o7___o7

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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What if America built a Death Star, but it was 50% exhaust ports by surface area?

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/04/how-the-eu-could-target-us-big-tech-with-its-tariff-response.html

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 2 points 2 days ago

The Dominic Cummings we have at home

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

We need something like Bare-faced Messiah, but with fedoras. People will stick with a bizzare, complex story with lots of moving parts as long as it's told well.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

How would you first approach explaining this shit past “it can’t be that stupid, you must be explaining it wrong”?

This is the question of the moment, isn't it?

I have no answers, but i can say thanks for being a light in the dumbness.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

OpenNutrition -- ~~a dataset~~ an LLM that allows you to play "vibe nutritionist"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43569190

First response is good quality:

This is not a dataset. This is an insult to the very idea of data. This is the most anti-scientific post I have ever seen voted to the top of HN. Truth about the world is not derived from three LLMs stacked on top of each other in a trenchcoat.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Financial Times agrees with this analysis

https://archive.is/6JGEI

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Those tariff rates, and especially the targets, were 100% pooped out by grok.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Lots of politics outlets have been linking his recent work. He's done a great job documenting the consequences (and gravity) of the ongoing grant apocalypse for the AAAS journal Science. I've loved him for years for being the FOOF guy.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 3 points 5 days ago

OK hear me out: they make a new season of Hell Girl, but she only gets people who use gen ai

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

On the bright side, Derek Lowe has also escaped containment, which is nice

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Turns out that they can only stack shit so high before it falls back to earth

 

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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by o7___o7@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
 

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!

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by o7___o7@awful.systems to c/buttcoin@awful.systems
 

(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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