dgerard

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 11 hours ago

pivot to ai has a new beg post, but mostly i wanna show off Sad Robot In Snow:

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Nah, people have loved travel stories for centuries. The markety fakeness to the point of straight up synthesis is the problem.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 22 hours ago

saw a marketer on bsky point out the attraction: influencers, and particularly travel influencers, are the most unreliable arseholes you'll ever find yourself paying to do something, and I can see that

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

next up: "In The Barn" as first effective altruist text

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

that's Beff too

the guy is actually almost a physicist, even flunked out of a Ph.D

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago

guillaume and trevor are sitting in the dark in their office counting sugar cubes and cursing the untermenschen holding them down

 

featuring nobody's favourite e/acc bro, BasedBeffJezos

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/12/01/does-ai-startup-extropic-actually-do-anything/

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago

oh we made jwz's blog

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/11/not-just-merely-dead-boys-but-really-most-sincerely-dead-boys/

apparently the singer's last show was at his DNA Lounge

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

REGULATORS: “Sorry lads out of power, you’ll have to get your own”
DCs: “Not a problem!”
(black clouds billowing forth)
REGULATORS: “oh no”

 

https://nonesense.substack.com/p/lesswrong-house-style

Given that they are imbeciles given, occasionally, to dangerous ideas, I think it’s worth taking a moment now and then to beat them up. This is another such moment.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

100% in character for both Cheetah Chrome and especially Cleopatra tho

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago

pleased to say my kid is as disgusted by this shit as their parents are

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 6 days ago

they also went full DARVO complaining how mean everyone had been to them over them abusing personal data and then telling us we needed to get with the program

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