dgerard

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

and nobody describes that sort of hotel bar so well without too much time in them

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I just love how the writing style is rationalist with one weird trick

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ah, he'd understand people then? Heavy on the slipping into cultishness then

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the problem of my life. I have literally found it easier to explain Scientology than Roko's basilisk.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago

This is a work of fiction that Andrew just made up on holiday, but we are quite sure a dozen completely separate startup bros will be outraged that he lightly reskinned their life story

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Metal and industrial both have a Nazi problem and you have to get unfortunately good at sign spotting.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Unforeseen issues with training AIs using the internet: every LLM has been taught to Rickroll

https://x.com/lazerwalker/status/1825782926098968958

https://x.com/Altimor/status/1825659507617460439

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 16 points 2 days ago (6 children)

This wasn’t the first love triangle in the Heinlein residence (they had earlier been in a consensual threesome with L. Ron Hubbard)

UNSEE UNSEE

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 3 days ago

"be utterly reprehensible"

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I have long written those sort of internal business emails by first writing the "RIGHT THEN YOU FUCKER," version then euphemising it

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 3 days ago (6 children)

dear fuck,

i saw this first and immediately guessed the poster correctly

 

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.

 

think I forgot this one

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