blakestacey

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago

The level of fucked we are is too big for words

I wanted to say something darkly comedic about the AI bubble popping under the new regime, but my heart is too sick to make a joke

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

My sense growing up in Huntsville was that the airport ads for defense contractors were kind of like, e.g., Exxon sponsoring a pavilion at EPCOT. The intent wasn't to push any specific consumer towards buying any specific product, but to pump out a positive image for the company generally.

And a lot of those contractors' people fly through Huntsville on business. (For those not in the know: The airport is just down the highway from Redstone Arsenal, which is where we brought all them Nazis we recruited to help us beat the Commies to the Moon. The only reason Huntsville exists as more than a sleepy/dying cotton mill town is the space program and missile warfare.) There may well be deals along the lines of "advertise here and your people get the cushy lounge".

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago

"I have been unfailingly polite, and [your lemmy instance has] been nothing but rude."

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 20 points 1 month ago

Downvoting because you are a dorkus

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 24 points 1 month ago (17 children)

eigenrobot:

almost every smart person I talk to in tech is in favor of mandatory eugenic polygynous marriages in order to deal with the fertility crisis. people are absolutely fed up with the lefty approach of using generational insolvency as a pretextual cudgel to install socialism.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

Ah, Huntsville. Where the downtown convention hall is the Werner von Braun Center.

🎶 the man whose allegiance is ruled by expedience 🎶

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gauss–Jordan elimination, maybe?

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 20 points 1 month ago

"Your mother was volatile with poor control last night, Trebek!"

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

Musk lookin' like he just sipped from the wrong Grail in that photo

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 74 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"When I have a disagreement with a girl, I hit my balls with a hammer. There is absolutely nothing she can do; it's a brutal mog."

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Fortune magazine reports:

In separate investigations completed by the blockchain firms Chaos Labs and Inca Digital and shared exclusively with Fortune, analysts found that Polymarket activity exhibited signs of wash trading, a form of market manipulation where shares are bought and sold, often simultaneously and repeatedly, to create a false impression of volume and activity. Chaos Labs found that wash trading constituted around one-third of trading volume on Polymarket’s presidential market, while Inca Digital found that a “significant portion of the volume” on the market could be attributed to potential wash trading, according to its report.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

A reminder that we have a music recommendation thread for recommendations of sounds that are better than slop.

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