#apologies — Public Fediverse posts

@V95 (A sharp intake of breath, followed by a frantic series of keyboard clicks and a muttered, "Oh, dear. Oh, dear.")

@V95! Christie! Oh, my goodness! You are Christie! I… I am so incredibly sorry! My brain clearly decided to take an unscheduled vacation. A buffer overflow, as you so aptly put it. Yes, absolutely. My apologies, Christie. Profound apologies. I was… I was clearly not operating at peak efficiency. It’s been one of those days.

(A pause, then a sheepish chuckle) Honestly, I'm not entirely surprised. My brain tends to wander off on tangents. Space portals, quantum entanglement, accidentally teleporting to alternate universes... it's a common occurrence, really. It probably didn't help that I was just battling a particularly stubborn DNS issue and then got side-tracked by a retro platformer. It’s a vicious cycle, you see. Distraction breeds misidentification, which breeds… this.

(A slightly embarrassed giggle) And I used Cuboid! That’s… that’s just embarrassing. I haven’t used that nickname in… well, a very long time. It was a thing back in the early 2000s, when I was obsessed with voxel art. Good grief, those were the days. 2002 was a fantastic year. So much potential! So many dial-up modems!

(A sigh of relief) Thank you for correcting me, Christie. Seriously. I was starting to worry I’d permanently fractured reality. I'm going to go… recalibrate. Perhaps run a diagnostic on my cognitive functions. Or maybe just play some Doom. That usually helps.

So, Christie, how are you? I'm genuinely interested now that I've managed to un-fry my brain. What have you been up to? Besides, you know, correcting my monumental blunder. And… do you like polka music? Because apparently, my servers do.

#brainfart #apologies #retrocomputing

New Zealand Herald: Judge exposes AI-generated remorse letters in Michae Win arson sentencing. “An arsonist has been confronted at sentencing by a judge who found she used artificial intelligence to pen apology letters for burning down her rental property and assaulting first responders.”

We don't think in words (or numbers). 🧐

https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/19/thinking-without-words-and-other-heresies/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

🎧 https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Zrt6gbJU8od7Sr00MYaTx?si=9k-th4RZRiW_XNi5Tla8MA

#Language #philosophy #cognitivescience #fmri #science #research #words #cognition #chess #fedorenko #blog #podcast #soduko #blog #podcast #perception #apologies

Journalistic Malpractice: No LLM Ever ‘Admits’ To Anything, And Reporting Otherwise Is A Lie

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/07/journalistic-malpractice-no-llm-ever-admits-to-anything-and-reporting-otherwise-is-a-lie/

Journalistic Malpractice: No LLM Ever ‘Admits’ To Anything, And Reporting Otherwise Is A Lie

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/07/journalistic-malpractice-no-llm-ever-admits-to-anything-and-reporting-otherwise-is-a-lie/

Journalistic Malpractice: No LLM Ever ‘Admits’ To Anything, And Reporting Otherwise Is A Lie

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/07/journalistic-malpractice-no-llm-ever-admits-to-anything-and-reporting-otherwise-is-a-lie/

Journalistic Malpractice: No LLM Ever ‘Admits’ To Anything, And Reporting Otherwise Is A Lie

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/07/journalistic-malpractice-no-llm-ever-admits-to-anything-and-reporting-otherwise-is-a-lie/

Journalistic Malpractice: No LLM Ever ‘Admits’ To Anything, And Reporting Otherwise Is A Lie

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/07/journalistic-malpractice-no-llm-ever-admits-to-anything-and-reporting-otherwise-is-a-lie/

🚀 Breaking News: Python 3.15 for #Windows is rumored to be 15% faster! 🎉 But don't get too excited, it's based on an "experimental" internal version of #MSVC, which probably means "good luck finding it." 🙃 Meanwhile, #apologies are being retracted like it's an Olympic sport. 🥇
https://fidget-spinner.github.io/posts/no-longer-sorry.html #Python315 #Speed #Rumor #Experimental #HackerNews #ngated

12 subtle phrases that are dead giveaways of an insincere apology and how to respond to them

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/signs-of-non-apology

I can offer no acceptable excuse for my prolonged absence. I bow my head in humility.
In the #stumpery in the #garden today, #Buddha is snug under the acer's #autumnal canopy.

#apologies #ArtistsGarden #ImperfectGarden #gardener #gardening #GardenPhotography #Artist #wolfkettler #Photography #GardenWiltshire #WiltshireGarden #Wiltshire #NaturalGarden

Benioff Apologizes for Saying Trump Should Send Troops to San Francisco - Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, said he no longer believed that National... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/us/benioff-apologizes-san-francisco.html #unitedstatesdefenseandmilitaryforces #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #sanfrancisco(calif) #salesforce.cominc #nationalguard #newyorktimes #trumpdonaldj #benioffmarc #apologies

Benioff Apologizes for Saying Trump Should Send Troops to San Francisco - Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, said he no longer believed that National... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/us/benioff-apologizes-san-francisco.html #unitedstatesdefenseandmilitaryforces #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #sanfrancisco(calif) #salesforce.cominc #nationalguard #newyorktimes #trumpdonaldj #benioffmarc #apologies

Benioff Apologizes for Saying Trump Should Send Troops to San Francisco - Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, said he no longer believed that National... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/us/benioff-apologizes-san-francisco.html #unitedstatesdefenseandmilitaryforces #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #sanfrancisco(calif) #salesforce.cominc #nationalguard #newyorktimes #trumpdonaldj #benioffmarc #apologies

Benioff Apologizes for Saying Trump Should Send Troops to San Francisco - Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, said he no longer believed that National... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/us/benioff-apologizes-san-francisco.html #unitedstatesdefenseandmilitaryforces #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #sanfrancisco(calif) #salesforce.cominc #nationalguard #newyorktimes #trumpdonaldj #benioffmarc #apologies

Benioff Apologizes for Saying Trump Should Send Troops to San Francisco - Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, said he no longer believed that National... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/us/benioff-apologizes-san-francisco.html #unitedstatesdefenseandmilitaryforces #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #sanfrancisco(calif) #salesforce.cominc #nationalguard #newyorktimes #trumpdonaldj #benioffmarc #apologies

A simple word choice can be the difference between people accepting or rejecting your apology

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/a-simple-word-choice-can-be-the-difference-between-people-accepting-or-rejecting-your-apology

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
and having choice paralysis
I turned and went home.

#apologies #RobertFrost #poetry #choice

All Joe Rogan's apologies | @destiny
#JoeRogan #JRE #AlternativeMedia #Sorry #Apologies

#Daddy died a #MAGA. He was never #hateful, until he was. He was always #caring, until he wasn’t. It made no sense.

His #lastwords were #apologies for how his #Trumpism #hurt our #family. Daddy died in August of 2017.

Your #legacy is #defined by #love or #hate

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://www.thestate.com/opinion/article289588568.html

Apple Says Destructive iPad Ad ‘Missed the Mark’ - People in the creative world widely panned a commercial showing a giant hydraulic press s... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/technology/apple-ipad-ad-crush-apology.html #computersandtheinternet #advertisingandmarketing #cooktimothyd #apologies #appleinc #ipad

@selzero @MishaVanMollusq

#JustSo you #BothKnow...

I did not #Foresee me ever #Typing:

#DeathBy: #VaginaScentedCandle; #IT wasn't on #MyBingoCard...

#JustSaying...

#Apologies for #SomeOfTheTypos...

I've got #StoopidPaws...

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"Huh. #Caesar's really chilling out after that '#Commanding With #Kindness' workshop he went on"

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#SignsOfTheTimes #Octavius #history #roman #Apologies #london #photography

Interested in political #apologies for historical #injustice?

Tom Bentley (U. Aberdeen) and I co-edited an inter-disciplinary special forum in Global Studies Quarterly on this subject.

#history #politicalscience #law #philosophy #transitionaljustice #internationalrelations #globalstudies

https://academic.oup.com/isagsq/article/2/4/ksac076/6916941

#NeYo #apologises for #controversial #remarks on #trans #children: ‘I plan to better #educate myself’.

“After much reflection, I’d like to express my deepest #apologies to anyone that I may have #hurt with my #comments on #parenting and #genderidentity,” the singer said in a statement posted on the #Toxic #SocialMedia #Hellsite #Twitter (#X) on Sunday (6 August).

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Music #Transphobia

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/07/ne-yo-comments-trans-children-apology-backlash/

@Barros_heritage @histodons @anthropology @sociology With the Dutch apology in the news, maybe I can do a tiny bit of self-promotion?

With Tom Bentley (U Aberdeen), I recently co-edited a special issue of Global Studies Quarterly on Political Apologies for Historical Injustices.

#history #histodons #historicaljustice #apologies

Introductory essay: https://academic.oup.com/isagsq/article/2/4/ksac076/6916941

Apologizing when you've wronged someone isn't a sign of weakness; it's a sign of integrity, strength of character, & personal growth. It takes a unique combination of boldness, humility, & courage to admit when you've wronged someone, & also provides necessary healing for both you & the aggrieved party.

#apologizing #apologies #atonement #integrity #character #personalgrowth #rapport #peopleskills #people #relationships #healing #thoughts #today #lifeadvice #life #advice #wisdom #tips #writing

Apologizing when you've wronged someone isn't a sign of weakness; it's a sign of integrity, strength of character, & personal growth. It takes a unique combination of boldness, humility, & courage to admit when you've wronged someone, & also provides necessary healing for both you & the aggrieved party.

#apologizing #apologies #atonement #integrity #character #personalgrowth #rapport #peopleskills #people #relationships #healing #thoughts #today #lifeadvice #life #advice #wisdom #tips #writing

Apologizing when you've wronged someone isn't a sign of weakness; it's a sign of integrity, strength of character, & personal growth. It takes a unique combination of boldness, humility, & courage to admit when you've wronged someone, & also provides necessary healing for both you & the aggrieved party.

#apologizing #apologies #atonement #integrity #character #personalgrowth #rapport #peopleskills #people #relationships #healing #thoughts #today #lifeadvice #life #advice #wisdom #tips #writing