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[redacted] enthusiast, robot combat enjoyer, distressingly Appalachian, father of ninjas

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026

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  • Breaking News: Mr. Ball Gets Testy

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026

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  • They're sooo good

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026

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  • If I may add to these excellent suggestions:

    The Night Circus and The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

    Go in cold, do not spoil! Enjoy with a warm beverage. The readers are phenomenal.

    The Laundry Files series by local hero Charles Stross, in which it turns out that P=NP, the Great Old Ones can be summoned in polynomial time, Cthulhu ate America via regulatory capture, and the world is suffering from the magical equivalent of global warming. Our protagonists have to mitgate all of this on a British civil servant's salary.

    The Quantum Thief trilogy by Hannu Rajaniemi, in which Our Regular Subjects have become a problem.

  • “At Manifest, though, there is a certain existential loneliness, a specifically sexual strain of angst, that did not lift once in the three days of the conference.”

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  • Re: body counts:

    They just can't stop treating people as things and words as weapons, can they?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026

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  • Pairs nicely with the latest long-form Pivot!

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026

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  • patiently cross-stitching a piece that reads "Bless This Text"

  • “At Manifest, though, there is a certain existential loneliness, a specifically sexual strain of angst, that did not lift once in the three days of the conference.”

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  • That is not a place of honor, and it feels like abuse to send an unshielded 20 year old into it.

    Also, Aella rhymes with paella.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026

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  • The Linus news has been a real downer, but you've been a solid antidote!

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026

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  • self your masto feed has been magnificent and uplifting

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026

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  • Hol up! It's kind of unfair to blame some poor soul with a PhD in Beowulf for failing the beat the fash out of a determined dickhead over the course of a single quarter. (half serious)

    I mean, did Samo even complete a degree?

  • Terrorists are using AI — and the chatbot is killing them

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  • Terrorists are using AI — and the chatbot is killing them

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  • To be fair, it put several of them close to god first

    Note: I don't believe any of this happened

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th July 2026

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  • I think this accidentally reinvented mormonism lol

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th July 2026

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  • But redistribution is unrealistic?!

  • Meta’s new AI creep glasses will record 24-7 without a light

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  • I imagine Andrew brought them on day 1

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th July 2026

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  • Top-tier resume material

  • The Oblivious Inside Story Of Leverage Research 1.0

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  • I'd like to echo YNIH, this has been a wild ride. Thanks for history and the analysis! Reinventing the wheel but worse (i.e. rizzless Scientology) is certainly a trope with our subjects, isnt it?

    On a side note, as someone who has enjoyed the occasional temporal lobe seizure, I wonder if Lydia ought to have a quiet word with a neurologist. The déjà vu might be a portent, but not the one you feel that it is.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th July 2026

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  • At times you need to ask yourself, does the devil need more advocates? And how much does he even pay?

    Top-rated review

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026

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  • That time we sneered into the abyss and it leered back at us

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    Call it Furby Psychosis

    radiolab.org /podcast/137407-talking-to-machines
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    @jonny@neuromatch.social explains why rsync is dying

    neuromatch.social /@jonny/116667218484408879
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    US Used Chatbot for War Planning

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    Kicking Robots, by James Vincent

    harpers.org /archive/2025/12/kicking-robots-james-vincent-humanoids/
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    ‘Atoms for Algorithms:’ The Trump Administration’s Top Nuclear Scientists Think AI Can Replace Humans in Power Plants

    www.404media.co /nuclear-rian-bahran-iaea-international-symposium-on-artificial-intelligence/
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    Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books

    arstechnica.com /ai/2025/05/chicago-sun-times-prints-summer-reading-list-full-of-fake-books/
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    Greenland 'Freedom City'? Rich donors push Trump for a tech hub up north

    www.reuters.com /world/europe/greenland-freedom-city-rich-donors-push-trump-tech-hub-up-north-2025-04-10/
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    The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence

    firstmonday.org /ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636
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    Nashville Developer Makes RealPage, but for Renters

    web.archive.org /web/20241113170757/https://old.reddit.com/r/nashville/comments/1gq2zml/rent_prices_drop_6_in_nashville/lwuw34b/
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    Salesforce invites a horse into the hospital

    sfstandard.com /2024/09/19/comedian-john-mulaney-brutally-roasts-sf-techies-and-ai-at-dreamforce/
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    Oklahoma, Alabama Now Have AI-Powered Vending Machines That Sell Bullets

    gizmodo.com /oklahoma-alabama-now-have-ai-powered-vending-machines-that-sell-bullets-2000377093
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    A Story in Two Pictures, Or Solidity? Why Worry!

    wandering.shop /@memes@wetdry.world/112569237694967381