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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

"What the hell do you call that routine"
"the LEMMYVERSE!"

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 19 points 1 month ago

Digital blackface was one of the first uses for genAI - turning white models or white voices "black" rather than hiring an actual black person

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

if you don't understand the concept of "digital blackface" as a specific problem, then you are not bright enough to post here

I'm not saying it's always programming.dev, but

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

yeah. Chrome exists solely to protect and enable Google's ad business. Does OpenAI think it gets three billion phones for free?

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

no no it's LYING

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

(hits you over the head with an expertly wielded M3)

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

originally nicked from an old Inquirer article i think, no longer live!

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

this URL is the PDF of the NVCA-Pitchbook Venture Capital Monitor for Q1 2025

the Q3 2024 report was comedy gold, using word mangling to present bad news as okay news

i expect this one to be more of the same

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

realy, who doesn't want to fuck Clippy

(looks around nervously)

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago

We don’t even have self driving cars outside of a very small, very expensive demo in SF

at 1.5 totally-not-drivers per car, we don't have them there eithe

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Donald Trump, so yeah

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I'm not really an accelerationist, but I'll make an exception for this

 

the old one is three weeks old, let's start another

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