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Not Much Left to "Pump" in This Slop Bubble

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 23, 2026

Today we're seeing almost no LLM slop about "linux" except one new example in LinuxSecurity and another in this slopfarm propped up by Google News.

Slop or fake: Linux VPN server Deployment Statistics 2026

It moreover seems, based on new reports, that some businesses and governments are withdrawing from slop. This is more than just fatigue. This is an attitudinal shift; let's hope that by the end of the year the whole bubble fully implodes, leaving nearly nothing behind it.

We've just noticed that Microsoft fell about $100 in the past 4 weeks alone, plus we're covering the layoffs there (disguised as "AI").

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