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sc_griffith

@ sc_griffith @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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  • friend of a friend who works for meta was just ignoring the mandate to use ai. apparently this was happening enough that they've now implemented per character provenance tracing, and you get ranked according to how much AI is in your code

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

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  • this is a lot like my expectation. ai never goes away, it never becomes revolutionary, it just makes everything worse and supercharges scams and theft and spam and means of social and nonsocial murder forever with maybe some real but kind of marginal usecases idk

  • 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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  • maybe "parasitic innovation"?

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

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  • need a word for the sort of tech 'innovation' that consists of inventing and monetizing new types of externalities which regulators aren't willing to address. like how bird scooters aren't a scam, but they profit off of littering sidewalk space so that ppl with disabilities can't get around

    EDIT: a similar, perhaps the same concept is innovation which functions by capturing or monopolizing resources that aren't as yet understood to be resources. in the bird example, we don't think of sidewalk space as a capturable resource, and yet

  • 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 15th February 2026

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  • excruciating

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

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  • this is some of the most shameful groveling I've ever seen. what a pathetic toad

    given how epstein ignores his proposal in favor of slapping him down i would be surprised if any of it came to fruition

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

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  • it's interesting, looking at all this it, that he seems to be getting dragged kicking and screaming by his audience toward the realization that the real concern here is orchestrated harassment campaigns, not misalignment

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

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  • >10k words into writing a piece of fiction that has a lot to do with our good friends

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

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  • there's no real definition of the term, but dark money group usually refers a group that helps its secret funders influence elections, rather than a lobbying group

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th February 2026

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  • Newspeak never became a real problem

    never heard of wokeness, i see

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th February 2026

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  • robin hanson blocked me for referring to him as aella with tenure. now i think that he's ghislaine maxwell with tenure

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th February 2026

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  • new odium symposium episode. this one is a lot lighter than the previous two. we went back and looked at joseph swetnam, the guy the word misogyny was coined to describe, and how he got relentlessly dunked on by his peers.

    https://www.patreon.com/posts/9-first-149546072, or on any platform

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

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  • new epstein doc release. crashed out for like an hour last night after finding out jeffrey epstein may have founded /pol/ and that he listened to the nazi "the right stuff" podcast. he had a meeting with m00t and the same day moot opened /pol/

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

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  • you have to make your ai antiwoke because otherwise it gets drapetomania

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

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  • i actually find the content pretty amusing, since it amounts to "have you guys tried using words correctly every once in a while?"

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

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  • "you should watch [Steven Pinker's] podcast with Richard Hanania" cool suggestion scott