I switched to DuckDuckGo like a goddamn hipster years ago, nice to know I dodged a fucking artillery shell
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New(ish) Baldur Bjarnason - a fairly politically charged one at that, going into the US hegemony powering the current tech industry (and the AI bubble by extension), and how the Hormuz crisis is all-but guaranteed to topple the whole thing.
🎶 We're doing a sequel, we're back by popular demand...
(Muppets: Most Wanted was fun, I should rewatch that)
PS3 emulator RPCS3 has put up some guardrails against slopcode, and responded to the AI bro shitfits by sneering them:


Google is forcibly installing Gemini Nano onto every Chrome installation without the user's knowledge, and actively re-installing it if the user deletes it. Probably an attempt to juice the numbers.
(h/t Matt Roszak)
New blog from Iris Meredith: Engineering judgement and the Claude Code paradox
Based off her own unusually good experience with Claude, the general thrust is about sneerers being better-equipped to use AI than boosters.
Cape Breton fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has sued Google for defaming him with AI, over his cancelled concert in December caused by Google's AI overview calling him a sex offender.
Starting this Stubsack off with a double bill from the tech world.
First, Blender accepted cash and slop commits from Anthropic, and Adobe'd their public image in the process. They put out some corpo-speak to try and quell the mob, but it isn't working.
Second, FFmpeg put out a showcase of AI's coding prowess:

Huh, haven't heard of that before, lemme go check its Wikipedia page and-
Okay this sounds very fucking bad