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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st August 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

yes, instead they use Scott's and just keep typing forever

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Perplexity’s AI browser Comet can be prompt-injected by any website (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 22 hours ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji3nP9EHINo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250825-perplexitys-ai-web-browser-prompt-injected-by-any-website - podcast

AI winter is in the air! But we think the AI bubble keeps going until 2027 in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

oh absolutely. there's a lot of mathematicians who have discovered there's fucking buckets of money right now, and it's all gonna dry up. hope they're socking it away while they can.

Commonwealth Bank fires, un-fires call centre staff over AI in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

that's what we used to say about crypto

the quantum hype bandwagon is rolling out in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

good news is the economy will collapse anyway, Wall St is running a multipronged scam economy right now

the quantum hype bandwagon is rolling out in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it is not

the quantum hype bandwagon is rolling out in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

i heard capybaras are normally the chillest of all the animals, but fucking loathe AI

the quantum hype bandwagon is rolling out in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

absolutely fucking fake as shit, yes

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Commonwealth Bank fires, un-fires call centre staff over AI (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 day ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kpSHDx0KZA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250824-commonwealth-bank-fires-un-fires-call-centre-staff-over-ai - podcast

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the quantum hype bandwagon is rolling out (www.ft.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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the VCs are pushing the quantum hype again. this is an FT editorial

(archive.is isn't working for me, anyone wanna post an archive link)

note lack of citation of actual results, a ton of handwaving about big companies, repeated "could," and the earliest date postulated is 2033

many of the important requirements for a VC bubble party

the tech press has been loaded with this shit, just a fuckin flood of it, all this nonspecific and glossing over the lack of mere existing tech in the present day

note that this has nothing to do with actual quantum computing, this is purely how to set up the tech macguffin for a bubble party

pretty good for a thing that is real - but doesn't exist as a technology yet or any time soon

bsky: