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BlueMonday1984 @ BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems
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he/they

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

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  • Baldur Bjarnason's (indirectly) given his thoughts on the piece, treating its existence (and the subsequent fallout) as a cautionary tale on why journalistic practices exist and how conflicts of interest can come back to haunt you.

    (In particular, Baldur notes that Zitron could've nipped this problem in the bud by firing his AI-related clients after he became the premier AI critic.)

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  • Watched Once Upon A Time in Space recently - pretty damn good documentary series.

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  • Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman

    The "Weapons Grade" part is almost certainly editorializing (hopefully), but this whole shit sounds like another Chernobyl waiting to happen

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  • so is the moral decline a side effect, or technocapitalism working as designed.

    AI is an accountability sink by design, its technocapitalism working as designed

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

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  • To start this spooky Stubsack off, there's signs Framework are being slow on the refunds:

    Just a heads up I haven't gotten a refund from my cancelled FW12 order. Framework seems to be having trouble figuring it out.

    I don't know why, maybe it is Canada or maybe it is a high volume of similar requests, but it is a sign I always find concerning in a company I am worried about the financial stability of.

    Could be nothing, but if you have been wavering on a cancellation I figured you might want a heads up.

    This comes two weeks after Framework's public fash turn, and just a few days after their latest double down. "Go fash, lose cash" proves itself again.

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

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  • Correct.

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  • Yeah, there's been a bunch of outages recently.

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

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  • For something lighter, here's an AI bro getting wowed by the shittiest "video game" I've ever seen (trust me, the screenshot doesn't do it justice):

    In lieu of sneering this shit, I'd like to argue that arts education should become mandatory for all students post-bubble, regardless of their profession. STEM, humanities, tech, doesn't matter - give them four years of art so they don't turn out like this guy.

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  • The fact that a mod named "catastrophe" did this is morbidly funny to me.

    Anyways, whatever doubts I (or anyone had) about Framework are basically gone. I hope Nirav and the Framework team enjoy their Nazi bar.

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  • MNT Reform's doing a similar thing to Framework, but its nowhere near what they offered. The team is completely free of venture capital, and its got a non-binary head representing it, so it should be safe from a fashtech turn.

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  • Its quite the turn-around from when they fearmongered about Superintelligencetm a year ago.

    My only critique with their anti-slop piece is that they describe the lying machine as a tool, but otherwise its a fine enough takedown, and its clear they know enough to avoid AI like the plague. B+.

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  • Charities Using AI-Generated Photos of Starving Children to Raise Money

    Morally, attacking the poor and downtrodden through polluting the world with AI is abhorrent, and anyone doing this should be permanently barred from working at any charity.

    Practically, the sight of blatant AI-generated poverty porn is going to drive people away from giving to these charities, damaging their ability to do good.

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  • (vacuum is an insulator!)

    This is something the writers of the Mass Effect series got right, and they were doing a sci-fi trilogy, not handling a literal space mission!

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  • Fuck.

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    Rolling the ladder up behind us - Xe Iaso on the LLM bubble

    xeiaso.net /blog/2025/rolling-ladder-behind-us/
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    MattKC

    We started porting LEGO Island to... everything?

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd June 2025

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025

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    AI crawler blocker Anubis gets deployed by the United Nations

    xeiaso.net /notes/2025/anubis-works/
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    Ed Zitron

    "OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry"

    www.wheresyoured.at /openai-is-a-systemic-risk-to-the-tech-industry-2/
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025

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    404 Media

    Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”

    www.404media.co /facebook-pushes-its-llama-4-ai-model-to-the-right-wants-to-present-both-sides/
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    EasyRPG Player 0.8.1 "Stun" released

    blog.easyrpg.org /2025/04/easyrpg-player-0-8-1-stun/
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025

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