[-] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 7 hours ago

yeah, subculturally they're unrelated strains

like, just factually in terms of history, they're unrelated strains. LW rats come in a straight line from the Extropians in the '90s. The previous-millennium skeptics have crossover with those guys, but they're not the same as a group at all.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 19 hours ago

how did it not click that lcamtuf was an ex-rat

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

i need to ping ludicity for a pod

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Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid - welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned so 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.

last week's edition

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago

Patreon essayed upon going slop, and the creators roundly rejected it

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago

Olivia Squizzle: Becoming a certified hater

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOQcpF9h9Z0

a heartwarming start to your day

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what we do when all this is over

https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250717-kim-crawley-recovering-after-gen-ai - podcast

time: 32 min 54 sec

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 4 days ago

Balaji's free floating independent network state turns out to be subject to national laws of Malaysia https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3360679/malaysias-anwar-warns-any-israelis-johor-tech-commune-be-deported-immediately

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 4 days ago

Pause AI is exceedingly well funded by rich EAs and is fully EA in its internal chats. The Nazi Bar against AI.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago

looks like a confluence of dumb shit that may or may not result in anything that means anything or does anything

there was a big blockchain push from 2019 on, basically in response to Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency plan. This directly brought us the e-CNY central bank digital currency. They tried to do this with a blockchain, but quickly realised you weren't going to scale a blockchain to fucking China. So far e-CNY is just another phone money like Alipay or Tenpay. I suppose it's a public good to have cash be under public control and not just private control, but it doesn't really have a compelling use case in its own right.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

i mean, he was a rationalist EA who tweeted pronatalism

i saw TPOTs on Twitter going "shit I know him"

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 4 days ago

for those not following it's https://mas.to/@zzt/

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‘It gave us steps on what we have to do ... 18 of us died in the process’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVk8tCvC-YY&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260713-terrorists-are-using-ai-and-the-chatbot-is-killing-them - podcast

time: 8 min 05 sec

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 141 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

note: tech sociopath apologists in this thread will be removed and banned for everyone's best interests

edit: or just acting like a pointless dipshit. jfc you people

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