dgerard

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

it's gonna be a massive disaster across the wider economy, and - and this is key - absolutely everyone saw this coming a year ago if not two

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Labour are all about the billionaire donors these days.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

and a terrible pub

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

my lethal weapon is my WP:WTF

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

yeah, "Did you know" exists to encourage new articles, or major expansions of old ones. it cycles every six hours I think.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

the post history is very infosec dot pub

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Wikipedia rules make more sense when you understand they are entirely to keep the most pedantic nerds on earth from fighting

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

This is specifically about the current shitty "AI Overview" that is currently and specifically pissing people off and Google essaying that as the only interface to search. (Sure they might not, but OTOH predicting future behaviour from past behaviour.)

That they did fucking terrible overviews in the past is not some sort of excuse for the current and specific issue with the current and specific AI Overviews.

wtf with calling hating this extremely hateworthy shit "uncanny-valley reactionism"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

acronym-spouting rules lawyers who will crush dissent by a thousand duck nibbles

hey now, my duck nibbling is thoroughly weaponised

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

i applied the relevant tags and rewrote the intro, may go through the rest later

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

video version, double episode!!

this video had so many technical hiccups. the front fell off. (literally, my teleprompter tablet's screen came unglued and fell off. what the.) openshot decided rendering was toooo haaaard and i had to make a copy of the source video with a keyframe every 10 frames. fucking computers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

yeah that's the tell

 

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? 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 soo 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 thread

 

a place for it

 

this is very self-serving ass covering from the rationalist sphere

there's a glaring hole in it: what precisely the break was between Ziz and her friends and the rest of the rationals. this isn't detailed.

xcancel: https://xcancel.com/aella_girl/status/1884481375690223684

aella's document dump: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1z21U_q1tESO61iL35ertsIjZYczJrHpQ

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