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AI coding makes you worse at learning — and not even any faster

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Coding bot vendor: coding bots are bad for you

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The OpenAI and Nvidia $100b not-a-deal is off

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a mere memorandum of understanding

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Microsoft walks back AI in Windows 11! Yeah, right

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is 30% of Microsoft’s press coverage vibe-marketed

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The long awaited Gerard/Zitron crossover: I'm on Better Offline saying the stuff I always say, about OpenClaw, Moltbook and the coming Great Depression 2

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raw mp3

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AI makes Microsoft’s Q4 2025 numbers weird and bad

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Investors and analysts are not happy

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Musk wants to merge SpaceX with xAI, then take it public

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Or maybe Tesla

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AI sends tourists to Tasmanian hot springs that don’t exist

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'Our AI has messed up completely’

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The job losses are real — but the AI excuse is fake

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Great Depression 2.0 gets under way

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PwC CEO survey reports no business advantage from of AI investment for the majority

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...which is of course, because they should be prompting harder. Unusually savage heise remarks:

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Moltbot/Clawdbot: an expensive and insecure AI agent that doesn’t work

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plus casual bot racism about Morocco

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Cursor lies about vibe-coding a web browser with AI

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Cursor lies about vibe-coding a web browser with AI

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Insurers don’t want to cover AI

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The true AI risk

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OpenAI faces cash crunch in 2026 as bills come due

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I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a GPU today

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Steve Yegge’s Gas Town: Vibe coding goes crypto scam

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Stop it. Get some help.

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What Satya Nadella actually said at Davos about the AI bubble

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Microsoft CEO one-shotted by GitHub Copilot

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How to hack Microsoft Copilot AI: ask it twice

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sudo make me a sandwich

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Art student protests other student’s AI ‘art’: he eats it

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creates art a thousand times the worth

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Workday sued for AI-powered hiring discrimination

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We outsourced the bias machine

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Bondholders sue Oracle over OpenAI debt deals

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old devil washes out in deal with new devil

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Microsoft now paying customers to train in Copilot AI

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Please use our lying chatbot. Please?

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If AI coding is so good … where are the performance numbers?

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Claude bros know how to measure performance. They just don't.

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No, Dell is still pushing AI in PCs

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Don’t believe the PCGamer hype

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If users notice your software, you’re already a loser

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Nobody wants a computer. They want what it does.

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Grok generates bikini pics of children — UK, US oddly powerless

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why don’t you take a seat over there

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US voters hate AI — and politicians are noticing

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Everybody hates data centres

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Most venture capital deals are now AI

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Burn more dollars! More dollars! More!

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Channel 9 Australia’s AI TV promo and cartoon

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Delta Goodrem with three hands, an extra Story Bridge

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From 2015, it’s uBeam — never mind reality, here’s the VCs

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your Pivot to AI holiday special!

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OpenAI does NORAD’s Santa tracker! With apps that don’t work

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so here it is, Merry Botmas, everybody’s sick of slop

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Firefox browser falls to AI. What do we do now?

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where ‘absolutely not’ means ‘maybe later’

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AI image generators have just 12 generic templates

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how many three-window rooms can one AI make

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CATGIRL Officially Banned For Cheating!!!

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‘How do people survive?’ A chat with StopGenAI

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Robin AI: a legal review AI that was humans! And it just went broke

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‘Well, we’re building an AI lawyer’

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The Resonant Computing Manifesto: same AI slop, same AI guys

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we’ve got Torment Nexus at home

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Amazon discovers AI sucks at automated TV recaps

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[Everyone disliked that]

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WordPress wants to force AI onto 43% of all websites in the world

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no way to de-slop it, it’s totally Automattic

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Why Disney just put $1 billion into OpenAI

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to shake down everyone else for licenses

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Let’s power AI with supersonic jet engine turbines!

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Boom Supersonic will totally make this happen, this time

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Kicking Robots, by James Vincent

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A Harpers contributer does the legwork and gets a head start on deflating the next dumb hype cycle.

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Department of Defense goes to war by AI chatbot

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I was only following the bot’s orders

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Microsoft cuts AI sales quotas, stock drops 3%

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Microsoft denies everything! Except the actual claim

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LA Unified School District forces unfiltered AI on kids

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Adobe Express: ‘Real sexy boss, like you asked’

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Google AI mangles news headlines in ‘Discover’ feed

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‘a small UI experiment’

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‘Atoms for Algorithms:’ The Trump Administration’s Top Nuclear Scientists Think AI Can Replace Humans in Power Plants

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404 Media develops a skeptical take on an unhinged conference presentation.

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AI screws us over again: memory shortages, Crucial shutting down

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Micron makes ‘difficult decision’ to take the dumptrucks full of money

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Google’s Antigravity AI vibe coder wipes your hard disk

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‘built for user trust’

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Oh shit, Steph is back

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Lawyers find more work! Cleaning up after AI bots

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Your ‘cognitive sparring partner’

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AI data centres — in SPACE! Why DCs in space can’t work

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Science fiction is fiction

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Nature’s latest AI-generated paper — with medical frymblal and Factor Fexcectorn

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Factor Fexcectorn on the autism bicycle

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Epic CEO wants Steam to remove AI game disclosures

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Just as Call of Duty’s AI slop causes refunds

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AI for evil — hacked by WormGPT!

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The real customer: scaremongering security vendors

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White House: the US will fabricate science with chatbots

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AI agents running nuclear experiments? It’ll be fine

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Don’t cite the Adversarial Poetry vs AI paper — it’s chatbot-made marketing ‘science’

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Not even poetically sound

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Whoops! Microsoft’s new Windows AI agent platform lets in malware

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and you thought Windows was supposed to run software

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Ai told me to kіӏӏ 17 people (and myself)!

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Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety!

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‘GenAI for Nuclear Licensing’

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Data Center Watch worries that anti-AI activism is working

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making AI haters seem very cool and effective

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Essay on our SV pals: The New Legislators of Silicon Valley - The Ideas Letter

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Thought this essay had some interesting things to say. It speaks directly to the existence of tech takes overall, specifically those coming from the “oligarch-intellectuals”. Tried to quote some things to give an overview:

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Anthropic: Chinese AI hackers are after you! Security researchers call BS

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Be VERY SCARED, okay?

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No, fake AI music bought onto a minor chart is not actually popular

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the market for AI bands is gullible journalists

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GEMA wins against OpenAI on copying song lyrics

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yo ho ho, rum, etc

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Getty Images loses UK suit against Stable Diffusion

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Getty insists this is a win, actually

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Rightmove discovers AI is no excuse for profit warnings

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let’s dump 24% in an hour!

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EU Commission about to wreck core principles of the GDPR

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Consent to use of your data for AI training is non-optional! This is progress, we have declared! You don't want to stand in the way of progress, do you?

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025

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Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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KeePassXC doubles down on AI use

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The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter — by Nicholas Weaver

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The edge is where it’s at

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Oxford pretends AI benchmarks are science, not marketing

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How could all these benchmarks be fake, it’s a mystery

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AI gets 45% of news wrong — but readers still trust it

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no plans to fix it, though

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It’s the fake thing: Coca-Cola tries another AI Christmas TV ad

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the best ad Pepsi never paid for

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MIT releases, then quietly removes, nonsense AI cybersecurity paper

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The finest academic papers money can buy

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025

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Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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AI makes you think you’re a genius when you’re an idiot

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Dunning-Kruger for everyone!

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AI: powered by old jet turbines, near you!

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and you thought living near a bitcoin miner was bad

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OpenAI goes for-profit! What happens next?

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from non-profit to no-profit

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Australia sues Microsoft for forcing Copilot AI onto Office 365 customers

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Call and demand a refund and reversion to Classic

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Electronic Arts is losing income and crippled by debt? More AI!

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Kushner ‘grew up playing their games,’ it’s fine

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025

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Want to wade into the spooky surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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Scrape the web for OpenAI — with the Atlas browser!

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‘the first browser that actively fights against the web’

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Anti-renewables group uses AI in government inquiry submissions

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‘The citations are totally misleading’

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New Omarchy damage control just dropped

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A screenshot of a youtube recommendation. The video's title is "omarchy is great" and the thumbnail features DHH. The channel in question is named "ThePrimeTime". The video was posted 3 hours before the screenshot was taken.

Par for the course of my recent comment regarding theprimeagen.

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America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues

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archive link: https://archive.ph/ONKkm

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the code smells of fashtech: omarchy

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"Omarchy feels like a project created by a Linux newcomer"

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German FOSS agency defies my expectations, keeps funding useful shit.

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New fundees include Servo, Let's Encrypt, systemd. Fediverse gets thrown a bone via Fedify.

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025

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Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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South Korea blows $850m on failed AI school textbooks

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‘The overall quality was poor, and it was clear it had been hastily put together’

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How OpenAI dodged Hollywood on Sora 2

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Hollywood calls the lawyers

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now that's what I don't call fashtech, vol. 0 - matz says "fuck this" and takes over RubyGems himself

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ChatGPT sales are flat — so Altman offers OpenAI adult chat

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hi, I’m Misa! — uh, Ani

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AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companions

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Reddit versus Sam Altman

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[Rant] "Use AI to make this better"

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My wife's job is to do data analysis for a truck fleet maintenance company. She gathers statistics about repair location performance, truck age, that sort of stuff. She reports these distilled results to customers, to inform them about the work being done and any trends they need to investigate. It's all pretty straightforward and they use a software package to collate the data and chart it. It works well.

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AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats

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science shows as true what you thought was only 99% true

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It’s trivial to prompt-inject Github’s AI Copilot Chat

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‘You won a free $10 Copilot coupon!’

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Microsoft tracks your Copilot AI usage in its workplace spyware

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Get clicking, minion!

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Microsoft OneDrive lets you disable AI face recognition three times in a year!

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if the off switch works yet

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025

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Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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Feeling increasingly nihilistic about the state of tech, privacy, and the strangling of the miracle that is online anonymity. And some thoughts on arousing suspicion by using too many privacy tools.

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I have found myself in a mental hole of tech-nihilism. Maybe even on the road to tech-fatalism. Long, rambly, Sunday night post, heads up. But I think I touch on the risk posed by even using privacy tools, something which I don't think I see discussed here because of where most of you live (Global North, where you have the right to tell a policeman to get a warrant for the most part). This is kind of about two things at once, they're related though.

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Google won’t fix ‘ASCII smuggling’ hack in Gemini AI

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‘the issue can only result in social engineering’

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