swlabr

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

LOL it's almost as if the prerequisite to making a political compass is to be completely fucked in the head

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Finally, someone has solved the political compass. No-one will ever come up with a new political spectrum again. Soon we will have world peace

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 12 points 1 day ago

Putting the EA in sealion

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

Softbank!!! It’s happening!!!

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago

Refractorive Altruism

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 2 days ago (5 children)

As funny as that is, I am sure that there are nonprofits that are aiming to stop fapping.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It is a CIA psyop to prevent revolutionary thought from arising in written media, in that it's a self-inflicted PIP that makes you feel inadequate in your creative writing ability. CIA funding (obviously funneled through NGOs via CIA front USAID) is how it's survived so long with such a stupid name. Of course, now that government spending on the CIA is going down, so is NaNoWriMo. All that's left is for it to be supplanted by some benevolent Chinese competitor that people will say steals your data, or something.

/s /s /s

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago

I'll believe it! I didn't want to make that claim since I had no evidence.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 2 days ago (15 children)

NaNoWriMo? Na, No Mo'. Does this have anything to do with their bungled AI policy? Maybe, maybe not, but hey, the news article that I saw this announcement in thought that it was pertinent to mention.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

OpenAI: Nah, I'd become profitable

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Ok. Full disclosure. When you said “Shad”, I thought you meant a different internet person who is shitty for creating morally degenerate art, so when I read this I thought that they had pivoted to AI and was like, I guess that tracks. But no, different shithead.

Anyway. Bland and uninspired? All actual art is inspired, just by default. If it were truly bland, you wouldn’t be able to discern anything from it, which is just not the case. So Shad isn’t actually giving a valid opinion, he’s throwing out an insult, just so that he can elevate AI slop.

Now AI slop, on the other hand, is uninspired and bland. It is uninspired because machines do not have the ability to be inspired. It is bland because it has no intention to be discerned, so contains nothing of substance.

 

On the hottest and coldest days, when demand for electricity peaks and the price rockets, the bitcoin miners either sell power back to providers at a profit or stop mining for a fee, paid by ercot. Doing so has become more lucrative than mining itself. In August of 2023 Riot collected $32m from curtailing mining and just $8.6m from selling bitcoin.

Archive link: https://archive.md/O8Cz9

 

Kind of sharing this because the headline is a little sensationalist and makes it sound like MS is hard right (they are, but not like this) and anti-EU.

I mean, they probably are! Especially if it means MS is barred from monopolies and vertical integration.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by swlabr@awful.systems to c/meta@awful.systems
 

Wish I had a screengrab of this, but occasionally when I open the awful.systems page, it looks like I've logged in as a different user. Just now the username "autumnal" appeared instead of my own. Don't know how to reproduce.

This has happened in chrome on macosx a few times, haven't seen it elsewhere.

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VoughtCoin (the-boys.fandom.com)
 

TIL that television program “The Boys” has an in universe cryptocurrency as a satire of, well, cryptocurrency in general but also specifically that time when DJT was selling NFTs. They occasionally tweet about it.

It has a listing on the “BSCScan” crypto tracker under the name “VTC” so someone might have actually minted it? It might surprise some of you that I have no way of telling the realness of such a thing.

 

Uncritically sharing this article with naive hope. Is this just PR for a game? Probably. Indies deserve as much free press as possible though.

 

As is tradition I am sharing this link without having listened yet.

 

The video game in question:

 

Followup to part 1, which now has a transcript!

As is tradition, I am posting this link without having listened to it. (too many podcasts)

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