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Generative "AI" is Evil. Not in a metaphysical "imitation of mankind's sacred gifts" way.
In the way it causes very real harm in environmental damage and steals people's work to make them compete with a poor facsimile of it,
and then makes you complicit in this harm.
You don't have to, you can stop.
In the way it causes very real harm in environmental damage and steals people's work to make them compete with a poor facsimile of it,
and then makes you complicit in this harm.
You don't have to, you can stop.
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That video of the woman who met her school bully a decade later, confronted her about how it made her feel and the bully went “you still think about that? It was a long time ago” and so the woman punched her bully, it’s giving me life
February 1, 2026 at 9:27 AM
That video of the woman who met her school bully a decade later, confronted her about how it made her feel and the bully went “you still think about that? It was a long time ago” and so the woman punched her bully, it’s giving me life
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Man I wonder why coders, famed for enjoying writing code but hating reading code, aren't taking to the tool that turns them into dedicated code readers for the hallucination machine
January 30, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Man I wonder why coders, famed for enjoying writing code but hating reading code, aren't taking to the tool that turns them into dedicated code readers for the hallucination machine
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January 31, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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Wake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped.
January 31, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Wake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped.
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The genie “You can go back to meet your 16 year-old self, but you can only say three words”
Me, arriving in 1995 “Buy Apple socks-“
Reappears now “-stocks! Damnit.”
Sees I’m wearing socks with apples on them “motherfu-“
Me, arriving in 1995 “Buy Apple socks-“
Reappears now “-stocks! Damnit.”
Sees I’m wearing socks with apples on them “motherfu-“
January 31, 2026 at 1:00 PM
The genie “You can go back to meet your 16 year-old self, but you can only say three words”
Me, arriving in 1995 “Buy Apple socks-“
Reappears now “-stocks! Damnit.”
Sees I’m wearing socks with apples on them “motherfu-“
Me, arriving in 1995 “Buy Apple socks-“
Reappears now “-stocks! Damnit.”
Sees I’m wearing socks with apples on them “motherfu-“
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No! Country, for old men.
January 31, 2026 at 10:54 AM
No! Country, for old men.
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"guys don't call it a slop 'n' slide!!!! it's not slop!!! our stock is not sliding!!"
January 30, 2026 at 10:55 AM
"guys don't call it a slop 'n' slide!!!! it's not slop!!! our stock is not sliding!!"
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sloppity slop! wonderful slop!
sloppity slop! wonderful slop
slooooooop
slooooooop
SLOOOOOOOP
SLOOOOOOOP
LOVELY SLOP (lovely slop)
LOVELY SLOP (lovely slop)
LOVELY SLOOOOOOP
slooooooop slooooooop slooooooop
SLOOOOOOOOOOOP!
www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/mi...
sloppity slop! wonderful slop
slooooooop
slooooooop
SLOOOOOOOP
SLOOOOOOOP
LOVELY SLOP (lovely slop)
LOVELY SLOP (lovely slop)
LOVELY SLOOOOOOP
slooooooop slooooooop slooooooop
SLOOOOOOOOOOOP!
www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/mi...
Microsoft stock down 10% as its AI prospects shrivel
Microsoft execs have offloaded millions of dollars worth of stock over the past quarter, as the firm's outlook (no pun intended) looks murky.
www.windowscentral.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:51 AM
sloppity slop! wonderful slop!
sloppity slop! wonderful slop
slooooooop
slooooooop
SLOOOOOOOP
SLOOOOOOOP
LOVELY SLOP (lovely slop)
LOVELY SLOP (lovely slop)
LOVELY SLOOOOOOP
slooooooop slooooooop slooooooop
SLOOOOOOOOOOOP!
www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/mi...
sloppity slop! wonderful slop
slooooooop
slooooooop
SLOOOOOOOP
SLOOOOOOOP
LOVELY SLOP (lovely slop)
LOVELY SLOP (lovely slop)
LOVELY SLOOOOOOP
slooooooop slooooooop slooooooop
SLOOOOOOOOOOOP!
www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/mi...
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ah she rejects the false idol
January 30, 2026 at 10:19 AM
ah she rejects the false idol
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"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.
Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI'
The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.
www.pcgamer.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:45 PM
"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.
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was scrolling youtube fast and thought I saw a video titled “How to be OP Early in Your Pregnancy”
January 29, 2026 at 5:09 AM
was scrolling youtube fast and thought I saw a video titled “How to be OP Early in Your Pregnancy”
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One of my cats finished bothering me and walked out of the room at the same moment as the other one walked in. They're working shifts. I swear I saw them nod when they passed each other
January 29, 2026 at 4:07 AM
One of my cats finished bothering me and walked out of the room at the same moment as the other one walked in. They're working shifts. I swear I saw them nod when they passed each other
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One of Minnie's favourite activities is to stare at me from behind the stair guard as if she has spent a decade in solitary, and then when I get up to see if she wants to come up just refuse to move
January 29, 2026 at 5:42 PM
One of Minnie's favourite activities is to stare at me from behind the stair guard as if she has spent a decade in solitary, and then when I get up to see if she wants to come up just refuse to move
Saw one of these in a pub in North Manchester. The King's Arms I think. Friendly cat, but they already had a preferred lap.
This photo just came up in my memories.
I made an auxiliary lap from an old pair of jeans for when my real lap was unavailable, and it actually worked 😀
I made an auxiliary lap from an old pair of jeans for when my real lap was unavailable, and it actually worked 😀
January 29, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Saw one of these in a pub in North Manchester. The King's Arms I think. Friendly cat, but they already had a preferred lap.
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MICROSOFT: "We're putting AI in Windows!"
CUSTOMERS: "No, please don't do that."
MICROSOFT: "You'll drink this fucking AI even if we have to hold your nose closed and use a vice to keep your jaws open."
CUSTOMERS: "That only sounds bad."
MICROSOFT: "Why have customers abandoned Windows?"
CUSTOMERS: "No, please don't do that."
MICROSOFT: "You'll drink this fucking AI even if we have to hold your nose closed and use a vice to keep your jaws open."
CUSTOMERS: "That only sounds bad."
MICROSOFT: "Why have customers abandoned Windows?"
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January 29, 2026 at 5:16 PM
MICROSOFT: "We're putting AI in Windows!"
CUSTOMERS: "No, please don't do that."
MICROSOFT: "You'll drink this fucking AI even if we have to hold your nose closed and use a vice to keep your jaws open."
CUSTOMERS: "That only sounds bad."
MICROSOFT: "Why have customers abandoned Windows?"
CUSTOMERS: "No, please don't do that."
MICROSOFT: "You'll drink this fucking AI even if we have to hold your nose closed and use a vice to keep your jaws open."
CUSTOMERS: "That only sounds bad."
MICROSOFT: "Why have customers abandoned Windows?"
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Just found this tacked up at the college at which I teach, which has recently signed a deal with Anthropic, which stole 6 of my books and books by 131 colleagues.
January 29, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Just found this tacked up at the college at which I teach, which has recently signed a deal with Anthropic, which stole 6 of my books and books by 131 colleagues.
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What kills me is when people respond "well, how would they implement that?" I dunno, but I'm not the one who solicited thousands of dollars in donations under the pretense that I was the only one qualified to figure it out.
January 29, 2026 at 3:20 PM
What kills me is when people respond "well, how would they implement that?" I dunno, but I'm not the one who solicited thousands of dollars in donations under the pretense that I was the only one qualified to figure it out.
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As a voter, you can make demands without gaming out the politics. Do people know this?
January 29, 2026 at 2:59 PM
As a voter, you can make demands without gaming out the politics. Do people know this?
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There is a vast swathe of criminal and media law that social media sites have somehow convinced successive governments that they're exempt from. "But we wouldn't be able to exist as we currently do if we had to obey the law" is not an argument that would be accepted from any other industry.
January 29, 2026 at 10:57 AM
There is a vast swathe of criminal and media law that social media sites have somehow convinced successive governments that they're exempt from. "But we wouldn't be able to exist as we currently do if we had to obey the law" is not an argument that would be accepted from any other industry.
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Whenever any racist fuck complains about a traditionally white character getting played by a black person and says “you’d never do it the other way round” remind them Jim Caviezel played The Count of Monte Cristo, a story based on the life of this guy’s dad.
January 29, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Whenever any racist fuck complains about a traditionally white character getting played by a black person and says “you’d never do it the other way round” remind them Jim Caviezel played The Count of Monte Cristo, a story based on the life of this guy’s dad.
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half of all tech news lately is some variation of "the computer company has discontinued their well known product, the computer"
January 29, 2026 at 9:29 AM
half of all tech news lately is some variation of "the computer company has discontinued their well known product, the computer"
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SHAGGY: what did the vet say you have
SCOOBY DOO: rabies
SHAGGY: zoinks i didn’t even know you could get pregnant
SCOOBY DOO: rabies
SHAGGY: zoinks i didn’t even know you could get pregnant
January 29, 2026 at 3:20 AM
SHAGGY: what did the vet say you have
SCOOBY DOO: rabies
SHAGGY: zoinks i didn’t even know you could get pregnant
SCOOBY DOO: rabies
SHAGGY: zoinks i didn’t even know you could get pregnant
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How? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.
January 28, 2026 at 1:12 PM
How? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.
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Ok, we're into the intro video, and we've been told that "you'll learn why crafting clear, precise prompts is essential to getting accurate, helpful results from Generative AI". Which strongly implies that accurate results are possible, and if they're not, that's your fault.
January 28, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Ok, we're into the intro video, and we've been told that "you'll learn why crafting clear, precise prompts is essential to getting accurate, helpful results from Generative AI". Which strongly implies that accurate results are possible, and if they're not, that's your fault.