Steve Farrugia
@fasterandworse.com
Experienced user
Australian In Amsterdam
I talk about product design and I'm quite critical
open to work, open to talks
Words: https://fasterandworse.com
Videos: https://youtube.com/@fasterandworse
Audios: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse
Australian In Amsterdam
I talk about product design and I'm quite critical
open to work, open to talks
Words: https://fasterandworse.com
Videos: https://youtube.com/@fasterandworse
Audios: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse
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Steve Farrugia
@fasterandworse.com
· Sep 24
Dispatch #31: Anti-Design
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Dispatch #31: Anti-Design
Design to compensate for a lack of design
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3eL...
Audio: pnc.st/s/faster-and...
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Design to compensate for a lack of design
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3eL...
Audio: pnc.st/s/faster-and...
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automations that act (on your behalf) on a triggered sensor are generally less impressive than the sensing mechanism itself
Automations are as good as the accuracy of the sensor and a false-positive automation is more inconvenient than a false-positive sensor which you can act upon yourself
Automations are as good as the accuracy of the sensor and a false-positive automation is more inconvenient than a false-positive sensor which you can act upon yourself
February 1, 2026 at 4:48 PM
automations that act (on your behalf) on a triggered sensor are generally less impressive than the sensing mechanism itself
Automations are as good as the accuracy of the sensor and a false-positive automation is more inconvenient than a false-positive sensor which you can act upon yourself
Automations are as good as the accuracy of the sensor and a false-positive automation is more inconvenient than a false-positive sensor which you can act upon yourself
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*whispers* not everything is describeable as enshittification, y'all. some things were just shitty to start with...
February 1, 2026 at 3:53 PM
*whispers* not everything is describeable as enshittification, y'all. some things were just shitty to start with...
it's been 5 months since my last video 😅
February 1, 2026 at 2:55 PM
it's been 5 months since my last video 😅
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i feel like technically i should be more empathetic, but somehow i'm not making it there
February 1, 2026 at 10:34 AM
i feel like technically i should be more empathetic, but somehow i'm not making it there
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Weird Pride Day 4th March 2026
Weird Pride in a Hostile World
This is a day for people to embrace their weirdness, & reject the stigma associated with being weird. To publicly express pride in the things that make us weird, and to celebrate the diversity of humankind
Find out more weirdpride.day
Weird Pride in a Hostile World
This is a day for people to embrace their weirdness, & reject the stigma associated with being weird. To publicly express pride in the things that make us weird, and to celebrate the diversity of humankind
Find out more weirdpride.day
January 31, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Weird Pride Day 4th March 2026
Weird Pride in a Hostile World
This is a day for people to embrace their weirdness, & reject the stigma associated with being weird. To publicly express pride in the things that make us weird, and to celebrate the diversity of humankind
Find out more weirdpride.day
Weird Pride in a Hostile World
This is a day for people to embrace their weirdness, & reject the stigma associated with being weird. To publicly express pride in the things that make us weird, and to celebrate the diversity of humankind
Find out more weirdpride.day
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> O’Reilly said that he reached out to Moltbook’s creator Matt Schlicht about the vulnerability and told him he could help patch the security. “He’s like, ‘I’m just going to give everything to AI. So send me whatever you have.’”
fuck me
www.404media.co/exposed-molt...
fuck me
www.404media.co/exposed-molt...
Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site
'It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.'
www.404media.co
February 1, 2026 at 9:44 AM
> O’Reilly said that he reached out to Moltbook’s creator Matt Schlicht about the vulnerability and told him he could help patch the security. “He’s like, ‘I’m just going to give everything to AI. So send me whatever you have.’”
fuck me
www.404media.co/exposed-molt...
fuck me
www.404media.co/exposed-molt...
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Sarah Harrow, 37, is unfortunately too old to get away with eating like a student with a meal-deal voucher – but it’s that or starvation, so what are you going to do?
“Why am I always so tired?” Asks autistic woman who exclusively eats pizza
An autistic woman who subsists entirely on a diet of dough, tomato and cheese has appealed for answers as to why she’s dead on her feet, it has been rumoured. Sarah Harrow, 37, is unfortunately too…
thedailytism.com
January 31, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Sarah Harrow, 37, is unfortunately too old to get away with eating like a student with a meal-deal voucher – but it’s that or starvation, so what are you going to do?
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What tool/platform are you forced to use (by your employer or client) that you’d rather toss into an open fire?
January 31, 2026 at 9:56 PM
What tool/platform are you forced to use (by your employer or client) that you’d rather toss into an open fire?
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The way that "Moltbook" is used as the basis for another spin at the "AGI is right around the corner" wheel really shows how hollow tech - specifically AI - discourse really is.
Oh wow, a stochastic language model trained on social media posts can generate social media posts.
Oh wow, a stochastic language model trained on social media posts can generate social media posts.
January 31, 2026 at 10:30 PM
The way that "Moltbook" is used as the basis for another spin at the "AGI is right around the corner" wheel really shows how hollow tech - specifically AI - discourse really is.
Oh wow, a stochastic language model trained on social media posts can generate social media posts.
Oh wow, a stochastic language model trained on social media posts can generate social media posts.
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just rocking back and forth between these two feelings like a fucking metronome everytime I hear something new
January 31, 2026 at 10:13 PM
just rocking back and forth between these two feelings like a fucking metronome everytime I hear something new
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"The two were also connected on LinkedIn — many mentions of Ariely in the Epstein files were emails prompting Epstein to accept Ariely’s invitation to connect."
Y'all will never convince me to join this cursed website
www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
Y'all will never convince me to join this cursed website
www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
Duke professor Dan Ariely had longstanding friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, newly released files show
Ariely is named in 636 of the some 3 million newly released files. He was a prominent professor at Duke over the course of his correspondence with Epstein.
www.dukechronicle.com
January 31, 2026 at 6:13 PM
"The two were also connected on LinkedIn — many mentions of Ariely in the Epstein files were emails prompting Epstein to accept Ariely’s invitation to connect."
Y'all will never convince me to join this cursed website
www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
Y'all will never convince me to join this cursed website
www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
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The difference between coding and engineering: "you write code once over a period of days to months, but you maintain it and build on it for years, or in many cases, decades"
This whole piece is worth reading (I quote @iris-meredith.bsky.social on the newsletter a lot for a reason!)
This whole piece is worth reading (I quote @iris-meredith.bsky.social on the newsletter a lot for a reason!)
Becoming an AI-proof software engineer | deadSimpleTech
I've written my thoughts on what you, as a software professional, can do to make yourself less susceptible to being displaced by AI in our current wave of tech madness. In short, learn your tools well...
deadsimpletech.com
January 31, 2026 at 4:30 PM
The difference between coding and engineering: "you write code once over a period of days to months, but you maintain it and build on it for years, or in many cases, decades"
This whole piece is worth reading (I quote @iris-meredith.bsky.social on the newsletter a lot for a reason!)
This whole piece is worth reading (I quote @iris-meredith.bsky.social on the newsletter a lot for a reason!)
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Premium Post: This is the Hater's Guide To Oracle: an evil company that profits off of strongarming its customers to boost its declining revenues. It needs $150bn more to complete its data centers, and if OpenAI can't pay its bills, Oracle runs out of money.
www.wheresyoured.at/haters-guide...
www.wheresyoured.at/haters-guide...
Premium: The Hater's Guide to Oracle
You can’t avoid Oracle.
No, really, you can’t. Oracle is everywhere. It sells ERP software – enterprise resource planning, which is a rat king of different services for giant companies for financial ...
www.wheresyoured.at
January 30, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Premium Post: This is the Hater's Guide To Oracle: an evil company that profits off of strongarming its customers to boost its declining revenues. It needs $150bn more to complete its data centers, and if OpenAI can't pay its bills, Oracle runs out of money.
www.wheresyoured.at/haters-guide...
www.wheresyoured.at/haters-guide...
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digging through epstein files this morning, i'm reminded that it is historically grounded to assume every yt male AI enthusiast ~1970-present is a sex criminal until proven otherwise
TED is one of the biggest enablers of this "AGI" scam, and one of the biggest ways to circle more money amongst more white dudes. Period.
Why not do an "interview" with the myriads of traumatized, exploited workers and those protesting genocide enabled by so-called AI to discuss "safety"?
Why not do an "interview" with the myriads of traumatized, exploited workers and those protesting genocide enabled by so-called AI to discuss "safety"?
January 31, 2026 at 7:42 PM
digging through epstein files this morning, i'm reminded that it is historically grounded to assume every yt male AI enthusiast ~1970-present is a sex criminal until proven otherwise
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this is what a lot of you sound like
January 31, 2026 at 6:48 PM
this is what a lot of you sound like
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What happens when a once-respected engineer lets the brainworms take the wheel and the accelerator:
pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/22/s...
Another great piece by @davidgerard.co.uk who you should definitely follow. #aifraud
pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/22/s...
Another great piece by @davidgerard.co.uk who you should definitely follow. #aifraud
Steve Yegge’s Gas Town: Vibe coding goes crypto scam
Steve Yegge is a renowned software developer. He’s done this for thirty-odd years. Senior engineer at Amazon then Google, blogger on the art of programming. Yegge was highly regarded. Then he got h…
pivot-to-ai.com
January 24, 2026 at 8:48 PM
What happens when a once-respected engineer lets the brainworms take the wheel and the accelerator:
pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/22/s...
Another great piece by @davidgerard.co.uk who you should definitely follow. #aifraud
pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/22/s...
Another great piece by @davidgerard.co.uk who you should definitely follow. #aifraud
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January 30, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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"unverifiable claims" ok, elon
X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
January 30, 2026 at 10:42 PM
"unverifiable claims" ok, elon
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X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
January 30, 2026 at 8:14 PM
X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
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US lenders are now hesitant to back further Stargate data centers, and even asian banks are (per TD Cowen) raising the rates for these loans. This is slowing down the construction of the data centers that Oracle needs to make the revenue to pay its debts.
www.wheresyoured.at/haters-guide...
www.wheresyoured.at/haters-guide...
![Per TD Cowen’s January 26 2026 Data Center Channel Checks note, emphases mine:
However, with Oracle to procure what our channel checks now indicate is ~3MM GPUs (and other IT gear) to support its existing OpenAl agreement, both equity and debt investors have raised questions regarding Oracle's ability to finance this buildout, as demonstrated by widening of Oracle's CDS spreads and pressure on Oracle's stock/bonds. Assuming a conservative $30MM/MW in IT fit out costs, the implied -$156B capex requirement, coupled with separate questions on OpenAl's ability to fund its =$1.4T in outstanding multi-year commitments, has led to multiple U.S. banks to pull back from lending to Oracle-linked data center projects. Furthermore, our channel checks indicate that multiple Oracle data center leases that were under negotiation with private operators struggled to secure financing, in turn preventing Oracle from securing the data center capacity via a lease. In cases where U.S. banks are still open to lending, our checks indicate that borrowing cost spreads for Oracle-linked data center projects have widened to Non-IG levels (i.e. now SOFR+300-450bps vs. SOFR+225-250bps in September). As the borrowing costs for operators rise, the result has been a slowdown in +100MW U.S. Oracle data center leasing by private operators as the market digests the current Oracle financing requirements. Importantly, our channel checks indicate that banks in Asia are still willing to lend (at a slight premium relative to historical rates) to data center operators undertaking Oracle leases as these banks look to gain exposure to the Al sector, providing a path for international Oracle expansion in support of incremental RPO. However, the pullback in U.S. financing has raised questions regarding Oracle's ability [to] continue growing its revenue (RPO) in the U.S. if it continues facing challenges securing U.S. data center capacity to support OCI customer contracts.
To explain in simpler terms:
US bank…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreichq3uslfl366juonwlup63g6szjq2ckzvjicnxfcdrgfc6kp4m2y@jpeg)
January 30, 2026 at 5:52 PM
US lenders are now hesitant to back further Stargate data centers, and even asian banks are (per TD Cowen) raising the rates for these loans. This is slowing down the construction of the data centers that Oracle needs to make the revenue to pay its debts.
www.wheresyoured.at/haters-guide...
www.wheresyoured.at/haters-guide...
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AI sends tourists to Tasmanian hot springs that don’t exist
'Our AI has messed up completely’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMU5... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260130-ai-... - podcast
time: 5 min 48 sec
'Our AI has messed up completely’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMU5... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260130-ai-... - podcast
time: 5 min 48 sec
January 30, 2026 at 9:46 PM
AI sends tourists to Tasmanian hot springs that don’t exist
'Our AI has messed up completely’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMU5... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260130-ai-... - podcast
time: 5 min 48 sec
'Our AI has messed up completely’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMU5... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260130-ai-... - podcast
time: 5 min 48 sec
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UPDATE: Mozilla announce a State of Mozilla kill switch is in development
January 28, 2026 at 10:13 PM
UPDATE: Mozilla announce a State of Mozilla kill switch is in development
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Smash your Ring.
Privacy advocates raise concerns over Ring–Flock partnership and law enforcement access - KSLNewsRadio
A new partnership involving Ring doorbell cameras and Flock, a surveillance technology company, is raising questions about privacy, surveillance and how easily law enforcement — including federal agen...
kslnewsradio.com
January 29, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Smash your Ring.
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This sounds a lot more positive than the article itself. The author correctly points out that this is bad and dumb (I paraphrase). It's also worth noting: this doesn't produce 'games' in any meaningful interpretation of that word.
Google’s new world AI model tool let me generate a bunch of Nintendo-inspired games. Including one featuring Link with a paraglider! Gift link: www.theverge.com/news/869726/...
January 29, 2026 at 6:03 PM
This sounds a lot more positive than the article itself. The author correctly points out that this is bad and dumb (I paraphrase). It's also worth noting: this doesn't produce 'games' in any meaningful interpretation of that word.