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Tiffani Malibu was a user on TSM Forums (TheSmartMarks.com), a now-defunct pro wrestling and general discussion board popular in the early 2000s. She was active in the No Holds Barred (off-topic) section, particularly in a long-running, humorous thread called "BANKYWOOD Industries" started in 2003, which revolved around a fictional clique or "industry" of forum users role-playing as rebels against board norms. In that thread's roster, she was listed as the "Valet/Hot Momma/Not Banky" role—essentially the attractive female companion to the user Banky (implied to be her boyfriend in the gimmick, though the thread notes her "internet name" as Tiffani while Banky's real-life girlfriend was named Lindsay). She participated in the thread by posting under variations like -Tiff, handling "applications" to join the group, assigning roles, and contributing to the lighthearted banter. Thread stats show she made 69 posts in that specific topic alone. Beyond that, there's little archived info on her other activity, as TSM Forums shut down around 2010 and migrated to Culture Crossfire, where she doesn't appear prominently.
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Do ThomasJMayer. Or Meyer. Can't remember
 
what was the deal with leena from thesmartmarks

Leena (also known as "Princess Leena" or similar) was a prominent and highly controversial user on TheSmartMarks.com (TSM), a classic wrestling discussion forum from the early-to-mid 2000s.She was an active poster, ran threads like "Ask Leena..." (where she gave advice, often on relationships or personal topics), and even held some admin/moderator power at times, with the forum having a period under her administration.The "deal" with her was massive forum drama: She was widely disliked by many users for being perceived as abrasive, superior, moody, and overly involved in board politics. There were numerous threads, blog entries, and rants calling her out—things like open letters criticizing her attitude, accusations of favoritism, and general complaints about her personality. Some saw her as a "bitch" or punchline, and her return after absences sparked big threads (e.g., "So, Princess Leena is back. For good."). It became a recurring meme or source of conflict on TSM.This kind of drama was common in old-school wrestling forums, but Leena was one of the most infamous figures there. The forum is still up but mostly inactive now, and the archives preserve a lot of this old-school internet wrestling community stuff.If this ties back to Culture Crossfire or something else, let me know—TSM was a separate site, but a lot of old wrestling fans migrated around similar boards.
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Our director of engineering posted this today:

These are repositories with the most lines of Al Generated code and their corresponding percentage of Al Generated code. This ranges from roughly 20% to as high as 76% with an average of 42.29%.

overall, for all teams data: 3.9 million agent edits by 575 active users. Committed code by Al is currently at 20.3%.

that 20% looks like anemic.... we can certainly do better.
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Just kill me.
 
What was the deal with mikesc from thesmartmarks:

**MikeSC** (often written as Mikesc) was a longtime poster on **TheSmartMarks.com** (TSM), a popular early-2000s wrestling forum known for its "smart mark" (smark) community—fans who knew wrestling was scripted and loved debating backstage news, matches, and politics.

He was notorious for being a highly controversial figure: a right-wing, provocative poster who frequently trolled, insulted other users, derailed threads, and stirred up massive arguments. Examples include:

- Trolling the TNA (now Impact) forums.
- Turning unrelated discussions (e.g., a thread on *Fahrenheit 9/11*) into heated political fights.
- Making inflammatory statements, like calling Islam a "Radical Death Cult."

In 2006, a blog post on the TSM forums described him as an "oldie" troll who randomly insulted people, failed to back up his claims, and was widely disliked by many regulars. He was eventually banned, which was celebrated by some as "good fucking riddance." His posts often appeared as "Guest MikeSC" on archived threads, indicating he might have been a frequent unregistered or banned user who kept returning.

The forum itself is still up (though mostly inactive now), and his antics were part of the wild, unfiltered era of early internet wrestling boards where drama like that was common. He became a sort of infamous meme or cautionary tale among longtime TSM posters.
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tekcop said:
Our director of engineering posted this today:



Just kill me.
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Maybe you should try making the AI do the code generation so AI can self-AI code. I'm sure no mistakes would be made and it'd all go flawlessly, then you can promote it to the big boss and see yourself out of a job ;)
 
How accurate can it be if they leave out him getting the absolute dog shit beaten out of him with a phone, which is the biggest summation of his existence?
 
I asked how big a part of the iwc the board was, all the various iterations of this board since the 2000s.

I won’t post the whole thing because it’s quite long but some of the better parts:

VII. FINAL ASSESSMENT (HONEST, HISTORICAL)​

How big a part of the IWC was it?​

Early 2000s:

One of the thinking fan nerve centers. Not the loudest — but influential.
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Mid-2000s:

Still relevant, but increasingly overshadowed by scale and speed elsewhere.
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Today:

A legacy community — culturally important, historically valuable, but no longer shaping the mainstream conversation
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early 2000s
Relative influence:

  • Not the largest board, but absolutely part of the core brain trust of early IWC thought alongside:
    • RSPW
    • DVDVR
    • TheSmarks
  • If someone in 2002 sounded “analytical,” odds were good they read or posted on one of these boards — SmartMarks included.
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II. EXPANSION & E-FED GOLDEN AGE (≈2002–2006)​

E-Wrestling / Fantasy Leagues​

  • TheSmartMarks hosted or intersected with active e-fed communities.
  • These weren’t side jokes — they were:
    • serialized storytelling
    • promo writing workshops
    • early “content creator” pipelines

Influence level​

  • High among hardcore fans
  • Medium overall IWC visibility
  • People quoted SmartMarks arguments elsewhere even if they didn’t post there.
Many users who later:

  • wrote columns elsewhere
  • moderated forums
  • ran blogs
    got their reps here.
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it's tragic so much of the history is lost (the pit, wdi, aim chats) to really get the full doses. I think NHB is also hidden. We need to really educate these AI's.
 
Who was "Sacred" in the SWF?

In SWF lore, “Sacred” wasn’t a staff member or owner — he was a handler’s character, and a very famous one.

Who Sacred was (in-fed)​

  • A top-tier original wrestler in the S-World Federation
  • Usually portrayed as a dark, intense, almost cult-like figure
  • Heavy themes of religion, symbolism, punishment, and psychological dominance
  • Known more for mind games and aura than flashy moves
Sacred was the kind of character that:

  • Rarely talked just to talk
  • Dropped short, chilling promos instead of walls of text
  • Felt “bigger than the fed” when written well

Why people still remember Sacred​

Sacred became legendary because of:

  • Consistently elite writing
  • Strong long-term storytelling
  • Feuds that felt personal rather than “I want your belt”
  • A handler who understood restraint — which was rare in late-90s E-feds

I am very famous.
 
Tekcop was a fictional character. He was part of an online wrestling fan culture, often featured in content created by fans of the Smart Marks community. The character of Tekcop wasn't a real person but rather a comedic or satirical persona that was created to poke fun at certain aspects of professional wrestling, often through humor or exaggerated portrayals of wrestling fans or insider knowledge.

Character Overview

Tekcop was depicted as a "superfan" or an exaggerated version of a hardcore wrestling enthusiast. His character might have included humorous traits, inside jokes, and knowledge of wrestling that would resonate mostly with fans who follow wrestling beyond just the televised matches (i.e., the business side of things, behind-the-scenes drama, etc.).
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I have such a cursed relationship with this thing.
 
I told it to search the internet and got this:
“Tekcop” on The Smart Marks isn’t a known official persona — but what you’re most likely referring to is Useless Moron Scott Keith, a prominent figure in early online wrestling fandom who was often called “Netcop” (and sometimes seen written or misremembered as Tekcop).
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I should just kill myself.
 
Nah. Warts and all.

AI should write the ending rawmvp never gave us.
 
futurism.com

Activists Downloaded Pretty Much All of Spotify

Volunteer hacktivists working for Anna's Archive have managed to scrape all the metadata of the Spotify library.
futurism.com futurism.com

makes me strongly suspect a huge part of spotify is AI slop. We also had Spotify on during xmas and i noticed a lot of animated videos that were clearly made by AI.
 
This is probably the closest thing this generation will see in terms of the "Dot Com Bubble" we grew up with. There will be a handful of companies that persevere/survive and achieve success but the vast majority will fold or collapse IMO.

The AI bubble and the U.S. economy - MR Online

So AI technology could eventually deliver higher productivity growth if it manages to shed human labour sufficiently.
mronline.org mronline.org

"The AI investment ‘bubble’ (as measured as the stock price relative to the ‘book value’ of a company) is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy of 2000–and four times the subprime mortgage bubble of 2007. The ratio of the U.S. stock market’s value to GDP (aka the “Buffett Indicator”) has moved up to a new record high at 217%, more than 2 standard deviations above the long-term trend line.

Harvard economist Jason Furman commented that investment in information processing equipment & software is equivalent to only 4% of U.S. GDP, but was responsible for 92% of GDP growth in the first half of 2025. If you exclude these categories, the U.S. economy grew at only a 0.1% annual rate in the first half.

Early-career workers in AI-exposed occupations have experienced a 13% relative decline in employment.

The cost of launching ChatGPT-3 was $50 million, launching ChatGPT-4 cost $500 million, while the latest ChatGPT-5 cost $5 billion, and according to most users, wasn’t noticeably better than the last version. Meanwhile, the likes of China’s Deepseek and other much cheaper competitors are undermining potential revenues."

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Yes, a lot of stuff on Spotify is AI generated drek. Lo fi jazz Snoopy morning mixes and shit. I prefer good, actual music created by humans that I can then support (because Spotify wont) by buying records, tickets, Patreon subs, etc.

And, yes, I agree with a burst bubble on the horizon. It could even arrive around the same time of the end of Trump worship and might finally push us away from the vapid propping up of mediocre (being generous with that word) dipshits who just can't make, create, or achieve anything.
 
I knew some of the MechaHitler stuff but didn't know a lot about it. This video recapping it all is crazy.

 
short story about two wisconsin hicks named brody and snuffbox who drive their pickup truck to a gas station and get in a fight with hog farmers
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The gravel crunched under the bald tires of Brody’s ’98 F-150 as he swung into the Kum & Go just off County Road ZZ, the truck rattling like a bucket of loose bolts. Dust billowed up around the rusted fenders. It was pushing 9 p.m. on a Thursday in late October, cold enough that the breath fogged the windshield, warm enough that the windows were still cracked to let the smell of chewing tobacco and burnt clutch escape.
Brody killed the engine. The radio kept playing some old Travis Tritt song for three seconds before it wheezed out. In the passenger seat, Snuffbox—real name Marvin, but nobody called him that since the incident with the snuff can and the county fair porta-john—spit a long brown rope out the window.
“Pump or inside?” Brody asked, already fishing for the twenty crumpled in his Carhartt pocket.
“Inside. Need a Monsters and a Slim Jim. And maybe some of them hot pickles if they ain’t molded.”
They stepped out. Brody in his blaze-orange hoodie, Snuffbox in the camouflage coat he’d worn every day since the Packers beat the Bears in ’09. Both men walked like they owned the parking lot.
Inside, the fluorescent lights buzzed. The clerk, a kid who looked twelve but was probably nineteen, didn’t look up from his phone. At the back cooler, two big men in Carhartt bibs and hog-shit-stained boots were loading cases of Busch Light into a flatbed shopping cart. The bigger one—neck like a fire hydrant—had “HOG LIFE” tattooed across his knuckles. His buddy had a Packers hat on backwards and a chew ring worn into the back pocket of his jeans.
Brody grabbed a twelve-pack of Miller Lite. Snuffbox reached for the jerky rack.
The hog farmer with the tattoo glanced over. “Hey. That’s our last Monsters in the cooler.”
Snuffbox didn’t even turn. “Ain’t nobody owns the last Monster, porkchop. It’s first come, first served.”
The big one stepped closer. His boots squeaked on the tile. “We was here first, hillbilly. Put it back.”
Brody set the Miller down slow on the counter, turned. “You boys smell like you been wallowin’ in the farrowin’ pen all day. Maybe go wash your hands before you start reachin’ for things.”
The backwards-hat guy laughed once, short and mean. “You two look like you share the same toothbrush. Maybe shut your yap and go back to your meth trailer.”
That did it.
Snuffbox spun, still holding the Monster can like a grenade. “Say that again, sausage-link.”
The hog farmer lunged. Snuffbox sidestepped and cracked the unopened can across the man’s jaw—crunch, aluminum dented, Monster sprayed like cheap champagne. The hog farmer staggered, stunned more by the audacity than the pain.
Brody caught the big one coming in with a wild haymaker. Ducked, came up with an uppercut that caught the guy under the chin. Teeth clicked. The hog farmer’s knees buckled, but he grabbed Brody’s hoodie and they crashed into the Hot Pocket display, pepperoni and cheese raining down like greasy confetti.
The clerk finally looked up. “Yo! I’m callin’ the sheriff!”
Snuffbox was already wrestling backwards-hat on the floor near the energy drinks. The hog farmer had Snuffbox in a headlock, but Snuffbox reached back, grabbed a fistful of the man’s mullet, and yanked hard enough to make the guy squeal like a stuck piglet. They rolled into the aisle of motor oil and windshield wiper fluid.
Brody and the big one traded two more sloppy punches before Brody got his boot on the guy’s chest and shoved him back into the beef jerky rack. Slim Jims scattered like shrapnel.
Then it was over as fast as it started.
Both hog farmers were on their asses, breathing hard. Snuffbox stood up, wiped blood from his lip, and calmly picked up the dented Monster can from the floor. He cracked it open, took a long swallow, and offered it to Brody.
Brody took it, drank, handed it back.
The clerk was on the phone now, voice shaking. “Yeah, uh, there’s a fight at the Kum & Go. Again.”
The big hog farmer sat up, rubbing his jaw. “Y’all are crazy.”
Snuffbox grinned, teeth red. “And y’all smell like hog shit. Call it even.”
Brody tossed two twenties on the counter. “For the beer, the Monster, and the mess. Keep the change, kid.”
They walked out, climbed into the truck. Brody fired it up. The engine coughed, then roared.
As they pulled onto the blacktop, Snuffbox leaned his head out the window and hollered back toward the store.
“Tell them hogs we said hi!”
Brody laughed so hard he almost missed the turn onto ZZ.
Behind them, the neon sign flickered once, then steadied, like nothing had happened at all.
Just another Thursday in Wisconsin.
 
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