[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Telstra, partnering with shitty people and throwing money at a shitty technology? What year is this, <any year of Telstra's private operation>?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I think in this thread it’s not “this thing is gross because it involves sex stuff”, it’s “this sex stuff is made gross by the involvement of aella and co, who we understand to have fundamentally different and incorrect ideas about ethics both in general and specific to sex”

Basically anything Aella touches merits a sniff test.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

Seeing Yarvin mansplain eugenics really does make one wonder how he doesn't just get suckerpunched whenever he says anything at someone in public.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

I didn’t know that uwu news influencer was a thing.

It's probably a thing where if you start thinking about it, it's always been around, but we've just never had the right vocabulary to describe it.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Opening up the sack with your new favourite uwu news influencer giving a quick shout-out to our old pals, the NRx. Hoped that we wouldn’t get here, but here we are, regardless.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

i’m gonna need a hint here, boss. Here’s my guesses:

my guesses

  • Jim Carrey (eggman from live action sonic)
  • DJT (campaigned on price of eggs)
  • m12n (looks like an egg)
  • that one LWer that posts really long anti-trans screeds (probably not this person but it’s tempting to label them as an egg)
[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I thought this was a joke about post-grad studies that I didn’t get

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Another big oof. Hippie ass white guy saying that we should just JAQ off and give other problematic white guys a chance. Sounds about white!

Also his book is co/ghost written by Neil Strauss, the game/PUA manual guy.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Vercel? What’s the ver stand for? (jk)

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Oof that’s the good stuff. Chuds with overly self-inflated egos co-opting eastern philosophy for tech shit is pretty well known around these parts. It’s refreshing to see it from a slightly different white guy.

Also, my usual muckraking bore unexpected fruit:

I’m gonna believe it. The Candace Owens part is disputed, and I daresay debunked, though.

text of tweet inside imageFrom @BootsRiley:

Now is as good a time as any to tell people that Rick Rubin is a behind-the-scenes rightwinger who tries to recruit music industry folks to Q-anon type stuff and is who (according to Kanye) convinced Kanye to meet Candace Owens and endorse Trump.

He just looks like a hippie.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Adam ruined his ruination. He truly does ruin everything

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Didn’t see this news posted but please link previous correspondence if I missed it.

https://archive.is/XwbY0

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This is somewhat tangential to the usual fare here but I decided to make a post because why not.

I’ve been listening to the back catalog of the Judge John Hodgman podcast, and this ep came up. This ep is the second crypto based case after “crypto facto” in ep 333.

John Hodgman is a comedian, probs best known for being the “I’m a PC” guy in the “I’m a Mac” ad campaign from ancient times. In the podcast, he plays a fake judge that hears cases and makes judgements. In this ep, “Suing for Soul Custody,” he hears a case in which a husband wants to sell his soul on the blockchain, while his wife does not want him to do that.

Some good sneers against the crypto bro husband (in both this case and the other I linked). Brief spoilers as to the rulings in case you don’t want to listen:

333Judge rules that the husband should continue to mine ETH until his rig burns down his house.

556Judge rules that the guy shouldn’t sell his soul, for symbolic reasons.

Note: I like John Hodgman. He’s funny. He’s not really inside the tech space, but he is good friends with Jonathan Coulton, who is. If all you know of him is the “I’m a PC” ads, he has an entertaining wider catalogue worth checking out.

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On the hottest and coldest days, when demand for electricity peaks and the price rockets, the bitcoin miners either sell power back to providers at a profit or stop mining for a fee, paid by ercot. Doing so has become more lucrative than mining itself. In August of 2023 Riot collected $32m from curtailing mining and just $8.6m from selling bitcoin.

Archive link: https://archive.md/O8Cz9

[-] [email protected] 87 points 8 months ago

LLMs, and everyone who uses them to process information:

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Kind of sharing this because the headline is a little sensationalist and makes it sound like MS is hard right (they are, but not like this) and anti-EU.

I mean, they probably are! Especially if it means MS is barred from monopolies and vertical integration.

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Wish I had a screengrab of this, but occasionally when I open the awful.systems page, it looks like I've logged in as a different user. Just now the username "autumnal" appeared instead of my own. Don't know how to reproduce.

This has happened in chrome on macosx a few times, haven't seen it elsewhere.

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TIL that television program “The Boys” has an in universe cryptocurrency as a satire of, well, cryptocurrency in general but also specifically that time when DJT was selling NFTs. They occasionally tweet about it.

It has a listing on the “BSCScan” crypto tracker under the name “VTC” so someone might have actually minted it? It might surprise some of you that I have no way of telling the realness of such a thing.

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Uncritically sharing this article with naive hope. Is this just PR for a game? Probably. Indies deserve as much free press as possible though.

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Followup to part 1, which now has a transcript!

As is tradition, I am posting this link without having listened to it. (too many podcasts)

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Just a lil tidbit of news of some web3 based company going away.

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