(I get the feeling we’re close to this bubble’s end.)
Anyways, 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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
That’s it, I’m trying a 9front this weekend
Any other no slop instances? especially that don’t federate with the proslop ones?
From Vulncheck’s blog:
AI is a valuable tool for finding vulnerabilities, and I’m not discounting that. But seven months in, the evidence still doesn’t match the launch narrative. The CVEs are a sliver of this year’s total, almost none are being exploited, fixes have stalled while duplicates and withdrawals pile up, and the triage burden is shifting onto the open source maintainers Glasswing promised to help. The receipts keep coming in. They still don’t reconcile.
55% false-positive rate. The only useful tool there is the one writing that blog post.
The only useful tool there is the one writing that blog post.
Did your fingers start smoking while writing that?
El-Sayed supports Bernie’s call to pause AI
so needless to say, dark times ahead for the AI industry
It will be very interesting to see who/which firms among the VC class attempt to buy off the new Democrats, and who sticks to A16Z’s “build! techno-optimism!” bit.
I feel like Anthropic will try to bend to the dems
I’m actually enjoying how relevant AI 2027 is staying, it’ll make it harder for the boosters to downplay it and easier for us to sneer at it over the next few years as it becomes increasingly blatant how wrong it was.
Isn’t it pretty bad for the scenario that the China nationalising stuff didn’t happen, since a race with China is the main fuel for the scenario’s fire? Most of the stuff they got correct this time around were no-brainers (business gurus talking about AI and the market for junior engineers being in turmoil) plus, they didn’t get the ‘people who know how to use AI are making a killing’ mostly right either
Anyways still extremely doubtful of superhuman coders in March 2027
oh, so right wing Christian eschatology, but without any of the Jesus.
we got Robo-Jesus instead
We thought we were making Robojesus but instead wound up with ED-209 Lazarus
Authors, maintainers, editors and distributors of “this software” would pledge to ensure the software remained free and publicly accessible, and would also vow to “take his or her own life with a sword upon failure to uphold any of the pledges in this license,” the illustration read. It was labeled “Source Seppuku License,” an apparent reference to a traditional Japanese ritual suicide.
got its own post
me, 6:00am on a Sunday: “Maybe this week everybody will act completely normal”
me, 6:05am very same Sunday: “No, you’re right. that was a very naive thought”
We must continue to invest trillions of dollars in data centers or else we will get beat off by the Chinese.
https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3mzv5uqbxy22u
I don’t actually care about the spying (in fact I hope china owns the usa and installs a puppet regime so usaians get to experience it for once (not actually, but I would strongly enjoy a collapse of the empire)) but my god the jokes are hilarious.
You reckon you keeps the leather jacket on to hide hickies?
it keeps the stank in when skipping showers
