blakestacey

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Nit: "New Atheism" was the decade after that. Gary Wolf coined the term in a Wired story from 2006.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If your Wikipedia page contains as many random arXiv preprints for references as the "prompt engineering" article, consult your physician.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 18 points 6 months ago

Pretty good sneer there:

BREAKING: Tim Pool announces he will be stepping back from full time content production to look after his family. He states he's tired of being made fun of for not having a wife and kids so he will also be using the extra time to pursue acquiring that family

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Step 1: Buy new computers for the office.

Step 2: Futz around and transcribe a few audio files.

Step 3: Oops, we have used up the allocated budget but the deliverables remain just over the horizon.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think it was SpaceX, not Tesla, but yeah... boring AF warehouse.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 6 months ago

I wish I could remember who it was who said that out of all those inane cameos, Iron Man 2 is the only one that makes sense, because Tony Stark at his most boozy, self-indulgent and self-destructive would invite Musk to a party.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 20 points 6 months ago

Silicon Valley is proud to announce the man who taught his asshole to talk, based on the hit William S. Burroughs story, "Don't be the man who taught his asshole to talk."

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 6 months ago (7 children)

OK, you could in principle have made that sound worse, for example by saying "females" like a goddamn Ferengi, but still, pretty impressive.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago

Congratulations on missing the last 17 years of "[citation needed]" being used as a rhetorical device.

I see you have already been escorted to the egress.

Fuckity bye!

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Your blithe trust in capital fails to be endearing.

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