90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet

Re:90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from ... by yunohn on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @01:48PM (#46605757)

Yeah, and heavily rewritten by AI. Every single sentence screams AI slop smell. I find that short content smells the most - AI tends to overfit its patterns even more strongly then.

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Re:90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from ... by AndroTux on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @01:56PM (#46605897)

“Not a shutdown—something worse. The routers didn't go silent. They screamed.”

“This wasn't a cascade—it was coordinated demolition.”

puking noises

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Re:90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from ... by QuietWatchtower on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @06:01PM (#46609648)

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that and got yucked by it. I was genuinely looking for a contact email on the webpage to complain to them about it. Such pretty visualization of data to then have LLM garbage explain it.

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Re:90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from ... by yunohn on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @03:00AM (#46613499)

I’m learning there’s a significant portion of the population that is completely unbothered and unnoticing of AI slop smell. Some days I wish I could ignore or tolerate it too, given how prevalent it has become so quickly - but it repulses me too much.

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