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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 3 points 3 hours ago

Champion sneer

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ye gods! Also, great write-up!

Do you reckon that Altman recognized the gacha potential from the get-go? That Big LLM has always been FanDuel for dorks, but on purpose?

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

A hackernews muses about vibe coding a chatbot to provide therapy for people in crisis. Soon, an actual health care professional shows up to butcher the offender and defile the corpse. This causes much tut-tutting and consternation among the locals.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44535197

Edit: a shower thought: have any of yall noticed the way that prompt enjoyers describe using Cursor, tab completions, and such are a repackaging of the psychology of loot boxes? In particular, they share the variable-interval reward schedule that serves as the hook in your typical recreational gambling machines.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mark Zuckerberg would like to know your location

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The web is often Dead Dove in a Bag as a Service innit?

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

oof! That's hilarious!

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

A Supabase employee pleads with his software to not leak its SQL database like a parent pleads with a cranky toddler in a toy store.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44502318

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is so Charlie Stross coded that I tried to read the Mastodon comments.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 11 points 6 days ago

Lesswrong is a Denial of Service attack on a very particular kind of guy

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

I'm going to put a token down and make a prediction: when the bubble pops, the prompt fondlers will go all in on a "stabbed in the back" myth and will repeatedly try to re-inflate the bubble, because we were that close to building robot god and they can't fathom a world where they were wrong.

The only question is who will get the blame.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They should have invested in a boat if they had to have a depreciating asset

 

This is peak laziness. It seems that the reading list's author used autoplag to extrude the entire 60 page supplemental insert. The author also super-promises this has never happened before.

 

Absolutely delusional wishcasting on the part of our very good friends.

 

By Timnit Gebru and Emile P. Torres

Pro-tier sneers by seasoned veterans, get em while they're hot!

Edit: I am reliably informed that it is no longer hot.

 

From the Uplifting News Department, an event that was brought to our attention by Wandering.shop member David Croyle. Specifically, that time that the administrators of rpg.net bluntly declared that their website is officially a No Nazis Bar.

There were no follow-up questions: https://wandering.shop/@croyle/113980700961699526

 

Looks like a local boy did good.

I linked the /r/nashville post since it has a good description of the website. Users can see a history of rent prices for a given property and its neighbors, which gives some leverage in negotiations. For more context, local rent prices are down 6% from highs.

I'm curious to see if it takes off, and how robust it is against adversarial tactics like bogus reports and nuisance lawsuits.

EDIT: Fixed "Blocked" issue by linking to archive

EDIT2: Also linked to the correct archive page

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Rojava has built what seems like a robust, equitable, bullshit-resistant mutual aid system in the face of incredible resistance. The idea of a system that can be an autonomous administration in some areas while operating--possibly legally--in parallel with a nation-state government in others is something I find very appealing.

I'm having a hard time understanding how the underlying system works in detail. I think this is largely due to a language barrier.

Any recommendations for Bookchin/Öcalan type reading for beginners? I've procrastinated on it because I hate reading theory (and it's always embarrassing to need hand holding at my age), but needs must. I haven't had much luck turning up English language stuff that lays out how the system works in a way I could share with a casual observer.

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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.

 

When you think MURDER, think MARCUS MUNITIONS!

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