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Effective Altruism’s Democracy Problem (Gone Utilitarian!) in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] maol@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think they're claiming that they are aware of the potential issues in how knowledge is produced (bias, unconscious or not)....but they think that they are uniquely humble and aware of all the issues, they certainly aren't influenced by ideology, and they aren't susceptible to the same logical fallacies as everyone else.

Greenland 'Freedom City'? Rich donors push Trump for a tech hub up north in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] maol@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

Colonizers fuck off 🇬🇱🇬🇱🇬🇱🇬🇱🇬🇱

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] maol@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago

Oh that tattoo is regrettable

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] maol@awful.systems 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yowza.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] maol@awful.systems 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't think whoever wrote this zine goes here, but they should!

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] maol@awful.systems 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's the network state flag. Which I presume is based on the Swiss flag, because they are horny for the idea of a small, rich, well-connected country that profits from mass murder and exploitation.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] maol@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago (7 children)

What does he look like now? I shudder to think.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] maol@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago

Okay, one more pic, the back cover. Can't say how reliable these sources are.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] maol@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago (10 children)

One more pic:

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] maol@awful.systems 12 points 3 days ago (18 children)

Some more low effort image posting. This zine was in Connolly Books for free. I'm not sure who the author is, but I thought the text was spot on and the illustrations were great. Sorry for no captions/transcriptions

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] maol@awful.systems 7 points 4 days ago (4 children)

A terrifying poster, spotted in the window of a tattoo shop in Dublin: A poster featuring images of leprechauns, celtic knots, harps, and other assorted paddywhackery. The images seem to have been created with AI. The poster lists prices for them as tattoo designs (!)

Hopefully no one will actually get these images tattooed on their body.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] maol@awful.systems 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

The modern father of this literature is Ray Blanchard

🚨🚨🚨 Do not take Ray Blachard's work seriously !

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Data centre energy usage has outpaced growth of renewable energy in Ireland (m.independent.ie)
 

"Total demand for electricity last year grew by 4.4pc, or 1.3 terawatts (TW), but 80pc of that increase, or 1.1TW, was from data centre growth."

Training data for LLMs = higher energy prices and environmental degradation.

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Reimagining AI | Planet Critical (youtube.com)
 

A video interview with the artist John Wild about AI, AGI, eugenics and Silicon Valley TESCREAL cultism. Posting without watching.

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Interview with Dr Abeba Birhane on Irish radio (www.rte.ie)
 

"AI for dummies" interview from Irish radio with Dr Abeba Birhane, who's on a UN advisory board about AI.

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Spotted this ad in an old copy of Smash Hits. Possible tagline for this server? (awful.systems)
 

According to wikipedia, Runaway received "mixed reviews".

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Dan McQuillan on Resisting AI | Yeah Nah Pasaran! On 3CR (www.3cr.org.au)
 

Interview on Australian anti-fascist radio show Yeah Nah Pasaran! with Dan McQuillan, computer lecturer and author of "Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach To Artificial Intelligence". Interesting comments on AI as a tool of/for austerity politics, and an argument that AI is inherently anti-worker. Probably nothing new to people in here, but eloquently stated and put into a wider political context.

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Building an entirely new city from scratch in Northern California: an environmentally friendly way of providing more housing, according to some silicon valley types (www.theguardian.com)
 

Sure, why attempt to improve the climate resilience or affordable housing in the cities where millions of people already live, when you can just buy land upstate and get a whole new toy to play with? And why tell local, state or national government anything - they'll only be supplying the land, water, sewerage, utilities & transport links. You pay your taxes, you deserve to get something back.

This is going to be one hell of a planning application. What's the land use code for "feudal stronghold"?

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