Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026
3d 7h ago in techtakes@awful.systems from awful.systemsOf course, the "AI Control" in Firefox for Android conveniently doesn't include the "make-a-jerkoff-motion-to-llm-summarize a-page" "feature" Mozilla has added.
Tech Influence Watch, tracking the cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industries' influence on American democracy
9d 10h ago in techtakes@awful.systems from influence.citationneeded.newsStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th June 2026
10d 7h ago in techtakes@awful.systemsThe first I heard of a project doing this was iocaine, an anti-scraper tool (that I think awful.systems uses??) which has module names like "sex_dungeon" and "GargleBargle" intended to make the codebase unmanageable to navigate for llm tooling. It's pretty funny that this has become an established technique.
Claude v6.0, "Tall Tale"
Claude v6.1 "Big Fish Story"
Molly White continuing to slam it out of the park with a pivot to AI. As always, worth a read in full, but this intro bit stuck out to me after reading lots of inane blather on how crypto and AI are different:
Continuing to track only crypto would mean missing half the story. The same operatives are running both campaigns. Josh Vlasto, longtime adviser and spokesperson for Fairshake — the cryptocurrency super PAC network responsible for the bulk of crypto’s 2024 spending — is now simultaneously heading Leading the Future, a pro-AI super PAC network. Chris Lehane, the political consultant and Coinbase board member who helped establish Fairshake and famously told Coinbase employees who questioned whether a crypto voter bloc existed that they would simply invent one, is now also an OpenAI executive and one of the people behind the Leading the Future PAC network. The same venture capital firms are funding both: Andreessen Horowitz, a crypto heavyweight in the 2024 elections, is now splitting its political spending across crypto and AI PACs.
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026
24d 7h ago in techtakes@awful.systems from awful.systemsEschatoken
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th April 2026
1mon 29d ago in techtakes@awful.systems from awful.systemsIf it's this easy to coerce the Magic Eight Ball, what chance do the rest of us have against DOOM?!?
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/23/chatgpt-ai-false-confession-interrogation-crime/
“If ChatGPT can be induced into a false confession, then who isn’t vulnerable?”
I don't have words for how stupid this is.
Favorite pick?
2mon 9d ago in guitarsUltex Jazz III XL, like the regular jazz III in tone but actually large and grippy enough to stay between your fingers and more durable than nylon.
Thin Ultex sharps for strummier and acoustic stuff.
I like tortex but it wears out too quickly IMO.
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026
3mon 4d ago in techtakes@awful.systems from awful.systemsTopic adjacent, jazz musician/music theory youtuber Adam Neely has an 1hr30 video eviscerating Suno/AI music. Very high quality sneering with some wonderful Ben Levin animations.
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026
3mon 11d ago in techtakes@awful.systems from awful.systemsUmarell
4mon 20d ago in wikipedia@sh.itjust.works from en.wikipedia.orgSquigonometry
4mon 12h ago in wikipedia from en.wikipedia.orgHubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr.
5mon 5d ago in wikipedia from en.wikipedia.orgOliver Cromwell's head
1y 2mon ago in wikipedia from en.wikipedia.org[Feature Request] "Mute" Community (?)
1y 6mon ago in voyagerappWhat's the best Matrix client?
1y 6mon ago in opensource@programming.devHow Ivy League Admissions Broke America
1y 6mon ago in longreads@sh.itjust.works from www.theatlantic.com


