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Cake day: January 15th, 2026

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  • "This persistent narrative in the media trying to talk consumers out of desktops as being viable options kind of sneakily ties into the greater “you will own nothing and you will be happy” narrative being pushed by big tech.

    It’s really obvious and it needs to be consistently called out for what it is."

    Literally the most upvoted comment in the linked article.

    I guess some frogs are just to stupid to figure out they’re being slow boiled and it’s up to us to carry the dead weight out of the pan…








  • Well deserved catastrophe. You’re paid to work, writing grants, emails and classes is your fucking job.

    Now, it’s obvious for anyone that the academic picture in Northern Europe is one of cronyism and nepotism, so it’s rarely the actually competent and hard working scientists that end up progressing in their career. Playing politics (and sucking the right dicks) takes time away from the bench. What I’m wondering is how can someone be a professor and tech illiterate to the point of making this big of a fuck up. Also, why wasn’t he sacked? Oh, right, he has connections in npg so it’s good for the University’s impact factor and citation rating.