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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"why does the UK change leaders so often?" there are diminishing returns wrt how long each vessel can house thatcher's spirit. by the end of the century we'll be getting through 1000 prime ministers a day

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IggyMaid @iggymaid.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I say no to all gen-ai in games, including if it's "just code" Coding IS an artform, it may not be as directly visible as artwork but it's no less deserving of respect for being responsible for the functionality of every game out there without solid coding all your fave games would be dogshit

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/06/2026

SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...

Internal mechanism
The True Source of Value
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Golden Egg factory inside the goose
What you see are the eggs
What produces them is the factory itself
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Shareholder Value = 3 eggs
Goose was not valued
Goose value
0?
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Eggs do not lay eggs
3 → 74
Increase = 71
It was the goose that created value
74 - 3 = 71
Goose value
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Thoughtbarf @thoughtbarf.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I love when doctors say "avoid stress" like I can just unsubscribe from economy and become a decorative gargoyle

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago

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United Tech & Allied Workers @utaw.tech · 05/05/2026

BREAKING: Google DeepMind workers in UK have voted 98% in favour of unionising — demanding an end to AI use by Israel and the US military for perpetrating genocide in Gaza. If successful, they’ll be the first frontier AI lab in the world to unionise.

GOOGLE DEEPMIND WORKERS IN UNION
RECOGNITION BID - 98% of Google DeepMind members vote YES

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/05/2026

As I wrote three months ago and the WSJ validated today, depreciation is a vast and growing problem eating away at MSFT/GOOG/META’s profts. AI revenues are never getting close to catching up. Projections have depreciation eating into 38% to 58% of profits by 2030. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...

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Annual depreciation charges as a percentage of net income
Google
Microsoft
Meta Platforms
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Note: Figures for 2026-30 are projections.
Source: Visible Alpha
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Konner Knudsen @penzerker.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I don't hate Star Wars or Trek, but I'm just not really interested anymore. I understand these fandoms mean a lot to people but I wish folks could understand that having the sci-fi genre space majorly occupied by two major franchises for 50+ years is a horrible thing. New stuff needs oxygen.

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 21/04/2026

Shot: "We were hit by a sophisticated AI-accelerated cyberattack"

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

It’s fucking bizarre how people are acting like something from 2022 is something they can’t live without. Like dudes, the emotional dependence on a sycophantic machine regurgitating nonsense to encourage you to stop engaging in critical thought and trust the slop is truly depressing to witness.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/04/2026

Premium Newsletter: The Hater's Guide To OpenAI, a 17k word guide to Sam Altman's decade-long con built on lies about the capabilities and economics of AI, helped by the media, analysts and the magnificent 7. OpenAI's IPO poses huge risks to retail investors. www.wheresyoured.at/hatersguide-...

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Premium: The Hater's Guide to OpenAI

Soundtrack: The Dillinger Escape Plan — Setting Fire To Sleeping Giants In what The New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz and Ronan Farrow called a “tense call” after his brief ouster from OpenAI in 2023, Sam Altman seemed unable to reckon with a “pattern of deception” across his time at the company:

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

In the 1930s, Oswald Mosley claimed to be a patriot, while his British Union of Fascists was secretly funded by the Italian government. We are just beginning to grasp how much of the far right in the UK today has been funded by Viktor Orbán and Russian oil money. Their "patriotism" is always a con.

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I’m not a business genius or anything but if you shed 1800 jobs in three years, while owning one of the most popular entertainment products in history and the tool used to make it, maybe there are other questions to be asked somewhere.

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kylie b @roguesquirrel.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

90% of the VA in Sea of Thieves are done by the devs and only gets replaced by an actual va if the character winds up important for a story mission down the line and thats a big AAA rareware game published by microsoft. ask ur mate dave to do ur indie VA itll be fine

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Michael Mengarda @mmengardamusic.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I saw this on threads and now I’m sharing it with everyone.😆

On the left is a picture of Minecraft Steve, the right is “DLSS ON” picture of the baby Vance meme.

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Flip Satan @teawithphil.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Only interested in DLSS if means a universe where: Dreamcast Lived Sega Succeeded

Me holding Sega Dreamcast next to Sony PVM that's actually currently got white Sega Saturn connected.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This is admittedly a very specialised peeve, but it annoys me tremendously how "transmit the HTML that will actually produce the web page the user is supposed to see" is regarded as, like, a cutting-edge optimisation in modern web design.

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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 23/02/2026

A news post from Sunday; can you assist with some word of mouth audience building assistance?

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Andy / FluffyFreak @fluffyfreak.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Uninstall and do not use TikTok if you still have it

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

This is interesting drama to follow lol TLDR, the people who made the AI coke commercial are denying it and generating fake concept art, actual concept artists are ripping it all apart as fake because the guy has no idea how any of this works

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Ian Cooper @icooper.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

It's 2025, and we are raising a petition so that children can go to the toilet at school, but here we are. (For those not in the UK, yes, this is real, and as stupid and cruel as it seems.) Please do sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

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Petition: Require schools to let children use the toilet at all times in the school day

Make it mandatory for schools to allow students to go to the toilet at all times throughout the school day when they need to and do not lock toilets so that they aren’t accessible during certain times...

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 27/08/2025

When someone started tampering with Tylenol bottles in 1982 the company recalled $100 million worth of bottles immediately even though they clearly weren't at fault

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 21/08/2025

openai promises a chatgpt model with 'research grade intelligence' (if you pay them $200 a month). what they don't tell you is that it's the "research" capability of a 4th grader

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Ellen Rose @icklenellierose.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Stripe’s tagline is “Make progress”, yet they are reportedly censoring LGBT content. They want to control what people think/consume, but they can’t even recognise when their (prob gen AI) advert has installed a zip-slider on wrong, making said zip functionally useless. Let’s not listen to them.

Advert for stripe reads “river island fashions a better checkout with Stripe - Stripe, make progress”. The image is of a half-open zip, and the slider/pull is installed the wrong way round, meaning it would not be able to slide, and therefore is broken and does not function as a zip. The teeth on the open part of the zip also don’t match or align, suggesting use of AI.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

🚨 NEW 🚨 Sign and share this letter to Ministers to express your business' or organisation's concerns with the EHRC's proposed Code of Practice www.transsolidarityalliance.com/businesses-o...

A copy of the letter. The full text can be found on our website.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 05/08/2025

You're so close

r/ChatGPTPro
u/vurto • 28d
If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work?
Discussion
It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque.
On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't.
All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction.
I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read).
And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable.
How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with.
I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".

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Sarah Cawkwell @skullqueen.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

What’s making me laugh too much today thanks to like, 2 hours sleep, you say? Thanks for asking! This:

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 05/06/2025

I started writing something important to me tonight. Not really sure what it is, but I’ll share the end of it. Watching the tech industry do what it’s doing sickens me, and I want people to know why.

Nowhere along the line did anyone actually see an opportunity to sell people something they wanted or needed - Large Language Models were able to generate a lot of text or generate pictures, and that barely approximated a thing that society wanted or needed other than it was something that people used to be willing to pay more for and businesses had been vaguely interested in doing these things cheaper, usually by offshoring or underpaying contractors. The fact that three years later we still have trouble describing why these things exist is enough of a sign that the tech industry has no real interest in building artificial intelligence at all - because AI is, at least based on the time before ChatGPT, meant to be about doing stuff for us, which Large Language Models are pretty fucking poor at, because the idea of getting something “done for you” is that you’re outsourcing both the production and the quality control.

In any case, it’s enough to make anyone feel crazy. Over the last decade we’ve watched - and while I’m talking about the tech industry, I think we can all say it’s been everywhere else too - the things we love get distanced from us so that somebody else can get unbelievably rich, the things we used to do easily made more difficult, confusing and/or expensive, and the ways we used to connect with people become increasingly abstracted and exploitative.

I don’t know what to tell you about these people other than the fact that you should know that they are responsible for the world around you feeling like it’s in fucking ruins. I cannot give you a plan for the future, I cannot tell you what will fix things, but however things get fixed start with people knowing who these people are and what they have done.

The reason I am so hard on my peers in the media is that it has never been more urgent that we hold these people accountable. Their ability to act both unburdened by regulation and true criticism has emboldened them to cause harm to billions of peop…

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Shameful bullish. What's done incalculable damage is a decade of pernicious falsehoods about immigration, while people who should know better refuse to counter the lies of the increasingly normalised far right. Let's tackle those lies:

Keir Starmer claims soaring immigration has done incalculable damage to UK economically and politically

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 31/03/2025

it's really funny watching politics these days because really the big schism in the US and UK is between people who are hopelessly addicted to managed decline and people who ejaculate over unmanaged decline

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Meredith Gran @meredithgran.com · 08/01/2025

it's ghastly to generate placeholder art instead of doing shitty rough drawings, which are in fact the best drawings

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PSX Bunlith 🪄🏳️‍⚧️ E2 OCT 16TH!!!! 🐰🌱 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸 @b0tster.yeag.gay · 08/01/2025

please, please read this. the employee abuse thats been uncovered here is distressing. this needs to be spread to every corner of the games industry

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🌴✨🦋 Kathryn 🦋✨🌴 @kathrynkatiekwrites.substack.com · 08/01/2025

Instead of "I apologize for the delay," write "thank you for your patience." In lieu of "sorry for the oversight," write "if you're so perfect, why don't you fu*king do it, Marsha." Follow me for more etiquette tips. 😁

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Alex Wells 🐀 @freeky-boy-al.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Just setting up everything so I'm ready to jump ship from the bad place

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