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mirrorwitch

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  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th August 2025

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  • From gormless gray voice to misattributed sources, it can be daunting to read articles that turn out to be slop. However, incorporating the right tools and techniques can help you navigate instructionals in the age of AI. Let's delve right in and and learn some telltale signs like:

    • Every goddamn article reads like this now.
    • With this bullet point list at some point.
    • I am going to tear the eyes off my head

  • The broken search bar is symbiotic with the bullshitting chatbot

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  • I hate programming but if I wanted to waste any time programming stuff my idea would be something akin to Yahoo! Directory from before Google, or del.icio.us from the 2000s, but distributed, and tied to a PGP-like web of trust system.

    You search for a topic, you get links saved with that tag by people you personally validated and trust first, and then by people they trust, and people you don't know but added as probably fine, and so on. Dunno how doable it would be to do something like this.