Mastodawn

Why do they bother?

https://bbc.com/news/articles/cr7xr1g3nvvo

Zelensky's close European allies set out five conditions for peace talks

The Ukrainian president's meeting with his staunchest European allies came as US President Donald Trump's focus shifts to the war with Iran.

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Awet Tesfaiesus, MdB May 21

Wenn es stimmen würde, was der Teaser insinuiert (tatsächlich ist es ja nur Clickbait-Geraune), dann würden Bündnisgrüne und Union ja in Wahrheit vor allem über die Zukunft der SPD sprechen; und insbesondere ihres Vizekanzlers. #nothingburger

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Graham Perrin Apr 26

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@patrickcmiller/116467048166124126

This looks tasty. Smells tasty. Jessica Lyons writes convincingly, and amusingly, about AI – "nothingburger", and so on.

Let's take a bite! It's possible that Lyons fell victim to clickbait with her story twenty-four hours later – an "exclusive" with supposed victim Turshija (Boris Vujičić):

<https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/23/job_scam_targeted_developer/> | <https://web.archive.org/web/20260423222731/https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/23/job_scam_targeted_developer/>

Eagle-eyed commentary: <https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2026/04/23/job_scam_targeted_developer/#c_5266435> – if I'm not mistaken, the tale told exclusively to Lyons by Vujičić (tweets from 19:28 UTC on 22nd April) is an embellishment of the report that was made three hours earlier by Adib Hanna:

― <https://nitter.net/adibhanna/status/2046988777789555191> (16:25 UTC), with <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA7PsdI0zs8> the next day.

The community note at Vujičić's tweet:

＂Clickbait copying a real life story with receipts from the day prior, apparently embellished and lengthened with AI.＂

So.

Can we, should we, believe everything that we read?

Food for thought burger.

#AI #clickbait #nothingburger

Cc @patrickcmiller @Kierkegaanks @simonzerafa

Postscript (copied from Reddit): "Without wishing to appear unkind: this may be another case of early reporting not being the best reporting. I'm not ungrateful; the story that preceded discovery by The Register was informative (but clumsy―it may have harmed innocent victims). "

Pa🇵🇸Apr 18

RE: https://expressional.social/@Peter_Link/116423308727245721

You never forget your first sinister #nothingburger.

Pa🇵🇸Apr 13

#nothingburger: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nothingburger

See also: Any policy that gives zero meaning, benefit or real-life impact to constituents. On pre-internet era these policies usually represented or conveyed by government yes-men to mark the line of their disinterest/discourse from people.

Urban Dictionary: nothingburger

something lame, dead-end, a dud, insignificant; especially something with high expectations that turns out to be average, pathetic, or overhyped.

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Pa🇵🇸Apr 13

No mention of sea/airspace privilege.

https://media.defense.gov/2026/Apr/13/2003911810/-1/-1/1/READOUT-OF-SECRETARY-OF-WAR-PETE-HEGSETH-MEETING-WITH-INDONESIA-MINISTER-OF-DEFENSE-SJAFRIE-SJAMSOEDDIN.PDF

p.s to our neighbours: if you spot them, it's free duck season.

#nothingburger #dontpanic #hhgttg

Matthew Hall Apr 2

The #drumpf #NothingBurger on #Iran

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/01/nx-s1-5770093/trump-address-iran-war

Nikolas Kozloff has moved Nov 7, 2025

All the more reason not to demobilize the 100,000 #Mamdani volunteers: #Bernie made this mistake after 2016, thereby becoming a political #nothingburger https://jacobin.com/2025/11/mamdani-dsa-democrats-cuomo-socialists

How Zohran Mamdani Triumphed Over a Decrepit Establishment

Zohran Mamdani ran an excellent campaign. But his victory was made possible by a decade of serious electoral work by New York City’s democratic socialists and the structural dysfunction of the political establishment.

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