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blakestacey

@ blakestacey @awful.systems

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st December 2025

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  • Purdue and Google recently expanded their strategic partnership, emphasizing the importance of public-private partnerships that are essential to accelerating innovation in AI.

    https://www.purdue.edu/ai/

    Translation: somebody's getting paid off

    🎶 Money makes the world go 'round 🎶

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  • This is what you get when you take Star Trek episodes where the writers had run out of ideas and watch them from the bottom of a K-hole.

    And just think, he's been further pickling his brain for half a decade since then.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th December 2025 - awful.systems

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  • I miss n-gate but that was what, 8 years ago.

    Only four (August 2021).

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th December 2025 - awful.systems

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  • The best I ever saw was a reply to a news story to the effect of, "If I were ever invited swimming in the Murderkill River, I would just not go."

    (This might be the original. Then again, it might not.)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th December 2025 - awful.systems

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  • J. Mijin Cha writes:

    My colleague reviewed a paper for the journal Climate and discovered it has been written by AI (citations that didn’t exist). Not only did the journal keep the paper, they asked her to re-review it. We are so cooked.

    Climate is an MDPI journal. Finland's journal-ranking service downgraded Climate to zero status.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th December 2025 - awful.systems

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  • I would simply not name my airplane company "Boom".

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th December 2025 - awful.systems

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  • "How do you keep yourself from going insane?"

    "I tell myself I'm a character from a book who comes to life and is also a robot!" (Hubert Farnsworth giggle)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th December 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Coordinating a post-Calibre path forward

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  • Coordinating a post-Calibre path forward

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  • Notice that the post is me quoting someone else.

  • Coordinating a post-Calibre path forward

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th December 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th December 2025 - awful.systems

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  • No one point out that "keeping your head while all about you are losing theirs" is also a trope.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th December 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Handshake meme of Yud and Rorschach praising Harry S Truman

    From the comments:

    I got Claude to read this text and explain the proposed solution to me

    Once you start down the Claude path, forever will it dominate your destiny....

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th December 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Growing up in Alabama, I didn't have the vocabulary to express it, but I definitely had the feeling when meeting some people, "Given the bullshit you alreasy buy, there is nothing in principle stopping you from going full fash." I get the same feeling now from Yuddites: "There is nothing in principle stopping you from going full Zizian."

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  • The people who build these products aren't bad or evil.

    No, I'm pretty sure that a lot of them just are bad and evil.

    With the emergence of artificial intelligence, we stand at a crossroads. This technology holds genuine promise.

    [citation needed]

    [to a source that's not laundered slop, ya dingbats]

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  • A belief system that inculates the believer into thinking that the work is the most important duty a human can perform, while also isolating them behind impenetrable pseudo-intellectual esoterica, while also funneling them into economic precarity... sounds like a recipe for delicious brownies trouble.

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  • From Lila Byock:

    A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education.

    The result is, in technical terms, four pictures of a schoolgirl waifu in fetishwear.

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  • Dr. Casey Fiesler reports,

    I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings.

    [...]

    Did you guess "that paper does not actually exist"?

    Did you also guess that NOT A SINGLE PAPER IN THEIR REFERENCES APPEARS TO EXIST? [...] When I was searching in various places to confirm that those citations were fabricated, Google's AI overview just kept the con going.

    Jill Walker Rettberg in the comments:

    There’s a peer reviewed published paper in AI & Society called Cognitive Imperialism and Artificial Intelligence which is clearly mostly AI-generated. Citations are real but almost all irrelevant. I emailed the editors weeks ago but it’s still up there and getting cited.