David Gerard @awful.systems the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and then Reddit
https://davidgerard.co.uk/
HEARTWARMING: Baldy McDickface to step back from podcasting now the Russian money has dried up
i occasionally enjoy ogling the £17,000 gaming rigs professional number crunching business workstations on scan.co.uk. You basically see how many Nvidia cards you can actually run off 240 volts at 13 amps and cram into a case, and throw in a free CPU.
Musk thinks he's a Mind but he's Joiler Veppers and will never understand that
volunteer idealism — the usual mix of spite and whimsy
my god
NEW MISSION: we must show Elon Musk "Naked Lunch" so his next car is a cyber cockroach typewriter
it's pretty publicly known
the VCs are gonna take one heckuva bath
this user has failed peer review and has been retracted
training your sperm to pass raven's progressive matrices
The AI bubble is substantially fueled by venture capitalists looking for a lottery ticket. They’ve dragged along big tech companies who are looking for enterprise upsells. The big techs are also VC…
saluting our fallen comrade at TikTok
Chinese technology giant ByteDance denied reports that the incident caused more than $10m of damage.
momty python style giant sabot descends on Microsoft data centre
it's a little magical and not entirely reliable so i'm not a fan, but the switch is there
You might think that, come the artificial general intelligence, humanity will enjoy a world of unlimited abundance and prosperity for all, beyond money, under the watchful sensors of the superintel…
i am hearing that ProQuest has been quietly contacting small publishers to see if it can ingest their published output for AI training.
ProQuest has an AI thing now, but it's denied it's training on hosted content ... yet.
if you are, or know, an author who's had a letter of this sort recently, mentioning ProQuest or no, i'd love to know and please tell your friends - email is [email protected]
i have already had whiny shits demand that I (a) set dark mode default (b) remove the switch
default is currently set to whatever your browser thinks is the default and you can switch it otherwise
OpenAI is a Microsoft subsidiary, one step removed to insulate Microsoft from reputational damage. Microsoft has rights to all OpenAI software and already offered to take over last year when CEO Sa…
yep, i'm in touch with college hill, she's aware of our esteemed site too
imma fuckin do it again
booooo should be my personal preference (light)
pivot to ai now has working dark mode! all praise to the illustrious @[email protected]
i still hate dark mode, but others fucking love it so
our good buddy Jordan Lasker aka Cremieux aka TP0 gives a talk to Stanford libertarians
i haven't watched this but i am confident it is the most cursed fuckin thing
one hour thirty frickin eight
Mullenweg/Automattic offers a second round of 6mo redundancy pay in the hope of purging more dissenters
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg made another buyout offer this week, and threatened employees who speak to the press with termination.
archive: https://archive.is/AKASQ
Google has signed a deal with California startup Kairos Power for six or seven small modular reactors. The first is due in 2030 and the rest by 2035, for a total of 500 megawatts. [Google blog; pre…
BRING IT ON NITPICKY NUKE NERDS
Torpedoing a network of tech billionaire funded race science
Group promoting ‘dangerous’ scientific racism ideology teamed up with rightwing extremist, recordings reveal
archive: https://archive.is/cxAl8
Ethos is a restaurant in Austin that doesn’t exist. It’s completely AI-generated. And yet it has 73,000 followers on Instagram. [Instagram] Most of the food shots are slightly off — a foot-shaped p…
Year 12 students in New South Wales are currently doing their Higher School Certificate exams. Today, they got an English exam question asking them to compare a text to an AI-generated image! [Redd…
the wild tale of OpenAI vs. Open AI
archive: https://archive.ph/n2Jwi
North Omaha Station in Nebraska is a 1950s-era coal-fired power plant that belches out pollution. The station was to stop burning coal by 2023 — but Google and Facebook came to town with thirsty da…
even DHH suggests Mullenweg might wanna cool it
I'm solidly in favor of the Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL) model of open source stewardship. This is how projects from Linux to Python, from Laravel to Ruby, and yes, Rails, have kept their cohesion, decisiveness, and forward motion. It's a model with decades worth of achievements to its name. ...
archive: https://archive.is/mVF2L
Researchers at Apple have come out with a new paper showing that large language models can’t reason — they’re just pattern-matching machines. [arXiv, PDF] This shouldn’t be news to anyone here. We …
How ChatGPT nearly destroyed my wedding day
Guest post by Tracy Chou yes, that’s elvis. he’s the coda of my very own chatgpt horror story … i share this as a cautionary tale about generative ai and the ways that it supercharges incompe…
