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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

Son speaks English perfectly well, if with a strong accent. If he said or wrote it in English, he means it.

SoftBank’s untitled AI goose game — eggs do not lay eggs in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

SoftBank makes a ton of cash. They have a huge mobile phone company in Japan. They used to have the Japanese monopoly on iPhones. Those are the geese who lay the golden eggs Son then squanders.

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SoftBank’s untitled AI goose game — eggs do not lay eggs (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

peace was never an option

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTwCo2Jn1d0&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260626-softbanks-untitled-ai-goose-game-eggs-do-not-lay-eggs - podcast

time: 5 min 48 sec

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Office workers are spending way too much on AI too (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

Gotta burn ’em all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9miTfCnyrpw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260625-office-workers-are-spending-way-too-much-on-ai-too - podcast

time: 5 min 34 sec

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Meta keylogs staff typing for AI training — then leaks it (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

and sends engineers to the AI gulag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fw6hnJb_1E&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260624-meta-keeps-staff-typing-for-ai-training-then-leaks-it - podcast

time: 4 min 42 sec

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"good epistemics": the rationalist dog whistle for /ourguys/ (hollyelmore.substack.com)
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

AHH THE FUCKIN MILADY CREW

fuck

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UK press can opt out of AI overviews, stay in search results (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

Google has to follow a regulation for once

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fku2tzBTNnI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260623-uk-press-can-opt-out-of-ai-overviews-stay-in-search-results - podcast

time: 3 min 44 sec

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 5 days ago

Alsup put this as a point in Anthropic's favour in the recent authorial class action, so now it's received wisdom.

Random Positivity Threads in c/morewrite@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 5 days ago

don't forget the whole youtube series it's the latest entry in!

Ed Zitron explains OpenAI’s leaked financials | The Tech Report - Youtube (Invidious link) in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 5 days ago

this was a great interview, well worth a watch (even at 1.25x)

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Religious exemption from using the AI at work (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

Become a Unitarian Universalist!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kB4zFlEDjw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260622-religious-exemption-from-using-the-ai-at-work - podcast

time: 3 min 57 sec

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Midjourney AI pivots to Theranos: Ultrasonic CT (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

golden light and dolphins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sg8S-lw9hE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260619-midjourney-ai-pivots-to-theranos - podcast

time: 6 min 56 sec

Unreal Engine 6 goes AI — and wants to bring back NFTs in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago

that's right, NFTs

Unreal Engine 6 goes AI — and wants to bring back NFTs in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No blockchain involved, but it works just like the NFT promises. And he called the language "Verse" for "metaverse".

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Unreal Engine 6 goes AI — and wants to bring back NFTs (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

everybody loves Tim Sweeney

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ3iaolqcFg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260618-unreal-engine-6-goes-ai-wants-to-bring-back-nfts - podcast

time: 7 min 03 sec

DCA is just rebranding for chasing losses. in c/buttcoin@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the way bitcoiners do it is dumbass brain damage however

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
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SearchLeak: Prompt-inject enterprise Copilot with a search (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

with the help of the 100% trusted Microsoft Bing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lR5qpHPwNw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260617-searchleak-prompt-inject-enterprise-copilot-with-a-search - podcast

time: 3 min 32 sec

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I checked the image which says December last year.

We found the missing AI apps! And nobody downloads them in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago

you're talking like you don't want another fifty match-3 games

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We found the missing AI apps! And nobody downloads them (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

but look at our vibe code garbage fountain!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_57ed0yvDec&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260616-we-found-the-missing-ai-apps-and-nobody-downloads-them - podcast

time: 6 min 01 sec

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Google found liable for defamatory AI overviews (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

91% accurate means 9% made-up rubbish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWNTs-3OgJo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260615-google-liable-for-defamatory-ai-overviews - podcast

time: 4 min 31 sec

we're so back baybee

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our very good EA billionaire friends are funding the Abundance movement (prospect.org)
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