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TechTakes @awful.systems

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026

  • Oh, boy, Rapist Glasses

    There’s a UK Parliament petition to “Introduce an immediate ban on the sale and promotion of smart glasses”. If you’re in the UK, you might want to sign it. [UK Parliament]

    Given Parliament's track record, they'll probably respond by banning glasses that don't have cameras, but I still endorse this

  • Another "AI fucked compsci grads" post has hit my eyeballs - this time, it got recommended to me by LinkedIn's algorithm) (because I'm still on that site for some fucking reason):

    This one's attributing the decline to "unique human judgment, logic, and ethical reasoning becoming premium assets", and her graph comes from The Economist's Instagram page AFAICT. That one of the Economist's sources is Anthropic is giving me some hope this is bullshit, but its not much.

  • new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.

    So not only are STEM graduates (mainly compsci grads) struggling to get jobs as it is, employers are explicitly passing them over for """useless""" humanities degrees instead. I'm not sure whether to laugh at the irony of the situation, or crash out at the fact my own compsci/cybersec degrees may have become a liability.

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th July 2026

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th July 2026

  • Wednesday’s presentation for 2026 mostly hammers on Son’s love of AI. Son said: [Reuters]

    I think it’s blasphemy against AI if ‌you say it’s a bubble.

    [THIS IS WHAT AI CULTISTS ACTUALLY BELIEVE]

    Also, “The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs” is a cautionary fable about greed being bad.

    Knowing that would require techbros to actually read, so I'm not shocked

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026

  • Honestly, a black comedy about the rats and/or the AI bubble would probably make bank. The years of sneers people have cooked up on them would provide plenty of material for the writers, and there'd be plenty of catharsis in seeing those responsible get ripped into for 2-ish hours straight.

  • We got a major engine slopifying itself before GTA VI

    I’m pretty sure 2027 will be hilarious for Unreal Engine with AI. And expensive.

    With how much market share Unreal also has, it'll probably cause some major shockwaves in the video game industry as well.

    In the meantime, start learning the Godot engine. Which doesn’t accept AI code. [Godot]

    Godot also released a new version yesterday, so there's another reason to check it out

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    Dusk (Twilight Princess PC port) released

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    James Lambert - How I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64

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