BlueMonday1984 @ BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems

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he/they

2w ago

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BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems 2w ago
Fuck.

2w ago

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BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems 2w ago

Adding insult to injury, OpenAI's also encouraging people to abuse ARIA tags so their slopbots can steal more effectively, threatening to damage web accessibility in the process:

https://adrianroselli.com/2025/10/openai-aria-and-seo-making-the-web-worse.html

2w ago

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BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems 2w ago

though, to be fair, that explanation is more plausible than starcloud working

Batman's superpower is being a billionaire, there was probably some Shenanigans^tm involved

2w ago

New Omarchy damage control just dropped

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BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems 2w ago

I never understood what this damn distro is about.

Omarchy's not a distro, its an open endorsement of fascism. Its getting pushed as hard as it is in an attempt to entrench fascists in Linux and the FOSS ecosystem at large.

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BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems 2w ago

New paper on LLMs just dropped, titled LLMs Can Get "Brain Rot"!

Currently a novelty at this point, but could prove useful to make the likes of Iocaine and Nepenthes more effective - especially since the paper notes:

the damage is multifaceted in changing the reasoning patterns and is persistent against large-scale post-hoc tuning.

It does also suggest doing some actual quality control to prevent damage to the LLMs, but that sure ain't happening

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BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems 2w ago

Another attempt to platform fascists has cropped up in FOSS, and Drew DeVault's talked all about it. Featuring our good friend Curtis Yarvin.

2w ago

the code smells of fashtech: omarchy

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BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems 2w ago

I don’t see how this can be taken seriously;

That's because you're thinking of Omarchy as a Linux distro, not as an open endorsement of fascism. Its goal isn't to make a usable Linux distro, its to entrench fascists into Linux and the wider FOSS ecosystem.

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BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems 2w ago

He has a personal website as well as a website for his stupid statue idea. Both of which are buggy / ugly – apparently after saving $450 million for a dumb statue he has none left for good website coding.

Tenner says he vibe-coded both of them himself. Man's a capitalist at heart, he thinks paying labour their fair due is an abomination unto God.

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BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems 2w ago

More "red hat" than "red flag", but you're still dead-on.

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BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems 2w ago

My exposure to the guy began and ended at seeing him tut-tutting HBomberguy for nuking James Somerton's career - glad to know my five-second assessment of him was dead on

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BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems 2w ago

The Framework thread caused by the company's fash turn is still going even after eight full days.

Lotta lowlights to pick from, but the guy openly praising DHH for driving Basecamp straight off a cliff is particularly sneer-worthy:

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BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems 2w ago

They posted this recent article written by Peter Coffin

Oh, hey, that's the "Plagiarism is AWESOME, And Here's Why" guy, who tut-tutted HBomberguy for erasing plagiarist shithead James Somerton from existence and went to bat for JK Rowling okay yeah dump this guy's shit in the fucking bin

I was pretty strongly anti-copyright back when I was younger, but after seeing the plague of art theft and grave robbing the NFT fad brought (documented heavily by @NFTTheft on Twitter), and especially after the AI bubble triggered an onslaught of art theft, cultural vandalism and open hostility to artists, I have come around to strongly supporting it.

I may have some serious complaints about the current state of copyright (basically everyone has), but its clear that copyright is absolutely necessary to protect artists (rich and poor) from those who exploit the labour of others.

2w ago

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BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems 2w ago

Guy's been doing well for himself since the Escapist imploded in 2023 - he's doing video reviews and video essays over on Second Wind, under the names Fully Ramblomatic and Semi Ramblomatic, respectively.

(As for the Escapist, it got sold off to a "private investor" and turned into a gambling content mill in 2025)

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BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems 2w ago

New Baldur Bjarnason: The inevitability of anger, on the impending reckoning for AI and tech influencers' attempts to avoid it, plus how social media shapes public discourse.

2w ago

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BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems 2w ago

I know full well you're being sarcastic, but my answer is an emphatic "NO". I feel like I'm gonna need a lobotomy to get this hypothetical out my head now.

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BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems 2w ago

New Ed Zitron, giving exact numbers for how much money Cursor and Anthropic have lit on fire and continuing to shed light on the AI industry's ability to incinerate revenue.

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BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems 2w ago

Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die?

To lightly paraphrase Yahtzee Croshaw:

Short answer: No. Long answer: No, and go fuck yourselves, you ignorant hype-mongering cockbags.

This is the second time this rancid idea has been put forward, and its just as morally bankrupt as the first.

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BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems 2w ago

How do you even get to the point that you think that’s something you want to advertise?

Man's spent several years and shitloads of cash destroying his public image (and probably his brain) via slop bots, I suspect he's getting desperate to prove his LLM booster turn wasn't a career-ruining blunder

(He's also probably lost the ability to tell good work from bad work as well - that's a universal quality among slop advocates, as Gerard has pointed out on multiple occasions)

3w ago

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

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BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems 3w ago

I don’t think there’s literally any non-shitty tech left with Framework turning fash.

Doing some digging, it seems GNOME's still non-shitty - they've reportedly refused sponsorship money from Framework, to the whining of multiple people online (post is in Russian).

Doesn't change the fact that Framework's dealt a big blow to right-for-repair by doing this, but its something.

EDIT: Just gonna add in something I gotta get off my chest:

Even from a "ruthless capitalist" perspective, Framework's fash turn is pretty baffling to me. They positioned themselves as beacons of right-to-repair, as good guys in tech trying to "fix consumer electronics, one category at a time" - their shit was overtly political from the fucking start. People weren't buying them to get the fastest laptops, or to get the best value for money, they bought them because they believed in their stated mission. Anyone with business sense would've known shilling a fascist's personal Linux "distro" would've presented a severe risk to Framework's brand.

Exactly how Nirav got blindsided by this shit, I genuinely don't understand. Considering his response to the backlash involved "aPoLiTiCaL" "bIg TeNt" blather and publicly farming compassion from Twitter fash, its probably because he's an outright fascist himself and assumed everyone else around him shared his utterly rancid views.