2026 Seems Like (Potentially) the Last Year of Slop Drowning News Sites
Sites that do so perish
Another warm day passes by and there are signs that the slop bubble is indeed based on a major scam and the lies (upon which the scam depends) stretch hard limits. See for example: (from our Daily Links today)
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Unicorn Media ☛ AI’s House of Lies: Fake Deals Create Fake Booms
AI gold rush or house of cards? How $110B Proprietary Chaffbot Company "deals" and Ellison's media grab expose the announcement economy's grift.
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Pivot to AI ☛ OpenAI’s ‘$110b’ funding round is $25b and some promises
Zero dollars have moved yet. And the dollars are not real until they move — look at that $100 billion Nvidia not-a-deal that evaporated in early February.
I love SEC filings — you’re not allowed to lie in them. Amazon’s putting in $15 billion to start with, and the other $35 billion depends on conditions. From Amazon’s SEC 8-K filing on the matter: [...]
As noted yesterday in a 4-part mini-series, the Proprietary Chaffbot Company (Microsoft's OpenAI) is losing share and users. It won't be around for much longer.
Having just finished all the links for today (before 2PM!), we can report slop about "Linux" only in linuxsecurity.com (one new example) and searching for "linux" in Google News, there's only this one slopfarm in it and only once today:
It's getting hard to find slop in news sites which cover "Linux" because many gave up.
Today we've also noticed that Clickfraud Spamnil is nowadays using slop in his videos. Videos which almost nobody watches anyway. Because why invest time/work in something that lacks an audience? Clickfraud Spamnil is only active because the Linux Foundation sends money his way to produce spam for sponsors. █