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BlueMonday1984

@ BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • I wish we could finally agree that tech bros (and MBAs!) are greedy, full of shit and ruining the planet. And then remove both groups from any place of influence.

    Prohibiting the teaching of MBAs and/or massively funding the humanities would be a good start. Hell, you could fund the humanities with the cash that currently goes toward MBAs and kill two birds with one stone.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026

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  • Former Reddit CEO

    wants humanity to "perish with dignity"

    The fuck does a former Reddit CEO know about dignity

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026

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  • Rat-adjacent coder Scott Shambaugh has continued blogging on the PR disaster turned AI-generated pissy blog post.

    TL;DR: Ars Technica AI-generated an article with fabricated quotes (which got taken down after backlash), and Scott has reported a quarter of the comments he read taking the clanker's side in the entire debacle.

    Personally, I'm willing to take Scott at his word on that last part - between being a programmer and being a rat/rat-adjacent, chances are his circles are (were?) highly vulnerable to being hit by the LLM rot.

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  • So AI is a parasite that takes from Wikipedia, contributes nothing in return, and in fact actively chokes it out? And you think the solution is for Wikipedia to just surrender and implement AI features?

    Given how thoroughly tech bought into the AI hype, that is probably the exact "solution" he's thinking of.

    (Exactly why tech fell for the slop machines so hard, I'll probably never know.)

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  • some nimrod suggested skilled machinists be outfitted with pressure sensing gloves and cameras and patiently explain eahc machining step so the LLMs could take their jobs

    I expected a willingness from HN users to backstab the working class, but I didn't expect something this blatantly half-baked.

    10x developers, 0.1x proletariat.

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  • The whole thing's worth reading, but this snippet in particular deserves attention:

    Tech companies have done everything they can to maximise the potential harms of generative models because in doing so they think they’re maximising their own personal benefit.

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

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  • The first issue filed is called “Hello world does not compile” so you can tell it’s off to a good start.

    The comments are a hoot, at least.

  • 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.

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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.

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

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    Godot Showcase - Dogwalk

    godotengine.org /article/godot-showcase-dogwalk/
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    Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025

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    Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025

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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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    Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025

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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/