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[redacted] enthusiast, robot combat enjoyer, distressingly Appalachian, father of ninjas

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th June 2026

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  • What if we replaced the kid in the Omelas hole with the wealthiest guy in Omelas?

  • Tech Influence Watch, tracking the cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industries' influence on American democracy

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  • Call it Furby Psychosis

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  • Thanks!

    I reckon they can try to scare people with terminators and threats of poverty, but not with a goddamn overgrown robot beanie baby.

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    Call it Furby Psychosis

    radiolab.org /podcast/137407-talking-to-machines

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th June 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th June 2026

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  • It's so dumb that I wonder if it's some sort of profile-raising stunt.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th June 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th June 2026

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  • Shang Tsung contracting anemia after devouring too many souls.md

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th June 2026

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  • CW: USA Politics

    That suppressed Democratic National Committe 2024 "postmortem" report turns out to have been pure slop, with essentially no references and entirely made-up charts and plots while also missing entire sections. The author can produce exactly zero interview transcripts or source data. It also neglects interrogating failures in addressing trans rights, the genocide in Gaza, or the affordability crisis.

    The podcast "It Could Happen Here" does a good job of analysis (disgusted), but long-time sneerers will feel the futility of getting into the weeds with an extruded textual artifact:

    https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/whats-in-the-dncs-2024-autopsy-335696933/

    Tl:dl the deeply institutionalist DNC chairman appointed his best buddy to the job with zero oversight, and this was the result.

  • @jonny@neuromatch.social explains why rsync is dying

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  • Wew, that is a rich text...

    ...The 3.5 release will raise the bar enormously with regards to rsync security, but it is a huge change...

    o no

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th June 2026

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  • So here in Nashville, Elon and our state government have conspired to attempt a Tesla tunnel that starts at the state capitol, goes under the Cumberland River, and exits at our airport (BNA). They're doing it whether the city wants it or not. (It's "not").

    Setting aside the race to determine whether a void in the local limestone fills with water or radon first, I wanted to help come up with a catchy title for the as yet unnamed car hole:

    BNA Underground Transit Tunnel

    Tourist Protip: Don't try the hot chicken before visiting the BUTT hole.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th June 2026

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  • That's awful, losing a friend that way is like a death without a funeral.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026

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  • I want to believe that's next-level trolling. It's too funny to be true.

  • @jonny@neuromatch.social explains why rsync is dying

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  • Yes, people and companies should step up.

    No, the answer isn't replacing the test suite with nonfunctional slop and running it as root.

    It's all so amateurish and bizzare that my first thought was that someone stole the maintainer's account. I guess nobody's immune to the siren call of the slot machine.

    It's unjustifiable bullshit.

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    @jonny@neuromatch.social explains why rsync is dying

    neuromatch.social /@jonny/116667218484408879

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026

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  • Not a pro mathematician so apologies if Im hanging my butt out here, but I'm not convinced these solutions (or something analogous) aren't in the training data. Wouldn't be the first time. Several seem like the kind of thing you might figure out for a lemma on the way to something else unless you'd previously examined tHe ErDoS PrObLeMs.

    Note: there are over 1200 problems that could be arguably labeled "Erdos Problems." It appears that a chatbot enjoyer vibecoded a website in 2024 and was somehow declared the chief keeper of the things. The site can be found here: https://www.erdosproblems.com/faq

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026

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  • George, are you saying that becoming the Eloi is good actually?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026

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  • Cloud Engineers

    Cloud-to-Butt comes full circle

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026

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  • They're about to test the LD 50/30 for huffing their own farts

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  • Looks like some read about Dune The Torture Nexus again.

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    US Used Chatbot for War Planning

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    Kicking Robots, by James Vincent

    harpers.org /archive/2025/12/kicking-robots-james-vincent-humanoids/
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    ‘Atoms for Algorithms:’ The Trump Administration’s Top Nuclear Scientists Think AI Can Replace Humans in Power Plants

    www.404media.co /nuclear-rian-bahran-iaea-international-symposium-on-artificial-intelligence/
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    Nashville Developer Makes RealPage, but for Renters

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