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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Springer started off awful, and now many decades later it's pure garbage. All those times in between? Also pretty bad.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 8 points 10 hours ago

Ed Zitron on bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3lsukqwhjvk26

Haven't seen a newsletter of mine hit the top 20 on Hackernews and then get flag banned faster, feels like it barely made it 20 minutes before it was descended upon by guys who would drink Sam Altman's bathwater

Also funny: the hn thread doesn't appear on their search.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44424456

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 3 points 11 hours ago

Instead of a diet coke button you get an ayahuasca button

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 5 points 22 hours ago

It's got what plants crave, so I'm told

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Rob Liefeld vibes

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

There should be a word for this!

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Yeah, its nuts. They'd have to be resident, pay land taxes, and make improvements for 7 years here. They don't even mow the grass, the owner does.

these idiots made me feel sympathy for a landlord. I might never recover.

...

As an aside, it's fun to imagine the similar sort of brain damage a chatbot would cause Fox Mulder.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

The bullshit engine has convinced my dirtbag sib-in-law that they can claim squatter's rights on (and take ownership of) the house that they aren't paying rent to live in.

They've been there a year.

They're gonna be homeless before this is over and I can't get them to see reason. I feel totally helpless, real big Cassandra vibes. LLMs are sooooo unhealthy for assholes.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Concurring with everyone else that this is a 10/10 read. This article lays out a very reasonable theory that explains why tech maniacs are the way that they are.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Woke: pile driving AI advocates

Bespoke: pounding prediction market peddlers

 

This is peak laziness. It seems that the reading list's author used autoplag to extrude the entire 60 page supplemental insert. The author also super-promises this has never happened before.

 

Absolutely delusional wishcasting on the part of our very good friends.

 

By Timnit Gebru and Emile P. Torres

Pro-tier sneers by seasoned veterans, get em while they're hot!

Edit: I am reliably informed that it is no longer hot.

 

From the Uplifting News Department, an event that was brought to our attention by Wandering.shop member David Croyle. Specifically, that time that the administrators of rpg.net bluntly declared that their website is officially a No Nazis Bar.

There were no follow-up questions: https://wandering.shop/@croyle/113980700961699526

 

Looks like a local boy did good.

I linked the /r/nashville post since it has a good description of the website. Users can see a history of rent prices for a given property and its neighbors, which gives some leverage in negotiations. For more context, local rent prices are down 6% from highs.

I'm curious to see if it takes off, and how robust it is against adversarial tactics like bogus reports and nuisance lawsuits.

EDIT: Fixed "Blocked" issue by linking to archive

EDIT2: Also linked to the correct archive page

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by o7___o7@awful.systems to c/freeasm@awful.systems
 

Rojava has built what seems like a robust, equitable, bullshit-resistant mutual aid system in the face of incredible resistance. The idea of a system that can be an autonomous administration in some areas while operating--possibly legally--in parallel with a nation-state government in others is something I find very appealing.

I'm having a hard time understanding how the underlying system works in detail. I think this is largely due to a language barrier.

Any recommendations for Bookchin/Öcalan type reading for beginners? I've procrastinated on it because I hate reading theory (and it's always embarrassing to need hand holding at my age), but needs must. I haven't had much luck turning up English language stuff that lays out how the system works in a way I could share with a casual observer.

 

John Mulaney gets paid by prompt fondlers to tell jokes at a party. He spends 45 minutes telling them that they are idiots, which is nice.

 

When you think MURDER, think MARCUS MUNITIONS!

 

(Found by way of @cstross@wandering.shop)

Tweet 1 - Oct 19, 2023:

I'm sorry but if you're paying $200k for a smart contract engineer you're ngmi

"no, the smart contract needs to be perfect and audited" bro hit $100k in daily volume then worry about it being perfect

Tweet 2 - Jun 5, 2024:

tldr; got $40k drained just now

i was submitting OP retro grants app. had to make github repo public for a sec. forgot i had my secret key in there (cuz i'm quite literally retarded, my IQ is 26). got drained of everything.

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