ebu

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[–] ebu@awful.systems 10 points 7 months ago

happy to see the draft get fleshed out. good writeup

[–] ebu@awful.systems 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

with how much of a revolving door of covert white supremacists lemmy is, i can imagine it's hard to boot them out faster than they come in. just federation things

[–] ebu@awful.systems 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

they really are just sitting around the campfire telling the exact same shitty spooky story, back and forth, forever, aren't they

[–] ebu@awful.systems 12 points 7 months ago

what if we simply took the output of the easily manipulated word salad generator and parsed it into instructions for the computers that are in charge of all our communication to follow

[–] ebu@awful.systems 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Well over a year ago it was actually useful. [...] And it just doesn't come up with interesting stuff any more.

i have to admit i'm deeply curious what outputs you considering interesting enough for twenty bucks a month

[–] ebu@awful.systems 18 points 8 months ago (4 children)

i couldn't resist

Reddit post titled "The Anti-Al crowd is so toxic and ridiculous that it's actually pushed me FURTHER into Al art"

at least when this rhetoric popped up around crypto and GameStop stocks, there was a get-rich-quick scheme attached to it. these fuckers are doing it for free

[–] ebu@awful.systems 36 points 8 months ago

And yet, my opponents in discussion

good gods you're going to be the most insufferable kind of person, aren't you

You aren't going to convince me of anything

this was a bit of a given

bet you also think the climate cost of cryptocurrency is also a failing of the energy sector to deliver clean power to the innocent sweet little industrial-scale mining tycoons, don't you

[–] ebu@awful.systems 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

you do an excellent job of writing. several times reading this i had to mentally delete paragraphs of explanations for some of the rationalist thoughts and ideology because you have described it perfectly in just a sentence or two.

shared this with some of my in-tech-but-skeptical friends. you deserve a bigger audience

[–] ebu@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago

thinking "typewriter monkeys", but maybe that's too literal

[–] ebu@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago

...gods i miss n-gate

[–] ebu@awful.systems 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"rat furry" :3

"(it's short for rationalist)" >:(

[–] ebu@awful.systems 29 points 8 months ago (3 children)

What of the sources he is less favorably inclined towards? Unsurprisingly, he dismisses far-right websites like Taki’s Magazine (“Terrible source that shouldn't be used for anything, except limited primary source use.”) and Unz (“There is no way in which using this source is good for Wikipedia.”) in a virtually unanimous chorus with other editors. It’s more fruitful to examine his approach to more moderate or “heterodox” websites.

wait sorry hold on

in a virtually unanimous chorus with other editors

so what is the entire point of singling out Gerard for this, if the overwhelming majority of people already agree that far-right "news" sites like the examples given are full of garbage and shouldn't be cited?

Note: I am closer to this story than to many of my others

ahhhhhhh David made fun of some rationalist you like once and in turn you've elevated him to the Ubermensch of Woke, didn't you

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