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blakestacey

@ blakestacey @awful.systems

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th June 2026

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  • The most pedantic nerds on Earth (complimentary) have discovered that Grok leaks its prompts when slopping out Grokipedia pages. Examples:

    • "The instructions say "You are an agent that writes the various article sections for an encyclopedia entry on Joseph Kanuku."

    • "[Note: Britannica is encyclopedia, but instructions say no Britannica. Wait, replace with another.]"

    • "Wait, instructions say NEVER cite Wikipedia. Oops. Let me adjust."

    • "The instructions say prioritize peer reviewed, books, etc."

    • "Wait, but instructions say never cite social media, so omit that last part. Wait, adjust. Since Instagram is social media, omit that."

    • "Wait, instructions say avoid "References" as a section, but for completeness, I've omitted it from structure.)"

    • "The guidelines say "Include any of the following where relevant: - Factual details..." under Missing Information or Knowledge Gaps Examples. And in format, it's to list only critical issues or all missing info or knowledge gaps."

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th June 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th June 2026

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  • Isn't that the hat from the picture that Yudkowsky showed off to prove he wasn't a cult leader? Are they trying to beat the cult allegations by ha ha jokingly wearing the same silly clothes as their founder?

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  • Please enjoy this comment saying "Nate Silver is a major proponent of AI assisted writing" like that's a good thing, and the reply that argues against slop from the weird premise that enjoying one's own writing process is bad.

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  • owning us with hats and logic

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  • Wikipedia is mirrored all over the place for good purposes and for ill. Old articles are probably floating around out there, and who knows if the slop machine can distinguish what Wikipedia itself says from other pages that have "from Wikipedia" stamped on them?

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  • From the comments:

    If there is room for a coliving or cohousing intentional community with maker and permaculture components alongside your plan, I would love to discuss the possibility of collaborating.

    "Love your idea, but could we make it more like a compound?"

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  • I think there even is a case to be made about how Frank Herbert is the anti-L. Ron Hubbard, using sci-fi literature as an efficient outlet for his psychedelics/mysticism/ecology/psychosexuality obsession oscilliation and actually leaving a descent literary legacy instead of starting a cult or several, but this post is already running so long it’s starting to need an editor.

    I would read that essay.

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  • Malkovich?

    Malkovich Malkovich!

  • rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups

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  • Honestly, I almost brought the banhammer down for this. Making excuses for shitty programmer behavior is bad. Doing it by pretending they're like victims of domestic abuse is worse.

  • rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups

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  • And you don't get to complain about me spending my free time banning you. Bye!

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  • The truly fundamental aspect of the entire philosophy, in practice, was telling people "Just fork it, then."

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  • "When help never arrived, he actively chose to make everyone else's life worse."

    As Yoda would say, a fucking river cry me.

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  • The take I usually see on The Art of War nowadays is that it's full of dunderheadedly obvious advice because it's written for men who have inherited an army, or in modern parlance, nepo baby failsons.

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  • Damn. That sucks.

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  • If I were a skilled music person and I wanted to spend 3 minutes cheering someone up, I'd record myself playing "Here Comes the Sun" on my guitar, y'know?