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blakestacey

@ blakestacey @awful.systems

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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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  • "The Torment Nexus definitely has positive uses. I personally use it frequently for looking up song lyrics and tracking my children's medication doses. I find it helpful."

  • Busy Beaver Gauge

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  • This isn't my field, but it looks like a neat project!

  • Vibe-coded build system NX gets hacked, steals vibe-coders’ crypto

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  • The malware stole a lot of people’s login keys and, apparently, their crypto wallets.

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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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  • From elsewhere in the replies:

    My husband and I took a disagreement to Claude today, by happenstance. It was very helpful!

    ---TracingWoodgrains, who apparently feels that he is qualified to judge any other human being, ever, in spite of evidence to the contrary

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st August 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Not everything that Yud writes feels like it should be read in the voice of Augustus St. Cloud, but a lot of it sure does.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st August 2025 - awful.systems

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  • "I have Lawfulness concerns" is just another way of saying "I deserve to be shoved into a locker".

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st August 2025 - awful.systems

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  • "When the 8-year-old and I have an argument, it actually works really well to mutually agree on an account of events... and then take cocaine together."

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  • sex weirdo (derogatory)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st August 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

    I should never have to open the settings in Notepad. Reason being: it's Notepad. God fuckin damn I hate the computer.

    https://bsky.app/profile/iainnd.bsky.social/post/3lxdvmkua4227

  • We should rethink how we teach people to code

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  • I got my start with line-number BASIC, MS-DOS batch files and x86 assembly.

    Oh, and once in college, I got really high and made a Visual Basic program that had no graphical user interface.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st August 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Excel COPILOT: make up spreadsheet numbers with AI!

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  • "I love the Power Glove, it’s just so deeply and seamlessly integrated into Excel!"

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st August 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Thought 1: This is the kind of incident that makes politicians vote for a law named after a dead kid. It behooves us to think of what kind of legislation could actually address the problem without becoming a clusterfuck that worsens everyone's life, including children's. cough #OnlineSafetyAct cough

    Thought 2: Hey, all you guys using LLMs to replace opinion surveys or do "research" on social interactions because it's cheaper than gathering real data... How many human beings talk like the suicide-encouragement bot here?

    Thought 3: Oh, remember when OpenAI paid $10 million to buy off the American Federation of Teachers? Because Pepperidge Farm still has that browser tab open. Every school administrator who breathes a word about bringing "AI" into the classroom deserves to get lit up by parents asking why they are embracing suicide tech.

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  • That story mentions Carl Sagan but omits the detail that Peter the dolphin propositioned him. (It's in the William Poundstone biography, IIRC.)

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  • Imagr description: Steven Pinker, Lawrence Krauss and Jeffrey Epstein, posted as per tradition when either of the latter two are mentioned

  • Perplexity’s AI browser Comet can be prompt-injected by any website

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  • This exploit was discovered by two security guys at the Brave web browser.

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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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  • "Which Scott?"

    "Any of them."

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