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the tech utopia fantasy is over in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st December 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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
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Vulkan 1.3 on the M1 in 1 month - this is cool as heck (rosenzweig.io)
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another banger from Roko, definitely a thinker of a time. I would first guess that this time it was a trans woman he came onto and she kicked him in the nuts (x.com)
 

Women have two niches in life: looking beautiful and making babies

The first niche will be taken by sexbots

The second by artificial wombs

Society will suddenly realize it doesn't need women and those in power will quickly start replacing and disempowering them.

People like to consider the positive implications of technology but they don't like to consider the negative implications

The smart strategy for women would be to ban ALL of the following:

  • sexbots
  • artificial wombs
  • trans women

Nobody except women should be allowed to look sexy(feminine sexy), look female or bear children.

To some extent TERF women like @jk_rowling are smart enough to realize that it's essential to defend the female monopoly on this stuff. But the average woman just isn't strategic enough to go along with this, and there's (as always) a collective action problem so you get defectors.

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At the AI Chatbot conference, an event suffused with use cases for guillotines (www.nplusonemag.com)
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CEO of Zoom: what if we take deepfake fraud, right, and make it a push-button feature of Zoom (www.theverge.com)
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Sam Altman makes $65k a year as CEO of OpenAI. He also makes millions from his portfolio companies doing conflicted deals with OpenAI. (www.wsj.com)
 

archive https://archive.ph/x2hx4

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"So, rather than just tell students that they’re in for a rough ride if they cram my prompt through ChatGPT, I show them." (chelseatroy.com)
 

this is AI but it felt a lot more guy with broken gear

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shocked to hear that Brian Chau, executive director of e/acc aligned AI "think tank" Alliance for the Future, has a habit of spewing jawdropping racism and sexism on main (www.transformernews.ai)
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LLMs still don't understand the word "no", much like their creators (www.quantamagazine.org)
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Defector: If Kevin Roose Was ChatGPT With A Spray-On Beard, Could Anyone Tell? (defector.com)
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 26 May 2024 (awful.systems)
 

Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

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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Switching to Linux as a Game Developer: surprisingly workable (brodybrooks.com)
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Remember how ChatGPT totally aced the bar exam? Wow! yeah, turns out that was just a lie (www.nytimes.com)
 

archive https://archive.ph/is57b

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