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Words of wisdom from Baldur Bjarnason (mostly repeated from his Basecamp post-mortem):

We know we’re reaching the late stages of a bubble when we start to see multiple “people in tech don’t really believe in all of this, honest, we just act like it because we think we have to, we’re a silent majority you see”, but the truth is that what you believe in private doesn’t matter. All that matter is that you’ve been acting like a true believer and you are what you do

In work and politics, it genuinely doesn’t matter what you were thinking when you actively aided and abetted in shitting on people’s work, built systems that helped fascists, ruined the education system and pretty much all of media. What matters, and what you should be judged on is what you did

Considering a recent example where AI called someone a terrorist for opposing genocide, its something that definitely bears repeating.

If I had to pick a particular tidbit, I'd go with the indifference/disrespect Bone Thugs-n-Harmony got in their surprise set there - in any other context, that shit would have had people going fucking wild.

As Patrick himself notes, its a perfect visual metaphor for the bitcoin bros' relation to art and culture, or more accurately the utter black hole of vapidity and soullessness that defines the community's tastes.

This is one of the best articles I've read all year, and I never want to read it again. Holy shit.

Found a quality sneer in the wild, taking aim at vibe-coded "websites"

A US Army general just bragged about using ChatGPT as an accountability sink - the same ChatGPT that caused plenty of students to fuck up a basic question:

I tried to come up with some kind of fucked-up joke to take the edge off, but I can't think up anything good. What the actual fuck.

Quality sneer in the wild:

Nothing just announced they're enshittifying their phones with AI

But can we do a zero click attack? Can we make Copilot Chat give us the user’s private data if they even look at the pull request page? Yes, we can!

In a YouTube commenter's own words:

“As part of our ‘treat adult users like adults’ principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.”

There's this magical thing called "commissioning a porn artist" Sammy Boy. I recommend trying it out for once - it gets you an objectively better result than throwing money into a planet-destroying slop machine, and its much cheaper too. You've done nothing but attack the human soul for the past three fucking years, you might as well give an infinitesimal amount of your undeserved billions to one of the millions of artists whose livelihoods you've been murdering.

(Seriously, I feel fucking insulted by this.)

Reddit was still doing NFTs?

I would like to congratulate the SV-brained OP for prompting sneers from his fellow orange site members, whether that be a fellow hackernews calling it "everything wrong with the current flavor of Ai in a single post/product", or someone openly tearing this shit apart:

You turned talking to Santa into a subscription service.

You are part of the problem. You are part of the thing everyone hates about technology in 2025.

This is a bad product.

Examples of such goods are public roads or public libraries or services or other goods of a communal nature.

This is literally railing against the concept of altruism, kill this license with hammers (and sickles)

To provide some good news for this week, the Fediverse is reporting a spike in users (thanks to David Gerard for finding this):

Whilst accurate fedi stats are pretty difficult to get, I'm inclined to believe the influx is genuine - after the CEO Meltdown on Bluesky, its clear people are jumping ship.

Guy's also publicly denying the flagship products are fash in the replies (Exhibit A, Exhibit B):

AI slop has been discovered in an anatomy textbook (the news originally broke on TikTok, but I discovered this through Bluesky):

And in related news, worldwide ecosystems are already getting perma-fucked by billionaires' repeated and relentless wrecking of our planet for personal gain.

I mention billionaires specifically because the average Joe, the 99% of humanity being told to cut down their carbon footprint and delete emails to save water, is completely fucking blameless in this.

They didn't choose to have car-centric architecture forced on them for the past goddamn century, they didn't choose to have planet-wrecking crypto farms/NFTs forced on them a few years ago, and they sure as hell didn't choose to have planet-killing AI slop extruders forced on them, either.

(Anyways, unrelated hot take of the day: taking responsibility for something you're not responsible for is a moral failing, and needs to be treated as such)

I fell off Spotify years ago and never subbed, nice to see I made the right call.

[THIS IS WHAT SCIENTOLOGISTS TECHBROS ACTUALLY BELIEVE]

Gemini is special — Google’s put it everywhere. For instance, in any company that uses Google Apps. Markopoulos built test attacks against Google Calendar invites. He could hit the titles, the meeting organizer’s name, and the meeting descriptions.

Ah, good, nice to know Google's negligence is providing some sort of setup for the next ILOVEYOU-level disaster /s