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This Week in Snark

This Week in Snark: Drones Replace Fireworks, Meta Still Humorless, and Florida Man Sells Quantum Nonsense

This week in tech satire: AI gets paywalled, fireworks go drone-mode, and Meta still can’t take a joke.

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Cloudflare to AI: You Shall Not Crawl (Unless You Pay, of Course)

Cloudflare now blocks AI crawlers by default, pitching it as a revolution for publisher control—two years after letting the internet get scraped to oblivion.