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How to catch a cat:

1. Place box (any size)

why did they call them "ai datacenters" when they could have called them "slopping malls"
Oh cool, I can grow my own Democrats now.
Time to mortgage the house again.

I get asked to show up to book clubs, online and offline. Here is why from now on the answer is always "no." If you think this might have something to do with "AI" ruining yet another thing for everyone, you're absolutely 100% correct.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/03/03/indefinite-book-club-hiatus/

Indefinite Book Club Hiatus

Today in “Things that ‘AI’ has ruined”: No, I won’t be able to show up to your book club’s online/offline gathering, and the reason for this is simple: I, and li…

Whatever

Our site admin (@jerry) is about to get walloped with additional hosting fees, thanks to the great AIpocalypse that is messing up everything with datacenter costs.

I love the fediverse because there are no bullshit targeted ads and no bullshit algorithm-boosted messaging. Just a bunch of humans running servers. The downside of this is there is very little money in running servers and they cost more and more to keep going.

I increased my donation a bit today to help keep up with the costs.

Consult your instance admin for where to donate. In our case you can look at Jerry's profile for the official donation places. If you can afford to donate please do. If you can afford to increase your donation, please do that too.

"They often generate code that fails to perform as intended, but which on the surface seems to run successfully, avoiding syntax errors or obvious crashes."

AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=hero&utm_campaign=hero-2026-01-10&utm_content=hero1

AI Coding Degrades: Silent Failures Emerge

One AI coding assistant power user says the tools are hitting a plateau, and some are even declining. What's causing this unexpected twist in tech?

IEEE Spectrum