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Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut'n'paste it into its own post, there’s no quota here and the bar really isn't that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The Atlantic's biggest anti-DEI proponent just wrote an article on the memoir of a writer on the fringe of the IDW. He was actually one of the guys I had in mind when I suggested the stubstack weekly.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/rob-henderson-memoir-yale-troubled/677620/

In case you're unfamiliar with Rob Henderson - and you probably are - he's an orpham who climbed his way out of poverty, made it to Yale and now tweets about wokie cosmopolitans victim communists, the family unit, and the heritabilty of IQ.

Fantastically enough he's also a big proponent of the success sequence? One his commenters suggests that he may have the causality of the sequence reversed, and Henderson says...

His whole square-peg-round-hole shtick is based on glazing hereditarianism while simultaneously purporting conservative values on personal responsibility. He also has countless podcasts with Richard "it's cruel that we let the 85-iq blacks believe they're capable of self-actualization" Hannania; on paper you'd think that an orphan would be repulsed by Hannania's love for setting societal expectations of success based on demographic, but I guess Henderson's cool with all the lesser orphans ending up janitors at best as long as they have a highschool degree and no bastards. It's just good luck that he ended up with a high enough iq to make it to Yale, too bad about the other kids but there's nothing you can do 🤷‍♂️.

At the end if the day Henderson is just like every modern right wing ideologue. Just post after post of personal grievances masquerading as social critque; each one unexamined and subtlety incompatible with one another

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Here's the article I had in mind. His argument is that we should bless the proles with shame (the high iqs will naturally grow towards success), and shy away from "conferring" status; there'd be no point since the low-iqs wouldn't maintain their societal positions, and intervention beyond stable homes and a clean environment barely raise iq anyway.

I used to think that the libertarianism was the most sociopathic mainstream ideology...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Justin Murphy on SBF

tasty tasty dead dove, yum yum

The sentencing of Sam Bankman-Fried is humbling. I remember researching his rise to power many years ago, with some care, over a few weeks. Listened to a lot of his interviews, etc. I remember feeling deeply impressed, almost saddened by my own relative inferiority. I thought he was very cool. I really did. I thought he was a legitimate genius, bold, independently-minded, and admirably risk-tolerant: A paragon of contemporary, accelerated, cultural and technological entrepreneurship. His initial rise to power was the kind that often makes me wonder "What is wrong with me? Why can I not be smarter, sharper, bolder, and more successful with my own projects?" Since I admired him, I know that I am in no way above him; I could have very well made all of the same mistakes he made, if I had been given the power that he accrued. "There go I but for the grace of God," as they say. Ultimately, you never know what someone is really doing and you never know what will happen to them. You just cannot know whether someone's life and work are enviable until after they have died. With his sentencing today, I am at present just as awestruck as when I learned about his rise to power, but in the exact opposite direction—the envy I felt toward him I now feel toward my own life, and I'm beyond grateful to have achieved such tremendous success compared to him. If comparison is all too often the thief of joy, for the same reason it can also be a multiplier of gratitude and humility. I pray for Sam Bankman-Fried.

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you'll be pleased to know that Justin used to think SBF was the smartest man inna worl', but now he realises that he himself is

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

have these Dork Enlightenment fuckwits gone so whacko they've wrapped around to the other side of conspiracies and myths?!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Transhumanism descended from Fyodorov's Cosmism, the Ineffectual Dork Web is shot through with whatever batshit Jordan Peterson is on, LessWrong can't tell that Christopher Langan is a kook....

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

yeah I recall the lineage. just...." the astral realm, ... the Age of Aquarius"

probably too many marvel multiverse movies, created fertile ground for people lap this shit up

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I’d call this the Desert Bus of sneering material, but that’d be terribly unfair to Desert Bus

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thank fuck this is on twitter, narrowly avoiding the psychic damage

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

UBlocking twitter across the board is the best thing I ever did with a computer. And twitter killing nitter made it even better.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Awful at a technical level, tedious at a textual level, overall baffling that there is an audience for this. Everyone seems at times politely humoring to openly bored. The least interesting conversation happening at the worst party you've ever been to.

Please regard this video as a performance of No Exit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I’m actually at a loss of words for this. What the actual fuck …

From here. The article is pretty interesting, though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

He claimed a new, faster version of the Stable Diffusion image generator released earlier this month could generate “200 cats with hats per second.”

Pointless. The set of any type of funny cat picture on the Internet is already infinite.

The Financial Times reported Friday that the company made $5.4 million of revenue in February, against $8 million in costs. Several sources said there are ongoing concerns about making payroll for the roughly 150 remaining employees. Leadership roles have gone vacant for months amid the disarray, leaving the company increasingly directionless.

"... the AI-ristocrats!"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

“AI is jet planes for the mind,”

incredibly polluting?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

We eventually figure out that the don't need to be that fast and make slower models?

Or, the doors will fall off if you let the finance people run it?

Or a place for strangers to use computers to inspect your private parts? Right, def that one.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Larger expenses in a month than earnings in a year. AI going great. Capitalism going great.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

automated narcissism maintenance machines. maybe if we can heavenban the promptfans into a room with just their roided clippies, they'll be happier for it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Courtesy of r/programmingcirclejerk

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

He seems to have the same amount of brain cells as a GPT at least.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Idk if this even meets the lowest-quality bar, but I just saw something on Reddit's Buttcoin sub, and the fact that this is a real headline is making me question my sanity. The future of finance, everyone.

And the AI-generated image is the cherry on top.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Decrypt has been trying a desperate pivot to AI, and even essayed a few LK-99 pieces in superconductors' two weeks

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Aah, the smell of second-tier dipshits fomo-farming on meme stocks by people who likely absolutely insist they “were there for the critical r/wsb moments”, such a unique aroma

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

https://www.reuters.com/legal/crypto-miner-pennsylvania-hit-with-lawsuit-over-pollution-bitcoin-mine-2024-03-26/

Buttcoin "miners" literally burning trash. Sponsored by a state who apparently have learned nothing from its 200+ years of environmental destruction.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

A Stronghold spokesperson said in a statement that its operations actually clean up land and water in the area by using waste coal left behind by historic coal production in the region.

cryptobro going full on "it's free real estate" without thinking twice why it's waste in the first place

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

a lesswrong: Modern Transformers are AGI, and Human-Level

Modern NLP systems can do most things you would want an AI to do, at some basic level of competence.

For example, drawing mutant rodent dicks of unusual size

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

you know

it's worth trying to get jon oliver's attention on this shit

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

"this shit" being the examplar majestic rodent penises, and maybe also the causal source. sorta. might be able to spend some minutes on that

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I'm guessing the prosecutor gets something like the 45-50 they were asking for. Madoff got 150 years, though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

(excuse the ignorance, haven't been following this close enough on account of spoons)

40-50y req from prosecutor, wat - what's the story there? were they unsure they could secure more if they asked for[0]? is there some kind of fuckery around max sentencing because of charge class?

[0] as in: since sbf was declared guilty, the sentencing is going to happen regardless, but the value of assigned years is variable, and the assigned value could be below prosecutor request for $legalsystem reasons?[1] [1] I am not a US legal system enjoyer, so I don't have comprehensive knowledge on the minutae of that demented clusterfuck operates

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

@froztbyte @techtakes

That's a question for PopeHat, wherever he hangs his hat these days. He's a former Federal prosecutor.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

kenwhite.bsky.social is popehat for people who are missing his takes on the rico.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

for a purely legal reference opinion, probably

but I'm more wondering about the human/social side of the nitty-gritty of the proceedings (on which, by my estimation, our ~esteemed~ notorious @dgerard is far more contextually informed on)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

you know, that esteemed was meant to be strikethrough

lemmy formatting strikes again

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