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To start this spooky Stubsack off, there's signs Framework are being slow on the refunds:

Just a heads up I haven't gotten a refund from my cancelled FW12 order. Framework seems to be having trouble figuring it out.

I don't know why, maybe it is Canada or maybe it is a high volume of similar requests, but it is a sign I always find concerning in a company I am worried about the financial stability of.

Could be nothing, but if you have been wavering on a cancellation I figured you might want a heads up.

This comes two weeks after Framework's public fash turn, and just a few days after their latest double down. "Go fash, lose cash" proves itself again.

Correct.

The FSF considers large language models, failing to recognise the purpose of plagiarism machines in the process.

Comments are also pretty sneerable - main thread's a bunch of promptfondlers trying to gas up spicy autocomplete, but I did find some guy claiming programmers steal and plagiarise much like LLMs do.

Yeah, there's been a bunch of outages recently.

Found the original promptfondler behind this a couple hours ago.

For something lighter, here's an AI bro getting wowed by the shittiest "video game" I've ever seen (trust me, the screenshot doesn't do it justice):

In lieu of sneering this shit, I'd like to argue that arts education should become mandatory for all students post-bubble, regardless of their profession. STEM, humanities, tech, doesn't matter - give them four years of art so they don't turn out like this guy.

Naturally, the worst people on that thread are praising it - for example, here's the "DHH destroying Basecamp is based" guy whining about people not accepting outright fascists:

The fact that a mod named "catastrophe" did this is morbidly funny to me.

Anyways, whatever doubts I (or anyone had) about Framework are basically gone. I hope Nirav and the Framework team enjoy their Nazi bar.

MNT Reform's doing a similar thing to Framework, but its nowhere near what they offered. The team is completely free of venture capital, and its got a non-binary head representing it, so it should be safe from a fashtech turn.

A second teardown of Omarchy has hit the web

Its quite the turn-around from when they fearmongered about Superintelligence^tm a year ago.

My only critique with their anti-slop piece is that they describe the lying machine as a tool, but otherwise its a fine enough takedown, and its clear they know enough to avoid AI like the plague. B+.

Charities Using AI-Generated Photos of Starving Children to Raise Money

Morally, attacking the poor and downtrodden through polluting the world with AI is abhorrent, and anyone doing this should be permanently barred from working at any charity.

Practically, the sight of blatant AI-generated poverty porn is going to drive people away from giving to these charities, damaging their ability to do good.

(vacuum is an insulator!)

This is something the writers of the Mass Effect series got right, and they were doing a sci-fi trilogy, not handling a literal space mission!

Fuck.

Adding insult to injury, OpenAI's also encouraging people to abuse ARIA tags so their slopbots can steal more effectively, threatening to damage web accessibility in the process:

https://adrianroselli.com/2025/10/openai-aria-and-seo-making-the-web-worse.html

though, to be fair, that explanation is more plausible than starcloud working

Batman's superpower is being a billionaire, there was probably some Shenanigans^tm involved

I never understood what this damn distro is about.

Omarchy's not a distro, its an open endorsement of fascism. Its getting pushed as hard as it is in an attempt to entrench fascists in Linux and the FOSS ecosystem at large.

New paper on LLMs just dropped, titled LLMs Can Get "Brain Rot"!

Currently a novelty at this point, but could prove useful to make the likes of Iocaine and Nepenthes more effective - especially since the paper notes:

the damage is multifaceted in changing the reasoning patterns and is persistent against large-scale post-hoc tuning.

It does also suggest doing some actual quality control to prevent damage to the LLMs, but that sure ain't happening

And an AI crank YouTuber!

Another attempt to platform fascists has cropped up in FOSS, and Drew DeVault's talked all about it. Featuring our good friend Curtis Yarvin.