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BlueMonday1984

@ BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th February 2026

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  • you completely skipped past one if not the most important theme in the novel which is language and the way people talk and write and the various ways they conduct themselves in different times and places

    I don't think the LWer even realised those themes were there. This whole review screams "failed high school English" to me.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th February 2026

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  • Found another website doing a good job keeping eye on the slop machines and their promoters: The AI Dirty List.

    It also lists those who have fought against the bullshit fountains as well.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th February 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st February 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st February 2026

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  • It gets worse:

    One of the great tragedies of AI and science is that the proliferation of garbage papers and journals is creating pressure to return to more closed systems based on interpersonal connections and established prestige hierarchies that had only recently been opened up somewhat to greater diversity.

  • Insurers don’t want to cover AI

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  • Related toot:

    insurers rely on the world being predictable in actuarial tables that allow them to ensure profiting from quantifiable risks. Non-deterministic AI is impossible to predict outcomes for. For an insurer, that is terrifying: they could potentially lose unlimited amounts of money. But I'm sure they're thrilled about genAI proliferation giving them sweeping new ways to exclude most business activities with a single discreet sentence, while maintaining the same premiums as before. In the next couple of years, AI adopters are going to find out their liability coverage has become utterly worthless because their activities are so contaminated by non-determinism which no one wants to cover.

  • Lobsters Vibecoding Challenge (Winter 2025-2026)

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st February 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026

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  • oh your code is open source guess that resolves everything then

    Yeah, its not like open-source can suffer from catastrophic bugs or anything, that's purely in Proprietary Land

    (As an aside, Tante did a write-up on Heartbleed back when it hit the news, and pointed to dysfunctional project management and lack of funds as the cause. Considering FOSS projects like Firefox and Bitwarden were hit with the LLM bug, both have definitely gotten worse in the ten years since.)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026

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

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  • Meth LLMs: Not Even Once

    Yegge’s an extremely experienced professional engineer. So he put care into Gas Town, right?

    I’ve never seen the code, and I never care to, which might give you pause.

    This is a lack of care I've only really seen with vibe coding, and I still struggle to wrap my head around how someone can have an utter death of shits to give about something they're making (if you can even call vibe-coding "making"). Its particularly stark for me when I compare it to the many, many artists I know online, who care deeply about their craft, and whose artwork deeply reflects that.

    Just...what the fuck?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026

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

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  • I've seen memes about eating people's art, but never a literal case, lmaoooooooooooo

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026

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  • zero-click android exploit

    arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation

    Remember when the human was the weakest part of any cybersecurity system? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026

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  • Newgrounds user turned Audio Moderator Quest has put together a recap of 2025 (text version), providing stats for how much slop she's dealt with:

    2025 Stats:

    • 2818 AI-Generated Tracks Flagged or Removed
    • 3656 Total Flagged or Removed Tracks
    • 12.7 GB Data Used by AI-Generated Tracks
    • 2843 Accounts Which Uploaded Prohibited Audio

    Cumulative Stats (since 2024):

    • 4475 AI-Generated Tracks Flagged or Removed
    • 5731 Total Flagged or Removed Tracks
    • 18.93 GB Data Used by AI-Generated Tracks
    • 4113 Accounts Which Uploaded Prohibited Audio

    AI Model Breakdown:

    • Suno AI: 82%
    • Udio AI: 5%
    • Riffusion AI: 1%
    • Other: 12%
      • RVC-Based: 0.6%
      • Soundful: 0.4%
      • Mixed: 0.2%
      • Various Other Models: 2.9%
      • Unknown: 7.9%

    Reportedly, she's also got an essay-length sneer in the works:

    Finally, I am also working on an even larger, long-form essay post about artificial intelligence, drawing a link to something that I do not see draw enough. It’s a big project with a lot of research and knowledgeable people guiding me. This will be released in the coming months. I have a lot to say.

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems

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

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

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

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

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    Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and Omarchy

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th September 2025 - awful.systems

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    Introducing the Forklift Certified License

    aria.dog /barks/forklift-certified-license/
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th September 2025

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    The melancholy of history rhyming - Baldur Bjarnason on the fallout of AI

    www.baldurbjarnason.com /2025/the-melancholy-of-history-rhyming/
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th September 2025

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    You no longer need JavaScript: a showcase of CSS's power

    lyra.horse /blog/2025/08/you-dont-need-js/
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    We should rethink how we teach people to code

    deadsimpletech.com /blog/notes_teaching_coding
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    Maister

    I designed my own ridiculously fast game streaming video codec – PyroWave

    themaister.net /blog/2025/06/16/i-designed-my-own-ridiculously-fast-game-streaming-video-codec-pyrowave/
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st August 2025 - awful.systems

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th August 2025

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    Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th August 2025

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