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109
AI doomsday cultist throws Molotov at Sam Altman’s house (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

Sam might build a nothingburger so tasty it destroys the Earth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo7KI5jON_c&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260413-ai-doomsday-cultist-throws-molotov-at-sam-altmans-house - podcast

time: 11 min 58 sec

10
OpenAI pulls out of Stargate UK data centre (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

‘Regulatory uncertainty’ (not enough free stuff)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWrQnoyiQhU&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/openai-pulls-out-of-stargate-uk-data-centre - podcast

time: 3 min 34 sec

20
Claude Mythos: the AI hacking model too good to release! Allegedly (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

Your expensive static checker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c1DC-gNizQ&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260409-claude-mythos-the-ai-hacking-model-too-good-to-release-allegedly - podcast

time: 7 min 07 sec

11
OpenAI IPO proceeds — even as CFO says the company is ‘not ready’ (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

SpaceX makes bankers buy Grok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJGHXdcVzYc&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260407-associated-press-dumps-journalists-for-ai - podcast

time: 4 min 34 sec

27
Associated Press dumps journalists for AI (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

‘Resistance is futile’ — AP senior manager

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7l6WnC9hoA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260407-associated-press-dumps-journalists-for-ai - podcast

time: 4 min 44 sec

Microsoft AI reshuffle: Mustafa Suleyman goes AI doomsday crank in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

well that shows it's aligned to the flourishing of humanity

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Nobody wants OpenAI shares on the secondary market (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

meanwhile, SpaceX lines up its IPO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-X0LvkJFJM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260403-nobody-wants-openai-shares-on-the-secondary-market - podcast

time: 5 min 01 sec

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

AO3 this immediately

New Round of Criti-Hype Propaganda Drops Next Week in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 3 weeks ago

yeah this is the bad one. The good one is Ghost In The Machine.

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Microsoft AI reshuffle: Mustafa Suleyman goes AI doomsday crank (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

not to worry, Copilot’s ‘for entertainment purposes only’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja-U_LfX5bA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260402-microsoft-ai-reshuffle-suleyman-goes-ai-doomsday-crank - podcast

time: 5 min 56 sec

OpenAI offers 17.5% on venture deal! How can it do that? in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 3 weeks ago

including Sam

Claude Code codebase is leaked in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago

jonny's thread is sheer awesome

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Claude Code codebase is leaked (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

Anthropic: ‘human error, not a security breach’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpkyF-ugVq4&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260401-claude-code-codebase-leaked - podcast

time: 8 min 19 sec

GitHub Copilot puts ads into pull requests in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

So MS claims, that they don't have ad deals for this!

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GitHub Copilot puts ads into pull requests (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

Microsoft: ‘product tips’, not ‘ads’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMhSgFgwG80&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260331-github-copilot-puts-ads-into-pull-requests - podcast

time: 5 min 46 sec

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OpenAI offers 17.5% on venture deal! How can it do that? (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

By not guaranteeing it in any way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Wp5ZUg1yo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260330-openai-offers-a-175-return-on-a-venture-deal-how-can-it-do-that - podcast

time: 4 min 47 sec

16
The AI bubble and the global polycrisis (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

Everything is screwed. But how screwed?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT065qgThlE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260327-the-ai-bubble-and-the-global-polycrisis - podcast

time: 8 min 01 sec

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BuzzFeed goes AI — then it goes broke (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
6 comments fedilink
 

go slop, go flop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwt54FUmKLI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260326-buzzfeed-goes-ai-then-it-goes-broke - podcast

time: 5 min 45 sec

OpenAI shuts down Sora video — Disney deal off in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago

a Mickey Mouse camera, obviously

Companies go full AI — then the bill comes due in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago

yesterdays' news just in, no we won't

OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX to trash stock market IPOs for 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago

Covered one attempt already!

https://awful.systems/post/7387786

Trouble is the sort of investment that's uncorrelated right up to the moment you need it to be, at which point it crashes in lockstep

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago

if you use Rust enough it just grows like that

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

fig. 1: @self hard at work keeping awful systems up and running

from Unix World 1985. enterprise computing was so much more fun in those days

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 1 month ago

But along the way, he found a way to take estrogen wrong

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