BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th June 2026plus-squarepinawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square81linkfedilinkarrow-up112arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 hours agorsync goes AI slop, breaks your backupsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square16linkfedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down19
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 1 day agoLog into any Instagram by asking Meta’s AI nicelyplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square2linkfedilinkarrow-up148arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agoPrompt-inject ChatGPT with any web pageplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3linkfedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down11
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o7___o7@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 days ago@jonny@neuromatch.social explains why rsync is dyingplus-squareneuromatch.socialexternal-linkmessage-square12linkfedilinkarrow-up124arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 days agoTest software tells code bots ‘delete me’ — AI bros outragedplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square2linkfedilinkarrow-up155arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agoThe SpaceX IPO works like a crypto fraud, but with AIplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down11
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agoPope Leo to AI bros: Just stop itplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square12linkfedilinkarrow-up1109arrow-down14
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sc_griffith@awful.systemsEnglish · 8 days agoBig Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipediaplus-squaremedium.comexternal-linkmessage-square3linkfedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down11
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agoMcClatchy runs AI slop with journalists’ names on itplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down11
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agoSTOP DOING SEARCHES (a dramatic reading)plus-squarewww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down13
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BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 10 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026plus-squareawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square272linkfedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down11
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 12 days agoOpenAI user numbers go flat — just in time for the IPOplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up1101arrow-down11
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 13 days agoAmazon engineers use MeshClaw bot to hit managers’ AI token targetsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down10
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CinnasVerses@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-27 days agoHow to disinvest from the chatbot bubbleplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 14 days agoGoogle is replacing search results with only the AIplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square41linkfedilinkarrow-up1132arrow-down11
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 15 days agoTucson Project Blue: data centres lie about water againplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square5linkfedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 16 days agoGitHub Copilot AI token charges to go up 10×–100×plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square10linkfedilinkarrow-up1119arrow-down10
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BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 17 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th May 2026plus-squareawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square207linkfedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down11
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 19 days agoarXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papersplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square9linkfedilinkarrow-up145arrow-down10
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