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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th December 2025

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  • Sean Munger, my favorite history YouTuber, has released a 3-hour long video on technology cultists from railroads all the way to LLMs. I have not watched this yet but it is probably full of delicious sneers.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • this is very fashtech coded, happy to be proven wrong though.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Blog von Marcus Seyfarth, LL.M.

    LOL

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • I think we already lost the plot when we started relying on a centralized entity (Google) to "index the world's information and make it useful". Ad-tech already fucked up all of the incentives, making recipe sites fill their pages with bullshit in hopes of wiping my eyeballs with messages from third parties hungry for attention. I fucking hate this world.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th November 2025

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  • I don't doubt you could effectively automate script kiddie attacks with Claude code. That's what the diagram they have seems to show.

    The whole bit about "oh no, the user said weird things and bypassed our imaginary guard rails" is another admission that "AI safety" is a complete joke.

    We advise security teams to experiment with applying AI for defense in areas like Security Operations Center automation, threat detection, vulnerability assessment, and incident response.

    there it is.

    Does this article imply that Anthropic is monitoring everyone's Claude code usage to see if they're doing naughty things? Other agents and models exist so whatever safety bullshit they have is pure theater.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025

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  • First comment: "the world is bottlenecked by people who just don't get the simple and obvious fact that we should sort everyone by IQ and decide their future with it"

    No, the world is bottlenecked by idiots who treat everything as an optimization problem.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025

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  • wait this isn't a joke this is a yc funded startup

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025

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  • Ugh. Hank Green just posted a 1-hour interview with Nate Soares about That Book. I'm halfway through on 2x speed and so far zero skepticism of That Book's ridiculous premises. I know it's not his field but I still expected a bit more from Hank.

    A YouTube comment says it better than I could:

    Yudkowsky and his ilk are cranks.

    I can understand being concerned about the problems with the technology that exist now, but hyper-fixating on an unfalsifiable existential threat is stupid as it often obfuscates from the real problems that exist and are harming people now.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025

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  • Nothing screams "celebration of creativity" like a nice heaping tablespoon of AI slop images.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025

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  • Foxboron (arch maintainer dude) seems pretty good about rejecting fascism, he's in the framework thread linked from the post above expressing discontent.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025

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  • I just wanted to lob a sneer at this article fawning over Sora 2: https://spyglass.org/soras-slop-hits-different/

    And again, a lot of this stuff — slop or not — is funny. Really, truly funny. Sora is scaling comedy in a way that we’ve never seen.

    did this motherfucker just try to say "scaling comedy"? If you ever wondered why techbros are so unfunny, here's something to point at.

  • now that's what I call fashtech, vol. 1

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  • ask me about Urbit, I have so many notes

    Has anything interesting happened since Yarvis Curtin took the reigns of Tlon?

  • how do I know that you guys are real and not bots?

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  • ok chatgpt, thanks for the tips

  • Russian economy in freefall as mortgage costs soar and mass layoffs hit firms

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  • stop invading lmao

  • The content is free but the cost is not...

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  • 12 skips of 30s each. They really do have some 6 minute long ad breaks.

  • The content is free but the cost is not...

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  • were you not paying attention or have you already forgotten that Honey is scamming the very content creators who shilled it (and others) by hijacking their affiliate links via cookie stuffing? By using Honey you're actively fucking over people who get income from affiliate marketing.

  • Elon Musk’s Team Decimates Education Department Arm That Tracks National School Performance.

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  • "Somebody must be doing something." - everyone lol. The US is cooked, maybe not immediately but say goodbye to hegemony, goodbye to whatever shred of upward mobility remained, and goodbye to the possibility of retirement.

  • Elon Musk’s Team Decimates Education Department Arm That Tracks National School Performance.

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  • the funny thing about this quote is that you can post it under anything mildly outrageous and tons of people will go "mhmmm yes that's me the critical thinker" regardless of their actual mental faculties.

  • Red, White, and Blueland

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  • can you imagine being a Democrat congressperson who actually wants to do something useful for people and having to listen to this? I'd probably just resign.