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  Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th September 2026 Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid — welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret. Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no. If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — t...

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  > LLM capabilities have not improved at all in terms of producing meaningful science in the last year or two, but their ability to produce *meaningless* science that *looks* meaningful has wildly improved. I am concerned that this will present serious problems for the future of science as it becomes impossible to find the actual science in a sea of AI slop being submitted to journals. https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/1s19uru/gpt_vs_phd_part_ii_a_viewer_reached_out_with_a/

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  A [pretty staid-sounding law firm warns that the AI industry is partying like it's 2007](https://www.quinnemanuel.com/the-firm/publications/client-alert-emerging-litigation-risks-in-financing-ai-data-centers-boom/): > Lenders who originated data center loans [...] have begun pooling those loans and selling tranches to asset managers and pension funds, spreading risk well beyond the original lending institutions. Also of note: > The most basic litigation risk in AI infrastructure fin...

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  > It even used to have a top-quality news section, BuzzFeed News! Azeen Ghorayshi made her name reporting at Buzzfeed News about sexual harassment in science... and then she became one of the *New York Times*'s professional transphobes.

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  The Golgafrinchans shipped off the B Ark and then died of a plague (book 2). The Shoe Event Horizon happened on Brontitall (radio series) or Frogstar World B (book 2).