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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.
https://religionandpolitics.org/2021/05/12/the-eugenics-roots-of-evangelical-family-values/
Ran across this a few weeks back and boy howdy it explained some things…
“look surely not everything in America is explained by racism” “… OH COME ON NOW”
What do normal people - people who don’t pay for twitter, or sneer at rationalists - think of Twitter atp?
Went on to Twitter (my mistake) after seeing Inside Out 2 because it’s the latest kid’s movie to feature [trope that I found passe that I can’t figure out how to spoil inline] and I see a post on my feed from “HBD Chick”.
And I’m like okay, that has to be “happy birthday, right?”. Nah, her third retweet is creamy porno redux.
Just like all the other right wingers and embarrassingly enthusiastic neoliberals and occasional Musk fans, I don’t follow her or anybody that follows her, there’s literally no connection or personal interest.
I feel like the post Elon shift is really understated for how bad the site’s gotten. Like I see more people talk about how Instagram reels is racist than I do about the average twitter replies section. I know a lot of left leaning people fled for bluer pastures, but I’m surprised you don’t see more buzz about it from regular, non-power users.
Note: all the talk I mention is online talk. Nobody in my irl life talks about social media dynamics ever, thank GOD
“"I do shoot myself in the foot from time to time, but at least you know it is genuine, not from the PR department,””
He is the PR department.
I assume some PR departments of potential advertisers saw that and went ‘lower the twitter spend more!’, I’m imaging the Futurama joke where Fry talks to investors while stock price tally is running live behind him.
I wish I knew any normal people so I could give input.
Personally my Twitter pre-Elon was pretty curated. I never really “got” a big part of it unless it spilled over in other channels (I never heard of “Black people Twitter” on Twitter, only from Buzzfeed or similar). I also disengaged from US political Twitter hard after the 2016 election. So it’s possible I could still be using it and swearing over bots etc. without being overly affected, but I locked my account as an act of principle shortly after he took over.
First of all, most of my “normal” acquaintances never used Twitter anyway.
Most of the ones that did just quit when it got weird and dominated by useless suggestions and creepy ads.
I had one friend last week in a group chat go “Twitter is so racist nowadays innit”, to which I said ye, why you still using it, and he responded “you’re right” and stopped.
I only visit twitter when I run out of lemmy and mastodon and I’m still not sleepy enough but can’t be arsed to read a book.
seemingly yet more chatgpt jailbreaks just by providing input that barrierbreaks some n times, and then readily provides details
y’know, if I were the one making safety nets for these systems, I’d make them return such kind of results (or other typical honeypot type behaviour). and it’s possible that that’s what oai did. but it seems extremely unlikely that that’s what they did, because it goes again the bayfucker gottagofast philosophy (and, frankly, against the level of competence I’ve seen displayed in the genml space overall)
It turns out the ‘I’ in “AI” stood for “Linux” all along!
User friendliness aside (who in their right mind would want arbitrary code execution except shitty and indeterministic?), I sandbox stuff at my job* and it’s hard to evaluate how secure / privacy preserving this is without more details.
If they’re running a full fledged VM and super extra careful around the sandbox boundary** it’s probably fine; otherwise it seems perhaps a bit loosey-goosey.
Someone will eventually try to run a Monero cryptocurrency miner in it if they haven’t already. So I hope they have their timeouts and resource limits in order (actually I hope they don’t, for the lols).
* But like no one told me how to do it or gave me a certificate or anything I just had to do my best
** This is often way scarier than programmers are used to, unless they’ve written a secure parser before. I wrote a vulnerability into my code a few years back when I was younger and foolish, by trusting an array length from inside the sandbox. My coworker found it while fuzzing the code.
Not a cult.
from r/EnoughMuskSpam
Haha this reminds me of humanoid robots belong in the trash
indeed! I rarely get to watch them because of the length, but they’re always so good, thoughtful and thorough. one of best talking heads on yt I know of
Amazing claim considering there are I think about 10k cybertrucks in the world right now, and all of them are broken. Ok I admit, that is due to the wiper recall, but even if you ignore the wiper recall the amount of broken cybertrucks is massive.
And ~0.5% of them have ‘Fuck Elon Musk’ written on them.
E: Amazing. (The Cybertruck was released on Nov. 30. Today, Tesla announced it was recalling the vehicle for the fourth time, an impressive rough average of one recall every seven weeks. )[https://bsky.app/profile/charlescmann.bsky.social/post/3kvr3ahwc452h]
I like the wet your finger and stick it up in the air forecasting model. OK - there’s 1.5 billion pocket-sized iPhones - so let’s say 2 billion person-sized robots, you know,
I’m wondering about the supply chain issues just making the extra half billion robots, might be kind of a big deal. Are there enough rare minerals in the whole world to do this? Lithium batteries? Computer chips?
Also, yeah, valuation based on revenue and not EBITA / profit margins, but whatever.
Lol. What, are we going to be installing Candy Crush on our robots? Expecting to be able to project recurring revenue from a humanoid robot based on smartphone numbers is a new kind of ignorance.
I’m sure Candy Crush will come pre-installed.