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Principal Technical Lead , #Azure/ #DevOps/ #dotnet teacher focusing on modernization projects. Thoughts are my own and all that jazz. codedbeard.com

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The Register @theregister.com · 01/10/2026
Azure maintenance mess disrupts hybrid clouds, VPNs, cloudy VMware services
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Azure maintenance mess disrupts hybrid clouds, VPNs, cloudy VMware services
Microsoft broke its own cloud but isn’t sure how
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵
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Casey Muratori @cmuratori.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The VOD for my BSC2026 talk "The Root of The Root of All Evil" is now available! It's the spiritual successor to last year's "The Big OOPs", so if you enjoyed that one, join me for one more adventure into the history of computer science: computerenhance.com/theroot
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The Root of the Root of All Evil
A Brief History of Programming's Most Ambiguous Catchphrase
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Richard Campbell @richcampbell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Proper IT uniform...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 27/07/2026
The Hugging Face incident was “both notable and alarming,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @sfexaminer.bsky.social, “not because ‘ooh, the model’s so powerful,’ but because it demonstrates a colossal failure on the part of OpenAI to secure the sandbox in which it was testing its model.”
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OpenAI hacking incident highlights AI cyberrisks
Experts take company to task for safety efforts
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
NEW - Greens won’t stand in Clacton. So it is Nigel Farage versus Count Binface.
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 01/07/2026
"98% of readers prefer imperfect-yet-authentic human writing; most will stop reading, block you, and downvote you if they suspect AI" ☝🏻 Report: How developers react to AI-scented blog posts writethatblog.substack.com/p/dev-reacti... Bookmarked.
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Report: How Developers React to AI-Scented Blog Posts
98% of readers prefer imperfect-yet-authentic human writing; most will stop reading, block you, and downvote you if they suspect AI
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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 26/06/2026
Tech exec addiction to AI hype is eating everything. Including Earth. People don’t want this shit. PCs, games consoles and everything else is becoming unaffordable because of it. That isn’t productivity gains. Generative AI isn’t inevitable. It’s not a genie in a bottle. It’s fucking stupid.
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
turns out being deliberately antagonistic towards the people who elected you in order to court people who would under no circumstances ever vote for you is not smart
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Casey Muratori @cmuratori.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
New episode of Wading Through AI is out! @DemetriSpanos and I discuss the recent trend of open source projects restricting the use of AI and/or going closed altogether: www.computerenhance.com/p/will-ai-en...
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Will AI End the Open Internet?
Listen now | With previously open source projects going closed, and artists increasingly concerned about posting their work online, is AI reversing the internet’s long-established trend toward opennes...
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AlexSa @netalexx.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
How We Turned M365 Copilot Into a One-Click Data Exfiltration Weapon
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SearchLeak: How We Turned M365 Copilot Into a One-Click Data Exfiltration Weapon
Varonis Threat Labs discovered SearchLeak, a critical vulnerability chain in Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise that allows an attacker to steal sensitive data — MFA codes, email messages, meeting detai...
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This is exactly it. The work is the point.
When I assign analysis, I am not trying to extract a polished product; I am trying to put the student’s mind through resistance in order to make it stronger. Offloading the struggle to a chatbot does not “free students up for higher-order work.” It deprives them of building the strength to do any substantial cognitive work at all.
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Signal @signal.org · 08/06/2026
Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...
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Adam Riches @supernorn.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A while back we had the wonderful opportunity to pitch a Red Dwarf adventure game directly to Doug Naylor himself. While the project didn't end up going ahead, we're now free to share some of the work we produced for the pitch!
A Red Dwarf Adventure game - pixel art showcasing the crew in the cockpit of the iconic Starbug
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 03/06/2026
Another researcher drops a zero-day without disclosure because they're tired of dealing with MSRC blog.ammaraskar.com/github-token...
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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 01/06/2026
The first warning arrived on a Tuesday morning, six weeks after consultants advised moving from dependency on six hundred small excel scripts - and nobody at Zenith Ledger Advisory paid much attention. It appeared in the system dashboard between routine audit notifications and a maintenance reminder
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Casey Muratori @cmuratori.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
[1/2] I don't normally make commentary videos, but after seeing the entirety of Eric Schmidt's University of Arizona commencement speech, I felt like there was a lot more going on than just "CEO mentions AI, gets booed". So I made a video to explain what upset me about it.
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Fujoshi Mountain Sect Leader @gin-and-chthonic.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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Simon's Cat @simonscatofficial.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
How Simon's Cat came to be! Simon's Cat Origins Part 1
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Them: "think of the children!!!!" Me: omg yes you are so right. we should abolish child prisons, stop funding militaries that slaughter children, ensure every child has access to medical care and healthy food, provide mental health counselors in schoo-- Them: NO WE MEAN CENSOR THE INTERNET!!!
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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 23/04/2026
New by me - Microsoft Vibing. A very strange fake open source project published by Microsoft employees, which gathers screenshots and voice recordings of users with unique machine identifiers attached. Not sure how this one has happened. doublepulsar.com/microsoft-vi...
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Microsoft Vibing — capturing screenshots and voice samples without governance
A look inside Microsoft Vibing, a fake open source project published by Microsoft that captures audio and screenshots of customers.
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Ned Pyle @nedpyle.com · 23/04/2026
Hoooboy I never thought the bean counters’ desire to eliminate all engineering experience from the company in order to fund the AI cash furnace would get that blatant www.cnbc.com/2026/04/23/m...
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Microsoft plans first-ever voluntary employee buyout for up to 7% of U.S. workforce
Microsoft's inaugural voluntary buyouts will be open to workers at the senior director level and below whose years of employment and age add up to 70 or more.
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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 23/04/2026
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS officially released!!! Download ubuntu.com/download/des... Release info documentation.ubuntu.com/release-note...
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Download Ubuntu Desktop | Ubuntu
Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 23/04/2026
The final boss has emerged www.ft.com/content/693d...
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Private equity courts OpenAI and Anthropic
The start-ups are in talks with private equity firms over joint ventures intended to help deploy AI in businesses
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The Register @theregister.com · 22/04/2026
Anthropic's super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger
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Anthropic's super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger
And that unauthorized access? 'A nothing burger,' hacking startup CEO tells El Reg Anthropic's Mythos model is purportedly so good at finding vulnerabilities that the Claude-maker is afraid to make it available to the general public for fear that criminals will take advantage. But early analysis shows that Mythos may not be as dangerous as some would have you believe.…
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Framework @frame.work · 21/04/2026
Oh, one more thing...😎 frame.work/linux
A screenshot of the Framework website's Linux landing page. At the top, a large headline reads "Designed for a Linux-first experience," centered above an illustration of a black gear, an orange pixelated heart, and Tux the Linux penguin. Below the graphics, a section titled "How we work with Linux distributions" details the company's upstream design approach and multi-level collaboration to ensure broad compatibility. A following section titled "Official partners" explains that Ubuntu and Fedora are officially supported distributions, noting deep engineering collaboration and the provision of official customer support for these specific distros.
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 21/04/2026
.NET has an out of band update today to fix CVE-2026-40372, an Elevation of Privilege, which, in some cases, could allow an attacker to forge authentication tickets, or decode authentication tickets or other protected data. github.com/dotnet/annou...
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Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2026-40372 – ASP.NET Core Elevation of Privilege · Issue #395 · dotnet/announcements
Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2026-40372 – ASP.NET Core Elevation of Privilege Executive Summary: A bug in Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection 10.0.0-10.0.6 NuGet packages can give an attacker th...
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scary angel drags you to heaven @shiningangelx.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
i simply find it a little hard to believe that shortly after every website implemented ai code and fired a bunch of engineers they all started breaking constantly every single day but its not related to the ai code or the skeleton crew
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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 15/04/2026
would like to have a wee little word with all the people who said everyone was overreacting to the california OS age signal legislation
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...
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AI Use Appears to Have a "Boiling Frog" Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns
A new study claims to offer the first causal link between AI dependency and cognitive erosion. Researchers warn of long-term implications.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15/04/2026
ChatGPT is a website. Claude is a website. I will never respect a website. You cannot convince me to treat LLMs as anything different to any other technology. If a website only gets things right sometimes, it's a bad website. I will not be told otherwise. www.wheresyoured.at/i-will-never...
I think the most enlightening thing about Al is that it shows you how even the most mediocre text inspires some sort of emotion. Soulless Linkedin slop makes you feel frustration with a person for their lack of authenticity, but you can still imagine how they forced it out of their heads. You still connect with them, even if it's in a bad way.
Al copy is dead. It is inert. The reason you can spot it is that it sounds hollow. I don't care if a website says stuff on it because I typed in, just like I don't care if it responds in a way that sounds human, because it all feels like nothing to me. I am not here to give a website respect, I will not be impressed by a website, nor will I grant a website any extra credit if it can't do the right thing every time. The computer is meant to work for me. If the computer doesn't do what I want, I change the kind of computer I use. LLMs will always hallucinate, their outputs are not trustworthy as a result, they cannot be deterministic, and any chance of any mistakes of any kind are unforgivable. I don't care how the website made you feel: it's a machine that doesn't always work, and that's not a very good machine.
I feel nothing when I see an LLM's output. Tell me thank you or whatever, I don't care. You're a website. Oh you can spit out code? Amazing. Still a website.Truly useful technology isn't described in oblique or hyperbolic terms.
For example, last week, IBM's Dave McCann described using a series of
"Al agents" to Business Insider
The agent — it's actually a collection of Al agents and assistants
— scans McCann's calendar for client meetings and drafts a list of 10 things he needs to know for each one. The goal, McCann told Business Insider, was to free up time he and his staff spent preparing for the meetings.
Sounds like a website to me.
The agent reviews in-house data, what IBM and the client are doing in the market, external data, and account details - such as project status and services sold and purchased, McCann said. It can also identify industry trends and client needs by, for example, reviewing a firm's annual report and identifying a corresponding service IBM could provide.
Sounds like a website using an LLM to summarize stuff to me. Why are we making all this effort to talk about what a website does?
Digital Dave also saves McCann's team time, he said, because the three or four staffers who used to spend hours pulling together insights for the prep calls are now free to do other work.
"It's not just about driving efficiencies, but it's really about transforming how work gets done," McCann said.
My friend, this isn't a "series of agents." It's an LLM that looks at stuff and spits out an answer. Chatbots have done this kind of thing forever.
These aren't "agents." "Agents" makes it sound like there's some sort of futuristic autonomous presence rather than a chatbot that's looking at documents using technology that's guaranteed to hallucinate incorrect information.
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nohwnd @jakubjares.com · 14/04/2026
I am hoping to drop Newtonsoft.Json from VSTest (which powers test running in .NET in: dotnet test / VS Test Explorer / C#DevKit) Please help me test it: github.com/microsoft/vs... #dotnet
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VSTest dropping Newtonsoft.Json (sanity-check) · Issue #15677 · microsoft/vstest
It took us a long while, but aligning with dotnet/sdk finally gave us the right opportunity to break public API and remove Newtonsoft.Json from VSTest. We replace it with System.Text.Json in .NET a...
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LaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Modern DRAM is based on a brilliant design from IBM. But, we're still paying for a latency penalty that's existed since the 60s! In this video, I'm introducing my research project (Tailslayer) that immensely reduces p99.99 latency on traditional RAM!
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/04/2026
CREATION Happy April Fool's Day! xkcd.com/3227/
4-panel comic. (1) [Black panel with white text boxes] TEXT BOX: And God said, "Let there be light," (2) [Sun radiating light.] TEXT BOX: And there was light. (3) [View of bright sun rising over Earth's horizo] (4) TEXT BOX: God saw that light was-- [Chat bubble from Earth] CHAT BUBBLE: Can you add support for dark mode?

Open xkcd.com to view toggles for different modes.
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
OK, no, I won't delete that, let's just pick this apart real quick: What I believe Silicon Valley has largely just... completely forgotten about is that people just want Shit that Works. I can tell they're forgetting about this because their shit keeps not working through no fault of mine!
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Neovim @neovim.io · 29/03/2026
#neovim version 0.12.0 is out! Almost exactly a year of hard work since 0.11.0. Huge thanks to everyone who worked on it, as well as to all Neovim users! Release: github.com/neovim/neovi... News: github.com/neovim/neovi... Changelog: github.com/neovim/neovi... Here are top 10 most liked features:
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Release Nvim 0.12.0 · neovim/neovim
NVIM v0.12.0 Build type: Release LuaJIT 2.1.1774638290 Release notes Changelog (fixes + features) News (:help news in Nvim) Install Windows Zip Download nvim-win64.zip (or nvim-win-arm64.zip fo...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Why should any political donations other than a standard annual party membership fee (say £25) be permitted? All other options allow wealthy people disproportionate political influence.
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LaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Read an amazingly clever paper today I have to share:
 Imagine sourcecode that *looks* correct…but compiles to different logic!
 Unicode has to support left-to-right, and right-to-left languages. Visual order and logical order can be completely different!
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
'Smoke me a Kipper, I'll be back for breakfast' - RIP Rob Grant
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 20/02/2026
Hahahaahhaa hell yeah. The future rules! THE FUTURE RULES!
Amazon's cloud unit has suffered at least two outages due to errors involving its own AI tools, leading some employees to raise doubts about the US tech giant's push to roll out these coding assistants.
Amazon Web Services experienced a 13-hour interruption to one system used by its customers in mid-December after engineers allowed its Kiro AI coding tool to make certain changes, according to four people familiar with the matter.
The people said the agentic tool, which can take autonomous actions on behalf of
users, determined that the best course of action was to "delete and recreate the
environment"
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Kubernetes @kubernetes.io · 17/02/2026
⚠️ Kubernetes ingress-nginx retires March 2026. Key statements: • No security patches after retirement. • Ingress-nginx powers ~50% of environments. • Migration to Gateway API is recommended. • There are no direct drop-in replacements. Read more: kubernetes.io/blog/2026/01...
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Ingress NGINX: Statement from the Kubernetes Steering and Security Response Committees
In March 2026, Kubernetes will retire Ingress NGINX, a piece of critical infrastructure for about half of cloud native environments. The retirement of Ingress NGINX was announced for March 2026,…
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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 16/02/2026
Microsoft have somehow* plagiarised somebody else's work in their own documentation. dbushell.com/notes/2026-0... * it's probably because they stole the content to train their AI
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Rémi Verschelde @akien.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers. If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of: fund.godotengine.org
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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 16/02/2026
Open source maintainers already had enough to worry about before the ongoing agentic AI revolution... my thoughts on recent AI-induced problems in open source development: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZJ7...
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AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet
YouTube video by Jeff Geerling
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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 03/07/2025
REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
There’s going to be Covid style shortages of cars, TVs and even washing machines and fridges, then job losses because assembly lines can’t source solid state memory, just so the stupidest person you know can state with 100% confidence a chatbot confirmed dinosaurs coexisted with humans.
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