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Yet another bit about Musk's delusions of grandeur in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago

If Jason Wilson calls you for a quote, you give him your best.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

i got quoted as an ai authority, talking about elon's rational boys https://www.dailydot.com/news/elon-musk-doge-coup-engineer-grant-democracy/

What is the charge? Eating an LLM? A succulent chinese LLM? Deepseek judo-thrown out of Australian government devices in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

looks like it's only the app, which is served from China

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

LW, one is an actual LW poster

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago

so there's a whole network of specifically Thiel-associated SF tech guys who are into particular churches

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

lol, multiple

Skynet, but it’s Wheatley: OpenAI sells ‘reasoning’ AI to US government for nuclear weapon security in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago

gemini just now:

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago (7 children)

existing class of kook - hooks into the Zizians

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

at least one matches, i forget the name but it's all over bsky

Post your current Ziz news and discussion here in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A subspecies of the tie nazi

OBJECTION! Lanyard nazis include many a shove-in-a-locker nazi

Lol. Lmao even. "DeepSeek R1 reproduced for $30: Berkeley researchers replicate DeepSeek R1 for $30—casting doubt on H100 claims and controversy" in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago

this user is just too smart for the average awful systems poster to deal with, and has been sent on his way to a more intellectual lemmy

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Meet the underpaid workers in Nairobi, Kenya, who power OpenAI (pivot-to-ai.com)
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LessWrong House Style (2023) (awful.systems)
 

https://nonesense.substack.com/p/lesswrong-house-style

Given that they are imbeciles given, occasionally, to dangerous ideas, I think it’s worth taking a moment now and then to beat them up. This is another such moment.

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Data centers drain Ireland’s power grid, add their own fossil fuel-powered generators (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Synthetic nostalgia: Punk band Dead Boys plans album with AI Stiv Bators, current vocalist quits in disgust (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Hugging Face scrapes Bluesky, surprised when Bluesky users object (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Data centers are driving up your power bills — and it’s only going to get worse (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Spines: a VC-funded vanity publisher with added AI (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Roll out the barrels of pork: Congressional committee recommends AI ‘Manhattan Project’ (pivot-to-ai.com)
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the tech utopia fantasy is over (blog.avas.space)
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ChatGPT in the classroom: OpenAI continues its education push with two new courses for teachers (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Whoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racist (pivot-to-ai.com)
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hey remember the LAUSD school district's AI bot Ed, that crashed and burned earlier this year? anyway the CEO of the vendor has just been charged with fraud (awful.systems)
 

bust report (archive)

an earlier piece on the, uh, issues in this case (it's pretty juicy)

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