HotGarbage

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th July 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] HotGarbage@awful.systems 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The Atlantic is now defending AI. Or maybe they have for a while and I hadn't noticed until this article got my blood pressure up: https://archive.is/qvbJZ

Author is a chud who used to write for The Free Press: https://muckrack.com/elias-wachtel/articles

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th April 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] HotGarbage@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Fugly tech-bro shoe company pivots to AI, juicing failing stock.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/allbirds-soars-373-after-sneaker-firm-rebrands-as-ai-stock/

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] HotGarbage@awful.systems 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Disappointed this wasn't Beavis & Butt-head/King of the Hill/Office Space/Idiocracy/Silicon Valley Mike Judge

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th August 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] HotGarbage@awful.systems 3 points 11 months ago

They get mad at any DNS server that strips/doesn't include EDNS subnet info (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDNS_Client_Subnet)

NextDNS was another that would give me endless captchas.

Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] HotGarbage@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Unethical though?