what’s good about this article to be worth posting?

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mm5ebihpjvtrdunomulbls5m/post/3mrx2xflgp22d

ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity!
OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission.
ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

Apparently it was a fuckup when they rewrote the codebase so they could move it from GPL to source-available.

This is currently an utter, utter disaster scenario over in bitcoinland, the coiners are screaming. lol.

Kai Lentit: Interview with a Longevity Maxxer in 2026

it was “fob off” until I discovered merkins don’t understand that one

AI Overview special cased it, booooo

and covid vaccine denier

Debian has a new general resolution to ban LLM use in Debian packaging: https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002

my god, you found the good HN comment

RIP Network School https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/johor-authorities-revoke-network-schools-business-licences

yeah, they mostly thought the lesswrongers were annoying weirdoes when they perceived them at all, e.g. rationalwiki

yeah, subculturally they’re unrelated strains

like, just factually in terms of history, they’re unrelated strains. LW rats come in a straight line from the Extropians in the '90s. The previous-millennium skeptics have crossover with those guys, but they’re not the same as a group at all.

how did it not click that lcamtuf was an ex-rat

i need to ping ludicity for a pod

Patreon essayed upon going slop, and the creators roundly rejected it

Olivia Squizzle: Becoming a certified hater

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOQcpF9h9Z0

a heartwarming start to your day

Balaji’s free floating independent network state turns out to be subject to national laws of Malaysia https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3360679/malaysias-anwar-warns-any-israelis-johor-tech-commune-be-deported-immediately

Pause AI is exceedingly well funded by rich EAs and is fully EA in its internal chats. The Nazi Bar against AI.

lolol

looks like a confluence of dumb shit that may or may not result in anything that means anything or does anything

there was a big blockchain push from 2019 on, basically in response to Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency plan. This directly brought us the e-CNY central bank digital currency. They tried to do this with a blockchain, but quickly realised you weren’t going to scale a blockchain to fucking China. So far e-CNY is just another phone money like Alipay or Tenpay. I suppose it’s a public good to have cash be under public control and not just private control, but it doesn’t really have a compelling use case in its own right.