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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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

just changed the litter tray, you may wanna repost in the fresh new stubsack

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

pivot-to-ai.com needs a new theme. Blocksy looks really nice - but it doesn't work with WP Dark Mode and caches badly.

Need a 2 column blog theme suiting full short posts on the front page, that plays nice with Dark Mode. Any tips?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Have not read it yet, but seems relevant to our collective interests. NSFW due to NASB. Accelerationism, amphetamine philosophy, and the Death Trip. (A long post about Nick Land).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

you know, I’d wondered previously about the higher-than-average divinity-and-spirits obsession among TPOT. between some of the history of land/ccru there, the other shit previously observed in the stubsack (iirc?) about rightoids and aliens/fairies (and ofc the nazi history of occultism)… what a fucking faith to make

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Great article. It's always fun to read about smart people lionizing a terrible person like Aleister Crowley and inevitably going insane (or dead, in Jack Parson's case).

The article never discussed the topic directly, but for others interested in esoterica would probably enjoy reading about the concept of egregores.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No idea how true it is but apparently crowdstrike fired some of their QA and replaced it with AI, anybody heard about this? (source bsky) (Also 'AI' is doing a lot of work here, that could be anything)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I am attempting to track down this precise story.

  • They are gung ho on AI
  • They laid off a pile of their QA
  • They have a "virtual security analyst" which is an LLM
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

iirc Crowdstrike does use regular ML for security, or at least a lot of security companies, I think they might have talked about it on the risky business podcast, so you might want to look at their (many iirc) crowdstrike sponsored parts. No episode directly springs to mind however.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This can also be an area where ML is an appropriate and useful tool. You'll see it used to establish a statistical baseline for what traffic should look like and then it can flag when it detects something that doesn't match that as suspicious and worth further investigation. In this space there is actually a lot of value in some of the statistical modeling techniques, though generative AI is obviously a very different and less useful beast.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yes indeed. Which is iirc what people talked about re ML before the current hype cycle started.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (8 children)

https://xcancel.com/jrawson/status/1814232925967089808

The fuck.

Reposting this from the last Stubsack here by request.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

love is love ✌️❤️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Amazing how many of them eventually morph into somebody else. Trained on celeb faces, and still cannot keep a consistent facial shape. One more dataset bro.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

"sold by the Society of the Precious Blood" paging peter thiel

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