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Does your university use ChatGPT Edu? Please send me a DM if you do. I have identified a potential data breach affecting students' data that has not yet been fixed and I'm trying to compile further examples from other universities.

Reposts appreciated!
February 12, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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Amazon's latest data center construction outside Canton is one of a fleet of data centers announced statewide. Additional data centers are planned for Lauderdale & Rankin counties, & a third Amazon facility is planned for Vicksburg. Elon Musk's xAI is also building a data center in DeSoto County.
Amazon’s Canton AI Data Center Brings Dust, Noise and Pollution Fears for Neighbors
Canton residents say that a new Amazon data center is bringing unwanted dust and noise, raising concerns about pollution and falling property values.
buff.ly
February 15, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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i literally do not understand ai clowns. under the latest arse technica fuckup ("oops we used ai and it made up direct quotes!") someone pipes in with how they've been using gemini, and how often it is completely wrong

why do you keep using it, then!? why are you like this!
February 15, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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> Tech people, by contrast, are observably swayed extremely easily by almost any messaging that's presented to them.

This is a near-universal truth of the tech industry. Most tech people are worryingly malleable by authority in my experience and the theory in the quoted post would explain a lot
February 15, 2026 at 10:12 AM
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I had a client a couple years ago who was like “I’ll just use ChatGPT to write the grant report!” and I was forced to explain, through clenched teeth, that a grant report literally means telling the funder what you did with their grant, information ChatGPT did not in fact have

she was like “…. oh”
February 15, 2026 at 8:24 AM
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note: Nadella did not say 30% of MS code is vibed, he said "maybe 20 to 30 percent of the code that is inside of our repos today in some of our projects are probably all written by software" which is a statement so hedged to not be making a claim. His cheerleaders did the rest.
February 15, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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pick up the ash and berries
February 6, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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the more you learn about the antebellum south the more you transform into this

every plantation owner should have been put to death
February 15, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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Animators, i want to remind you that like 10 or 15 years ago there was a wage-fixing conspiracy involving 3 major studios, and they were found guilty in court and had to pay affected employees, but our rates never recovered.

We have to make them pay all of us more than the minimum, when it pops.
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 15, 2026 at 2:45 AM
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I contracted as a paid media strategist at agencies for many years, basically auditing efficiencies for PPC clients. Throughout 24-25, they axed me because various AI tools made my job “unnecessary”. Seeing this contextualizes the “how’ve you been” text I got from a former colleague last week lol
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 15, 2026 at 3:02 AM
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This is so spot on
February 14, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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"I then came across the most helpful piece of the puzzle from a veteran cameraman, in a forum post I can no longer find" is the kind of sentence that hooks my attention. the lost, forgotten lore of a bygone age.
This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous.

Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...
February 14, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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Someone in the replies rightly told him that email is his most important professional possession right now (hopefully he got it in writing)
February 15, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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lol you truncated:

"The worst part I raised concerns about needing validation in November and got told I was slowing down innovation."
February 15, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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Being hated & blocked by people who worship & simp over AI is actually something I really love.

I feel like saying PLEASE, BLOCK ME. Despise me for appreciating & supporting REAL human artists. REAL human creative intellect. HATE ME for wanting the thieves that feed AI to rot behind bars.
February 14, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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If I had to bet on the main thing that has radicalized people against "ai," and I am talking about the way that branding is CURRENTLY BEING USED, not whatever specialized ML utility you may have found for it, it would be in apps and tech they already use being made worse and/or inoperable by it
February 14, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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How it feels knowing that people are taking serious life advice from a toaster that can't even count
February 14, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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Every post like this attracts more dipshit tech company middle managers for me to block. They just cant help themselves from saying that whatever LLM they use is Good Actually as if they don't all do this by their nature
February 14, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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A bunch of us nay-sayers are gonna feel silly when the AI singularity, Iran's nuclear program, full self driving, and the Republican health plan all drop in the same week.
February 14, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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every time some earnest fellow who is fully equipped to know better proclaims "ah, but *tech* will definitely fall to AI" forward them this skeet and also a "FELL FOR IT AGAIN" badge
I work in procurement and our vendors have been rolling out AI systems and... it has been a disaster. The AI gets everything wrong and I have to navigate a labyrinthian telephone menu to get to a human to fix it.

This has big "We'll colonize the moon in 10 years!" Musk energy.
February 14, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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I remember when we were 12-18 months out from AI white collar job automation, 12-18 months ago.
February 14, 2026 at 11:21 AM
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February 14, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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I remember reading once that everyone thinks AI will replace jobs in someone else’s field, not their own, because any level of expertise immediately puts the lie to AI “capability.”
that AI will definitely take over programming is mainstream knowledge even though it's *not true*.

so we have multiple non-techies who are keenly good in their own fields talking like this hilariously false claim is true.

they fell for the brochure. but what's the path to this factoid falling?
February 14, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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"The new AI is too good. Artists are cooked", they tell me, but I keep drawing
3 months later
"The new AI is too good. Artists are cooked", they tell me, but I keep drawing
5 months later
"The new AI is too good. Artists are cooked", they tell me, but I keep drawing
1 year late-
February 11, 2026 at 3:33 AM
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Every time an AI scumbag blocks me, I grow stronger. Your grift means nothing to me and I am impervious to your "inevitable" bullshit. I know you are liars, and every time you breathlessly talk about how you can't tell if your LLM is alive or not, I have less reason to respect or trust you.
February 14, 2026 at 12:25 AM