the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
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TechTakes @awful.systems Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025
NotAwfulTech @awful.systems I gained remote code execution via MIDI messages to trick my synth into playing Bad Apple on its LCD
TechTakes @awful.systems YouTuber f4mi tells you how to poison AI video scrapers with ‘.аss’ subtitles
TechTakes @awful.systems Elsevier rewrites academic papers with AI — without telling editors or authors
TechTakes @awful.systems Nvidia primes the pump, puts $1b of pocket change into AI startups
TechTakes @awful.systems Apple Intelligence AI mangles headlines so badly the BBC officially complains
NotAwfulTech @awful.systems BrandShite: RPG about taking down other people's entire websites
TechTakes @awful.systems A polite disagreement bot ring is flooding Bluesky — reply guy as a (dis)service
TechTakes @awful.systems Coca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expect
NotAwfulTech @awful.systems a good piece on Bluesky, how it works, how decentralised it isn't in practice and the consequences of it winning
TechTakes @awful.systems Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results
TechTakes @awful.systems ‘Can Artificial Intelligence Speak for Incapacitated Patients at the End of Life?’ No, and what the hell is wrong with you?
TechTakes @awful.systems AI does stand-up: ‘cruise ship comedy material from the 1950s, but a bit less racist’
TechTakes @awful.systems Mother Jones sues OpenAI and Microsoft - best pic of Sam Altman-Fried
NotAwfulTech @awful.systems "It’s sad that DeepDream is technically abandonware. I did some work on porting it to a webservice in a Docker container last summer, it’s history worth keeping"
TechTakes @awful.systems The whole internet loves Kagi, a lovely paid search engine that can find things! 5 seconds later We regret to inform you the CEO is an unhinged narcissist who will harangue you in email
NotAwfulTech @awful.systems this looks fun. Get an old analogue oscilloscope and run a simple chaos generator through it. {PDF}
the survey says all sorts of things, it's true