Hey, we hailed our @self!

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Magnificent

Apologies for missing it first time around!

Nifty, thanks!

@dgerard hey, I saw your bsky post and had an idea. Have you weighed in on Nscale and the UK’s sovereign scafolding reserve? I hope that it gets noticed by the wider public, because that shit is 10/10 hilarious.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/09/from-press-release-to-scrap-metal-site-the-essex-supercomputer-thats-still-a-scaffolding-yard

It gets better! According to Trashfuture, Nscale never even bothered to buy the scaffolding yard, which is still in operation.

https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/unlocked-scaffold-to-heaven/

Ars sure drank the koolaid didn’t they?

A lateral move from pointing at the unbelievers and screeching, really

Hey, he’s posted here before!

That story is rad as hell. I was ready to run through a wall for those folks at the end. Appreciate you, Robert!

It sucks. :(

Honestly, the article reminds me of Scott Alexander, but succinct. “Here are several true things and an absolutely batshit wrong thing, presented together with equal earnestness.”

The wrong thing being “Believing that LLMs are trash is a mental disorder (not really but wink wink).”

Why do this now, when it’s all coming apart? It’s baffling.

A hackernews notices that HN autoflags 404 Media articles. A little downthread, dang bullshits unconvincingly in reponse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47354634

Oof!

This really seems to be the case.

Wew, Cory Doctorow sure is posting through it

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/12/normal-technology/#bubble-exceptionalism

Labor theory of value, but worse

Never have so few been so unsatisfied to be so correct.

I’m calling it Anthropomorphic accidentally on-purpose forever now.

Ned Kelly, but his armor is made of Casio watches.

I like this. News is a frittata, it needs time to set before consuming.

The great chain of bleating