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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 10 hours ago

Apache is terrible as an SSL terminator IME

bluesky is horrified to discover Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

fwiw, that HP cult doesn't have a body count (that I know of)

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bluesky is horrified to discover Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (awful.systems)
 

https://bsky.app/profile/clairewillett.bsky.social/post/3mtpvatugsc2z
https://bsky.app/profile/panic.gay/post/3mtoakgupgk2x

(threads may require bsky login, sorry)

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Tante on AI: ‘When this thing crashes, I want to see apologies’ (video) (www.youtube.com)
 

‘Many people from very different groups can come together hating AI’

Content note: contains appropriately salty language

https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260821-tante-on-ai-when-this-thing-crashes-i-want-to-see-apologies - podcast (clean version with bleeps)

time: 49 min 52 sec

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How to hack Copilot AI: ask it how to hack it (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

prompt injections get easier and stupider

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEkTvsv0cLg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260820-how-to-hack-copilot-ai-ask-it-how-you-can-hack-it - podcast

time: 4 min 08 sec

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Memory prices are up 500% in the past year — because of AI (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

get your shiny new DDR-4 motherboards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Un7g_vyePI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260819-memory-prices-up-500-in-the-past-year-because-of-ai - podcast

time: 4 min 14 sec

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 4 days ago

countdown to Comedian Sex Pest Scandal in

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I'm using Zencastr cos the free tier is the right price and I've found my way to evade most of the AI crap thankfully. "New recording" on the front page or in existing sessions seems to take you to the bit that actually does shit.

I just record with it, I grab the MOV and WAV files and I put it together from that and (after much faff) upload to YouTube and Libsyn. I shudder at the thought of Libsyn going AI, cos otherwise they just do a good job of hosting the mp3 files and running the RSS and I can get onto Apple without having to interact with Apple.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

can we kick aella and her friends out of perversion

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Data centres get too hot for Texas politicians (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

all data centre plans halted for audit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfAJWeIoucM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260818-data-centres-get-too-hot-for-texas-politicians - podcast

time: 3 min 47 sec

Anthropic watermarks AI output — and the AI bros yell in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 5 days ago

now awaiting the Daria crossover

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Anthropic watermarks AI output — and the AI bros yell (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

how DARE you catch me out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCiDuw5CzAY&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260817-anthropic-watermarks-ai-output-and-the-ai-bros-yell - podcast

time: 7 min 46 sec

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
my Rationalist Sense smells Effective Altruists all over this in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

oh it's worse, people send me this shit

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Short punchy writing? GO SHORTER.

my Rationalist Sense smells Effective Altruists all over this in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago

someone who has crossed paths with the EAs previously sent it to me!

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

top quality extremely offended dork

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my Rationalist Sense smells Effective Altruists all over this (tally.so)
 

About us

We are a new AI advocacy organization launching publicly in late summer 2026. Our goal is to amplify everyday voices and build a broad-based movement capable of winning federal AI policy. We want policies that create an economy that works for everyone, not just Big AI; that defend our essential freedoms; and that prevent the development of AI systems that pose existential risks to humans and the planet.

For years the response to AI risk has been white papers and closed-door meetings

yep, it's our very good friends

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Turkey asks the AI: are you a TERRORIST?? (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

the purpose of a system is what it does

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cjXpYX-wfE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260814-turkey-asks-the-ai-are-you-a-terrorist - podcast

time: 3 min 41 sec

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Amazon’s AI training on Twitch: ‘If it was opt in, nobody would opt in’ (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

saying the quiet part out loud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE4Ucw-zbpc&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260813-amazons-ai-training-on-twitch-if-it-was-opt-in-nobody-would-opt-in - podcast

time: 4 min 25 sec

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xAI data centre contractors file liens for non-payment (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

Elon still a drag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjYKFfzTcVo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260812-xai-data-centre-contractors-file-non-payment-liens - podcast

time: 4 min 37 sec

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

lisp went big in the leadup to the AI winter, which followed a lot of fraudulent nonsense that even the DoD would only buy for so long

so in that sense it's in character

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UK gov org AISI is functionally an EA front (www.telegraph.co.uk)
 

hence the weird "the AI escaped!!" instead of "we fucked it"

also annoyed to agree with Andrew Orlowski on anything, ever

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Meta brings the superintelligent AI future! Probably (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

Trust in Zuck’s vision

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX5HjqPDAMU&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260811-meta-brings-the-superintelligent-ai-future-probably - podcast

time: 5 min 07 sec

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