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54% of the 112 items the feed collected this week were a fail, an outage or a confidently wrong human (last week: 81%). rm -rf was in the training data.
| lane | items |
|---|---|
| AI Fails & Slop | 1 |
| AI Incidents & Outages | 47 |
| Confidently Wrong | 12 |
| AI Bubble & Money | 7 |
| Satire | 9 |
| AI News | 33 |
| Fact-checks | 3 |
Outage notices: 17 (OpenAI 11 · Cursor 3 · Anthropic 2 · Perplexity 1) · Bubble Thermometer: no reading this week
When life gives you latex...make latex-ade? Yes we are still renovating this house! And this is a throwback to a tricky painting situation we kept encountering early on in our quest for highgloss accent walls and built-i…
The US president Donald Trump pledged to give a $5,000 direct payout—termed the “Trump Dividend”—to every adult U.S. citizen if he gets to stay in power https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.usluck.com/896041/the-us-presiden…
I don’t want my watch to be constantly eavesdropping on me and others and logging everything. I don’t even want the person opposite me’s watch to be capable of doing that sort of things. This might even mean that I no lo…
They used lasers for the god rays of Zeus in Clash of the Titans (1981) and I don't care what you say about the rest of the movie, the lasers are doing great.
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The Stupidity Index is the share of the week's items in the fails, incidents and confidently-wrong lanes; the top five use the Hall of Fails formula: lane weight × log(engagement + 5 × 🔥) × thumbnail bonus. Other weeks · how this site works.
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872 items over the last four weeks, by weekday and UTC hour; darker is busier (. : - = + * # % @ from quiet to loud). Counts, not judgement.