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If only the “Dark Forest” hypothesis of human-extraterrestrial interaction would enter the public consciousness any sooner. We’d at least have more interesting ideas than this shit.

NB: I have not watched the 3BP adaptation yet, tho I have heard it is good. I have listened to the first two books as audiobooks and am tickled by Bruno Roubicek’s mildly (three body) problematic accent-work.

I’m like 40% sure you’ve replied to the wrong comment but in case you didn’t:

this shit must have been infuriating to get in contact with when you’re expert in the area (i’m not)

He’s not the world’s most annoying man for nothing! (Article has been discussed on old sneerclub, I think)

Non tech-focused AI scam:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/cops-called-after-parents-get-tricked-by-ai-generated-images-of-wonka-like-event/

A story from a couple months ago that I heard about just now from the scam goddess podcast.

Spourage the Spurious dog was one of my fave cartoons!

This journo: "Hmm, a guy that was deeply in this community says it's a fucked up shithole with bad politics. I'm going to ignore that aspect of it and just uncritically platform them wholesale"

the co-founder of a global accessories brand called Bellroy,

fuck now I gotta burn my bellroy shit.

https://youtu.be/qE6emvdmg-M

Oh man this is just as good/bad as I remember.

It’s you!

something something ethical consumption something something under capitalism

You’ve probably just spoken it into existence, friend

Counterpoint: it’s not not a dating app