BlueMonday1984
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BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th July 2026English
7·3 days agoThe main thing I knew him for is his failed attempt to hijack the Hugo Awards back in 2015.
(There’s a r/HobbyDrama post about the whole debacle, which I recommend checking out)
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th July 2026English
12·3 days ago“Okay, so it starts with a doomsday cult which formed around GameStop…”
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th July 2026English
2·4 days agoYour qualifications predate the LLM rot by fucking ages, and your position against them is crystal clear. Given both of those, bypassing that filter should be easy enough.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th July 2026English
10·4 days agonew hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.
So not only are STEM graduates (mainly compsci grads) struggling to get jobs as it is, employers are explicitly passing them over for “”“useless”“” humanities degrees instead. I’m not sure whether to laugh at the irony of the situation, or crash out at the fact my own compsci/cybersec degrees may have become a liability.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•SoftBank’s untitled AI goose game — eggs do not lay eggsEnglish
7·13 days agoWednesday’s presentation for 2026 mostly hammers on Son’s love of AI. Son said: [Reuters]
I think it’s blasphemy against AI if you say it’s a bubble.
[THIS IS WHAT AI CULTISTS ACTUALLY BELIEVE]
Also, “The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs” is a cautionary fable about greed being bad.
Knowing that would require techbros to actually read, so I’m not shocked
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026English
5·21 days agoHonestly, a black comedy about the rats and/or the AI bubble would probably make bank. The years of sneers people have cooked up on them would provide plenty of material for the writers, and there’d be plenty of catharsis in seeing those responsible get ripped into for 2-ish hours straight.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Unreal Engine 6 goes AI — and wants to bring back NFTsEnglish
221·22 days agoWe got a major engine slopifying itself before GTA VI
I’m pretty sure 2027 will be hilarious for Unreal Engine with AI. And expensive.
With how much market share Unreal also has, it’ll probably cause some major shockwaves in the video game industry as well.
In the meantime, start learning the Godot engine. Which doesn’t accept AI code. [Godot]
Godot also released a new version yesterday, so there’s another reason to check it out
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026English
61·23 days agoI checked Wikipedia’s history, its been fucked since last year
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th June 2026English
11·27 days agoJ-R Conlin has left Mozilla after 15 years, and has some choice words for the company.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th June 2026English
5·28 days agoThey’ve gone bankrupt once in '24 , I’d bet good money they’re gonna go bankrupt again.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th June 2026English
5·1 month agoI approve of this
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th June 2026English
7·1 month agoRemember Crazy Taxi? Its back, infected with AI slop!
(I saw the massive wave of hype that game’s announcement unleashed, and its almost impressive how Sega wiped out every last bit of it with AI.)
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th June 2026English
10·1 month agoFound a fun sneer at AI anthromoporphisation in the arXiv: If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th June 2026English
4·1 month agoOops! All Claude
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Log into any Instagram by asking Meta’s AI nicelyEnglish
12·1 month agoBefore, the human was the weakest part of any cybersecurity system. AI changes this.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th June 2026English
7·1 month agoMartin Scorsese’s jumped on the AI train, seemingly believing the plagiarism machine can help with storyboarding.
Obligatory meme (yoinked off Discord’s GIF search, AI extruded itself, ironically enough):

BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th June 2026English
7·1 month agoBefore AI, the user was the weakest part of any cybersecurity system. Now, that has completely changed.



Another “AI fucked compsci grads” post has hit my eyeballs - this time, it got recommended to me by LinkedIn’s algorithm) (because I’m still on that site for some fucking reason):
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study philosophy, not computer science
data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows that philosophy students have a lower unemployment rate (about 5.1%) than computer science students (7%)
why?
unique human judgment, logic, and ethical reasoning are becoming premium assets, and better tech means companies increasingly DON’T need to ask “can we build this?”, and increasingly DO need to ask “should we build this, and what are the consequences?”
If there has ever been a time to build those soft, truly human, skills, it is now.
p.s. what do you think is the BEST skill to have right now - my thoughts are in the comments
This one’s attributing the decline to “unique human judgment, logic, and ethical reasoning becoming premium assets”, and her graph comes from The Economist’s Instagram page AFAICT. That one of the Economist’s sources is Anthropic is giving me some hope this is bullshit, but its not much.