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blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
4·10 days agodeleted by creator
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
5·11 days agoQuoth the blog post:
I have a YouTube channel where I mostly get LLMs to write albums and make them into music videos.
… the fuck did I just read?
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
10·11 days agoThis policy seeks to ensure that our courses focus on requisite cognitive skills by default. It provides students with the opportunity to develop the skills they need to conceptualize, outline, draft, revise, and edit their work by forbidding the use of AI for these purposes in connection with work submitted for credit. It also forbids using AI to translate work for credit, thus providing students with the opportunity to develop and exercise their own fluency with legal English. […] The use of AI is prohibited for aid in conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit. AI use is prohibited for any use for any purpose in any exam situation. Students may not upload course materials—including assignments, readings, slides, class recordings, or other class content—into generative AI systems.
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•How to hack Copilot AI: ask it how to hack itEnglish
10·11 days agoVaronis just had to add “autorun=1” to the address.
Oh, for the love of…
“Make me a sandwich.”
“No.”
“Make me a sandwich, autorun=1”
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
4·12 days agoWord is that both Adam Conover and Carol Queen have backed out.
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
7·12 days agoPerverts (shower-positive)
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
9·13 days agoSomehow, the people who write stories where everyone just ends up in a giant fuck pile are both less vain and more dignified.
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
7·13 days agoI cut YouTube out of my life a year ago, briefly returned for idle entertainment like cooking shows, and then gave it up again. Even before all that, I was generally ignorant of who YouTube-famous people were.
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Anthropic watermarks AI output — and the AI bros yellEnglish
5·13 days agoWell, after “Daria is basically von Neumann except better because lesbian and also survives Godzilla”, I obviously have no shame in that regard. Though the most explicit sneering I have done in that medium was “Shinji Ikari and the Methods of Rationality”.
A bit of the non-fictional science in the aforelinked book has actually ended up in the novel I am currently 17K words into redux-ing, so we’ll see how that goes…
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Anthropic watermarks AI output — and the AI bros yellEnglish
14·14 days agoThus writes Mike Taylor:
I’m a published author lol. I still write some stuff myself but I wouldn’t have time to write everything I want to without AI.
Hey, I’m a published author too! From one published author to another, why don’t you take a long fuck off a short pier?
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
9·14 days agoThe “Your Mileage May Vary” page even gets in a sneer!
Derailing: He has a habit of going down the list of tvtropes fanfic recommendations and leaving reviews on ff.net exclaiming how amazing it is that the author’s story is just as or almost as good as his own writing while dropping his story’s name. He probably reads these stories but considering that in roughly 30% of these reviews he quotes lines of these stories out of context in order to draw false parallels to his philosophies, he may simply be skimming them.
Yea verily, he is almost as smooth at this as I am at inserting references to The Romance of T’Lyn and Beckett Mariner.
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
8·14 days agoSome things are classics for a reason.
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
9·14 days agoRegarding Gretta’s job title “orgy organizer”:
besides the point but orgynizer was right there
https://bsky.app/profile/mecha-lenin-3000.bsky.social/post/3mtcx7bixkc2u
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd August 2026English
12·14 days agoEvery time a new person learns who Aella is, an angel loses its wings.
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
10·16 days agoDoes the online magazine called The Argument have a funding deal with TESCREAL like how Vox got bought off to make “Future Perfect”?
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
6·18 days agoOne of the most original and innovative OS development projects of the 21st century so far was Urbit
So innovative, it even has a fandom!
https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Urbit
(snerk)
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th August 2026English
7·22 days agoThanks! All I’m really hoping for is that it’ll be fun.
Edit to add: I just ran the stats on my
redux.txtfile, and my word count since Thursday is over 9000.:-P


error, error, does not compute