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the tech utopia fantasy is over (blog.avas.space)
The article in which Scott compares John Henry's mining capacity to the Machine's in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

link?

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

note that cwebber wrote the ActivityPub spec, btw

On “Safe” C++: An Odyssey of Sneers in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

good thing Rust is only run by Palantir

I hear bitcoin is supposed to be good now. Is it a new bubble yet? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

nor any other

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I hear bitcoin is supposed to be good now. Is it a new bubble yet? (davidgerard.co.uk)
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ChatGPT in the classroom: OpenAI continues its education push with two new courses for teachers (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Whoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racist in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Mao just read his Adam Smith

Whoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racist in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

especially for such important things like fucking tenant screening.

you must understand: this is a feature

Whoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racist in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

sorry that sign's been updated

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Whoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racist (pivot-to-ai.com)
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Centrists Don't Fucking Be Like This challenge not achieved yet again

https://social.kernel.org/notice/AoGpED4fw3LSGhxTLU

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (15 children)

The mask comes off at LWN, as two editors (jake and corbet) dive in to frantically defend the honour of Justine fucking Tunney against multiple people pointing out she's a Nazi who fills her projects with racist dogwhistles

https://lwn.net/Articles/998196/

hey remember the LAUSD school district's AI bot Ed, that crashed and burned earlier this year? anyway the CEO of the vendor has just been charged with fraud in c/[email protected]
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hey remember the LAUSD school district's AI bot Ed, that crashed and burned earlier this year? anyway the CEO of the vendor has just been charged with fraud (awful.systems)
 

bust report (archive)

an earlier piece on the, uh, issues in this case (it's pretty juicy)

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (6 children)

now seeing EAs being deeply concerned about RFK running health during a H5N1 outbreak

dust specks vs leopards

Coca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expect in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

they'll have to comfort themselves with a Coke(tm), apparently it's a Surreal Thing

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Pumping the AI bubble: a data center funding craze with ‘novel types of debt structures’ (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Razzlekhan gets 18 months for war crimes against music (financialpost.com)
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HarperCollins offers $2,500 to feed a book to AI, some authors still not keen (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Coca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expect (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Substack readers may be paying for AI-generated newsletters, Medium full of slop too (pivot-to-ai.com)
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I Attended Google's Creator Conversation Event, And It Turned Into A Funeral (www.giantfreakinrobot.com)
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a good piece on Bluesky, how it works, how decentralised it isn't in practice and the consequences of it winning (anderegg.ca)
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