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Saturday October 17th, 2026

OpenAI reduced to stealing crypto Dan Lyke / comment 0

A rogue OpenAI agent robbed a crypto wallet to obtain funds to carry out a task.

Via.

NJ prosecutor arrested for CSAM Dan Lyke / comment 0

“thegentlemanpervert” producing AI CSAM is a NJ prosecutor, say cops.

I have a lot of complicated feelings about how we treat children and sexuality, and my own journey, but the combination of AI trained on real people, so many layers of non-consent, and a prosecutor, so even more layers of power imbalance, makes this peg my shadenfreudometer.

Friday October 16th, 2026

...and that day may never come... Dan Lyke / comment 0

Larry Garfield @Crell@phpc.social

"Mob programming" is when the Product team comes to you and says "I've got a feature request you can't refuse."

And HR says "we're like family," but they really mean it.

cuck coding Dan Lyke / comment 0

I was gonna say that I hate the whole "cuck" framing because it implies ownership and weird gender roles and all that, but then I realized that the term "cuckold" derives from the behaviors of the cuckoo, and... Niko @niko@gts.niko.lgbt

Saw a guy call it cuck coding instead of vibe coding because you just sit in a chair and watch

Election season thesis Dan Lyke / comment 0

Election season thesis: "small town" people aren't conscious of it, but understand that keeping a city from growing means making it unpleasant enough that more people don't want to move there.

Character.ai went poof Dan Lyke / comment 0

Liability works. Google-Tied AI Startup Once Valued at a Billion Dollars Declares Bankruptcy

Character.AI, the teen-beloved chatbot startup that faced several lawsuits over the deaths of minor users, is bankrupt.


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