Microsoft bans the word "Microslop" on the official Copilot discord, then locks the server

[krupo@infosec.exchange]

@davidgerard

Clumsy? Ham-fisted? #Microslop!

"Of course, the internet rarely leaves things there. Shortly after Windows Latest posted about Copilot Discord server blocking Microslop on X, users began experimenting in the server with variations such as “Microsl0p” using a zero instead of the letter “o.”"

Er, #Microsl0p

[caiocgo@social.vivaldi.net]

@davidgerard Microslop folks are such cowards...

[mildpeach@mstdn.social]

@davidgerard

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ha…

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@davidgerard

When you're paying billions of dollars to force user acceptance, banning words is the first thing Coercive Capitalism will impose.

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the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

Oil oligarchs & fossil fuel fascists need sufficient user adoption in time to mess with elections.

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Forbes ME (www.forbesmiddleeast.com)

forbes.com

(www.forbes.com)

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Observer (observer.com)

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The Conversation (theconversation.com)

Attention Required! | Cloudflare

(qz.com)

nytimes.com

(www.nytimes.com)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03975-9

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the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

Just a moment...

(www.economist.com)

[zdl@mstdn.social]

@davidgerard Branding nightmare, that is. There is no winning move left for Microslop.

[csolisr@hub.azkware.net]

@davidgerard Let me guess, they moved to a MS Teams group?

[pixelcats@apobangpo.space]

@davidgerard Oh the truth, it hurts so bad!

[squika@meow.social]

@davidgerard "STOP IT! STOP CALLING IT SLOP!"

[lrt_writes@mstdn.party]

@davidgerard

[m3t00@app.wafrn.net]

sidestepped getting an account there. 'discord' seems an apt name. control freaks

[joriki@infosec.exchange]

@dgar @ndevenish @resuna @davidgerard

probably just a matter of time before some vibe coder claims to have used slop to invent sql

[micdan@mstdn.party]

@davidgerard love how those motherfuckers at #Microslop squirm 🤩

[djumaka@phpc.social]

@davidgerard like that really ever worked out

[karma_j@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard

#MicroSlop

[oldguycrusty@mastodon.world]

@davidgerard

Well sure...that'll fix it.

#MicroSlop
#AISlop

[siobibblecoms@tech.lgbt]

@davidgerard I have the microslop extension installed, so it appears microslop has blocked microslop

[hakuso@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard
Discord?

There are still people on Discord?

[ygor@floss.social]

@davidgerard Thankfully, the Wikipedia redirect is still intact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microslop

[tail_call@mas.to]

@davidgerard

Slopilot

[ewerybody@mastodon.social]

@mwl @davidgerard Yeah! for me it's just the morning!!