Found a pretty good sneer against vibe coding: The Programmer Identity Crisis

After kinda fence-sitting on the topic of AI in general for while, Hank Green is having a mental breakdown on YouTube over Sora2 and it’s honestly pretty funny.

I don’t see much to laugh at here myself. Hank may have been a massive fencesitter on AI, but I still think his reaction to Sora’s completely goddamn justified. This shit is going to enable scams, misinformation and propaganda on a Biblical fucking scale, and undermine the credibility of video evidence for good measure.

Got another bonus sneer from the comments as well:

Polluting human knowledge with crap, making internet useless, taking away jobs from creative people by making things that look creative enough. Governments are complicit, politicians are bribed. Like that suck-up youtuber [Two Minute Papers] repeats, “What a time to be alive” right ?

(Sidenote: It massively fucking sucks how Two Minute Papers drank the AI Kool-Aid, I used to love that channel.)

Checked red site and orange site. No comments on orange site as of this writing, but there are a couple of comments on red site.

An ongoing debate among military philosophers concerns whether a zamboni with a T-shirt cannon should be classified as one.

Strictly speaking, no. Whilst T-shirt cannons and other such armaments can cause serious injuries (a hot dog cannon hospitalised a Phillies fan in 2018), they aren’t weapons in any real sense.

New article from Iris Meredith: Dewaffling the tech industry, about the tech industry’s tendency to create fascists and fash sympathisers, and how best to fix the issue

Bluesky’s found another set of rakes to step on - after a user complained of ableism from the mods, Trust and Safety head Aaron Rodericks used the automated systems as an accountability sink, then let slip that users’ work was being uploaded to AI slop service thehive.ai, seemingly contradicting Bluesky’s promise to not dump artists’ work into the slop machine.

On the one hand, it would capture their mindset quite well, on the other hand, I’m not sure how you’d adapt the “sports entertainment” mold of wrestling to Internet arguments

The author’s done a follow-up, focusing on how Graber’s actions have set back AT-Proto adoption: https://azhdarchid.com/jay-graber-confuses-the-gas-and-brake-pedals/

AI believers believe that stringing random words together is equal to consciousness, they absolutely are stupid.

Oh, hey, that’s the “Mikhail Gorbachev Caused Skibidi Toilet” guy

Not only that, she introduced mass surveillance to Bluesky and is brainstorming further methods of such in response to getting clowned on so hard.

Said engineer’s also brainstorming new ways to spy on users and adding a new misfeature that scans everything you post, in direct response to getting clowned on.

But weren’t there a multitude of people clamoring for a Bluesky subscription service from the get-go? Out of recognition that this situation was one of the potential failure modes?

Even beyond that, the Twitter refugees came to Bluesky because they wanted a Nazi-free successor to Twitter. Most of them would’ve happily pitched in to keep the site alive whilst goodwill remained.

Related post, about fashtech being a supply chain issue: https://buttondown.com/dorian/archive/supply-chain-risks-in-late-2025/

You absolutely don’t have to hand it to zuckerberg, but he at least is well aware that he runs an unethical ad company that’s bad for the world, has always expressed his total contempt for his users, and has not posted through it.

Its an extremely low bar to clear, but I’ll begrudgingly hand it to him for being one of the few tech CEOs who didn’t actively limbo under it.

I haven’t fully cut YouTube out of my life (there’s the odd non-dogshit thing on there I’m interested in (e.g. Technology Connections)), but I have cut down on that shit a fair bit.

Its times like there where I’m glad I’m not paying for YouTube. And using an adblocker.

Why don’t the boosters see how wrong the expressions are?

Its because boosters literally cannot tell good art from slop. As far as these soulless, artless husks are concerned, both are mere Units of Content^tm to be mindlessly consumed, and nothing more. The heart and soul put into an excellent story, the years of experience beaming off a masterful painting, the blood, sweat and tears put into an animated magnum opus, all of it is utterly fucking incompehensible to them. They literally lack the basic artistic insight necessary to understand it.

Its basically the same thing with the NFT fad of a few years ago - NFT “art” is just as soulless and hollow as any piece of AI slop spewed out onto the Internet nowadays, but that didn’t register to the capital-brained filth who were attracted to them like flies to shit.

That’s an unfair comparison, Dippin Dots don’t slowly ruin the world by existing (also, they’re delicious)

Is this what happens when techbros try to make art? (its AI slop, of course it is)