Monday, August 17
Daily News Stuff 17 August 2026
Backsplash Edition
Backsplash Edition
Top Story
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the AI backlash is fundamentally a crisis of trust and also that water is wet. (Tech Crunch)
Well... Yes.
- Anthropic is planning to watermark text produced by their AI systems. (Bleeping Computer)
At fault is the European Union, as usual.
Tech News
- Bluesky has shrunk by 50% in 18 months as the crazies come crawling back to Twitter. (Tech Crunch)
Damn.
Meanwhile, the Phantom Zone of online speech known as Threads continues to lie about its numbers.
- Also now extinct: Audrey Hepburn and neutrinos.
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That Tech Crunch article on Blue Sky is really crying hard. When your user base is shrinking dramatically, you can in no meaningful way call it "trying to maintain momentum." My brothers in Christ, you have momentum, but it's in the other direction.
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, August 18 2026 03:44 AM (XL74C)
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Space Suit Lady (my phone keeps trying to autocorrect to 'Slave') needs to put down that Lament Configuration.
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, August 18 2026 03:58 AM (XL74C)
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It's something slightly less dangerous than that in the story, though a lot less inert than it first seems.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, August 18 2026 07:22 AM (PiXy!)
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