blakestacey

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bose–Einstein condensate

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

From how they're labeled, I think they cycle every day?

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

None of my acquaintances who have Wikipedian insider experience have much familiarity with the "Did you know" box. It seems like a niche within a niche that operates without serious input from people who care about the rest of the project.

"In The News" is apparently also an editor clique with its own weird dynamics, but it doesn't elevate as many weird tiny articles to the Main Page because the topics there have to be, you know, in the news.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not the Uncanny Valley. It's Shit Mountain.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 26 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Reflection (artificial intelligence) is dreck of a high order. It cites one arXiv post after another, along with marketing materials directly from OpenAI and Google themselves... How do the people who write this shit dress themselves in the morning without pissing into their own socks?

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The "trivial" procedure for suggesting that an article be deleted was evidently written by the kids who liked programming their parents' VCR.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 24 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Counterpoint: I get to complain about whatever I want.

I could write a lengthy comment about how a website that is nominally editable by "anyone" is in practice a walled garden of acronym-spouting rules lawyers who will crush dissent by a thousand duck nibbles. I could elaborate upon that observation with an analogy to Masto reply guys and FOSS culture at large.

Or I could ban you for fun. I haven't decided yet. I'm kind of giddy from eating a plate of vegan nacho fries and a box of Junior Mints.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago (15 children)

Nothing says "these people needed more shoving into lockers" than HPMoR 10th anniversary parties.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

"Vibe coding? Back in my day, we called it teledildonics."

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 17 points 1 month ago

Please acquaint yourself with the definition of the word latter on your way to the egress.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do we have any experts on Wikipedian article-deletion practices around here? Because that looks really thinly sourced.

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