Ok, so, some typical clueless VC mixed up atlas and sisyphus, which absolutely tracks. A VC thinks they are performing the all-important task of holding up the universe, when really they are just pushing a boulder up a hill and letting it fall down again.

VCs really think they are prometheus bringing fire to man, when really they are the eagle eating prometheus’s ever regrowing liver, where prometheus is the working class and the liver is collective wellbeing.

If you gotta conclude with, “tee hee! simulation theory!” you’re not just cooked… you’re seared and roasted

So why must binary digits define, for all time, the limits of computation, and our experience of it?

There’s enough layers of irony here that it’s a bit hard to tell if he’s making a serious argument here or not; but this is one of the weirder straw-men arguments I’ve ever read.

“No no no, it’s not all the exploitation, social ills, lack of user control, shoddy quality, and general capitalism I hate in the modern “tech” industry; it’s the fact that it uses binary!”

I mean, up until this year they would both have been beat by Clallum County, WA, which had matched the National winner since Gerald Ford. So way to identify the best of the losers I guess?

I was watching an old Day9 stream today and this story is bouncing off of some comments he made about the importance of degenerate players to competitive design. Like, this is a pretty dumb outcome of regulation, but at the same time if you try to define regulations to create an exception for what “everybody knows” is in something suddenly that process gets taken advantage of by self-interested manufacturers who will figure out how to convincingly argue that “everybody knows” their generic shampoo contains peanuts and shellfish or whatever. And in the context of this kind of regulation that degenerate play will get people killed.

Gasp

This is just like the fall of Rome.

E: eurgh the people arguing against regs that help people with allergies.

same type of people who call everything a communist social credit score btw

Competitive college admissions and tech-industry hiring practices really have done permanent damage to these people, haven’t they

TL;DR:

AI will take over the economy for reasons so humans will have no economic value for reasons which is terrifying for reasons and also we can’t just have males sitting around because y’know so we need to make a pretend economy because communism. So anyway y’know PageRank? Well don’t be shocked but humans have relationships too. So yeah basically let’s distribute ownership of all the world’s resources once a month proportionally to how many likes they receive (no I am not a vtuber why do you ask?).

What the heck did I just read?

Whuffie, but worse

also, I thought these guys loved The Culture…

If you find yourself saying

There isn’t a single good term in English for people who are post-pubertal but below the legal age of consent or majority

you may already be morally diseased.

Least insane ESR post

On top of the disgusting subject matter, why do these people think that even unlimited-character Twitter is a good format for posting these screeds? The site design, even on the main site, is absolutely terrible for presenting this much writing. Everything mashed into the constrained center column means way too many line breaks, meaning it’s a chore to read. Same thing with that freak Ackman; whatever overwrought bullshit he was posting just made my eyes glaze over.

yikes on bikes

no part of me is surprised that every famous FOSS personality has a ridiculously bad age of consent take, but it is a real fucking problem that this keeps happening

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Considering the user is trying to cheat on a test about elder care of all things, Gemini might have a point there

all the replies anthropomorphizing the LLM cause it generated something creepy and they don’t know why aren’t surprising, but for some reason this one really pisses me off:

I just checked out the conversation and it looks legit. So weird. I cannot imagine why it would generate a completion like this. Tell your brother to buy a lottery ticket.

an LLM generating absolute garbage that happens to be abusive in some way is a lottery ticket event, is it? I had no idea lottery wins happened that fucking frequently

I guess including 4chan in the training data was a mistake.

The couple’s long conversations about transgender people haven’t gotten as much attention, with just 2,500 views on a video in which they “explore the fine line between genuine gender dysphoria and the allure of a ‘trans cult’ that may lead non-trans individuals to make life-altering decisions.”

Oh boy an hour long video about how the trans are transing eachother as part of a trans cult!

But why aren’t they concerned about kids being tricked into the life altering decision of being an “anti-woke” podcaster? 🤔

Edit – made it through most of that video (how??) and it’s a bunch of reaching and fear mongering while trying to sound like principled conservatives. The funniest part was probably them blaming anime avatars for trans people.

Edit – just kidding the funniest part was the guy calling trans people the “priest class” of urbanism. Worship me and I shall bless you with seperated bicycle lanes and bountiful farmers markets!

Running for office is just a stunt for these people. More unearned publicity.

Bluesky is backed by a cryptocurrency venture capitalists, which makes me nervous: https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a – but in the same press release they reassure people that they’re not about to go all NFT (Non-Fun Tokens) just because of their backers.

This does not change the fact that the Bluesky app and the AT Protocol do not use blockchains or cryptocurrency, and we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience (through tokens, crypto trading, NFTs, etc.).

Oh wow, Dorsey is the exact reason I didn’t want to join it. Now that he jumped ship maybe I’ll make an account finally

Honestly, what could he even be doing at Twitter in its current state? Besides I guess getting that bag before it goes up or down in flames

e: oh god it’s a lot worse than just crypto people and Dorsey. Back to procrastinating

Dorsey jumping ship’s about as good a reason as any to jump to Bluesky, especially considering Twitter’s currently haemorrhaging users from the one-two-three punch of the AI training, the crippled blocking and THE ELECTION^tm.

By my guess, the AI training is probably doing the most damage - that one’s prompting artists to bolt for the exits, and if Tumblr’s NSFW ban taught me anything, its that if the artists start leaving, they’re gonna start taking their fans with them.

You know shit’s about to get real when the walmart greeter turns off her body cam.

Didn’t have that on my bingo card for this year, but it’s on brand. A big part of The Onion’s MO is just riding out the insanity and inject a little of their own.