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   Misty (misty@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 05-Mar-2026 05:43:23 JST Misty

   Incidentally I do think that Windows 12 situation is interesting as an example of how this stuff gets laundered into social media bait. It was a multi-step process!

   The original article in German on PC Welt wouldn't have trended since it was in German. Then it got roughly translated into English for PC World, and *that* version gave it the veneer of respectability despite being conjecture with absolutely no sourcing.

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 05-Mar-2026 05:43:21 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     @misty In my opinion it's always good and proper to rant about Windows and Microslop, it doesn't matter if the sources are sus.

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     Misty (misty@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 05-Mar-2026 05:43:22 JST Misty

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     Which btw I think leads into the other bit of advice: if you see a post on "Tech4gamers" or whatever, some site with a nothing name you've never heard of, maybe you shouldn't share that as evidence that something's really happening.

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     Misty (misty@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 05-Mar-2026 05:43:23 JST Misty

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     But it took the rewrite on an AI content farm to make it really start making the rounds, since *that* version was alarmist and specifically structured to get widely shared on social media. The link back to PC World in that article made it *sound* like it was based on an authoritative source, despite being a rewrite of a rewrite of an unsourced article.