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How Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop “act of kindness”

Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:25:53 +0000

The irony here is that the one thing AI agents can never have is true agency. Making a decision to reach out to a stranger and take time out of their day needs to remain a uniquely human decision, driven by human judgement. Setting a goal for a bunch of LLMs and letting them loose on Gmail is not a responsible way to apply this technology.

Tags: #abuse #ai #claude #llms #slop #spam

prblogger.com » Blog Archive » Brothels update

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:54:08 +0000

"Please understand that blogs are not the same as traditional media and some bloggers couldn’t care less about your clients’ news. They just want to be left in peace. Please respect that."

Tags: #blogging #brothels #pr #spam

Charlie's Diary: Unpacking the Zeitgeist

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:15:17 +0000

"There are thirty years' worth of future shock condensed into this one news item."

Tags: #future #gaming #gnomes #scifi #spam #stross #wow

Clickable Culture - ‘Warcraft’ Corpses Speak

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:59:56 +0000

"Corpse graffiti, a form of emergence, is created by building a character with a clever name, i.e. "Mailbox" and dropping dead in a contextually-appropriate location, i.e. a mailbox in a high-traffic area."

Tags: #gaming #spam #wow

Clickable Culture - Gnomes Rain From Azeroth’s Skies

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:58:44 +0000

"The gnomes left behind corpses arranged to spell out the name of a web site dealing in virtual gold sales--an effective means of advertising third-party services Blizzard (creator of the Azeroth setting) is firmly against, allegedly carried out using cli

Tags: #for:jm3 #for:joshua #for:jwhiting #for:osunick #for:snipersock #for:stlhood #for:we3bus #gaming #gnomes #spam #wow

RSS CAPTCHA Prototype

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 05:15:25 +0000

"It's a prototype for mashing up publicly-available RSS feeds and using them as a sort of CAPTCHA."

Tags: #captchas #comments #metablogging #rss #spam

Internet Mail 2000

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 22:30:19 +0000

"IM2000 is a project to design a new Internet mail infrastructure around the following concept: Mail storage is the sender's responsibility."

Tags: #im2000 #mail #net #spam

TPCSv8 - Articles - The Cutest Human-Test: KittenAuth - Articles - The Cutest Human-Test: KittenAuth

Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:11:17 +0000

"Click 3 pictures of kittens to submit"

Tags: #captchas #kittens #nifty #spam #webdev

Micro Persuasion: Bye Bye Email Marketing, Hello RSS

Sun, 05 Feb 2006 16:13:55 +0000

"That's all folks. The door has officially closed on email marketing. Maybe this will drive more companies to start up opt-in RSS feeds and blogs that facilitate dialogue."

Tags: #email #hackingfeeds #marketing #rss #spam

Charlie's Diary - On the attention economy

Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:58:23 +0000

"Ban the advertising industry. Ban it now, before it's too late."

Tags: #advertising #attention #future #spam

90% Crud: Notes on mod_security vs. spam

Wed, 28 Sep 2005 20:14:36 +0000

"I'm using mod_security because my server has lots of different blogging tools installed, and there's no way to centrally protect them all. This won't take care of all comment or trackback spam, but I'm hoping it will greatly reduce the amount we get. Als

Tags: #apache #metablogging #spam

Richard@Home : I got your SEO right here...

Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:56:49 +0000

How to out SEO an SEO/spammer.

Tags: #seo #spam

BBC NEWS | Technology | Anti-spam plan overwhelms sites

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 19:38:03 +0000

"And what is to stop a mistake happening and the wrong number going on the list?" Hmm, ugh. Okay, I've been using the screensaver, but now this worries me: A counter tactic for spammers might be to randomly include other URLs in emails. How does Lycos

Tags: #spam

ASSWiPE - Apache Server Statistics Website Promotion Engine

Thu, 20 May 2004 21:54:25 +0000

"FAQ: HOW DO I MAKE IT STOP? TURN YOUR SERVER STATISTICS WEBPAGES OFF!!!!" Just noticed this popping up in my referer logs.

Tags: #spam #webdev

LOAFing your Mail.app away

Sat, 10 Apr 2004 01:44:29 +0000

Hmm. this makes me want to look into making a proper LOAF-using Mail.app plugin bundle

Tags: #loaf #osx #spam