Checked back in on the ongoing Framework dumpster fire - Project Bluefin’s quietly cut ties, and the DHH connection is the reason why.

This entire newsstory sounds like the plotline for a rejected Captain Planet episode. What the fuck.

A judge has given George RR Martin the green light to sue OpenAI for copyright infringement.

We are now one step closer to the courts declaring open season on the slop-bots. Unsurprisingly, there’s jubilation on Bluesky.

Decided to check the Grokipedia “article” on the Muskrat out of morbid curiosity.

I haven’t seen anything this fawning since that one YouTube video which called him, and I quote its title directly, “The guy who is saving the world”.

I have a nasty feeling there’s a lot of ordinary people who are desperate to throw their money away on OpenAI stock. It’s the AI company! The flagship of the AI bubble! AI’s here to stay, you know! OpenAI? Sure bet!

Remember when a bunch of people poured their life savings into GameStop and started a financial doomsday cult once they lost everything? That will happen again if OpenAI goes public. (I recommend checking out This Is Financial Advice if you want a deep-dive into the GameStop apes, it is a trip)

One really bad consequence this deal just opened the gates to is to make it much easier for corporations to gut charities. A proper charity can run very like a business, but it gets a lot of free rides — and it can grow into quite the juicy plum. The California and Delaware decisions on OpenAI are precedents for large investors to come in and drain a charity if they say the right forms of words. I predict that will become a problem.

…why do I get the feeling companies are gonna start immediately gutting charities once the bubble pops

The follow-up’s worth mentioning too:

It’s interesting they’re citing specifically DHH and Ladybird as examples to follow, considering:

https://drewdevault.com/2025/09/24/2025-09-24-Cloudflare-and-fascists.html

Performing the SPARTAN Program’s original aim, sir.

Baldur Bjarnason’s (indirectly) given his thoughts on the piece, treating its existence (and the subsequent fallout) as a cautionary tale on why journalistic practices exist and how conflicts of interest can come back to haunt you.

(In particular, Baldur notes that Zitron could’ve nipped this problem in the bud by firing his AI-related clients after he became the premier AI critic.)

OpenAI’s data stealing scheme disguised as a browser can be prompt injected. In other news, water is wet.

EDIT: How did I not notice I was referring to OpenAI as ChatGPT (anyways, fixed it now)

Watched Once Upon A Time in Space recently - pretty damn good documentary series.

Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman

The “Weapons Grade” part is almost certainly editorializing (hopefully), but this whole shit sounds like another Chernobyl waiting to happen

so is the moral decline a side effect, or technocapitalism working as designed.

AI is an accountability sink by design, its technocapitalism working as designed

To start this spooky Stubsack off, there’s signs Framework are being slow on the refunds:

Just a heads up I haven’t gotten a refund from my cancelled FW12 order. Framework seems to be having trouble figuring it out.

I don’t know why, maybe it is Canada or maybe it is a high volume of similar requests, but it is a sign I always find concerning in a company I am worried about the financial stability of.

Could be nothing, but if you have been wavering on a cancellation I figured you might want a heads up.

This comes two weeks after Framework’s public fash turn, and just a few days after their latest double down. “Go fash, lose cash” proves itself again.

Correct.

The FSF considers large language models, failing to recognise the purpose of plagiarism machines in the process.

Comments are also pretty sneerable - main thread’s a bunch of promptfondlers trying to gas up spicy autocomplete, but I did find some guy claiming programmers steal and plagiarise much like LLMs do.

Yeah, there’s been a bunch of outages recently.

Found the original promptfondler behind this a couple hours ago.

For something lighter, here’s an AI bro getting wowed by the shittiest “video game” I’ve ever seen (trust me, the screenshot doesn’t do it justice):

In lieu of sneering this shit, I’d like to argue that arts education should become mandatory for all students post-bubble, regardless of their profession. STEM, humanities, tech, doesn’t matter - give them four years of art so they don’t turn out like this guy.

Naturally, the worst people on that thread are praising it - for example, here’s the “DHH destroying Basecamp is based” guy whining about people not accepting outright fascists:

The fact that a mod named “catastrophe” did this is morbidly funny to me.

Anyways, whatever doubts I (or anyone had) about Framework are basically gone. I hope Nirav and the Framework team enjoy their Nazi bar.