I never installed VSCode because it has a hard dependency on cups and somehow has a recursive dependency in several places on "the sound (mixer) of silence," pulseaudio.
Cups tries to break my LPR network, and pulseaudio succeeds in breaking my audio in unpredictably incredible ways.
Anyway, thread on why Anthropic, Microslop, and Binance are in the news today: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/117528831681803563