David Gerard
the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
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David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•The AI Photoshop clones: interface mockups that don’t workEnglish
0·7 days agothe video push reeks of paid promotion
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TechTakes@awful.systems•So, what are the new datacenters even for?English
0·7 days agotante thinks come the bubble pop, surveillance bureaucracy will buy the now cheap rigs, cos they have a use for that much ML compute
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TechTakes@awful.systems•AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTOEnglish
0·9 days agomacro-microdosing
Silicon Valley makes a lot more sense if you first assume everyone rich is off their fucking tree
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TechTakes@awful.systems•AI game demo is going broke on just 430 playersEnglish
0·9 days agoNot convinced that makes any substantive difference.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI game demo is going broke on just 430 playersEnglish
0·9 days agowhaaat? I’m not seeing that in my channel interface and it’s not showing as such in a private window. What are you seeing?
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SneerClub@awful.systems•What's a good name for an anti-TESCREAL nonprofit?English
0·15 days agogetting there, tho i fear the New Atheist failure mode
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MoreWrite@awful.systems•There Will be no Redemption for Ezra KleinEnglish
0·2 months agoEzra Klein so centrist, he could both-sides a Moebius strip
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MoreWrite@awful.systems•There Will be no Redemption for Ezra KleinEnglish
0·2 months agoah but if you assume a perfectly spherical polity of uniform density in a vacuum at absolute zero,, klein will still be wrong
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MoreWrite@awful.systems•There Will be no Redemption for Ezra KleinEnglish
0·2 months agothere’s this: https://nymag.com/news/features/ezra-klein-2014-2/
While Klein is being circumspect about the operational details of Project X, he suggests that breaking-news squibs could be very short and attached to constantly updated background articles, a bit like Wikipedia entries written by professional journalists. Long features might be regularly freshened up.
David Gerard@awful.systemsto
MoreWrite@awful.systems•There Will be no Redemption for Ezra KleinEnglish
0·2 months agoyeah, it was so inept and un wikilike that you would hardly believe it, but they honestly thought it would compete.
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MoreWrite@awful.systems•There Will be no Redemption for Ezra KleinEnglish
0·2 months agoI wrote a thing a decade or more ago I can’t find now, about the early history of Vox’s “explainers”. They were literally wanting to replace Wikipedia as a go-to.
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SneerClub@awful.systems•Our friends open brokerage accountsEnglish
0·3 months agoMitchell, you’ve been around rationalism long enough.
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 23 June 2024English
0·2 years agoif i only could, i’d prompt-engineer God,





















if only there were links that answered the question