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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026

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  • Get your war on: AI chatbots in the kill chain

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  • That header pic sure takes me back

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026

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  • Felicitations!

    ("A job," Blake thinks. "I need to find one of those.")

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • I would also not put my finger on those microscope slides

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • womp, and wait for it, womp

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • Do you want Tylers Durden? Because this is how you get Tylers Durden.

  • AI vibe-generates the same ‘random’ passwords over and over

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  • Train your chatbot on TV Tropes, and the password will always be swordfish.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • The post names Joscha Bach as someone Aella tried to exclude.

    You do not under any circumstances have to hand it to Aella

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • "Yes, I am hammering myself in the balls. But maybe its worth it?"

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • A longread on AI greenwashing begins thusly:

    The expansion of data centres - which is driven in large part by AI growth - is creating a shocking new demand for fossil fuels. The tech companies driving AI expansion try to downplay AI’s proven climate impacts by claiming that AI will eventually help solve climate change. Our analysis of these claims suggests that rather than relying on credible and substantiated data, these companies are writing themselves a blank cheque to pollute on the empty promise of future salvation. While the current negative effects of AI on the climate are clear, proven and growing, the promise of large-scale solutions is often based on wishful thinking, and almost always presented with scant evidence.

    (Via.)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • It's morgin' time

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • Limor Fried and I had a class together at MIT in 2001. This has no bearing on the present circumstances and offers me no real insight (anything I could say about our extremely limited interactions would amount to confirmation bias). It's just the odd little factoid that comes to mind whenever adafruit Does Something Online.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026

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  • Presuming that they are all liars and cheaters is both contrary to the instincts of a scientist and entirely warranted by the empirical evidence.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026

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  • First of all, like, if you can't keep track of your transcripts, just how fucking incompetent are you?

    Second, I would actually be interested in a problem set where the problems can't be solved. What happens if one prompts the chatbot with a conjecture that is plausible but false? We cannot understand the effect of this technology upon mathematics without understanding the cost of mathematical sycophancy. (I will not be running that test myself, on the "meth: not even once" principle.)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026

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  • Mathematicians: [challenge promptfondlers with a fair set of problems]

    OpenAI: [breaks the test protocol, whines]

    We will aim to publish more information next week, but as I noted above, this was a quite chaotic sprint (you caught us by surprise! please give us time to prepare next time!). We will not be able to gather all the transcripts as they are quite scattered.

    Some of the prompts included guidance to iterate on its previous work...

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systems

    awful.systems /post/5699944
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    Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems

    awful.systems /post/4885338
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    Credulous coverage of AI slop on Wikipedia

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

    awful.systems /post/3608350
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025

    awful.systems /post/3491424
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    Elsevier: Proudly charging you money so its AI can make your articles worse

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 6 October 2025

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 29 September 2024

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 7 July 2024

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    Elon Musk’s Tunnel Reportedly Oozing With Skin-Burning Chemical Sludge

    futurism.com /the-byte/elon-musk-boring-company-tunnel-sludge