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[redacted] enthusiast, robot combat enjoyer, distressingly Appalachian, fat

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It sucks. :(

Honestly, the article reminds me of Scott Alexander, but succinct. "Here are several true things and an absolutely batshit wrong thing, presented together with equal earnestness."

The wrong thing being "Believing that LLMs are trash is a mental disorder (not really but wink wink)."

Why do this now, when it's all coming apart? It's baffling.

A hackernews notices that HN autoflags 404 Media articles. A little downthread, dang bullshits unconvincingly in reponse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47354634

Oof!

This really seems to be the case.

Wew, Cory Doctorow sure is posting through it

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/12/normal-technology/#bubble-exceptionalism

Labor theory of value, but worse

Never have so few been so unsatisfied to be so correct.

I'm calling it Anthropomorphic accidentally on-purpose forever now.

Ned Kelly, but his armor is made of Casio watches.

I like this. News is a frittata, it needs time to set before consuming.

The great chain of bleating

Hell yeah!

It's 10 pm on a Sunday. My FIL is texting me business plans from the slop hole as I try to get the last kiddo down to sleep. He wants me to read them to my wife, who already mad at him about it.

Thank you all for being an island of sanity.

Shitlibs running to sign up for claude is peak whatever the fuck this moment is.

You can't just go around telling people that their loop isn't strange enough

✋ ontology

👉 intology

(IIUC) Like David said, it's a hedge against the bubble being real. GS certainly isn't pulling back from the void yet.

God ate my homework

I feel like the story of Cassandra would be much more gratifying if she'd had access to powered armor.

Thanks, this is a nifty read; I'm appreciating having a look into the world of the bastards who are ruining the web with residential proxy/botnet operations. I had kind of (mistakenly) assumed that the scrapers mostly relied upon IoT trash and hacked Fire sticks. We really can't have nice things anymore, huh?

The company is embroiled in legal action in Israel. After it filed suit against a former employee, he countersued, alleging that Luminati is widely used for click fraud. As part of the suit, it was revealed that the spyware company NSO Group was a Luminati client.

Well that escalated quickly

PS: i really really wish my special interests would quit touching