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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th January 2025 - awful.systems
  • This might be a good basis for a sticky post in NotAwfulTech!

  • did scoot at one time have the mask on, cos if so that must be the *distant* past
  • When you encounter a situation where Abort, Retry, and Fail are all solid options.

  • The Origins of ~~Totalitarianism~~ Wokeness by Paul "Chodejuggler" Graham
  • How did pg get stuck in write-only mode?

  • UK government plans to splurge billions on AI — we step through the tricky details
  • Keir Starmer methodically applies clown makeup, ultimately transforming into a fully-realized Rishi Sunak

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th January 2025 - awful.systems
  • Read a rumor that zuck's marriage is falling apart, which scans.

    A second divorced man is about to hit the tower.

  • Better Offline CES 2025: Day 1 (podcast)
  • Day 3 is solid gold.

  • CES 2025 brings the gratuitous bolted-on AI
  • SV uses LLMs the same way that Orks use red paint

  • at last, OpenAI's official definition of "AGI"! Can you guess what it is?
  • Is this the leaked script for Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money?

  • Elsevier: Proudly charging you money so its AI can make your articles worse
  • That's horrible. I'm sorry you're having to deal with this nonsense!

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd December 2024
  • He's really sold the bit, hasn't he?

    Yet, if you cover up his hair, he easily scans as "generic English aristocrat."

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd December 2024
  • People probably asked the same question about the first Habsburgs.

  • Anthropic and Apollo astounded to find that a chatbot will lie to you if you tell it to lie to you
  • I used to think that comparing LLMs to people was dumb, because LLMs are just feed-forward networks--basically seven bipartite graphs in a trench coat--that are incapable of introspection.

    However, I'm coming around to the notion that some of our drive-by visitors a brain that's seven cells deep.

  • "Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."
  • Protip: If you give a hackernews 25 candies, it evolves into a programmingdotdev.

  • the dead end grift that is lab grown meat
  • The riff-raff have brought us a graft grift.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th December 2024
  • Maybe I'm being too cynical. It wouldn't be the first time this week that someone drew a spooky picture, would it?

  • Salesforce invites a horse into the hospital
    sfstandard.com Comedian John Mulaney roasts SF techies at Dreamforce

    "Let me get this straight," he said. "You're hosting a 'future of AI' event in a city that has failed humanity so miserably?"

    Comedian John Mulaney roasts SF techies at Dreamforce

    John Mulaney gets paid by prompt fondlers to tell jokes at a party. He spends 45 minutes telling them that they are idiots, which is nice.

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    Oklahoma, Alabama Now Have AI-Powered Vending Machines That Sell Bullets
    gizmodo.com Oklahoma, Alabama Now Have AI-Powered Vending Machines That Sell Bullets

    In a questionable new trend, supermarkets in the South now seem to be selling bullets right out of a dispenser.

    Oklahoma, Alabama Now Have AI-Powered Vending Machines That Sell Bullets

    When you think MURDER, think MARCUS MUNITIONS!

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