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gerikson

@ gerikson @awful.systems

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st March 2026

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  • That's such a weird comment... like "worried about hurricanes" - the first idea is to pour literal oil on the water????? in what world does that scale??? then it concludes with "maybe don't build fragile buildings in hurricane areas" - lead with that you pillock

    I feel I'm stepping into some long-forgotten debate on LW on alignment or something because there's so much that doesn't make sense in context

  • Apparently Anthropic may be about to be on the receiving end of some major banana republic shit from the Trump admin -- Update: Anthropic labeled supply chain risk by DoD.

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  • couldn't happen to nicer guys

    edit I don't really care one way or another, this current administration is off the rails, but it will be amusing seeing the Rat crowd run around in a panic

  • Accenture: you’re promoted or fired on using the AI

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  • it's funny b/c management consultants live for applying the same cookie-cutter methods for different businesses - in a way they're the OG LLMs

    but the real business is sales - you need to get your expensive consultants embedded into an org so they can start invoicing. And for sales focussing on "AI" is perfect, b/c the companies big enough to be able to pay are also the ones run by the same sort of MBAs who are pushing "AI" everywhere else

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st March 2026

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  • ah, "acculturation" on lobste.rs where a 2-month old account feels free to mouth off on a mod for not doing their job (possibly because the mod uses a feminine-coded handle?) and praise HN as an alternative

    https://lobste.rs/c/ltffae

    I've noticed that the reference to "garden party" is the tone-policing term of choice for lobsters fash to shut down uncomfortable discussions

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st March 2026

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  • "enjoy" this comment from a lobster which almost perfectly encapsulates every pro-clanker viewpoint in one handy place

    https://lobste.rs/c/0ug3so

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st March 2026

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  • The best thing an unpopular regime can ask for is the enemy they have been bigging up as literally The Great Satan starts dropping bombs and missiles on the populace that hates it.

    "If we bomb people and show their government can't protect them, they will turn against the government and we will win" has been tried by the Germans on Londoners, the Allies on Germany and Japan, and the US on Serbia, and it didn't work.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st March 2026

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  • Interesting link but it moves into AI hype near the end.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • I mean it's presumably still standing, just with a slightly cheaper set of owners ;)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • It looks more like they used an LLM (Copilot) to construct programs using the new features in the language.

    So more "hop on the bandwagon using LLMs to advertise" rather than "we used LLMs to develop"

    OTOH "these new features are so advanced you need AI to use them" is a bit of a weird sell

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • more proof that crypto scammers have metastasized to AI scammers

  • The AI Scare Trade — the all-purpose excuse for number go down

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  • We have reached the era of late-stage capitalism where there's not one but multiple "wealth management stocks"

    Also not sure why one trucking "company"[1] reporting success would sink all the others. Surely if they could replicate just a fraction of this company's results, they would become massively more productive, and thus profitable.

    Traders are dumb.

    [1] gotta say though, "Algorythm" is a great name for an ex-karaoke company.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • The obnoxious GitHub OpenClaw AI bot is … a crypto bro

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  • Again, the lobsters in Accelerando are the bad guys. They traffic in conciousness, the less uploaded the better. Don't make your social network emulate them.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • You can always blame an LLM for confusing the 2 companies ;)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026

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  • I managed to get through Perdido and Embassytown, but not much else...