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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026

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  • Given how our very good friends were promoting the concept of prediction markets for ideological/idiot-logical reasons before polymarket existed I'm pretty sure they didn't need to be bribed or set up. Just let them show off that someone actually made the real thing they were pitching as a concept a decade ago and pretend all the issues don't exist.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026

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  • I guess the voice recognition probably used some kind of machine learning?

  • “Omelas” seems like a great brand name

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  • AIrstrip One sounds like Elon's company trying to use solar-powered ultralight UAVs to replace geostationary orbiting satellites.

    GilAId is obviously chatbot tradwives that will definitely have artificial wombs and humanoid robot bodies by Q3 2027.

    NorsefAIre is just the latest attempt by the psychic parasite desperately trying to serve as Peter Thiel's conscience to get somebody to stop him. It won't work any better than the name "Palantir."

  • Midjourney AI pivots to Theranos: Ultrasonic CT

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  • That's better but I think the overdiagnosis and overtreatment risks still apply. Also: shit, your insurance covers that?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026

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  • Today (actually sourced to Perun's video from a few weeks back but I watched it today) in Everything is Connected:

    One of the advancements in one-way attack drones in the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been the move to directly-connected fiber optic cables for control. This has proven an effective way to counter electronic warfare, but has also meant that both sides have started using a volume of fiber optic cable that boggles the mind. This made the single fiber optic manufacturer in Russia a substantial strategic target, which Ukraine obligingly took advantage of. In turn, this has forced Russia to rely completely on imports, placing the Russian war effort in direct competition with China's AI datacenter buildout for this now-vital resource.

    China being a proudly socialist country, this allowed the fiber optic manufacturers to raise their prices through the roof and absolutely take the Russians (and presumably their AI customers) to the cleaners.

    Never let it be said that there are no AI-tangential stories that you can't feel at least a little bit good about, even if it is just the endless grift nexus capturing an even bigger bastard.

  • Not another swamp level rule

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  • Really needs to have the poison bar slowly filling to complete the FromSoft effect. It can't just be a normal non-poisoned swamp.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026

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  • however because everything in claude code is implemented in 5 million different ways, those protections are a completely orthogonal set of codepaths from how CLAUDE.md files are read. conversely, the file read tool seems to be completely naive to symlinks while the CLAUDE.md reader is not

    See, if a person had written the system and had some kind of reasonable design or whatever then this kind of vulnerability may have turned into a full skeleton key to crack the entire system wide open. Instead, the superior machine intelligence ensures that all components will break in slightly different ways under slightly different conditions, thus ensuring no single fault can allow an adversary to completely compromise the system, provided of course that they can't just inject a prompt somewhere because as we all know that's a structural vulnerability that can completely crack the system open.

  • Midjourney AI pivots to Theranos: Ultrasonic CT

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  • The goal is for this process to take no more than 60 seconds.

    You go into the water, you come out of the water, and you're done.

    When you step into the water, you’re standing on top of a platform. The platform is connected to rails and begins to descend into the water - an elevator gently lowering you at around 2 inches, or 5 centimeters, per second.

    Assuming 30s down and 30s up, this platform will lower you a total of 60 inches, or 5 feet. So even in the magical fantasy land where this works at all you're going to have a great tool to detect what's happening in the body as long as it's below the average person's heart, an organ that is famously unnecessary and irrelevant.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026

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  • Gay people I respect:

    I can pretend they're straight

    Gay people I don't:

    I can't pretend they aren't gay and I've decided this is a 'them problem'

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026

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  • This feels like yet another case of "what no postmodernism does to a mf". Because I can kind of agree they ASD is a bit of a weird diagnosis in some respects, but that's entirely because of an ongoing discussion between different social models of mental diversity. On one hand, much of the autistic community has embraced a model rooted in neurodiversity. The associated behaviors aren't "abnormal" and happen to nearly everyone to some degree, but some people experience them in different ways that impact how they interact with other people and the world. In this model, we need to emphasize empathy and support to help everyone find a place in the world where they can be happy and fulfilled.

    But Scott as a practicing psychiatrist is strongly invested in the older model of mental illness or mental disability, where some people have mental and behavioral problems that make life more difficult and dangerous for them and those around them, and those people need help to mitigate those problems so they can exist in society. This is obviously a less kind and more authoritarian model than neurodiversity, but it's easy enough to understand the appeal in circumstances where the challenge of "how do I help people be happy and successful" necessitates asking "how do I reduce or eliminate the risk of physical violence from this person." Hell, compared to the other model that gets invoked to deal with that question, criminality, it still at least acknowledges that people with high support needs are people whose well-being deserves consideration. A patient is a human being at least to the same degree that a child is, effectively.

    But Scott, being afraid of postmodernism, can't really allow himself to recognize these as separate models that are valuable in different circumstances, not the least of which is because he's a fashy little bastard who would have to give up the authority of being a capital-D Doctor in favor of just being an expert on certain elements of the human mind and body. So instead he and his friends are totally neurotypical, yes. Don't listen to them describe their own experiences, listen to the Doctor Man.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026

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  • As I recall the impetus for this was that the team working on grok's code generation ability was preferring to use cursor. Imagine making a model so shitty that even the kind of ai-brained buffoons who want to work on fucking grok don't want to use it. Now consider that apparently that model is grok itself.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026

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    1. Shit piles up at the bottom of the hill

    2. Bottom of the hill elevates until it reaches the enshittifiers

    3. Dinosaur eats man

    4. Woman inherits the earth

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026

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  • I'm sorry are you telling me that there people's social circle includes the same like 50 oligarchs and apparatchiks and they're making a dating site for themselves? I know they lost Epstein but this is just pathetic.

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  • How is it that whenever I learn something new about this family it's always a new way for them to be awful to each other or their kids?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026

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  • Well yeah. Just because they call their crypto scheme an Oracle doesn't mean they've actually solved the oracle problem.

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  • Yeah. I'm not gonna spring for the paid subscription to read the whole thing, but if we're gonna be angry at reasonable general-purpose life advice being melded to a toxic and hateful ideology and then put forward as a revolution in human thought and relationships, then I have bad news about the whole rationalist community.

  • We found the missing AI apps! And nobody downloads them

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  • Maybe I've reached a unique and terrifying level of terminally online goblinhood, but I wonder if part of the issue is also that people are already using basically 100% of the apps they care to use. Like, I don't think there's much in terms of entertainment, productivity, social engagement, or whatever that can be replaced or augmented by new apps, so depending on how we're measuring total usage we shouldn't expect to see dramatic increases just because there are more apps. This doesn't change the fact that vibe coding isn't actually making things people want to use, and in fact I would say that this dramatically increases the chance that any slopware that does do something legitimately useful is going to quickly find itself competing with more well-designed and well-constructed versions of itself that was created by an actual mind.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026

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  • According to a later post from them there's a chance this is more of a list of attendees at a past or upcoming event, but tbh I don't think there's much of a difference between "member of the nu-money illuminati" and "accepted an invite to hang out with the nu-money illuminati at their clubhouse." I can only assume it has the same statue of a hand clutching a globe as the Deus Ex opening cinematic.

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  • Anthropic: Oh no! Our new model is too powerful! It's dangerously good!

    US Government: okay then you can't export it or allow foreign nationals to access it

    Anthropic: Wait not like that

    We have reviewed a report that we believe is the basis of the government's directive and validated that the level of capability displayed there is widely available from other models (including OpenAI’s GPT-5.5), and is used every day by the defenders who keep systems safe.

    Of course this has less to do with the actual capabilities of any model and more to do with Anthropic openly telling the Trump administration "no" on exactly one occasion, but we can still roast some marshmallows over this dumpster fire, right?