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teaotter in fan_flashworks - Challenge 506: Melt
teaotter in fan_flashworks - Admin: Challenge closed
pivot_to_ai_feed - UK tabloid newspapers quote fake experts created with AI
vvalkyri - Crosspost. Phones and legs and Jews against ICE
phys_breaking_feed - Bacterial hitchhikers can give their hosts super strength
ravena_kade - (no subject)
lilly_c in fan_flashworks - Law & Order Criminal Intent: fic: I’ll pass
phys_breaking_feed - How charges invert a long-standing empirical law in glass physics
ao3_vorkosigan_feed - On My Hands and Knees
schneefink - Cathedrals with various kinds of enemies
phys_breaking_feed - Where did that raindrop come from? Climate model ensemble captures worldwide water isotopes over 45
phys_breaking_feed - What's in a name? Information structure parallels discovered across cultures—with repercussions for
phys_breaking_feed - Acoustic communication—an overlooked driver in boxfish evolution
zdenka - Six degrees of Friedrich Wilhelms
jacey - Booklog 17/26: R.B. Croft: The River Man – Audiobook
jacey - Booklog 16/26: Scott Lynch: The Lies of Locke Lamora – Gentlemen Bastards #1 - Audiobook
jacey - Booklog 15/26: Peter Bradshaw: Mercy
jacey - Booklog 14/26: James Lovegrove: Big Damn Hero – Firefly #1 – Audiobook
jacey - Booklog 13/26: T Kingfisher: The Seventh Bride – Audiobook
smittenkitchen_feed - miso chicken and rice

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MELT

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The Star challenge is now closed. Here are the entries:

S.W.A.T: Fan Fiction: Meant To Meet, by

darkjediqueen
Starsky & Hutch: Fanfiction: The star of the show, by

lucy_roman
FAKE: Fanfic: Gold Star, by

badly_knitted
MCU: Fanfic: Love Written in the Sky, by

innitmarvelous_og
Sherlock Holmes (ACD): Fanfic: Your Future is in the Stars, by

smallhobbit
Torchwood: Fanfic: Celebrity status, by

m_findlow
Women's Soccer RPF: Fanfiction: You're a Star, Kelley, by

infinitum_noctem
Viola come il mare: Fanfic: Night of San Lorenzo, by

veronyxk84
Marvel Comics - Ultimates (Earth-1610) | icons | Star Power, by

highlander_ii
Melody of Secrets: Fanfic: crossfire hearts, by

bluedreaming
Heated Rivalry: Fanfic: Stargazing, by

seeyouontheice
Original: poetry: Christmas in the rain garden, by

teaotter
Law & Order Criminal Intent: fic: I’ll pass, by

lilly_c

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pivot_to_ai_feed

Posted by David Gerard

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/10/uk-tabloid-newspapers-quote-fake-experts-created-with-ai/

https://pivot-to-ai.com/?p=7114

The Press Gazette, the trade journal for UK newspapers, published a blinder today: “Faces of fakery: More fake and AI generated experts con their way into media”. [Press Gazette]

This is by Rob Waugh and Dominic Ponsford. Rob’s been on the fake AI expert beat for a while. I recommend Rob’s PR Hall of Shame, which names 50 media-quoted “experts” who don’t… exist. [Press Gazette]

The PR industry was shocked, shocked to see this! And launched an investigation. So that’s nice. [Press Gazette]

The incentive to print this stuff is obvious — journalists are treated like trash. You had dreams once, but now you work at a declining content mill which runs on clicks, and anything that saves you five minutes makes your job that little bit less precarious for a moment. You see an email of PR trash, you top and tail it in house style, bang! Job done. You quoted an expert, see, you can point at your journalism.

In today’s round, the Press Gazette uncovered yet more nonexistent AI-generated experts — and this was just in the papers that were the worst culprits in the previous round: the Sun, the Daily Express, the Daily Mirror, the Daily Mail and the Daily Star.

These are gutter trash tabloids nobody has any expectations of, except the Daily Star adds some jokes and the Mail and the Express add some hatemongering. I’m sort of surprised the Press Gazette bothered.

The Press Gazette has put up a spreadsheet listing the articles, the names of the fake experts, and details of the PR company faking each expert. [Google Docs]

The research exposed a prolific travel writer whose ‘employer’ has admitted she does not exist and makes use of AI, and a ‘sex expert’ who has taken the face of a porn star.

Some of the articles have been removed. Even the Sun removed five of the eight articles the Press Gazette flagged.

Reach plc is a particular offender. They publish the Mirror, the Star, and the Express. They claim they’re “proactively tackling the issue of fake experts, including creating a directory of trusted PR companies.” The articles quoting the fake experts are, of course. still up.

This is top work from the Press Gazette. I’d love to see them go through some alleged experts in papers that pretend to have more of a reputation. ’Cos you bet there are rich pickings there too.

Video — Podcast

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/10/uk-tabloid-newspapers-quote-fake-experts-created-with-ai/

https://pivot-to-ai.com/?p=7114

vvalkyri

Well I just posted this over on FB:

One thing about FB deciding I'm a "digital creator" is I get to see how many times it has served something and to how many people.

I'm saddened by how low those numbers are for my post about the Jewish event tomorrow compared to those for other posts, although I guess I should compare against other screencap posts which it's probably smart enough to understand aren't the same as other pictures.

At this point the conflict I thought I had turns out to be WAY earlier in the morning (like requiring getting out of the house a couple hours earlier than I've lately been waking) so maybe I can get there, but then there's the whole "it would be so nice if my ankle and TA weren't mad, to the point of waking me mad." And I have a pretty on my feet planned weekend coming up. But I guess it's also reasonably warm tomorrow, warm enough I could grab a bike. Tho I'd probably be wearing my skirt with the stars on.

I got out to Best Buy today and have a low end phone it seems I could transfer my life over to. Of course the advice I got AFTER buying something with a $45 restock fee has me far more comfortable with doing that factory reset on my own current phone, now that I understand how transfers and backups work a little better. Bleh. Still kinda want some handholding.

I also was at costco and am amused by all the preserved duck eggs and indeed things like quail eggs (which Lynn mentioned and they're $5something rather than $8 so I bought a pack.) I tried one a few minutes ago. Tasty, but with each of the 54 quail eggs in the pack being individually wrapped it's an appalling amount of packaging. THAT said, though, it's pretty portable. Which reminds me maybe I should hardboil some eggs ahead of the weekend.

There was also a sample of a protein and sugar free cinnamon toast crunch like cereal which I was tempted to buy but decided I would fail miserably at portion control.

Yesterday my leg wasn't bothering me during the day and I hadn't taken any aleve. Today it is and I have. Feh.

I would add some pics but they were sent to me over SMS and, well, there's a reason I just bought a backup phone. Maybe I'll add some later. But if I can't get both phones behaving at the same time then moving things over will become difficult.

I should go load the dishwasher. Or pack. Or something.

I also should contemplate where I'm willing to post about tomorrow's thing, because too many places seem likely to invite harrassment :(

The Jewish thing I'm referring to is This group of Jewish groups who plan an anti ICE protest. TBH there's a bunch I'm not familiar with, along with a bunch of local synagogues I am familiar with, along with only one or two groups I'd usually not want to deal with, and so far as I can tell, NOT the one group I'd say fuck no to.

I'm impressed by the webpage's clear "ok it might be cold (it actually won't be), and it'll suck to park becauase of the snow, and here are songs to listen to ahead of time, and here are sign suggestions and good things to bring or wear and please don't bring flags."

I hate that there's a couple chats I'd ordinarily signalboost local stuff to but it feels fraught.

I also initially shared the fb post from T'ruah, but then decided that was a rabbit hole of right wingers, although some of the comments were a good reminder of how lonely it is as a Jew in a lot of progressive spaces where once upon a time we helped with so many causes. I read recently that a good half of the non-Black freedom riders were Jews.

Anyway. Tired, and I don't know why. Not sure what's going on with the rest of my night. And I don't know how I'm ever going to get anything set up for the weekend, either. I need to at least know what I want.

In other news, enjoyed going out to Volt's for Superbowl and then staying up entirely too late but a lot of talking. And it's been fascinating reading more about the various cultural references in the show. (This particular article doesn't mention that was a real wedding he'd been invited to but couldn't attend because Superbowl.)

In still other news, Discord plans to start enforcing age verification by requiring pictures or IDs. Urg.

phys_breaking_feed

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-bacterial-hitchhikers-hosts-super-strength.html

A Dartmouth study finds that molecular hitchhikers living within bacteria can make their hosts extra resistant to medical treatment by corralling them into tightly packed groups. The findings introduce a previously unknown avenue through which bacterial infections can become more difficult to treat, the researchers say.

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-bacterial-hitchhikers-hosts-super-strength.html

ravena_kade

I sent my sister the contact info for her to send in her FLMA paperwork. She is sending it in tomorrow.

I found out that they are still looking for a house to rent...but if they can't find one they will stay at the Hotel in Braintree. Ummm... traffic. Ummmm... there is no way for my sister to get anywhere on her own from there. There is no way she is going to be at the house for me to leave to go to work. I'm going to have to have dad be alone from 5:30 AM until she gets her ass here. He partner does not like to wake up early, never mind just to drive her here and then the partner go back to Braintree. And when Dad is in the hospital and my sister wants to hover over him...they won't leave Braintree until 11 or so and will get stuck in 2 hours of traffic so no one will be with him until I am done with work...anyway.

I asked if she looked at the hotel across the street from the train station that is a mile away from the house. They take pets for $100 extra a day. That and she can walk to the house...and no one will bother her with a Great Dane. She said it would be too early to walk. Ummm...just how do you think I have gotten myself to work for the last 43 years?

Normal people would just stay in my apartment.

Part of me thinks I should strip the place just in case they figure that it will cost way too much money. My Texas Uncle pays $6000 to stay for 3 weeks when he is here.

Today I warned the boss that my sister may flake out on me. I can't tell.

lilly_c posting in

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Title: I’ll pass
Fandom: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Rating: all ages
Length: 100 words
Content notes: a tiny all dialogue add on for 1x05 Jones, takes place when Eames says “I didn’t take this job to get noticed.”
Author notes: I’ve been rewatching LOCI from the beginning recently and finding eps I’ve not seen before. Borrowed the quote mentioned above for opening line of the drabble, everything else is mine.
Summary: “Why did you take this job?” Goren enquired.

( I’ll pass )

phys_breaking_feed

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-invert-empirical-law-glass-physics.html

If you've ever watched a glass blower at work, you've seen a material behaving in a very special way. As it cools, the viscosity of molten glass increases steadily but gradually, allowing it to be shaped without a mold. Physicists call this behavior a strong glass transition, and silica glass is the textbook example. Most polymer glasses behave very differently, and are known as fragile glass formers. Their viscosity rises much more steeply as temperature drops, and therefore they cannot be processed without a mold or very precise temperature control.

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-invert-empirical-law-glass-physics.html

ao3_vorkosigan_feed

Posted by Mayken_kink (Maykenfan)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/79235576

by Mayken_kink (Maykenfan)

The difference between his Captain and his late unlamented lover – well, there are many, but the most relevant one to this situation – is that when she finishes breaking him, she’ll put him back together again. Leaving Ges’ bed, Aral invariably felt worse than before he crawled into it. With Cordelia, he somehow always feels better than when they began. Stronger. Lighter. More whole.

Words: 2150, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: F/M
Characters: Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan, Aral Vorkosigan
Relationships: Aral Vorkosigan/Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan
Additional Tags: BDSM, Sexual Roleplay, Orgasm Edging, Aftercare, Military Kink, Sub Drop

https://archiveofourown.org/works/79235576

schneefink

Oh no I fell into Vampire Survivors again. A few days ago I said I had no idea where to go for game progression, but there is an actual "unlock" menu so I followed that for a bit and now I have ten different things I want to do next, and I definitely want to complete the 1.0 achievements because of the cool prize - and after that there is a very cool Castlevania DLC as well! ( Spoilers )

Last weekend my gf and her friend L and I tried out Hanabi (I had only played it online before) and that was a lot of fun. We also baked four different kinds of Vanillekipferl because why not?, and they were very good.

On Monday together with more friends we watched Wake Up Dead Man, the third "Knives Out" movie, and had a great time. It was in turns (and sometimes all at once) tense, exciting, emotional, and very funny. All of us suspected the murderer from the beginning but it was still great to see it all play out. I would like several more movies in this series please.
This one felt a lot more, hm, grounded than the second one, not "rich people on a remote island" but instead a small community with characters that felt like they could be anywhere. (Unfortunately, in some cases.) I suspect that there were some things implied that I missed because I think in the US religion is very closely related to social class, and also I'm pretty sure Catholicism has different connotations, but it still worked very well.

I'm still watching a lot of Hermitcraft and some other MCYT. Season 11 is a lot of fun, and can barely wait for Decked Out 3.
Mid-Offs 3 is soon, and the draft on Friday! It's an event where top Minecraft speedrunners coach people with little to no MCSR experience through a tournament. Scar is in this one and I'm excited, and I think False could do really well too. Though afaik neither of them have any MCSR experience, unlike e.g. Ludwig who's been playing for the past month or so. I saw a couple of clips and enjoyed that people made dozens of parody songs for him.
Then the Hermitcraft charity event is in April again (Cleo will participate IRL this time, yay!) - the weekend before my exam unfortunately >.< But what if I'm really really well prepared... And didn't get distracted by MCYT Battleship in March either...

phys_breaking_feed

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-raindrop-climate-ensemble-captures-worldwide.html

Water is made of hydrogen and oxygen, and sometimes these atoms are slightly heavier than usual. These heavier forms are called isotopes. As water evaporates or moves through the atmosphere, the amount of these isotopes changes in predictable ways. This can act as a fingerprint, allowing researchers to trace the movement of water at global scales.

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-raindrop-climate-ensemble-captures-worldwide.html

phys_breaking_feed

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-parallels-cultures-repercussions-asian.html

First names in Western countries today are more diverse than they were before early modern states evolved. This difference started to emerge in the 17th century in response to a change that took place in the naming system in large parts of Europe and the English-speaking world. Societies moved away from attributive last names—based on occupation or appearance like John (the) Short—to inherited surnames.

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-parallels-cultures-repercussions-asian.html

phys_breaking_feed

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-acoustic-communication-overlooked-driver-boxfish.html

A new international study reveals the unexpected importance of acoustic communication in the evolution of boxfishes. This discovery offers new perspectives on the role of acoustic communication in the evolutionary history of numerous fish groups. The findings are published in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-acoustic-communication-overlooked-driver-boxfish.html

zdenka

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jacey

Audiobook narrated by Dominic West.

Clem used to be in charge of policing in the sleepy northern village of Watersmeet, now he’s 62 and a special constable, working under a boss who hates him. The feeling is mutual, but Clem gets on with being a community copper and puts up with it for the sake of his job. It’s all he has left since his wife died. A pair of grisly murders within a few days of each other sets the whole village in an uproar. Regional police get involved and there’s a lot of posturing and media preening from Clem’s superiors. They’re sure it’s a drug-gang to blame, but Clem knows better. A little girl sees a monster lurking in her back garden and Clem goes in search of answers. Could a local legend be true? Is the River Man on the prowl, and if so how can Clem prevent more deaths? Suspended from his job over a disagreement, he takes matters into his own hands. It’s his village and he’s going to sort it whatever the challenges. This is a murder mystery with supernatural elements. Dominic West reads this brilliantly; the characters are well delineated and the pacing is spot-on. An excellent listen.

jacey

Audiobook narrated by Michael Page

This is a revisit of one of my favourite books via Audible. Set is a second-world in a city not unlike pre-industrial Venice with alchemy and one specific type of magic, the Gentlemen Bastards are thieves with a difference, and Locke Lamora, The Thorn of Camorr, is their leader. He’s got a devious mind and a talent for deception and false-facing. Unlike the other cutpurse gangs, the Gentlemen Bastards have been educated by (the late) Father Chains to be more ambitious, and to run elaborate cons. This they hide from Capa Barsavi, the city’s crime boss and their supposed overlord, but when the Grey King starts to murder Barsavi’s gang-leaders, Locke and his little gang are dropped in it up to their necks and beyond. While trying to run a con to part a wealthy Don from his money Locke gets involved in both sides of the Grey King’s plans, and the Grey King has a Bonds Mage at his beck and call, a man so powerful that he can kill with a thought. Caught between the Grey King and the city’s Spider (head of the Duke’s Midnighters) Locke and his gang are in big trouble. There are plenty of exciting twists, and Locke goes through the mill (several times). Michael Page reads this well enough, though I could have wished for a little more excitement in the voice, to match Locke’s mercurial personality.

jacey

Audiobook narrated by Joanna Scanlon and others.

A short, darkly comic soliloquy from Allison, an elderly-care nurse on the cusp of requirement. She reflects on her life and nursing career, her previous partners and the gambling ring she ran in the hospital. And then there’s the analgesics… There’s a twist. Joanna Scanlon narrates, with other narrators doing voices.

jacey

Audiobook narrated by James Anderson Foster

Media tie-in of one of my favourite TV series, Firefly, masterminded by Joss Whedon. Captain Mal Reynolds is kidnapped from a rough bar on Persephone and spirited away to a kangaroo court of Browncoats who’ve been told he’s a traitor. The crew, Zoe, Wash, Book, Jane, Simon and River scurry about trying to find a clue as to where he’s gone, while on board Serenity, five crates of dangerously volatile mining explosives are heating up towards a big bang. James Anderson Foster narrates the story well.

jacey

Audiobook narrated by Kaylin Heath

Fairy-tale-ish story about Rhea, a low-born miller’s daughter, who is engaged to be married to sorcerer Lord Crevan against her wishes. When he demands she come to his strange house in the woods she discovers he already has six wives, only one of which is dead. Befriended by the wife-cook who used to be a witch, Rhea discovers that Crevan takes something from each wife, witchy power from the cook, sight from one of the others. He’s planning to take Rhea’s youth just as soon as they are married. However she can put off the awful day if she completes each of the strange tasks he gives her. This strains Rhea’s resourcefulness to the limits as, aided by a clever hedgehog, she completes task by task – until there’s one she will not complete and the wedding looms. Rhea has to rally the remaining wives and visit the Clock Wife in order to defeat Crevan. Kaylin Heath does a good job on the narration.

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Posted by deb

https://smittenkitchen.com/2026/02/miso-chicken-and-rice/

https://smittenkitchen.com/?p=95324

How do you cook when your kitchen isn’t available for kitchen-ing? On a Sunday last April, I awoke at the crack of dawn jet-lagged from an (excellent) trip to Amsterdam* to an email from my apartment building that ConEd had found a gas leak in the main line to the building and had shut down service for safety. With this, I was indoctrinated into a society of New Yorkers I previously hadn’t known existed, as NYC is apparently riddled with tales of people who lived without gas for (what seemed like the minimum of) 6 months and up to 18 months while their building trudged at a snail’s pace through rounds of repairs and inspections.

miso chicken and rice-1

Nevertheless, this is not a story of the woes of life in a place where the safety of a single pipe affects… everybody. No, this is about cooking, naturally, and how we managed in the (thankfully?) only four months in which my kitchen was not functioning as a so-called professional kitchen should. [Let’s pretend for editorial sake that my kitchen ever functions as a professional kitchen should.] Because while I might have kept my experience of this chapter of my cooking life offline forever — too niche! — I’ve recently received emails from two different people, one whose building is experiencing the same elsewhere in the city, and one who is about to undertake a kitchen renovation and both wanted advice on how a cook might cook when deprived of their galley. And I’m incapable of not answering a good question.

https://smittenkitchen.com/2026/02/miso-chicken-and-rice/

https://smittenkitchen.com/?p=95324

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Challenge 506: Melt

MELT

Admin: Challenge closed

UK tabloid newspapers quote fake experts created with AI

Crosspost. Phones and legs and Jews against ICE

Bacterial hitchhikers can give their hosts super strength

(no subject)

Law & Order Criminal Intent: fic: I’ll pass

How charges invert a long-standing empirical law in glass physics

On My Hands and Knees

Cathedrals with various kinds of enemies

Where did that raindrop come from? Climate model ensemble captures worldwide water isotopes over 45

What's in a name? Information structure parallels discovered across cultures—with repercussions for

Acoustic communication—an overlooked driver in boxfish evolution

Six degrees of Friedrich Wilhelms

Booklog 17/26: R.B. Croft: The River Man – Audiobook

Booklog 16/26: Scott Lynch: The Lies of Locke Lamora – Gentlemen Bastards #1 - Audiobook

Booklog 15/26: Peter Bradshaw: Mercy

Booklog 14/26: James Lovegrove: Big Damn Hero – Firefly #1 – Audiobook

Booklog 13/26: T Kingfisher: The Seventh Bride – Audiobook

miso chicken and rice