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I avoid Facebook, generally. I started going back recently to catch up on people I haven’t seen in a while.

It is consumed by AI stories. The little videos like the one above a gently amusing – they last a few seconds and are usually cats cooking or eating food, for some weird reason. They’re silly and harmless if not terribly engaging. I don’t mind them.

But there’s another genre I can’t stand: cat sob stories. It’s usually something like “Puff had always been a happy cat. Then one day her family packed and moved away. She sat on the porch alone getting thinner and sadder.” And on and on. You can tell AI writes them because they all have a style – very few paragraphs, mostly single lines. They’re actually painful to read, after a while, just for the formatting. And I’m getting, like, three of these a day.

I think there’s a dog version, too.

Oh, and two more semi-sentient spam comments in and amongst the buttsex:

Good luck with getting it all transferred over! I remember facing similar struggles trying to archive some old Omegle chat logs. The formatting was always a mess, and certain elements just refused to cooperate. Linking to individual articles sounds like a good temporary solution. And hey, a mad scientist’s lab coat? Awesome! I’m definitely clicking the Zippo, Javascript’s always fascinating.

This was content appropriate for a post about my old site, with an image of a weasel wearing a labcoat. Same thread:

Thanks for putting this old stuff up! I know migrating can be a pain. I totally get the “it just didn’t work, okay?” feeling! Reminds me of when I tried to build my first automation in Monkey Mart – thought I was so clever automating banana collection, but the monkeys kept getting stuck! Good luck getting the links sorted. The mad scientist lab coat story is great, by the way!

I went to the post (from 2024) and there were half a dozen spams already there. They do that – cluster on specific threads.