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Video: The Røde NT-USB Mini is a lovely little podcast mic (2025) in c/notawfultech@awful.systems
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 2 points 25 minutes ago

Good ol’ rat mikes. (Rode-nt -> rodent)

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 6 hours ago

Well. I don’t want adams to win

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 8 hours ago

I can only offer my solidarity and sympathies. If I were still living in the US, I’d probably have started taking firearms training and bought some by now.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

eric adams should change his platform to “I’m not cuomo”

Meet Nate, the AGI shopping app! Yeah, it’s A Guy Instead in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 2 points 8 hours ago

Sure, but we should be calling these things out directly, rather than indirectly in a way that fuels racism.

New York mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo writes his housing plan with ChatGPT in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 21 hours ago

Cuomo

A citation on page 28 includes ChatGPT in the cited web page URL.

What’s with this homie dissin’ my URL

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago

some parrots are more stochastic than others

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I checked the link, the thread elaborates a bit more:

to which my understanding is: this is absolutely true as well.

Meet Nate, the AGI shopping app! Yeah, it’s A Guy Instead in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 3 days ago

Hey, as long as we can learn from this, then we are doing our best to keep this bar nazi-free.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I think it's accurate that the US and England didn't join to stop the Holocaust. Sentence 3 is a little oversimplified, and sentence 4 is straight-up lunacy.

Meet Nate, the AGI shopping app! Yeah, it’s A Guy Instead in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yes, exactly. The same capitalist/colonialist/imperialist forces that exploit the global south are the same that want AI to automate everyone into abject poverty. We can do better and show class solidarity by not perpetuating these racist stereotypes.

Meet Nate, the AGI shopping app! Yeah, it’s A Guy Instead in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 13 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Let’s drop the “indian” part of this and come up with something else, please.

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Musk accretes Gebbia, wants to run an AirBnB out of 1600 Pennsylvania (archive.md)
 

Original NYT title: Billionaire Airbnb Co-Founder Is Said to Take Role in Musk’s Government Initiative

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What is the charge? Eating an LLM? A succulent chinese LLM? Deepseek judo-thrown out of Australian government devices (archive.is)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by swlabr@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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Original link

OFC if there were any real sense or justice in the world, LLMs would be banned outright.

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OpenAI says stealing is wrong and bad unless they do it (archive.md)
 

original article

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Musk presses H twice to perform the Nazi salute twice on stage at inauguration. (awful.systems)
 

No link given because it's all over the news. If you ask for proof you're going to have to eat my ass.

A lot of people are going to say it wasn't intended as a Nazi salute, and to that, I say: it doesn't matter. Was it a dog whistle? A variation of a Nazi salute from a South African neo-nazi party? Or just the vanilla salute? Such pontification is a waste of time. Fokker is a Nazi; you didn't need to see him salute. To all the regulars here, Musk being a Nazi is just an axiom of his whole deal. I mean, it's not called technofascism for nothing.

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Grimes defends Musk’s gaming honor, for “personal pride” (xcancel.com)
 

Just for my personal pride, I would like to state that the father of my children was the first american druid in diablo to clear abattoir of zir and ended that season as best in the USA. He was also ranking in Polytopia, and beat Felix himself at the game. I did observe these things with my own eyes. There are other witnesses who can verify this. That is all.

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GM avoids reinventing a bus or a train with this one weird trick (archive.md)
 

Original link

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Are we going to see prediction markets enter mainstream journalism? Taylor Lorenz says yes (archive.md)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by swlabr@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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original link

“If all of this sounds like a libertarian fever dream, I hear you. But as these markets rise, legacy media will continue to slide into irrelevance.”

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SF tech startup Scale AI, worth $13.8B, accused of widespread wage theft (archive.md)
 

original link

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Elon is constructing a texas compound to trap, err, I mean, house his ex wives and children (www.nytimes.com)
 

Didn’t see this news posted but please link previous correspondence if I missed it.

https://archive.is/XwbY0

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Microsoft says EU to blame for the world's worst IT outage (www.euronews.com)
 

Kind of sharing this because the headline is a little sensationalist and makes it sound like MS is hard right (they are, but not like this) and anti-EU.

I mean, they probably are! Especially if it means MS is barred from monopolies and vertical integration.

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The Star Fox-style roguelite whose dev refused to use AI voices to cut costs is adding an entire "anti-capitalist revenge" campaign about a cat-girl destroying AI (www.gamesradar.com)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by swlabr@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
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Uncritically sharing this article with naive hope. Is this just PR for a game? Probably. Indies deserve as much free press as possible though.

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An AI beauty pageant? Miss me with that Miss AI. (www.forbes.com)
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