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maol@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish4·1 month agoFunnily enough, there are a lot of data centres in Ireland. Maybe there will be a missile strike and Ireland’s population will shrink back to 19th century numbers
maol@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish4·1 month agoI’m aware of the idea, but it’s still very weird for someone to pretend to be Jewish and also be a Nazi!
maol@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•The shocking rise of one of the tech right’s favorite postersEnglish0·1 month agoClose enough, welcome back Rachel Dolezal. Although in fairness to Rachel Dolezal*, she at least went to work for the NAACP, rather than becoming a footsoldier of fascism.
No wonder this guy thought Zohran Mamdani was trying to lie about his racial identity: he lies like he breathes, and assumes others do too
*You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to Rachel Dolezal
maol@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish7·1 month agoFucking hell. Not the most important part of the story, but his elaborate lies about being Jewish are very very weird. Kind of like white Americans pretending that they’re Cherokee I guess?
maol@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025English11·2 months agoI have become aware that there is a very right wing Catholic podcaster who has a Catholicism AI chatbot app. It’s called Truthly.
Your Trusted Catholic AI Conversation Companion Deepen your understanding, explore ideas, and engage in meaningful dialogue—anytime, anywhere.
If someone could call up Pope Leo and get him to excommunicate the guys who invented this, that would be great.
maol@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Microsoft lays off the staff who make the money to fund AI that doesn’tEnglish3·2 months agoI should really start looking into Linux huh
maol@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•Steven Pinker in race-science podcast shockerEnglish0·3 months agoFork found in kitchen
maol@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th May 2025English0·4 months agoThat Michael Kove guy is one un-self-aware twat. Apparently all millennials work in high paying tech jobs.
maol@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025English0·4 months agoThat Couple are in the news arís. surprisingly, the racist, sexist dog holds opinions that a racist, sexist dog could be expected to hold, and doesn’t think poor people should have more babies. He does want Native Americans to have more babies, though, because they’re “on the verge of extinction”, and he thinks of cultural groups and races as exhibits in a human zoo. Simone Collins sits next to her racist, sexist dog of a husband and explains how paid parental leave could lead to companies being reluctant to hire women (although her husband seems to think all women are good for us having kids).
This gruesome twosome deserve each other: their kids don’t.
maol@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•How to explain our very good friends to normal humans?English0·5 months agoI think starting with Sam Bankman Fried is a solid idea. Relatively informed members of the general public a) know who that guy is, and b) know that he made some really poor decisions. He does not have the silicon valley mystique that attaches itself to some other adherents, I think fewer people will think “well that guy is really smart, why would he be in a cult”. Then you can go back and explain EA and LessWrong and Yudkowsky’s role in all of this.
maol@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•UK government wants to give AI companies free access to train on your creative worksEnglish1·8 months agoAll that cash Open AI gave to Labour was worth it, huh
Fuck me, is that what Scott Alexander looks like?
maol@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•e/acc founder Based Beff Jezos' startup Extropic tries pivot to quantum computing. Twitter handle still has "AI" in itEnglish1·1 year agoembed physics into computation
Ok, have I been sniffing glue or is computation not the result of physics?
maol@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•Who Is @BasedBeffJezos, The Leader Of The Tech Elite’s ‘E/Acc’ Movement?English0·2 years agoWhoever said that all twitter bluechecks talk like anime villains was spot on
maol@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•In which Scott (other Scott) can't imagine why committing a crime would lead him to be treated (gasp) like a criminalEnglish0·2 years agoIf anything, this is an example of a situation in which talking to the cops is actually your best option. If he’d sullenly plead the 5th there’s a good chance they’d have arrested him properly and maybe even charged him, causing him to miss his flight.
I can admit this sounds like a fairly unpleasant experience, but airports are high security, unpleasant environments. I’m still not sure how someone could accidentally take a tip jar despite paying with card. Did he black out for 30 seconds?
“It’s like: my accusers arrive on the scene committed to a specific, hostile theory of me: that I’m a petty thief of smoothie bars, let’s say, or a sexual-harassment-loving misogynist.”
But he did take the smoothie bar money. He might not have realized he was doing it, he might not have done it on purpose, but he did take the money. In this metaphor, he commits sexual harrassment but it’s ok because he’s too gormless to realize what he’s doing.
Saw this on my YouTube subscriptions: that creepy racist breeding kink couple are continuing their international press tour. Go away!