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The article in which Scott compares John Henry's mining capacity to the Machine's in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago

I like how he even had someone with art expertise literally explain it to him and he writes it off as “lol she must have super artist vision for details.”

Scott knows and is of his constituency

The article in which Scott compares John Henry's mining capacity to the Machine's in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

link?

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago

note that cwebber wrote the ActivityPub spec, btw

On “Safe” C++: An Odyssey of Sneers in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago

good thing Rust is only run by Palantir

Whoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racist in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 5 months ago

Mao just read his Adam Smith

Whoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racist in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

especially for such important things like fucking tenant screening.

you must understand: this is a feature

Whoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racist in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 17 points 5 months ago

sorry that sign's been updated

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Centrists Don't Fucking Be Like This challenge not achieved yet again

https://social.kernel.org/notice/AoGpED4fw3LSGhxTLU

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 5 months ago (17 children)

The mask comes off at LWN, as two editors (jake and corbet) dive in to frantically defend the honour of Justine fucking Tunney against multiple people pointing out she's a Nazi who fills her projects with racist dogwhistles

https://lwn.net/Articles/998196/

hey remember the LAUSD school district's AI bot Ed, that crashed and burned earlier this year? anyway the CEO of the vendor has just been charged with fraud in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 19 points 5 months ago (6 children)

now seeing EAs being deeply concerned about RFK running health during a H5N1 outbreak

dust specks vs leopards

Coca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expect in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago

they'll have to comfort themselves with a Coke(tm), apparently it's a Surreal Thing

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OpenAI’s Strawberry will turn you into paperclips any day now (pivot-to-ai.com)
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LLM vendors are incredibly bad at responding to security issues (pivot-to-ai.com)
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I'm on Paris Marx's podcast this week rambling about crypto, AI hype and social media. Oh yeah and Jack Dorsey, our supposed subject. 1 hour. (www.thenation.com)
 

Paris' editors are awesome and made my hesitant rambling sound snappy and lively too. This came out extremely well.

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a16z is working hard to get stuck with last year’s Nvidia chips (pivot-to-ai.com)
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OpenAI and Arianna Huffington: transforming healthcare with nagbots (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

this has been discussed here previously, but we mostly thought you'd enjoy the picture of your friend and mine Sam Altman

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LA school chatbot vendor goes bust, student data at risk (pivot-to-ai.com)
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whatever you call it he’s going to talk to you in a hundred different languages, he’s going to connect with you, he’s going to fall in love with you

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MetaMed, slight return: BayesMed, featuring Jann Tallin. AI workflows for clinicians. No medical advice. No sign of Vassar. (bayesmed.com)
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Google put an API into Chrome that sends extra system info but only to*.google.com domains. In every Chromium browser. (xcancel.com)
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How batshit insane are the rich in 2024? Here's a Bloomberg article on the estate law aspects of cryonically freezing your head and trying to keep all your money (www.bloomberg.com)
 

archive link: https://archive.is/a2ITL

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Pivot to AI: Venture capital kept shoveling money into AI startups in Q2 2024 (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Pivot to AI: Venture capital will eat itself (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 14 July 2024 (awful.systems)
 

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

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)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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