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Sleep Score Gaslighting: Inside the Scandal at Garmin, Fitbit, & Whoop.
July 11th, 2026 - In a bombshell article published by The Guardian, insiders at Garmin, Fitbit and Whoop admitted Saturday to having no idea how to “score sleep” in the slightest. Instead, product designers from these big three fitness-tracking companies “completely and shamelessly” make up a number to drive various behaviors. In the article, Jeff Devine, COO of Fitbit at Google is recorded via zoom saying, “Absolutely no one has the balls to call the sleep score incorrect
matthewjoss17
6 days ago2 min read


Spotify Crashes Up One Billion Percent
June 23, 2026 – Last week, Downdetector - the website for aggregating website outages, reported that Spotify had seen a notable one billion percent (1,000,000,000%) increase in crashes over the previous month. Some users said this decrease in basic functionality was frustrating to their listening experience, while others applauded the breakneck speed with which disparate features are arriving in the platform. “My music stopping every 12 minutes isn’t all that horrible,” said
matthewjoss17
Jun 242 min read


25 Year Old Brooklyn Man Can't Wait for AI to Disrupt the Cigarette Space
Brooklyn, NY - 'Vibes' enthusiast Tom Lafferty said on Monday that he can't wait for "Sam, Dario, or someone, to get their shit together and figure these [cigarettes] out." Reportedly explaining to everyone in his vicinity that his American Spirits were "the most under-disrupted product in human history", the young man bemoaned a lack of innovation in the space for over two hundreds years. "The customer retention...," Lafferty mused quietly to himself, looking at the ember. B
Lucas Loaiza
Jun 181 min read


Anthropic Back AI-Trafficking Network 'Coyote'
San Francisco, CA – On Friday, June 12, the United States government ordered Anthropic to suspend Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals, to which Anthropic acquiesced and pulled the models for all customers. This move is one of the first in the world to apply jurisprudence to a particular LLM, and in particular, the first to result in an effective ban on any particular model to the general public. On an unrelated note, Anthropic has confirmed an unknown invest
Lucas Loaiza
Jun 182 min read
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