µblog - archive for 2025-08 🏳️‍🌈

One thing, at least, that Trump is proving is how ridiculous is the neoliberal claim, championed by the likes of Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek, that somehow a set of laws that protect private property, especially if it is concentrated in a few hands, would be able to protect individual liberty against tyranny.

– Liz Anderson

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🔗 Pivot to AI: Vibe-coded build system NX gets hacked, steals vibe-coders’ crypto

Here’s the novel bit — the malware code doesn’t steal your logins or crypto directly. Instead, it sends a prompt to Cursor, Claude Code, or any other AI coding bot on your computer, and it tells them to steal your stuff.

Normal people don’t have crypto wallets, ’cos they’re not get-rich-quick dumbasses. But a lot of AI bros sure do seem to. There’s probably a reason.

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Good day for some, but a crap day for me. Oh well.

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🔗 JWZ: 0xACAB8647

Let’s make this the new default magic number.

(for future historians: ACAB == All Cops Are Bastards, 8647 = kill (eighty-six) the 47th POTUS (you know who))

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🇸🇪 bra service av Ten Hotel i Upplands Väsby!

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You know you’re old when you find people online pining for the good old days of XML.

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Since SubStack (SS) launched in 2017, 2.16% (48.1k) of the submissions to Hackernews have been from the service. (lobste.rs proportion is 0.95%).

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🔗 Matthew Hughes: I’m tired of stupid people treating me like I’m an idiot

By now, you’ve used generative AI — either out of curiosity, or because a tech company forced it upon you, as Google did with its insipid AI overviews. Since you’re reading this newsletter, I wager you believe as I do: that generative AI is inherently shit and it can’t do what its proponents claim.

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I don’t know what it is with Markdown that causes some nerds to make hating on it their entire lifestyle.

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🔗🎼 Erik Visits an Non-American Grave, Part 1,934 (Leonard Cohen)

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