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[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

if you know who this is this is the funniest fucking headline

Grothendieck. 'He was in mystic delirium': was this hermit mathematician a forgotten genius whose ideas could transform Al - or a lonely madman?

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[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago

LAION reckons it's finally dealt with the CSAM

and I'm sure everyone who trained on that can easily integrate this change, right. right?

oh, right, they can't, because none of the chucklefuck shit works that way. but I'm sure they'll totes jump right onto a full retraining cycle, because they're such good and ethical people who totally live the values they claim

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago

New piece from The Atlantic: A New Tool to Warp Reality (archive)

Turns out the bullshit firehoses undeservedly called chatbots have some capacity to generate a reality distortion field of sorts around them.

[-] mlen@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago

Meanwhile in the LLM "search engine" land: https://a2mi.social/@dave0/113031300914816116

Surely it is helping to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago

When the revolution comes, we have to cut off the hands wearing this abomination of a watch before we cut off the owner's head:

https://www.ablogtowatch.com/new-release-jacob-co-oil-pump-44mm-watch/

Price: $280k, limited to 88 pieces...

[-] mirrorwitch@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

I was going to say they were cowards about this because it's powered by wind-up mechanics rather than burning droplets of black ship oil you feed into the tiny oil barrel. But then I realised that would probably waste most of the energy on heat, right on the delicate mechanisms and your wrist, and who wants to use an energy source that damages everything around it with excessive warming

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[-] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

~~You already know I can't get enough of Cyberstuck, but this is too good to not share:~~ https://www.reddit.com/r/CyberStuck/comments/1f59lj8/david_attenborough_explains_cybertruck_behavior/

Update: I was bamboozled by AI

[-] roaminchemicals@mastodon.social 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

@sailor_sega_saturn @gerikson it's very funny, but I wish they didn't AI clone David Attenborough's voice for it

[-] Decade4116@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

Looks like the original creator had a change of heart and has taken it down.

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[-] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

I can't remember if a oneliner for the weekly thread title has been posted already, so I made one for GNU date:

date --date="next Sunday" +"Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending %A %e %B %Y"

Note, this is locale-dependent.

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