Found something rare today: an actual sneer from Mike Masnick, made in response to Reuters confusing lying machines with human beings:

Big brain: this ai stuff isn’t going away, maybe I should invest in defense contractors that’ll outfit the US’s invasion of Taiwan…

Considering Recent Events™, anyone outfitting America’s gonna be making plenty off a war in Venezuela before the year ends.

A journalist attempts to ask the question “Why Do Americans Hate A.I.?”, and shows their inability to tell actually useful tech from lying machines:

Bonus points for gaslighting the public on billionaires’ behalf:

Got a sneer which caught my attention: Guest Gist: 2026, Our Already Rotting Future

There’s also skyview.social, which I personally use since I am not interested in signing up.

Good for them. Not quite abandoning the project and deleting it, but its a good move from them nonetheless.

Got one last sneer to share before the year ends, courtesy of a defence contractor:

Foz Meadows brings a lengthy and merciless sneer straight from the heart, aptly-titled “Against AI”

Alternate (likely harebrained) idea: sell the fediverse as a national security thing, and try to get a defence contract out of it

Reducing government/military reliance on tech corps would reduce the leverage they (and their CEOs) have over them, reducing the risk of, say, a repeat of that time Elon Musk fucked over Ukraine).

Hey, look, I found someone who believes things can have feelings:

Pike’s blow-up has made it to the red site, and its brought promptfondlers out the woodwork.

(Skyview proxy, for anyone without a Bluesky account)

Defaults are pretty good - didn’t need to do much to feel comfortable.

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I jumped ship to Librewolf a year and a half ago (after seeing Mozilla steal people’s data and sell it to advertisers), and I’m pretty fucking thankful for that. For anyone looking to leave Mozilla to rot, I highly recommend it.

Google’s lying machine lies about fiddler Ashley MacIsaac, leading to his concert being cancelled.

Main thing I knew Karl for is losing a defamation lawsuit to vexatious litigant par excellence Billy Mitchell, after he falsely blamed Billy for driving speedrun YouTuber Apollo Legend to kill himself, refused to retract his claims despite a complete lack of evidence, then misrepresented the lawsuit as being over Billy’s well-substantiated cheating allegations whilst raising money on GoFundMe.

Jobst’s past as a pick-up artist (plus some racist Discord posts from him) would resurface in the wake of his loss, which goes some way to explain why the anti-woke shit went “unnoticed”.

Starting this Stubsack off, here’s Baldur Bjarnason lamenting how tech as a community has gone down the shitter.

10x developers, 0.1x proletariat.

The monorail salespeople at Checkmarx have (allegedly) discovered a new exploit for code extruders.

The “attack”, titled “Lies in the Loop”, involves taking advantage of human-in-the-loop “”“safeguards”“” to create fake dialogue prompts, thus tricking vibe-coders into running malicious code.

In the case of loitering munitions (also known as kamikaze drones, or suicide drones), you’d be correct - by design, they’re intended to crash into their target before blowing them up. Some reportedly do have recovery options built-in, but that’s only to avoid wasting them if they go unused.

Time Extension’s decided to wash their hands of ModRetro after seeing the news. Good call on their part.