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AI can't set you free.

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Muad'dib@sopuli.xyz
4 days ago
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Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems (awful.systems)

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blakestacey@awful.systems
5 days ago

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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Veo fails week 4: the final faildown

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David Gerard@awful.systems
6 days ago
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Vibe Coding

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irelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
6 days ago
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AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower

AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
a week ago

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DK_en 3x07 - LLMs are the Air Guitar of intellectual work

LLMs are the Air Guitar of intellectual work (podcast) (spreaker.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
a week ago

this podcast guy talks like sephiroth but the title is perfect and the content is largely correct

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The idea guy will become the most important role in the coming aeon of AI (news.ycombinator.com)

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sue_me_please@awful.systems
a week ago

Alternatively:

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‘AI is here to stay’ — is it, though? What do you mean, ‘stay’?

‘AI is here to stay’ — is it, though? What do you mean, ‘stay’? (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
a week ago

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did Jeff Bezos' API Mandate alienate the world into abandoning take your daughter to work day?

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epigone@awful.systems
a week ago

how could daughters look their engineer-dads in the eyes, no matter the country they're in, the same before? this was our BeforeTimes (ignoring Bill Gates' antitrust). everyone knows this was a chokehold, and you did not all celebrate the "or you're fired" bit, nor did you only see it as "mere play". "americans" are not the only ones to blame. the paternalism ain't paternalizing. discuss.

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Cursor tries setting less money on fire — AI vibe coders outraged

Cursor tries setting less money on fire — AI vibe coders outraged (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
a week ago

podcast version video version

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Calling in the AI vibe-writing cleanup crew

Calling in the AI vibe-writing cleanup crew (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
a week ago

podcast version video version

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Publishers file competition complaints in UK and EU over Google’s AI Overviews

Publishers file competition complaints in UK and EU over Google’s AI Overviews (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
a week ago

podcast version video version

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Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025 (awful.systems)

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BlueMonday1984@awful.systems
a week ago

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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Venture capital is lending money against video cards

Venture capital is lending money against video cards (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
a week ago

podcast version video version

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The Force-Feeding of AI on an Unwilling Public (honest-broker.com)

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e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de
a week ago
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Google Veo 3 fails, week 3 — fail harder with a vengeance (video)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
a week ago
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Asked to think like a paedophile or act suicidal: Workers training Meta's AI in Ireland speak out

"Asked to think like a paedophile or act suicidal: Workers training Meta's AI in Ireland speak out" (thejournal.ie)

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maol@awful.systems
a week ago

God help us. These workers are employed by a subcontractor, Covalen.

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Only 3% of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it

Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
2 weeks ago

podcast version video version

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The rise of Whatever (eev.ee)

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e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de
2 weeks ago
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Microsoft lays off the staff who make the money to fund AI that doesn’t

Microsoft lays off the staff who make the money to fund AI that doesn’t (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
2 weeks ago

podcast version video version

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How to pass an AI coding benchmark: train on the questions

How to pass an AI coding benchmark: train on the questions (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
2 weeks ago

podcast version video version

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$219 Springer Nature AI textbook was written with a chatbot

$219 Springer Nature AI textbook was written with a chatbot (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
2 weeks ago

podcast version video version

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‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work

‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
2 weeks ago

video version

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Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025 (awful.systems)

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BlueMonday1984@awful.systems
2 weeks ago

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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Google Veo 3 fails, week 2: fail harder — Shokunin Studio spins the gacha

Google Veo 3 fails, week 2: fail harder — Shokunin Studio spins the gacha (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
2 weeks ago

don't just read the text - watch the video, it's the point of the exercise. And I worked all weekend on it. Thank you.

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People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" (futurism.com)

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irelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
2 weeks ago
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Rolling the ladder up behind us

Rolling the ladder up behind us - Xe Iaso on the LLM bubble (xeiaso.net)

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BlueMonday1984@awful.systems
2 weeks ago
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Pitchbook: AI venture capital resorts to mergers

Pitchbook: AI venture capital resorts to mergers (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
3 weeks ago

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"Regulations are NOT the solution to low-quality food. Bitcoin is."

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irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.ee
3 weeks ago
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Coding in a material world | deadSimpleTech (deadsimpletech.com)

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nfultz@awful.systems
3 weeks ago

Another response to Ptacek.

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Meta beats Kadrey, AI training was fair use — what this means

Meta beats Kadrey, AI training was fair use — what this means (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
3 weeks ago

podcast version video version

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Verizon’s new AI chatbot — customer disservice

Verizon’s new AI chatbot — customer disservice (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
3 weeks ago

video version

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Anthropic AI wins broad fair use for training! — but not on pirated books

Anthropic AI wins broad fair use for training! — but not on pirated books (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
3 weeks ago

video version

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Google's nihilists destroying open web and its own business chasing AI (nakedcapitalism.com)

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nfultz@awful.systems
3 weeks ago
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Iyo vs. Io — OpenAI and Jony Ive get sued

Iyo vs. Io — OpenAI and Jony Ive get sued (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
3 weeks ago

video version

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Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025 (awful.systems)

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BlueMonday1984@awful.systems
3 weeks ago

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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Nvidia gets into money-burning AI startups

Nvidia gets into money-burning AI startups (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
3 weeks ago

video version

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‎Gemini - River Crossing Puzzle Solution Explained

AI solves every river crossing puzzle, we can go home now [content warning: botshit] (gemini.google.com)

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diz@awful.systems
3 weeks ago

I think this summarizes in one conversation what is so fucking irritating about this thing: I am supposed to believe that it wrote that code.

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We test Google Veo: impressive demo, unusable results

We test Google Veo: impressive demo, unusable results (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
3 weeks ago

this took me all day, but it's a banger if i do say so myself - watch the video first

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AI venture capital resorts to feeding the secondary market

AI venture capital resorts to feeding the secondary market (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
4 weeks ago

podcast version video version

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Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage

Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
4 weeks ago

video version

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Salesforce: AI agents don’t work — but we’re charging 6% more for AI anyway

Salesforce: AI agents don’t work — but we’re charging 6% more for AI anyway (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
a month ago

video version

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Toward A Theory Of Kevin Roose | Defector

Toward A Theory Of Kevin Roose | Defector (defector.com)

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nfultz@awful.systems
a month ago
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Google's Gemini 2.5 pro is out of beta.

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diz@awful.systems
a month ago

I love to show that kind of shit to AI boosters. (In case you're wondering, the numbers were chosen randomly and the answer is incorrect).

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OpenAI needs its $40 billion funding deal — so it’s threatening Microsoft!

OpenAI needs its $40 billion funding deal — so it’s threatening Microsoft! (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
a month ago

podcast version video version

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Bad brainwaves: ChatGPT makes you stupid

Bad brainwaves: ChatGPT makes you stupid (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
a month ago

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~~Creator of roblox~~ Early Engineer at roblox, and roblox game maker thinks he should be able to run the world since he worked at roblox.

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irelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
a month ago
A tweet by Jon sheletsky (@shedletsky) saying "Silicon Valley built the modern world. Why shouldn't we run it?. The tweet has 658k views, 70 bookmarks, 70 likes, 460 retweets/quotes and 694 replies. It was posted at 6:52 PM, 2/3/25.

Its real somehow: https://xcancel.com/Shedletsky/status/1886563357249212846#m

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd June 2025 (awful.systems)

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BlueMonday1984@awful.systems
a month ago

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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EchoLeak — send an email, extract secret info from Microsoft Office 365 Copilot AI

EchoLeak — send an email, extract secret info from Microsoft Office 365 Copilot AI (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
a month ago

video version

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Chatgpt, tell me if I'm attracted to this woman in a video game or not, quickly!

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irelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
a month ago
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Meta AI posts your personal chats to a public feed

Meta AI posts your personal chats to a public feed (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
a month ago

video version

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Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash (404media.co)

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irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.ee
a month ago

“The Wikimedia Foundation has been exploring ways to make Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects more accessible to readers globally,” a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson told me in an email. “This two-week, opt-in experiment was focused on making complex Wikipedia articles more accessible to people with different reading levels. For the purposes of this experiment, the summaries were generated by an open-weight Aya model by Cohere. It was meant to gauge interest in a feature like this, and to help us think about the right kind of community moderation systems to ensure humans remain central to deciding what information is shown on Wikipedia.”

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Meta buys into Scale AI in the quest for fresh data (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
a month ago

video version

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Disney sues AI image generator Midjourney

Disney sues AI image generator Midjourney (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
a month ago

video version

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ChatGPT goes down — and fake jobs grind to a halt worldwide

ChatGPT goes down — and fake jobs grind to a halt worldwide (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
a month ago

video version with eye searing hot pink

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After AI setbacks, Meta bets billions on undefined “superintelligence”

Meta announces money pit; Alexrandr tapped to lead (arstechnica.com)

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swlabr@awful.systems
a month ago

https://archive.is/GWz0e

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Doctors against data abuse — BMA and RCGP protest NHS AI data handover

Doctors against data abuse — BMA and RCGP protest NHS AI data handover (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
a month ago

video version

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Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2025! Don’t expect much — it still doesn’t work

Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2025! Don’t expect much — it still doesn’t work (pivot-to-ai.com)

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David Gerard@awful.systems
a month ago

video version

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th June 2025 (awful.systems)

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BlueMonday1984@awful.systems
a month ago

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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"Deep in Mordor where the shadows lie: Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google"

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Koantig@mamot.fr
a month ago

"Deep in Mordor where the shadows lie: Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google"

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