courtesy of 404media: fuck almighty it’s all my nightmares all at once including the one where an amalgamation of the most aggressively mediocre VPs I’ve ever worked for replaces everything with AI and nobody stops them because tech is fucked and the horrors have already been normalized
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“Both what I’ve seen, and what the administration sees, is you all are one of the most respected technology groups in the federal government,” Shedd told TTS workers. “You guys have been doing this far longer than I've been even aware that your group exists.”
(emphasis mine)
Well, maybe start acting like it champ.
Minor note, but Musk wears that jacket everywhere, even at a suit and tie dinner with Trump. I don't get how Trump (if my assumptions on him wanting to be seen as a certain type of having class/higher society type) stands him. Looking at the picture, he might be having second thoughts all the time.
I bet that jacket is some super-nerdy thing that William Gibson once mentioned in a book
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apparent list of forbidden words in nsf grants
https://elk.zone/mathstodon.xyz/@sc_griffith/113947483650679740
"De colonized" is also on there, that will give some interesting problems when automated filters for this hit Dutch texts (De means the).
E: there are so many other words on there like victim, and unjust, and equity, this will cause so many dumb problems. And of course if you go on the first definition of political correct ('you must express the party line on certain ideas or be punished') they created their own PC culture. (I know pointing out hypocrisy does nothing, but it amuses me for now).
Apparently "Trauma" is banned. That's going to be a problem.
This is what happens when you give power to bigoted morons.
Note: They're all problems. Just “Trauma" is kind of extra-important because of its use as a medical term.
Trauma surgery, Barotrauma, Traumatic Brain Injury, Penetrating Trauma, Blunt Trauma, Abdominal Trauma, Polytrauma, Etc.
Victim and Unjust are also there, which lawyers prob love to never be able to use.
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"Gender Neural”
That typo is probably going to screw a lot of Neuroscience grants just because it'll match on some dumb regex.
Also, apparently Hispanic and Latino people don't exist?
at long last, we have found genai use case
result: decisive chinese cultural victory
So they've brought about the basilisk, but it's not all-powerful, it's Dr. Sbaitso and it's powered by forest fires.
+6 culture generation for each person gooning under a portrait of xi jinping. china's borders will expand quickly
ah yes, content from the well-known community mod Cursid Meier
He who controls the goons controls the universe. No wait that is only in EVE online.
Anyone matched the list of names of the dinguses currently wrecking US agencies from the inside with known LW or HN posters?
at least one matches, i forget the name but it's all over bsky
Matches for HN or LW?
We know one of them retweeted groypers as well.
LW, one is an actual LW poster
Mein gott...
new class of kook just dropped
existing class of kook - hooks into the Zizians
do these kooks follow single inheritance or multiple inheritance rules? I’m a bit more worried about the latter
lol, multiple
how do you reckon? not sure I directly see the overlap (and while admittedly I haven't gotten to dive full depth on the zizians, the bits I did get to so far struck me as what would happen if adolescent spock became a logical extremist)
I was struck by the outright "hey we've got cult camp" kitted out in whatever-the-fuck they've done to (one of the strands of?) buddhism while also pitching this on-surface as "people are cyborgs now"
although it did remind me of how much buddhist and related reading+pondering I saw in the postrat scenes, and now I'm wondering if that's a thing that I missed in others of this before
Buddhist thinking has always been a big undercurrent (at least compared to the rest of the western world) in the hacker/computer science world, so doesnt have to come from anything LW related.
so there's a whole network of specifically Thiel-associated SF tech guys who are into particular churches
it's above-baseline among the tpots (at least relative to other areas I've observed it)
Compared to the hacker baseline that is odd indeed.
This community is for those willing to bring wisdom and compassion into the world. It is not for those easily duped by what they find in their minds or online.
no red flags there
It is not for those easily duped by what they find in their minds or online.
fuck I hate when my own brain dupes me into getting on the internet
1990s dialup: barely only once
looking for advice/suggestions:
anyone seen anything yet (uBlock ruleset, {tamper,grease}monkey scripts, etc) that can block the "talk to our prompt" widgets that have started showing up on too many fucking webpages? I'm getting sick of the things, and I haven't really yet found an exhaustive list of this shit from which to build up a list
@froztbyte @dgerard you have an example of those?
of things I've found in the space that do address this somewhat includes this (a list of domains of either explicitly full of slop or heavily supporting slop)
brave supposedly has something as well but, well, it's brave so it's a non-starter
this is a now-archived project that maintained a list of chat widgets
regarding instances of widgets, off the top of my head some places where I've seen chat prompts unhelpfully placed: pluginboutique.com, hetzner.com, most aws doc and product pages ("Explainer"). I think hydro.run also had some trash popping up (I have a block for it), but can't recall under which section
(DDG also pops some up constantly unless you have the cookies set, but that fails in fresh browser instances)