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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So this week: -- Stood my ground with a client, with nasty emails from them severing the relationship. -- Edited and formatted 40,000 words in 35 hours for a much kinder client. -- Can see my main job will end EOY before my 20-year anniversary in March. Tech makes no sense now. It's gibberish.

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A gorgeous sentence among the horror: "Their trainwreck-laden funhouse mirror of a respectable media company has masqueraded as a purveyor of genuine news and information, enjoying enormous success ... while publishing oceans of trash that would get a real journalist fired immediately."

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I edited a calendar with AI-generated photo captions. In three captions, the city describing where the photo was taken doesn't exist. It's kind of amazing how the stupidity is contagious! AI just further delivers, like a cough, the stupidity of our leaders and the enshittification of everything.

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Maybe we need to start electing rock stars instead of reality show stars. They sure have more courage than our current representatives, even when it's gonna impact them financially and within their industry.

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I would pay real money not to see AI commercials. My weekends are a respite from the all-AI-all-the-time hell I'm in Monday through Friday. I'm just trying to watch the game, ChatGPT. Also, fuck off.

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"Doomsday DJ" is my all-time favorite "Kids in the Hall" sketch because of @davesfoley.bsky.social's astonishing facial expressions, but I guess I didn't think it'd be so prescient so soon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=heAN...

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Kids In the Hall (2022) S1E3 Opening

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The comment on this post/painting is 🤌🏼. Also, the IG post from our former president is real.

A painting by George Bush of George Bush portraying the moment in which he was told that the planes had flown into the World Trade Center.

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This review is spot on. Raygun and Sammy have an odd blend of myopia and naiveté. I'm not sure if it's me being a gym rat, but she was not even remotely training hard enough for any sport. Her defense that women are quick to criticize women is wrong. This is about palpable talent and athleticism.

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Yes, but choosing to be like Dolly requires that you either believe in an afterlife reward or care that you are remembered by others as a good person. I doubt that either condition applies to the billionaires.

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I unfollowed someone once because she wouldn't stop posting about how behind she was on answering all of her DMs – as if it was a deluge – when that had to be a total delusion based on everything else she'd ever said about herself plus her follower count plus her interactions.

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If anyone has questions about the implications of the @ec.europa.eu EU AI Act and @anthropic.com's watermarking on written or visual content – and the suddenly crucial role of an editor/editing (yay!) – I can explain. I'm up to speed as best I can with what we know now (August 2026).

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

All I had to do was see Drew start crying and I was a goner 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

*Older* Saints fans know that having Joe Montana put Drew's gold jacket on is uh -- what are you doing, he is our mortal enemy, pick literally any other QB, seriously ...

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I'm barely on LinkedIn, so I'm shown suggestions and ads more than follows. Today I noticed a total 180 on AI -- posts like, "I've been hired as a writer because they don't want their content to sound like AI." Well well well. So many layoffs, for no good reason at all.

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Amazing story. TIL thst the bar exam's existence had racial (racist) motivations.

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

In "Once," Glen Hansard gave Marketa Irglova the greatest set of "pleasefuckme" eyes ever. If you need me I'll be crying to the soundtrack.

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Mugshots make you look terrible because of the lighting. People who aren't meth addicts take mugshots where they look like meth addicts because EVERYONE looks like a meth addict in that lighting. St. Tammany Parish's mugshots make you look like you have no eyebrows.

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David Stone @david-stone.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The bros were bedazzled by their fantasy assumptions about an unproven technology. After they all crash and their assets are sold for pennies on the dollar, someone is going to make a killing, much like the fiber optics story following the dot-com crash.

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I am fascinated by the cognitive dissonance I experience while hearing one of the sultriest vocals of all time come out of what looks like an elderly lady. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOTv...

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I have really fond memories of secretly rooting for Argentina in 2022 (while visiting Lisbon) among lots of French fans, but the better team won today.

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Why does Timothée keep saying Kalshi when the dentist is asking him whether he’s OK? I mean fuck off Kalshi but also make commercials that have some semblance to logical dialogue.

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I'm anti-AI, so in Nov 2025 I bought a copy of Microsoft Office 2019, which I need to edit. It's the only document software that allows edits with track changes hidden. Then, because I'm not a PC girl, I deleted my Microsoft account. On Thursday, the Office 2019 quit allowing edits or saves. 1/

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

"how were people writing 10 page papers before AI???" we were smarter than you. you could've been smart, too. but you sold your brain for nothing

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

After having the World Cup on every day but listening more than watching, I just learned that who I thought was Mary Carillo is actually Stu Holden. Their voices are identical to me. I'd wondered how she had such in-depth soccer knowledge but figured she was just a pro and picked it over Wimbledon.

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The details feel like a completed Mad Lib: The wedding was held at (place)____________________ and officiated by (person)_____________________. The hashtag was (noun)__________________, and before the ceremony the bride and groom (activity)_____________________________.

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This is now an account devoted to reposting comparisons between the fair de loon and Spinal Tap.

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Omg, where this thread goes! Christopher Guest's part in Stonehenge is my all-time favorite moment of all Tap songs. Even more than Big Bottoms. AND YOU MY LOVE, WON'T YOU TAKE MY HAND ... WE'LL GO BACK IN TIME TO THAT MYSTIC LAND ...

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Before AI it was NFTs and before that it was crypto and before that it was subprime loans and before that it was internet commerce.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 24/06/2026

The plan: forever warp the job market through taxpayer-funded subsidies of unsustainable AI businesses just long enough for all other companies to lay off millions of workers and reorient their work processes around proprietary technology and then once this is accomplished, raise inference prices.

JUST IN: Anthropic CEO says Al companies need hundreds of billions in revenue, or they'll go bankrupt.

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The sequel I didn't know I needed. Also, did they use AI to de-age them? (Seth excepted) I have an occasion tomorrow, so this means I'll be wearing my Dr. Evil dress. It has the entire "my father would womanize ..." speech embroidered down the front.

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Menace Mobile | Dr Evil Returns! | Verizon

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I know this is just the least of things (looks around) but boy, I sure would like it if we could ban the phrase "at scale" from business writing. Who has ever been persuaded -- or dare I say inspired -- by the possibility of "innovating at scale"? What a waste of characters.

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I'm so happy to see such joy. But all I can think about is that this is what it'll look like when it happens, and he will finally get his "biggest crowd ever" wish.

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Reminds me of this figure from an August 2024 article on Freethink about AI model collapse. The subheading of the article is, "When AI eats its own product, it gets sick."

Increasingly degraded images of an older man with a mustache, and sometimes a hat.

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Yep. See that Gary Marcus Substack about how mathematically impossible this is.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

if you continue to advertise that your product is so dangerous it must be stopped, WHILE CONTINUING TO RESEARCH AND RELEASE NEW VERSIONS of said product you cannot act surprised or angry when people physically attack you / your properties.

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Unfortunately, this is gonna be one of the only ways we can get AI use curbed. I'm in high tech. There will be lawsuits -- everything from misstated performance in product data sheets to hallucinated component relationships breaking mechanical devices. It feels like a good time to be a lawyer.

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I said this exact thing to my financial advisor yesterday, in response to her email asking if I had any interest "about how to gain exposure to Space X, Anthropic and Open AI."

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

But I will say that I'm sure Kurt Cobain would've hated that "Lithium" is on the playlist of a fake ski slope housed within the second-largest mall in America.

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I had a skiing lesson at an indoor slope for the first time in my life. I was terrified of falling (I didn't) and hated going fast. Having skis for feet feels so alien. But I also totally loved it and had a blast. Everyone else there was so supportive! Wild that both things can be true.

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Today I took steps to replace Microsoft Edge, Google for search, and Gmail. Google's decision to convert search results to all AI tomorrow is the dealbreaker. I can't be off Word because I'm an editor, so what I did instead was purchase Microsoft Office 2019 late last year. It's a start.

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

OK, now I'm big mad. NOBODY ASKED FOR AI. It has been released with no guardrails and no instruction manual. It's like a high chair with a fatal flaw where it can collapse and kill a baby. Sure, not every baby. But such a high chair would be recalled. And this can't?

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Sinclair DeLaubenfels @snickyfritz.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I had jury duty this week, criminal court, but only got to hear about 10 minutes of voir dire. It was surprisingly erudite! Gives me hope. Those around me this week took it seriously. The vibe was pleasant. The workers were courteous and funny. Judge was kind and apologetic. Coulda been worse.

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