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pwf @ass.business · 15h
google's pushing me videos saying people creating 401ks are idiots for not shoving all their money into ai companies this is surely just the most rational exuberance
google news thumbnail of a dude in a polo with the shiteatingest grin captioned "I'M NOT SAVING"
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pwf @ass.business · 04/09/2026
father's from there, and i *did* grow up in the panhandle...
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pwf @ass.business · 04/08/2026
what the fuck is this graphic
obviously ai generated graphic meant to accompany the article. extremely unclear what the multitude of grey gradient boxes are supposed to represent. 

there's bullet points scattered haphazardly around the image, some with blurry ai text, some without.

"expert skeptical" is written twice, because
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pwf @ass.business · 02/08/2026
most ai implementations are just accelerated enshittification
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pwf @ass.business · 08/07/2026
how about a real photo, but no description so an AI has to go "uhhh it's translucent I guess... has ice... probably citrus?"
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pwf @ass.business · 09/05/2026
sure hope the "ai-first" companies doing layoffs realize this and picked the right people :)
screenshot of snippet from the article: 

The Asymmetry of Bullshit

What's the impact on others of your contribution?

The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
- Alberto Brandolini

If you splurge out a gobbledegook article, you're putting that workload onto your reader to realise that it's not worth wading through. If you dump a complex PR into a project without due care, you're obligating the reviewers to go through the code and for them to explain to you why it can't be merged. In both of these scenarios the community would be better off without your contribution.
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pwf @ass.business · 06/05/2026
non-euclidean head
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pwf @ass.business · 16/04/2026
🤌
bluesky status page showing issues in one of their "reginos"
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pwf @ass.business · 06/04/2026
very cool and good app built by AI
bsky app now wants my birthdateuh oh, network request failed... but it didn't even actually let me input it yet?
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pwf @ass.business · 19/02/2026
i fuckin hate these things
partial screenshot of an opencode session with the damn robot explaining how it locked me out of sudoers
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pwf @ass.business · 18/02/2026
the agentic folks are not ok
screenshot of a tweet from the openclaw guy showing a diff summary that has +720,614 lines and -78 lines. he's saying something about a vision document
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pwf @ass.business · 20/01/2026
fishing line? really?
photo of a military drone next to a massive pickup truck that's half the drone's size
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pwf @ass.business · 12/12/2025
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pwf @ass.business · 28/11/2025
uhh mods?
tweets of an xAI employee claiming to work 36 hours straight and then falling asleep while driving home
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pwf @ass.business · 20/11/2025
thanks gemini, the graphic really clears things up
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pwf @ass.business · 01/11/2025
what the fuck is this? were these hidden by the slopposter manually, or is it automatic now to bury replies pointing out the crap?
screenshot of the bottom of the bsky thread, showing some replies were hiddenscreenshot of the hidden replies themselves, showing they all point out that the video is AI slop
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pwf @ass.business · 30/09/2025
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pwf @ass.business · 27/06/2025
i've wanted to try it ever since i watched Cooking Master Boy, thank you for the reminder
still image from the anime Cooking Master Boy showing the titular blue-haired chef boy suffering after eating from a large dish of spicy mapo tofu
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pwf @ass.business · 07/04/2025
D&D for math nerd nepo babies
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pwf @ass.business · 22/03/2025
nawww. no way. this has to be illegal right? in what world is this 'a blend of Vietnamese herbs'?? and no, it was not 'accompanied by a distinctive fish sauce for dipping'.
picture of a regular ass bag of sun chips (garden salsa flavor)
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pwf @ass.business · 22/03/2025
sorry, what?? generated based on what? there isn't even a picture of the chips?
picture of a small portion of the doordash UI, reading:

Chips
Served with a blend of Vietnamese herbs and accompanied by a distinctive fish sauce for dipping.
Description generated by DoorDash using AI
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pwf @ass.business · 15/03/2025
excellent video, and, even if you don't care about the keyboard, the introduction is worth watching just for the context of this screenshot www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC-2...
screenshot of an older, windows 98 lookin screenshot of a dialog box with sliders, a text box, and a 'generate output' button at the bottom.

the sliders are each scales from 0 to 100, labelled 'Schizophrenic', 'Delusional', 'Depressive', 'Compulsive', and... 'Richard Nixon'
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pwf @ass.business · 14/03/2025
google AI says fuck drm I guess lol
screenshot of a google search for 'hbo max web rip' that has an AI giving step-by-step piracy instructions as the top result
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pwf @ass.business · 08/03/2025
nah, those last few things are all the same. like literally, you can't 'zoom. enhance.' surveillance footage with genai and admit it in court. it's a computer's *guess* of what's *probably* there. i mean, i guess netflix thought it looked good enough, but uh... not for me thanks
image from https://futurism.com/netflix-ai-upscaling-old-shows-horrific

it shows a frame from an ai upscaled 80s sitcom with a mangled grotesque face generated on top of what should be a child's face
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pwf @ass.business · 06/03/2025
had to go look up bom video so i could add it to my calendar
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pwf @ass.business · 04/03/2025
bold red EXTREME FEAR surely is good though
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pwf @ass.business · 04/03/2025
opening up the news web site to check the 'fear and greed' meter cyberpunk as fuck (derogatory)
meter from cnn, titled 'Fear & Greed Index' with the needle in the red saying 'EXTREME FEAR is driving the US market'
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pwf @ass.business · 27/02/2025
mfw im king of a technofeudal empire
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pwf @ass.business · 27/02/2025
i know the appeals aren't done, but c'mon
Chief justice halts lower court decision ordering Trump administration to pay State Department, USAID contractors
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pwf @ass.business · 15/02/2025
unfortunately,
low res horse gif with 3d animated text: "everything happens so much"
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pwf @ass.business · 11/02/2025
at least I don't have to endure this realm lol
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pwf @ass.business · 09/02/2025
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pwf @ass.business · 06/02/2025
cartoon with two people sitting across from each other at a table. the man on the right is dressed as a construction worker and has a plate in front of him with a single cookie. the man on the left has dark skin, and nothing on his side of the table. in the background, an older, suited man behind a mountain of cookies says "careful mate... that foreigner wants your cookie!"
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pwf @ass.business · 01/02/2025
here's mine... T_T
small green plastic keychain in the style of a windows 98 dialog box reading インターネット老人会the same keychain, translated, now reading: internet seniors' association
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pwf @ass.business · 22/01/2025
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pwf @ass.business · 12/01/2025
that's what the escrow is for?? lmao
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pwf @ass.business · 12/01/2025
damn i want in on this but the price is dropping fast
screenshot of this and another reply thread where the bet is reduced to $2400.
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pwf @ass.business · 21/12/2024
i bet the bible is just supply side jesus
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pwf @ass.business · 17/11/2024
'fellow at the manhattan institute' means he's Paid to Post by conservative donors (senior fellows can make over 400k for it!)
screenshot of irs form 990 for the manhattan institute, showing a senior fellow making $212k base salary (plus $200k 'other'!)
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pwf @ass.business · 01/11/2024
ah... underwear... it was underwear. they rounded up a gang of damn lingerie thieves i'm really impressed by whichever detective had to go through all this effort for the evidence photo, very tidy.
photo from the article of maybe 5 sqft of assorted lingerie, neatly layered and organized: panties, bras, thongs; bright colors mixed with leopard print. 

text above the photo reads: 

An investigator with Victoria's Secret identified three people in connection to more than a dozen high-value thefts that resulted in significant losses to the company.
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pwf @ass.business · 01/11/2024
the info under the mugshots is an immediate letdown... $57k is like, at least a few newer economy cars i guess? could have disadvantaged some people who really need those oh, but... over 2000 pieces of merchandise? what could it be...
intro to the online article, with smaller text at the top describing an omitted collection of mugshots:

Four people were arrested in connection to several high-value thefts across Austin
Investigators found more than 2,000 pieces of stolen merchandise at their homes Police said the merchandise had a value of around $57,000
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pwf @ass.business · 01/11/2024
funniest copaganda i've ever seen... the buildup and payoff are just beautiful starting with the headline, which got me thinking 'oh shit, a supercar theft ring? serial diamond heisters?'
FOX7 Austin news website headline: 
4 people arested in connection to dozens of high-value thefts across Austin
By FOX 7 Austin Digital Team | Published October 30, 2024 4:55pm CDT
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pwf @ass.business · 02/10/2024
cool, I guess my phone just got worse for no reason. this appears when i hold the power button to set an alarm by voice, something i've done a thousand times. pressing 'not now' just closes the dialog. bonus points for the dark pattern of making 'not now' tiny text and not obviously a button.
modal Android dialog prompting the user (me) to switch from Google assistant to Gemini with a prominent Search (accept) button and small text for 'Not now'
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pwf @ass.business · 27/07/2024
sometimes bred too much tho
a close portrait photo of a dachshund held upright, in a pastel color block hoodie with a pink turtleneck sweater and handcuff necklace. yeah, he lookin real dumb
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pwf @ass.business · 10/07/2024
1.- Mother, help me, there's a head attached to my neck and I'm *in* it.
2.- Stop! I don't want to hear anything more about this *sensation*. Take me back to the formless, disembodied nothing!
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pwf @ass.business · 28/06/2024
glad u can still trust local reporting to really dig in for the facts
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pwf @ass.business · 13/06/2024
Ada (cat) and Snoopy (weird creature) and this is Zelda
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pwf @ass.business · 13/06/2024
Texas!
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pwf @ass.business · 27/05/2024
this mfer
picture of a backyard with live chickens, an electric kiln, and smelting accoutrementsirc screenshot:

< etc> lol
< etc> medieval peasant shit 
< pwf> yah medieval peasants and their electric kilns
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pwf @ass.business · 24/05/2024
oh yeah well MY ai system will be guarded by gundams with like, bigger machine guns!!
news headline: "Ex-Google CEO: Powerful Al Systems Will Be Guarded With Machine Guns"

and the dude is gesticulating like he caught a fish 'this big I swear!!!'
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