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• GitHub Copilot silently inserts itself as a co-author after I manually replaced the generated commit message https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/194075
• I am the person who approved this PR https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989883
• Fair point https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47994193
• Enabling ai co author by default https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226

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• If users notice your software, you're already a loser https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/10/if-users-notice-your-software-youre-already-a-loser/
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• Technofascism Survival Guide Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/technofascism-survival-guide
• Technofascism Survival Guide press release https://www.issuewire.com/technofascism-survival-guides-successful-kickstarter-indicates-growing-public-concern-about-gen-ai-mass-surveillance-1859856371446643
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• The next phase of the Microsoft OpenAI partnership https://openai.com/index/next-phase-of-microsoft-partnership/
• The next phase of the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/04/27/the-next-phase-of-the-microsoft-openai-partnership/
• How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars, Pt. 2 https://axelriet.medium.com/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion-dollars-pt-2-ba33d024ca85
• Microsoft Fiscal Year 2026 Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/events/fy-2026/earnings-fy-2026-q3
• Stupid Sexy Privacy: AI bubble a multi-company Enron waiting to happen https://share.transistor.fm/s/55b01c02

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