Derek
@ricketyshack.ca
Music guy who rambles about pretty much anything. Media, IT bullshit, MMA, Magic: The Gathering, whatever.
https://ricketyshack.ca
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the crimes are obviously worse but there's also the constant indignities of all formal levers of government communication being taken over by people with a schoolyard bully's vocabulary and the pugilistic instinct of a drunk at the second bar that's cut them off that night
November 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
the crimes are obviously worse but there's also the constant indignities of all formal levers of government communication being taken over by people with a schoolyard bully's vocabulary and the pugilistic instinct of a drunk at the second bar that's cut them off that night
Today's listening:
* Scum - Gospels for the Sick
* Death Grips - Year of the Snitch
* Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
* Scum - Gospels for the Sick
* Death Grips - Year of the Snitch
* Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
November 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Today's listening:
* Scum - Gospels for the Sick
* Death Grips - Year of the Snitch
* Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
* Scum - Gospels for the Sick
* Death Grips - Year of the Snitch
* Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
Summary from the poster: A U.S. court ordered OpenAI to turn over internal communications on why it deleted two massive datasets of pirated books used to train their models.
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Summary from the poster: A U.S. court ordered OpenAI to turn over internal communications on why it deleted two massive datasets of pirated books used to train their models.
I feel like the guy who produced Shinedown should sit this one out.
November 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I feel like the guy who produced Shinedown should sit this one out.
"No one will know an LLM generated this." —the most untalented writer you know
November 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"No one will know an LLM generated this." —the most untalented writer you know
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Every year this crosses my timeline and every year I have to add in that everything written is completely true.
Every Black Friday I take the time to read what is perhaps my favorite piece in the history of online media— @jonbois.bsky.social on RadioShack’s slow, painful death.
www.sbnation.com/2014/11/26/7...
www.sbnation.com/2014/11/26/7...
A eulogy for RadioShack, the panicked and half-dead retail empire
This may very well be RadioShack’s final holiday season. Jon, a former employee, looks back on a strange, craven, five thousand-fingered strip-mall monster from a forgotten age.
www.sbnation.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Every year this crosses my timeline and every year I have to add in that everything written is completely true.
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
At that point in my most recent Fallout: New Vegas playthrough where I keep hitting two obstacles: getting mobbed by cazadores trying to get to quest destinations and random game crashes.
November 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
At that point in my most recent Fallout: New Vegas playthrough where I keep hitting two obstacles: getting mobbed by cazadores trying to get to quest destinations and random game crashes.
The US government is really good at training mass shooters and, at the very least, being completely aware of them and doing precisely nothing until they strike.
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The US government is really good at training mass shooters and, at the very least, being completely aware of them and doing precisely nothing until they strike.
Today's listening:
* 40 Below Summer - Untethered
* Ho99o9 - Tomorrow We Escape
* Scorching Tomb - Ossuary
* 40 Below Summer - Untethered
* Ho99o9 - Tomorrow We Escape
* Scorching Tomb - Ossuary
November 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Today's listening:
* 40 Below Summer - Untethered
* Ho99o9 - Tomorrow We Escape
* Scorching Tomb - Ossuary
* 40 Below Summer - Untethered
* Ho99o9 - Tomorrow We Escape
* Scorching Tomb - Ossuary
Computer, show me the last thing I would ever want to hear.
[number crunching noises intensify]
[number crunching noises intensify]
November 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Computer, show me the last thing I would ever want to hear.
[number crunching noises intensify]
[number crunching noises intensify]
WHY IS IT THAT COLOUR?! WHY?!
Ehkä sen Nokian entisen vesimestarin päästäminen virvoitusjuomatehtaalle oli virhe
November 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
WHY IS IT THAT COLOUR?! WHY?!
There's a big controversy in the strongman world right now, after a trans woman won a recent OSG event. I'm basically going to be ignoring everything about that for a month or two, until the dust settles.
November 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
There's a big controversy in the strongman world right now, after a trans woman won a recent OSG event. I'm basically going to be ignoring everything about that for a month or two, until the dust settles.
I had an Amazon gift card I won at work a few months back. (Ironically, I won it for guessing how bad business was doing.)
Serious question: do living humans actually use that website!? It's TERRIBLE!
Serious question: do living humans actually use that website!? It's TERRIBLE!
November 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I had an Amazon gift card I won at work a few months back. (Ironically, I won it for guessing how bad business was doing.)
Serious question: do living humans actually use that website!? It's TERRIBLE!
Serious question: do living humans actually use that website!? It's TERRIBLE!
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I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
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Lucy Li wanted to be a TikTok star. Oliver Karafa wanted to be rich. When a friend got in the way of their plans, they combined forces and pulled off a murder plot so preposterous that one of their lawyers used stupidity as a defence
How Not to Get Away With Murder: The stranger-than-fiction story of the Stoney Creek killing - Toronto Life
Lucy Li wanted to be a TikTok star. Oliver Karafa wanted to be rich. When a friend got in the way of their plans, they combined forces and pulled off a...
torontolife.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Lucy Li wanted to be a TikTok star. Oliver Karafa wanted to be rich. When a friend got in the way of their plans, they combined forces and pulled off a murder plot so preposterous that one of their lawyers used stupidity as a defence
1. Run The Jewels - "Run The Jewels"
2. Kyuss - "Thumb"
3. Killswitch Engage - "Numbered Days"
4. Marty Robbins - "Big Iron"
5. Metallica - "Battery"
2. Kyuss - "Thumb"
3. Killswitch Engage - "Numbered Days"
4. Marty Robbins - "Big Iron"
5. Metallica - "Battery"
November 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
1. Run The Jewels - "Run The Jewels"
2. Kyuss - "Thumb"
3. Killswitch Engage - "Numbered Days"
4. Marty Robbins - "Big Iron"
5. Metallica - "Battery"
2. Kyuss - "Thumb"
3. Killswitch Engage - "Numbered Days"
4. Marty Robbins - "Big Iron"
5. Metallica - "Battery"
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The average medieval peasant could not buy a gas station delta 9 gummy and watch “Scooter Fail Compilation 5” on YouTube, which makes it difficult to compare GDP across time
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 AM
The average medieval peasant could not buy a gas station delta 9 gummy and watch “Scooter Fail Compilation 5” on YouTube, which makes it difficult to compare GDP across time
I think Pfizer just found a cure for all those women getting stuck in dryers.
November 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I think Pfizer just found a cure for all those women getting stuck in dryers.
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We had our great pal Jon Gabrus on the show to talk about gym guys!!! You are walking shoeless in a planet fitness locker room and you step on a large toenail and it breaks the skin on your foot, wyd? bdd66b71-1e02-45c7-ad9e-0b9aadb7926b.libsyn.com/guys-episode...
Guys: With Bryan Quinby: Guys: Episode 147 - Gym Guys with Jon Gabrus
This week we bring one of our best pals, Jon Gabrus in to talk about Gym Guys. It, of course devolved into gross stuff as it does when we have a good pal in. What is the lunk alarm? Do your supplement...
bdd66b71-1e02-45c7-ad9e-0b9aadb7926b.libsyn.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
We had our great pal Jon Gabrus on the show to talk about gym guys!!! You are walking shoeless in a planet fitness locker room and you step on a large toenail and it breaks the skin on your foot, wyd? bdd66b71-1e02-45c7-ad9e-0b9aadb7926b.libsyn.com/guys-episode...
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Right now on reddit there's a guy inventing a new kind of brick to build his home with and it's going about as well as you can imagine
November 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Right now on reddit there's a guy inventing a new kind of brick to build his home with and it's going about as well as you can imagine
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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INSANE LIFE CHEATCODE: choose to be miserable and then play the victim about it
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
INSANE LIFE CHEATCODE: choose to be miserable and then play the victim about it