouldn’t use AI. At all. Ever. At least not for anything relating to an article.

     I remember being at uni in 2000 and watching the journalism course student and dreading for the state of News once they were in charge. Now they are, and I was right to worry.

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     Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️ (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 05:13:33 JST Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️

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     • Jon 🇨🇦🇵🇹

     @SamuraiSakura Jon, that sounds like paradise. It reminds me of last year when I spent nearly 3 months hiking across Oregon and didn't pay any attention to world news, tech news, or politics.

     It was blissful.

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     Jon 🇨🇦🇵🇹 (samuraisakura@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 05:13:35 JST Jon 🇨🇦🇵🇹

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     @killyourfm I can’t trust anything I read online these days to be trustworthy or believable.

     Living offline out in nature seems to be better for my health. 🏕️