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@ gerikson @awful.systems

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Semi-relevant, Matthew Garrett has won a court case against the kooks running Techrights:

    https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/115581959497817474

    About the only positive thing you can say about Schestowitz (and probably his wife) is that they are rabidly anti-AI, but that is only because they are also rabidly against anyone who does not subscribe to their personal purity-test vision of Free Software (basically it's them, RMS, and maybe his parrot).

    I have an unhealthy interest in them, because during the Andrew Lee putsch they were basically on his side, until he fucked even them, and I kinda drifted into their IRC server to see what was up. It was my unwelcome introduction to the toxic underbelly of FLOSS, with rampant RMS-worship, misogyny, racism and incipient techno-fascism. I ducked out quite quickly.

    Tellingly, Techrights is all in on the Gemini protocol.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • 210 IQ is not enough

    Being really "smart" (along some axis) doesn't make you succesful or even happy.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • also a massive massive promptfondler

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • While you partied

    I studied THE BLADE

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • WTF are databricks? LLM feces?

  • Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety!

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  • Yeah. Currently the center-right government here in Sweden are pushing nuclear, because the one thing they hate more than brown people is green people. But the industry actually tasked with building and running the plants have extracted both credit guarantees (== taxpayer money) and a legally mandated minimum price on electricity - remember, the entire populist narrative of nuclear is that it will bring cheap power! Plus they're unlikely to start building unless there's a stable parliamentary majority to cement the deal.

    OK, so far, so good (nuclear policy in Sweden is colored by the fractious debate on ending nuclear power in the late 70s, but the principals of that debate (boomers) are finally dying off). But when the shovel hits the ground, you need a site to build it on. And the neighbors of said site are generally of the opinion that a fucking power pylon is an infringement on their god-given right to property resale price increase. Imagine a concrete box of eldrich power blocking the skyline, and imagine a population of people who know how to pull the levers of obstruction and have had decades of practice doing it. Fun times ahead.

  • Data Center Watch worries that anti-AI activism is working

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  • Ad targeting, spam campaigns, dark propaganda.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • invoice factoring

    Is that somewhat new in the US? I recall seeing ads for it here in Sweden for 15 years or more.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • It's so weird to see Klarna on that list, because I keep forgetting Klarna is now a huge juggernaut, not the little service that every etailer here in Sweden uses for checkout services

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025

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  • […] Curio’s Grok, an anthropomorphic rocket with a removable speaker, is also somewhat opaque about its underlying tech, though its privacy policy mentions sending data to OpenAI and Perplexity. (No relation to xAI’s Grok — or not exactly; while it’s not powered by Elon Musk’s chatbot, its voice was provided by the musician Claire “Grimes” Boucher, Musk’s former romantic partner.)

    <applies brain bleach liberally>

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025

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  • EU Commission about to wreck core principles of the GDPR

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  • There was a ton of panic here in Sweden too. Specifically I heard of entities like councils and public boards like unemployment who were braced for a ton of data deletion requests that had to be fixed within 24 hours or something like otherwise huge legal fees. AFAIK nothing like that happened.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025

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  • To be clear, I can't edit Wikipedia to save my life. Editor in this case was Elestrophe.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025

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  • EU Commission about to wreck core principles of the GDPR

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  • The cookie popups are basically malicious compliance.

    But many yanks (even geeks) have an instinctive dislike of anything that smacks of government regulation. They're conditioned to see corporations as good, or rather, that competition between corporations will always lead to good outcomes, and that anything that disrupts that competition as bad.

  • EU Commission about to wreck core principles of the GDPR

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  • just had some onboarding training about the GDPR and I really don't get US "privacy activists" disdainful view of it. It puts the individual before corporations. Sad if it's atttempted to be gutted