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[–] self@awful.systems 14 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

congrats on just learning about the corporation named “Microsoft”

now fuck off

[–] self@awful.systems 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

and of course, Twitter and Facebook style influence campaigns work just as well or even better elsewhere, in communities that haven’t hardened themselves against that type of bullshit

[–] self@awful.systems 13 points 2 weeks ago

minor upside: it’s going to be a good time to make lists of people who suddenly feel comfortable to mask off

correct. keep receipts.

[–] self@awful.systems 21 points 2 weeks ago (24 children)

what a surprise, the thread all the leftist shitposters on mastodon boosted about how you’re a class traitor if you don’t vote for the Green Party (who I don’t buy as socialist) or “any other socialist party” (fucking who??? am I supposed to write “socialism” on my ballot in crayon???) conveniently went missing

anyway post your favorite fuckhead accelerationist here, mastodon’s a shooting gallery tonight

[–] self@awful.systems 33 points 2 weeks ago (28 children)

I don’t have too much coherent to say right now

fuck the fascists for what they’ve done and what they intend to do

fuck the neoliberals for doing their best to convince marginalized people that they shouldn’t defend themselves against a terrible fate

fuck the accelerationists for pumping shitheaded propaganda into the fediverse, for the victory lap they’re taking now, and for the general idea that their revolution is worth our deaths

shit’s about to get very hard and very weird and I can’t stress enough how important it is to be careful who you trust with your life

[–] self@awful.systems 9 points 2 weeks ago

This second-stage trial claims to have ironed out issues from the first-stage trial where the bot “starts to get challenging, or abusive — or even seductive.” [Public Technology]

Officials showed the bot to reporters earlier today. It would occasionally answer English questions in Welsh. It wouldn’t answer “What is the corporation tax regime?” because it didn’t like the word “regime.”

could you imagine fucking up a government contract so bad the resulting technological output starts sexting or tone policing you instead of giving correct answers to tax questions? and then you just shove it in front of the press and expect praise?

[–] self@awful.systems 30 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Ubisoft’s NFT game is going great:

Ubisoft’s NFT game, which has about 6 active players, has a game breaking exploit where one player is winning every match.

“One player pointed out that the Paulstar111 account was top of the rankings with over 56,000 matches played. It’s not yet clear how the player has been able to connect to so many games and automatically win them”

[–] self@awful.systems 9 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

oh cool, Minecraft LSD: Dream Emulator edition

which would be a cool concept, if the generative AI model weren’t incredibly prohibitively expensive to run, trained on plagiarized videos, and incapable of coherently tracking state (believe it or not, LSD: Dream Emulator does have a gameplay and progression loop… game-like things without one tend to get dull very quick)

[–] self@awful.systems 12 points 2 weeks ago

amazingly, I’ve seen (and I think banned) people who’ve tried to sealion about the sealion comic. these assholes really are shameless public masturbators

[–] self@awful.systems 17 points 2 weeks ago

it’s fucking amazing the volume of these guys who think we have a rule about tone (we don’t, we never will, spaces with rules like that end up using them against justifiably angry marginalized people) because it’s what they’re used to using as a weapon in the politics sections of reddit and lemmy, but don’t bother to see what our only written rule is (because they don’t fucking read, there’s no room for that when your whole personality is cosplaying as the smart adult in the room)

[–] self@awful.systems 13 points 2 weeks ago

I’m a little surprised that this is as hurtful as it is and that I’m surprised that I am this pricked

yeah let me help you out with that

we’ve been on the internet long enough to know how a debate shitlord says “go fuck yourself” and you came in fucking swinging

who in the fuck introduces themselves to strangers like this? of course people are hostile

anyway you failed to prove you’re not a debate shitlord so

ban reason: debate shitlord

bye

[–] self@awful.systems 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

you’re about to waste my fucking time but:

Mindset theory itself is incredibly controversial for a number of reasons, chief of which is that nobody can seem to reliably replicate the results of Dweck's academic work.

Ed links an article that talks about elements of the replication crisis in enough detail for an article where the replication crisis isn’t anywhere near on-topic, and I don’t think the article would be better if it included that detail

feel free to include evidence in your reply that you aren’t here to be a debate shitlord

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