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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Taking over for Gerard this time. Special thanks to him for starting this.)

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[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

does anyone know why Venmo has a faux social media presentation? a feed, payments visible to other users (??) by default, etc

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Though if I had to guess: data tagging for data mining.

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

AI researchers continue to daub soot on the walls of Plato's cave, scaring themselves witless:

https://www.emergent-values.ai/

At least I've IDd the transmission vector from LW to lobste.rs

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In lighter news, has anyone else noticed that it's necessary for any kind of Cybersecurity course to open with what is effectively a Tumblr-style DNI for unethical hackers? Like, I'm not criticizing exactly and I certainly don't have any better ideas to prevent people using these skills for evil, but the disclaimer up top fits into a certain kind of pattern that I, for one, find hilarious.

[–] rook@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

Encouraging news: Thompson Reuters has won a copyright case against defunct AI firm Ross Intelligence, with the judge ruling that training your ai on copyrighted works is not fair use. I’m interested to see where this goes next.

https://www.wired.com/story/thomson-reuters-ai-copyright-lawsuit/

[–] dovel@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

A massive fan favorite in this community and CEO of a thermodynamics startup recently linked up with Grimes.

Nitter link: https://xcancel.com/BasedBeffJezos/status/1889072622409064649#m

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I feel like there's something to be said about how merely wearing a suit apparently means "Bond villain aesthetics". Or is posing with a pretty young woman what makes the suit Bond villainy?

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

It's "Bond villain aesthetics" if the "villain" you mean is the big guy guarding the next location who acts intimidating for five seconds before Bond suplexes him and walks inside anyway, quipping.

Also, Grimes is not even offering table stakes for being a Bond girl here. Like, she's an extra in the club through which Bond quickly passes in order to find the actual Bond girl. She's not a vaguely trans-coded Famke Janssen bringing herself to orgasm by machine-gunning an entire room of technicians while Gottfried John looks on with a "what the fuck, tovarisch" eyebrow lift.

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

couldn't find if this has featured here before, so linking for others as I figure a few of you are likely to appreciate: destroy AI

bonus, learned about asrg and an art piece that goes immensely hard

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