BlueMonday1984 @ BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems

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Not only that, she introduced mass surveillance to Bluesky and is brainstorming further methods of such in response to getting clowned on so hard.

Said engineer's also brainstorming new ways to spy on users and adding a new misfeature that scans everything you post, in direct response to getting clowned on.

But weren’t there a multitude of people clamoring for a Bluesky subscription service from the get-go? Out of recognition that this situation was one of the potential failure modes?

Even beyond that, the Twitter refugees came to Bluesky because they wanted a Nazi-free successor to Twitter. Most of them would've happily pitched in to keep the site alive whilst goodwill remained.

Related post, about fashtech being a supply chain issue: https://buttondown.com/dorian/archive/supply-chain-risks-in-late-2025/

You absolutely don’t have to hand it to zuckerberg, but he at least is well aware that he runs an unethical ad company that’s bad for the world, has always expressed his total contempt for his users, and has not posted through it.

Its an extremely low bar to clear, but I'll begrudgingly hand it to him for being one of the few tech CEOs who didn't actively limbo under it.

I haven't fully cut YouTube out of my life (there's the odd non-dogshit thing on there I'm interested in (e.g. Technology Connections)), but I have cut down on that shit a fair bit.

Its times like there where I'm glad I'm not paying for YouTube. And using an adblocker.

Why don’t the boosters see how wrong the expressions are?

Its because boosters literally cannot tell good art from slop. As far as these soulless, artless husks are concerned, both are mere Units of Content^tm to be mindlessly consumed, and nothing more. The heart and soul put into an excellent story, the years of experience beaming off a masterful painting, the blood, sweat and tears put into an animated magnum opus, all of it is utterly fucking incompehensible to them. They literally lack the basic artistic insight necessary to understand it.

Its basically the same thing with the NFT fad of a few years ago - NFT "art" is just as soulless and hollow as any piece of AI slop spewed out onto the Internet nowadays, but that didn't register to the capital-brained filth who were attracted to them like flies to shit.

That's an unfair comparison, Dippin Dots don't slowly ruin the world by existing (also, they're delicious)

Is this what happens when techbros try to make art? (its AI slop, of course it is)

The Guardian shat out its latest piece of AI hype, violating Betteridge's Law of headlines by asking "Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?"

``Think for at least 5 seconds before typing.‘’ - on the subject of pulling the plug on a hostile AI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452743

Read that last one against my better judgment, and found a particularly sneerable line:

And in this case we're talking about a system that's smarter than you.

Now, I'm not particularly smart, but I am capable of a lot of things AI will never achieve. Like knowing something is true, or working out a problem, or making something which isn't slop.

Between this rat and Saltman spewing similar shit on Politico, I have seen two people try to claim text extruders are smarter than living, thinking human beings. Saltman I can understand (he is a monorail salesman who lies constantly), but seeing someone who genuinely believes this shit is just baffling. Probably a consequence of chatbots destroying their critical thinking and mental acuity.

I have a longer piece I’ll be posting tonight about this situation which I can link if there’s interest

There's definitely interest in documenting the techfash takeover on awful, I think you should post it

News has made it to the red site, with the top comment openly ignoring the fash takeover.

Only found a single thread on the orange site about it, with someone trying to bring up Lunduke's opinion on things (Lunduke's a banned source on HN, hilariously enough)

Caught an AI bro in the wild trying to shoot back at Merriam-Webster - and failing:

If the AI industry gets bailed out (and that's a multi-hundred billion dollar "if"), it will be because the technology they create makes shit like this possible.

To try and end this on a somewhat lighter note (source):

🎶 Butt hole sun, won't you come

🎶 And wash the pain away

Also, fake old-celluloid-film filter for something that was supposed to be from 20 years ago? Really?

I was gonna say that was probably the slop extruder's doing, but it looks to have been applied manually for some godforsaken reason. Best guess is whoever was behind this audiovisual extrusion thought "celluloid filter = Nostalgia^tm".

Well done to Avi on blowing a pile of venture capital cash to make his own life feel a bit better. The rest of us will probably pass this one by.

Money buys happiness, but he sure ain't doing that right.

hallucinatory RETVRN clips about the good old days

Nostalgiabait is the slopgens' specialty - being utterly incapable of creating anything new isn't an issue if you're trying to fabricate an idealis-

such as, uh, walmart 20 years ago?

Okay, stop everything, who the actual fuck would be nostalgic for going to a fucking Wal-Mart? I've got zero nostalgia for ASDA or any other British big-box hellscape like it, what the fuck's so different across the pond?

(Even from a "making nostalgiabait" angle, something like, say, McDonalds would be a much better choice - unlike Wal-Mart, McD's directly targets kids with their advertising, all-but guaranteeing you've got fuzzy childhood memories to take advantage of.)