you’re pushing the “But on the other hand most hard quality of life indicators are up globally” line but like, the number of negative things you’ve listed is more than the positives.
I mean, it’s almost as if you are manipulating yourself into questioning and rejecting reality*. You should stop doing that
*there is no one word description for this action. Believe me, I looked, and I’d use it if it existed.
am beyond flattered that my name suggestion was chosen, we will watch GAS's career with great interest
fwiw i attribute this to the stop doing x meme (that I believe skillissuer is referencing):
been thinking about making one for (memory) safe c++, but unfortunately I don’t know the topic deep enough to make the meme good
Ugh. Tangentially related: a streamer I follow has been getting lots of people in her chat saying that one of the taters wants to hire her. I've started noticing comments like "I love white culture" and weird fantasies about the roman empire. Historically she's also been asked multiple times what her ethnicity is (she is white), specifically if she is scandanavian, which I am starting to view under some kind of white supremacist lens. I've told her to ignore anything mentioning the taters or "top g" as one of them is known.
Honestly, I'm worried that she could get brigaded by these creeps, even if she shows no response whatsoever.
obligatory IBCK.
Article is basically this but all the food is made of glass fibres and sawdust
Ah, the highest form of art appreciation: badly designed surveys.
you just need to get more familiar with your AI PC
they haven’t released autoplag sexbots yet
People who struggle to find basic things via web searches. That is, before the somewhat recent ratcheted up enshitification
This is you: LLMs are good, except they are enshittifying search, which follows from the fact that LLMs are bad. But actually, even though they are bad, I know how to use them, so LLMs are good, actually. Normies are dumb and I’m better than them and it doesn’t matter if search is good or bad, normies r dumb and normies will never learn to google good which they can learn from me, a LLM understander who is very smart
I’m pretty fucking tired of seeing all the ads for computers with integrated AI chips. You’re telling me you made an RV for the virtual dumbass and you want me to pay for it? Fuck off!
Filing this away in my “Mao was right, let’s ‘abolish’ the landlords” folder
Strap in and start blasting the Depeche Mode.
Pokemon Go To The War Crimes
Absolutely no one could have predicted this
Eeps: 90%. I have found something to disagree with:
Everybody loves Puerto Rican music (please get on this, you’re missing out)
I cannot stand reggaeton, so this is a no from me.
Eepy Status*: about 20% of the way through. This is all I have to share so far:
Bjarne Stroustrup? More like, Blarney Should-Shut-Up.
*yes, short for epistemic status. Don’t like it? Good, mission accomplished.
Edit: Eepyness: 60% of the way through.
This is a masterclass in tea spilling. So many shots fired at fucking everything. I am in awe.
Elon is constructing a texas compound to trap, err, I mean, house his ex wives and children
As the billionaire warns of population collapse and the moral obligation to have children, he’s navigating his own complicated family.
Didn’t see this news posted but please link previous correspondence if I missed it.
https://archive.is/XwbY0
Should a man be allowed to sell his soul on the blockchain? (Podcast ep dated 23rd February 2022)
This is somewhat tangential to the usual fare here but I decided to make a post because why not.
I’ve been listening to the back catalog of the Judge John Hodgman podcast, and this ep came up. This ep is the second crypto based case after “crypto facto” in ep 333.
John Hodgman is a comedian, probs best known for being the “I’m a PC” guy in the “I’m a Mac” ad campaign from ancient times. In the podcast, he plays a fake judge that hears cases and makes judgements. In this ep, “Suing for Soul Custody,” he hears a case in which a husband wants to sell his soul on the blockchain, while his wife does not want him to do that.
Some good sneers against the crypto bro husband (in both this case and the other I linked). Brief spoilers as to the rulings in case you don’t want to listen:
333
Judge rules that the husband should continue to mine ETH until his rig burns down his house.
556
Judge rules that the guy shouldn’t sell his soul, for symbolic reasons.
Note: I like John Hodgman. He’s funny. He’s not really inside the tech space, but he is good friends with Jonathan Coulton, who is. If all you know of him is the “I’m a PC” ads, he has an entertaining wider catalogue worth checking out.
Playing energy market has become more profitable than mining bitcoin
Playing the state’s energy market has become more profitable than mining bitcoin
> On the hottest and coldest days, when demand for electricity peaks and the price rockets, the bitcoin miners either sell power back to providers at a profit or stop mining for a fee, paid by ercot. Doing so has become more lucrative than mining itself. In August of 2023 Riot collected $32m from curtailing mining and just $8.6m from selling bitcoin.
Archive link: https://archive.md/O8Cz9
Up to 8.5 million Windows devices were affected by Friday's IT outage after Crowdstrike's antivirus update went awry.
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.
Occasionally my username appears incorrect
Wish I had a screengrab of this, but occasionally when I open the awful.systems page, it looks like I've logged in as a different user. Just now the username "autumnal" appeared instead of my own. Don't know how to reproduce.
This has happened in chrome on macosx a few times, haven't seen it elsewhere.
VoughtCoin is a cryptocurrency created by Vought International. On December 15, 2022, Vought International announced that VoughtCoin can be used to purchase digital collectible cards of Homelander. Each authentic and non-fungible card be purchased for 777 VoughtCoin. The use of cryptocurrency to pur...
TIL that television program “The Boys” has an in universe cryptocurrency as a satire of, well, cryptocurrency in general but also specifically that time when DJT was selling NFTs. They occasionally tweet about it.
It has a listing on the “BSCScan” crypto tracker under the name “VTC” so someone might have actually minted it? It might surprise some of you that I have no way of telling the realness of such a thing.
Whisker Squadron: Survivor "feels like a whole new game"
Uncritically sharing this article with naive hope. Is this just PR for a game? Probably. Indies deserve as much free press as possible though.
Peter and Michael discuss Michael Lewis’s bestselling book about the rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, a young prodigy whose only flaw was that he dreamed too big.Where to find us: Peter's other podcast, 5-4Mike's other podcast, Maintenance...
As is tradition I am sharing this link without having listened yet.
An AI beauty pageant? Miss me with that Miss AI.
In a contest sponsored by Fanvue, models and influencers crafted from artificial intelligence can now jockey for the title "Miss AI."
2 Better 2 AngelsSupport us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/IfBooksPodWhere to find us: Peter's other podcast, 5-4Mike's other podcast, Maintenance PhaseSources:Jeffrey Epstein’s Science of SleazePinker’s response to Epstein allegationsHow...
Followup to part 1, which now has a transcript!
As is tradition, I am posting this link without having listened to it. (too many podcasts)
Guy who “would convince employees to take shots of pricey Don Julio tequila, work 20-hour days attend 2am meetings” wants to own WeWork again
Former CEO of shared office space rental company has reportedly been in talks with investors
Google is as Google does
Jalon Hall was featured on Google’s corporate social media accounts “for making #LifeAtGoogle more inclusive!” She says the company discriminated against her on the basis of her disability and race.
A Mildura man has allegedly pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars after a cryptocurrency trading platform accidentally added an extra zero to the funds in his account.
A Colorado-based pastor for an online church accused of pocketing $1.3 million through a cryptocurrency fraud scheme told followers in a video statement that the Lord told him to do it.
“We couldn’t find enough people for our Ponzi scheme, bye”
Just a lil tidbit of news of some web3 based company going away.
Ex-OpenAI board member Tasha McCauley is deep state because she married Joseph Gordon-Levitt
As the very public custody battle over OpenAI's artificial intelligences winds down, I would like to point out a few facts, and then comment briefly…
Found this because an article on Helen Toner popped up in my feed and I wanted to find out more, and boy did I find out more.
Refreshing on mobile logs you out sometimes
Not sure how much needs to be said here. Sometimes I come back to a tab with a.s open and refresh, then get logged out. I’m using chrome on iOS but this might be reproducible on other browser/platform combinations.
Roko’s Basilisk gets a shoutout on CONAF, hypothetically dooming many unsuspecting listeners to… nothing, basically.
Comedian and actor Patton Oswalt feels radiant about being Conan O’Brien’s friend.
Discussion on AI starts at about 17mins. The Bas(ilisk) drop happens at 20:30. Sorry if ads mess up my time stamps. I think this is the second time it’s come up on the show.
A (non-tech) comedy podcast I like covered FTX!
What’s Poppin’ Con-gregation? This week, Josiah Johnson joins the show to discuss Sam Bankman-Fried, once considered the biggest wunderkind of crypto, establishing his crypto currency exchange only for it to collapse in November 2022.
Don't expect a good or deep analysis of FTX or any TREACLESy stuff here.