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The Ethereum Foundation is officially a corporate suicide cult Now with Nazis! by Amy Castor and David Gerard CONTENT WARNING: this edition discusses corporate inducements to suicide, Nazis, and cryptocurrency https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJSiilcSjpY&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261109-the-ethereum-foundation-is-officially-a-corporate-suicide-cult - podcast time: 11 min 26 sec https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2026/11/10/the-ethereum-foun...

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yes that's securities fraud too https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261109620054/en/NVDA-Investors-Have-Opportunity-to-Join-NVIDIA-Corporation-Fraud-Investigation-with-SBS-Law (this will probably go nowhere, but lol)

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the Software Freedom Conservancy is fully and utterly an AI slop promotion org now https://web.archive.org/web/20261106174553/https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/nov/05/foss-in-the-age-of-llm-gen-ai-assisted-reverse-eng/

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today's Pivot i think will be LibreOffice trumpeting NO AI then making excuses when they were caught with a codebase full of slop what other examples are there of projects or companies doing anti-AI messaging and then getting caught slopping? Tuta for one, others? (the LO thing is a whole coupla weeks ago, but it's important)

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> John Ternus is the new CEO — a 25 year veteran of the company with a track record of pushing harebrained hardware schemes like the much reviled Touch Bar and lawsuit inducing butterfly keyboard. ah, so apple really is entering the Fun Zone https://www.404media.co/apple-is-entering-its-slop-era/

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Data centre developers shocked that nobody likes them lol eat shit https://www.ft.com/content/32fd4450-5880-437d-9bd9-df13289ada24 archive https://archive.ph/cZsU6

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Elon Musk admits Grok Bot costs too much to serve saying the costs part out loud written by Amy Castor and David Gerard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJb0JsK3ufM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261104-elon-musk-admits-grok-bot-costs-too-much-to-serve - podcast time: 6 min 25 sec

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it's now lake wokeist and the gulf of antifa

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Anthropic introduces the feature every enterprise wants most: spyware for bosses https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-claude-surveillance-ai-chats-reports (actual original reporting from Futurism)

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youtube comment: > I just cought my little son trying to bypass Gemini. With a firm and angry voice, I yelled, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" His little body shook and he said, "Dad, I was just trying to do some independent research to make sure that the AI was correct." This made me even more furious. "Independent research in the age of AI!? Are you serious!? You will be the end of our social standing with the tech bros! Mom and I work hard to depend on technology! And you...

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SuSE Linux goes hard slop actual reason for layoffs: private equity owners https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/11/02/suse-to-cut-one-in-ten-employees-because-of-ai/5306950

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anthropic just filed a slightly amended s-1 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2130357/000162828026068676/anthropicpbc-sx1ax1.htm still not final, has invisible moneys in it some q3 numbers tho lol i would not think about this at all really wonder if there's new risks tho

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the claude watermarks don't even work that well, but they are 100% worth it in pissbaby piss https://bsky.app/profile/thelincoln.bsky.social/post/3mzba4cdtuc2z

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from @prahou@merveilles.town evergreen panels

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i got blocked on bsky once for saying i liked Metal Machine Music and Stock Aitken Waterman which, not unfair

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@NewtonMark@eigenmagic.net i've been getting regaled with all the recent vibeprovements in current MacOS/iOS

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claude, show me the oppiest op that ever opped https://occupysaas.com/ absent from the FAQ: who the fuck this is (it's one guy who wrote everything with Claude including the website)

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lolll you know how the new line is "but the bobot is super good at refactoring actually" WELL IT FUCKING TURNS OUT, https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.40269

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if this eventuates, it will either be great or a complete shitshow https://deadline.com/2026/01/blakes-7-reboot-peter-hoar-matthew-bouch-multitude-productions-1236682580/

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when the only remnant of AI is a mountain of tech debt, will they half-ass fixing it? not if they can quarter-ass it

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this fucker can't help but make everyone love him https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/openai-ceo-says-its-quite-terrible-for-your-pc-to-have-ram-sam-altman-says-data-centers-offer-better-utilization

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Proton Mail goes full AI slop, Tuta starts going slop Your meal is 99% not sewage! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP8Q-jlN4eU&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261030-proton-mail-goes-full-ai-slop-tuta-starts-going-slop - podcast time: 11 min 50 sec https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/30/proton-mail-goes-full-ai-slop-tuta-starts-going-slop/ - blog post

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AHAHAHA the Anthropic share offering is likely to get a Junk rating, i.e. not investment grade wonder how that affects index listing https://www.ft.com/content/59383c7f-8d82-493f-bf01-d2e862a1018f (no archive yet sorry)

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Hire Human Artists https://HireHumanArtists.com seems a nice idea. Directory of non-slop artists with portfolio links.

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lol ahahahaa of course that 13,000 line PHP diff to fix last week's vuln was slop https://mastodon.social/@ne_/117518126502340764

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remembering that time the libreoffice official blog suggested how well LibreOffice would go with blockchain https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2022/11/15/libreoffice-and-blockchain-what-cool-things-are-possible/ (i don't know, but i suspect it's the same guy)

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PHP generate their fucking *tests* with a chatbot that's how you know the software will be quality with a q

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the correct version of libreoffice to use now is an old one it's remarkably stable software and the ODF format is fine too dunno when the slop started showing up. but for now run 25.08 I expect, that was the last version before TDF went really fuckin weird

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