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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Quick PSA for anyone who's still on LinkedIn: the site's stealing your data to train the slop machines

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

That reminds me I still need to wipe my reddit an twitter archives. Wonder if wiping it all in one go would cause more trouble for them, or if deleting it slowly (or overwriting with random words in the case of reddit) causes more changes in the datasets and messes with them more like that.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I for one don't mind if my reddit crap poisons future LLMs.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I just don't want to be used and surveilled. Still need to get this shirt

Haha Standplaats moves fast.

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

New premium newsletter from Ed Zitron: Is There Any Real Money In Renting Out AI GPUs?

(Clever use of Betteridge's Law of Headlines there, I gotta say.)

[–] scruiser@awful.systems 3 points 3 weeks ago

So if I understood NVIDIA's "strategy" right, their usage of companies like Coreweave is drawing in money from other investors and private equity? Does this mean, that unlike many of the other companies in the current bubble, they aren't going to lose money on net, because they are actually luring in investment from other sources in companies like Coreweave (which is used to buy GPU and thus goes to them), whileleaving the debt/obligations in the hands of companies like Coreweave? If I'm following right this is still a long term losing strategy (assuming some form of AI bubble pop or deflation we are all at least reasonably sure of), but the expected result for NVIDIA is more of a massive drop in revenue as opposed to a total collapse of their company under a mountain of debt?

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