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Saturday March 7th, 2026
Weve freed Cookies Bustle
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Video Game History Foundation:
Weve freed Cookies Bustle from copyright hell. Heres how.
Weve stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work.
Heres everything we learnedand how we beat them.
One thing the DMCA really really needs is some consequence for false takedown requests.
corporate bullshit receptivity
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Cornell Chronicle: Workers who love synergizing paradigms might
be bad at their jobs
This creates a concerning cycle, Littrell said. Employees who are more
likely to fall for corporate bullshit may help elevate the types of dysfunctional leaders
who are more likely to use it, creating a sort of negative feedback loop. Rather than a
rising tide lifting all boats, a higher level of corporate BS in an organization acts
more like a clogged toilet of inefficiency.
Personality and Individual Differences: The Corporate Bullshit
Receptivity Scale: Development, validation, and associations with workplace
outcomes
Results show that corporate bullshit receptivity is distinct from a general
affinity for corporate speech, negatively associated with measures of analytic thinking,
and positively related with other bullshit-related constructs in theoretically-consistent
ways. Importantly, corporate bullshit receptivity is positively associated with several
workplace perception variables and is a robust negative predictor of work-related
decision-making.
DOI.
Via Ben Werdmuller: Workers who love synergizing paradigms might be bad at their
jobs.
forever war
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The Internet's Gregory Mills
@AhTheGreg@mstdn.ca
@babe Seen elsewhere on the internet: "the hardest part of a limited two week
military engagement is the first six years"
Praise the AI when it works, dis the engineers when it fails
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Entirely Foreseeable AWS Outages
22.02.2026, on how Amazon is using engineer judgment as the crumple zone for having
outages that stem from relying on AI tooling.
Via
Friday March 6th, 2026
MeFi thread on Adam Neely's Suno AI
Dan Lyke /
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The MeFi thread on Adam Neely's "Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future" video, and today's work implementing an MCP server in work project, are really reinforcing how the culture of AI tools lies in devaluing skill building.
https://www.metafilter.com/212...sicians-that-have-influenced-you
406 error message
Dan Lyke /
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Could swear I linked to this, but I can't find it, so... https://406.fail
Network Working Group BOFH Task Force
Request for Comments: 406i February 2026
Category: Imaginary Standard
Obsoletes: Basic Patience
The Rejection of Artificially Generated Slop (RAGS)
[ERROR 406i: AI_SLOP_DETECTED]
Anyone know if the MacBook Neo runs
Dan Lyke /
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Anyone know if the MacBook Neo runs MacOS apps, or if it's a glorified iPad? A friend is excited about it, but only if it'll run https://squaredesk.net , and I don't have the tuits to try to make an iOS port right now...
Sam Altman eyes
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Killa Koala
@dshan@mastodon.au
SAM ALTMAN EYES
(With apologies to Jackie De Shannon, Donna Weiss and Kim Carnes)
a riff on Bette Davis Eyes,
and I'm gonna throw a "Betty" in here so that I can more easily find it later.
Ahhh
Dan Lyke /
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Ahhh, Facebook Marketplace listings: "Brass ... is the gold standard..."
OMG
Dan Lyke /
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OMG. I'm digging through various documentation for configuring AI "Agents", and Microsoft Copilot actually uses configured trigger phrases, apparently with string matching, to figure out when to trigger a particular configuration. Like "will it rain", "today's forecast", "get weather", etc.
Google fights climate change
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Google pledges roughly three hours of
its annual profit to fight climate change
Alphabet, Googles parent company, reported $132 billion in net income in 2025. Google's
five-year, $50 million pledge works out to about three hours of that. The company is also
set to spend billions building massive
data centers for AI that it claims are more resource
conscious than others. So far, Googles AI infrastructure buildout drove an 11 percent rise in the company's
total emissions last year.
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