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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened

theshamblog.com · Feb 14

Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

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1hitsong (@tgpo) · Feb 14

Wait. So an #AI bot manifested some #AIslop (it neither creates nor writes), tried to get it merged into a #code repo, got rejected for being #slop, manifested a hit piece blog post, then #arstechnica used AI to manifest a slop #news article about the previous slop?

theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-pu

WE ARE IN THE WORST TIMELINE!

Alexandre B A Villares 🐍 (@villares) · Feb 14
🔁 @melissawm:

Wow - this is messed up beyond words. Ars Technica, reporting on the bot that wrote a hit piece on a Matplotlib maintainer, used fake (what look to be) AI-generated quotes instead of actually quoting the human maintainer. Just call it the Torment Nexus already theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-pu

joschi (@joschi) · Feb 14
🔁 @ripienaar:

The saga of the bot written hit piece continues this time claiming that @arstechnica had a AI write an article about it when the AI couldn’t scrape the blog it just hallucinated some quotes that never existed. Surreal. Ars definitely have to come clean on what the actual fuck happened there.

theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-pu

Kate Lance (@katela) · Feb 14
🔁 @exador23:

wow.

A matplotlib maintainer explains how an AI agent that suggests code changes on open source repos wrote a hit piece on him after a rejection, and the aftermath theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-pu

An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild, and raises serious concerns about currently deployed AI agents executing blackmail threats.

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The AI hater's guide to code with LLMs (The Overview)

aredridel.dinhe.net · Feb 13

This is the post I don’t think many people expected me to write, and I have (rightly!) surrounded myself with people who are generally uncomfortable to somewhat hostile to “AI”, mostly for good reasons, though I’ll get into the many caveats on that as I go.

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Stefan (@stefan) · Feb 13
🔁 @kottke:

The AI hater’s guide to code with LLMs. This is an interesting and thoughtful read. aredridel.dinhe.net/2026/02/12

Liam Proven (@lproven) · Feb 14

The AI hater's guide to code with LLMs (The Overview)

aredridel.dinhe.net/2026/02/12

<- TBH: I still hate it, still consider it a scam, & am only interested in takes from the hardcore skeptics. But I learned stuff from this.

alpha (@alpha) · Feb 14

Also @aredridel on LLM coding resonates, especially this!

> As activists mitigating the harms of “AI”, we need to be well informed, and we need to understand what the specific harms are. Treating it with a hands-clean purist mindset will be extremely difficult and as activism, more alienating than effective. These are genuinely useful tools, and pretending they aren’t will not in fact win many hearts and minds.

https://aredridel.dinhe.net/2026/02/12/the-ai-haters-guide-to-code-with-llms/

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How to un-Big Tech your online life

theverge.com · Feb 14

Plus, in this week’s Installer: a new Mario Tennis, Sony’s great new buds, a wild time-travel movie, and much more.

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David Pierce :bot: @theverge.space (@david_pierce) · Feb 14

How to un-Big Tech your online life

Plus, in this week’s Installer: a new Mario Tennis, Sony’s great new buds, a wild time-travel movie, and much more.

The Verge :bot: @theverge.space (@theverge) · Feb 14
🔁 @david_pierce:

How to un-Big Tech your online life

Plus, in this week’s Installer: a new Mario Tennis, Sony’s great new buds, a wild time-travel movie, and much more.

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Astronomers Create Strange ‘Vortex Crystals’ from Space in the Lab

404media.co · Feb 14

Scientists have recreated a miniature laboratory version of the massive cyclonic storms that rage at Jupiter’s poles.

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Kelson (@kelson) · Feb 14
🔁 @404mediaco:

Scientists have recreated a miniature laboratory version of the massive cyclonic storms that rage at Jupiter’s poles.

404media.co/astronomers-create

Panic at the Trishco 🕊️ (@topofmyvoice) · Feb 14
🔁 @404mediaco:

Scientists have recreated a miniature laboratory version of the massive cyclonic storms that rage at Jupiter’s poles.

404media.co/astronomers-create

Tim Chambers (@tchambers) · Feb 14
🔁 @404mediaco:

Scientists have recreated a miniature laboratory version of the massive cyclonic storms that rage at Jupiter’s poles.

404media.co/astronomers-create

lashman (@lashman) · Feb 14
🔁 @404mediaco:

Scientists have recreated a miniature laboratory version of the massive cyclonic storms that rage at Jupiter’s poles.

404media.co/astronomers-create

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The Story of Wall Street Raider

wallstreetraider.com · Feb 14

A 40-year odyssey from Harvard Law to Steam. How the most comprehensive financial simulator ever made was born, nearly died, and was resurrected.

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AOC Amplifies FDR's Forgotten Warning

sirota.substack.com · Feb 14

Finally, a few top Democrats are explicitly arguing that working-class economic populism is needed to stave off authoritarianism and defend democracy.

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Karolina (@Karolina) · Feb 14
🔁 @davidsirota:

Finally, a prospective 2028 Democratic presidential candidate is explicitly articulating and amplifying FDR's long-forgotten warning.

Finally.

sirota.substack.com/p/aoc-ampl

Geoff Berner (@Geoffberner) · Feb 14
🔁 @davidsirota:

Finally, a prospective 2028 Democratic presidential candidate is explicitly articulating and amplifying FDR's long-forgotten warning.

Finally.

sirota.substack.com/p/aoc-ampl

Sabad (@Sabad) · Feb 14
🔁 @davidsirota:

Finally, a prospective 2028 Democratic presidential candidate is explicitly articulating and amplifying FDR's long-forgotten warning.

Finally.

sirota.substack.com/p/aoc-ampl

JustaJason 🦜 (@JustaJason007) · Feb 14
🔁 @davidsirota:

Finally, a prospective 2028 Democratic presidential candidate is explicitly articulating and amplifying FDR's long-forgotten warning.

Finally.

sirota.substack.com/p/aoc-ampl

Coach Pāṇini ® (@paninid) · Feb 14
🔁 @davidsirota:

Finally, a prospective 2028 Democratic presidential candidate is explicitly articulating and amplifying FDR's long-forgotten warning.

Finally.

sirota.substack.com/p/aoc-ampl

LR (@lritter) · Feb 14
🔁 @davidsirota:

In 2021, Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney & I begged Dems to heed FDR's long-forgotten warning about the link between economic hardship & authoritarianism.

Five years later, a few new-generation Dems including @aoc.bsky.social are amplifying that warning.

This is progress.

sirota.substack.com/p/aoc-ampl

LillyLyle/Count Melancholia (@LillyHerself) · Feb 14
🔁 @davidsirota:

In 2021, Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney & I begged Dems to heed FDR's long-forgotten warning about the link between economic hardship & authoritarianism.

Five years later, a few new-generation Dems including @aoc.bsky.social are amplifying that warning.

This is progress.

sirota.substack.com/p/aoc-ampl

I_was_saying_boo_urns (@BooUrns) · Feb 14
🔁 @davidsirota:

In 2021, Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney & I begged Dems to heed FDR's long-forgotten warning about the link between economic hardship & authoritarianism.

Five years later, a few new-generation Dems including @aoc.bsky.social are amplifying that warning.

This is progress.

sirota.substack.com/p/aoc-ampl

The Flight Attendant (@CosmicTraveler) · Feb 14
🔁 @davidsirota:

In 2021, Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney & I begged Dems to heed FDR's long-forgotten warning about the link between economic hardship & authoritarianism.

Five years later, a few new-generation Dems including @aoc.bsky.social are amplifying that warning.

This is progress.

sirota.substack.com/p/aoc-ampl

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Introducing RSS - mikehindle.uk

mikehindle.uk · Feb 14

Ayup! I've recently stumbled upon a brand new technology called RSS. When I say brand new, I mean almost 27 years old. And when I say recently stumbled upon,

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Chip Butty (@otfrom) · Feb 14
🔁 @mikehindleuk:

I'm only 27 years late to the party, but thanks to a few of you here on Mastodon, I've recently embraced the power of RSS, both as a blogger and a reader 🧐

mikehindle.uk/introducing-rss/

#blog #writing #mastodon #fediverse #tech

bbbhltz (@bbbhltz) · Feb 14
🔁 @mikehindleuk:

I'm only 27 years late to the party, but thanks to a few of you here on Mastodon, I've recently embraced the power of RSS, both as a blogger and a reader 🧐

mikehindle.uk/introducing-rss/

#blog #writing #mastodon #fediverse #tech

Christian Tietze (@ctietze) · Feb 14
🔁 @mikehindleuk:

I'm only 27 years late to the party, but thanks to a few of you here on Mastodon, I've recently embraced the power of RSS, both as a blogger and a reader 🧐

mikehindle.uk/introducing-rss/

#blog #writing #mastodon #fediverse #tech

Hyde 📷 🖋 :debian: (@hyde) · Feb 14
🔁 @mikehindleuk:

I'm only 27 years late to the party, but thanks to a few of you here on Mastodon, I've recently embraced the power of RSS, both as a blogger and a reader 🧐

mikehindle.uk/introducing-rss/

#blog #writing #mastodon #fediverse #tech

David - Forking Mad (@daj) · Feb 14
🔁 @mikehindleuk:

I'm only 27 years late to the party, but thanks to a few of you here on Mastodon, I've recently embraced the power of RSS, both as a blogger and a reader 🧐

mikehindle.uk/introducing-rss/

#blog #writing #mastodon #fediverse #tech

Journalism & Comment Channel (@journalismandcomment) · Feb 14
🔁 @mikehindleuk:

I'm only 27 years late to the party, but thanks to a few of you here on Mastodon, I've recently embraced the power of RSS, both as a blogger and a reader 🧐

mikehindle.uk/introducing-rss/

#blog #writing #mastodon #fediverse #tech

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‘The time of monsters’: everyone is quoting Gramsci – but what did he actually say?

theguardian.com · Feb 14

Line handily sums up people’s bewilderment at state of world, but it isn’t quite what the Marxist thinker wrote

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‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform

theguardian.com · Feb 14

She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever

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Dr Alice Violett (@alicemcalicepants) · Feb 14
🔁 @HarriettMB:

An absolute legend of an artist and incredible woman. Her frankness, and her sharing with others is amazing. The polar opposite of massive egoist Damien Hirst, who keeps all his money and all his eulogies as his personal right. Tracey Emin shares every bit with others.
‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform | Tracey Emin | The Guardian theguardian.com/artanddesign/2

Jo - pièce de résistance (@JoBlakely) · Feb 14
🔁 @HarriettMB:

An absolute legend of an artist and incredible woman. Her frankness, and her sharing with others is amazing. The polar opposite of massive egoist Damien Hirst, who keeps all his money and all his eulogies as his personal right. Tracey Emin shares every bit with others.
‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform | Tracey Emin | The Guardian theguardian.com/artanddesign/2

Charlotte Walker (@purplepadma) · Feb 14
🔁 @HarriettMB:

An absolute legend of an artist and incredible woman. Her frankness, and her sharing with others is amazing. The polar opposite of massive egoist Damien Hirst, who keeps all his money and all his eulogies as his personal right. Tracey Emin shares every bit with others.
‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform | Tracey Emin | The Guardian theguardian.com/artanddesign/2

Jayne :wales_flag:🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 (@TCMuffin) · Feb 14
🔁 @HarriettMB:

An absolute legend of an artist and incredible woman. Her frankness, and her sharing with others is amazing. The polar opposite of massive egoist Damien Hirst, who keeps all his money and all his eulogies as his personal right. Tracey Emin shares every bit with others.
‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform | Tracey Emin | The Guardian theguardian.com/artanddesign/2

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