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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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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.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (16 children)

I ended up on Know Your Meme because folks are throwing around TPOT like we're all terminally online and all understand Twitter lingo.

For anyone else confused: that part of Twitter. It's techbro "phillosophists" like Peter Thiel.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Good that you explain it, lot of people here are basically amateur TPOT/lesswrong watchers so we forget this isn't standard lingo. If you have ever seen us post about eigenrobot that is part of tpot iirc.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Someone made a... thing where you run all your mastodon toots through a prompt before posting them and thought it would be a great idea to let us lemmy users know. Comes with ugly autoplag image on the github. The names of the "bots" are hilarious: "ennui" for low-effort posts; I don't think that word means what they think it means. "Legion" for automatic spam posts. Cause that's not a dogwhistle or anything.

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

“Legion” for automatic spam posts. Cause that’s not a dogwhistle or anything.

Their name is Legion, for there are too fucking many.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Im going to assume they meant it as a reference to the Castlevania boss.

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

So the code doesn't make use of any LLM, it's just incredibly basic shit like string.toUpper(). It's curious how much the author wants to make it seem like it does. Even one guy on lemmy asks

Is it so that you don't have to read replies?

It will be added

Aargh, what's the point??

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I'm struggling to understand the fucking purpose here o.O. It feels like someone desperately trying to make anything for their portfolio or smt

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ed Zitron found this post about a WIlly-Wonka-Experience-style cheese injection facility in Toronto:

https://xcancel.com/i_zzzzzz/status/1865956680481354184#m

This is what it was like to live in Chasm City during the Melding Plague.

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

"The Fancy Induced Burger" is what you nickname your baby if your pregnancy goes past the due date

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

On the flip side, this gives American doctors a new way to explain child birth in terms of hamburgers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That is it, im joining the Conjoiners to become an engine.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

imma knight of cydonia

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Just received a newsletter from Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 about their book The AI Con - How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want being available for preorder. I'm looking forward to it!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Baldur Bjarnason just put out his interim notes on tech

Reading through his notes, I get the feeling my off-the-cuff predictions from two months ago are very likely to come true - much more likely than I had anticipated. I'm gonna focus on Predictions 2 and 3:

  1. A Decline in Tech/STEM Students/Graduates

Whether or not tech crashes like I expect, AI's likely did some serious damage to the notion of "tech/STEM = high-paying job" as it sent the job industry into turmoil (with junior positions being particularly affected).

  1. Tech/STEM’s Public Image Changes - For The Worse

Whilst my original post focused on AI turning the public against the tech industry, one thing I didn't account for was the tech industry directly aligning itself with Trump. As such, tech/STEM's public image is now firmly intertwined with Trump's public image - with predictable results.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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