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Bogon Flux

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Bogon Flux is a personal blog at bogon-flux.blogspot.com about politics and culture. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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2011–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2012

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Why HN links it

A personal blog of idle musings. One commenter says it has been cited in call-outs of AI-written writing, including older posts from 2013 and a 2023 post that drew a suspected ChatGPT reply.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

The mostly coherent, sometimes surprisingly relevant commentary of an amateur human being.

What Hacker News says?

  1. This blog of my idle musings, specifically, has been a source of call-outs. In articles from back in 2013 of all things. I also noticed that( ChatGPT?) seems to have replied to one of my latest (2023) posts, which I find odd and improbable https://bogon-flux.blogspot.com I get what you mean though, to me I don’t see the hallmarks of AI writing, but you will find the occasional em-dash and contrasted-constructions. I…

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    on “All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot”
  2. Submitted Facebook hates the handicapped? as a story · 13 points

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  3. Submitted MPAA threatens congress - Support the petition for an official inquiry as a story · 2 points

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  4. Submitted Citizens Legal 068 - The 5th amendment as a story · 2 points

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  5. Submitted De-spinning NDAA as a story · 2 points

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  6. Submitted Gargoyle Glass - A Golden Age of casual surveillance as a story · 1 points

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  7. Submitted Build Hollywood 2.0 as a story · 1 points

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  8. Submitted Vintage SOPA: The end of the world as we knew it... as a story · 1 points

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  9. Submitted Administration to end extrajudicial detention...NOT as a story · 1 points

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  10. Submitted The surveillance state of social networking as a story · 1 points

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  11. Submitted Saving the world - a possible response? a post on my blog from September as a story · 1 points

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  12. Submitted Image justification impacts global GDP as a story · 1 points

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