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● 29/09/2025

Famed for building a fully functional 1Hz CPU inside the Minecraft videogame, software developer Sammyuri introduces his latest in-game engineering feat: CraftGPT is a small language model that runs on a colossal computer hewn from 439 million Redstone blocks. With over 5 million parameters, trained in Python on the TinyChat dataset, CraftGPT works as advertised, but is prone to errors and a little slow: “It can produce a response in about 2 hours,” Sammyuri notes.

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● 22/05/2025
“The enshitternet was purpose-built for this kind of apocalyptic co-option, organized around giant corporations who will trade a habitable planet and human rights for a three percent tax cut.”
– Writer Cory Doctorow, taking aim at Big Tech in his PyCon US keynote. Speaking to Python developers in Pittsburgh, he outlines how tech platforms follow a predictable three-stage decay: first luring users with great products, then squeezing them to please business customers, and finally extracting value until only a “homeopathic residue” of utility remains.
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