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Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books

TechTakes @awful.systems

Greenland 'Freedom City'? Rich donors push Trump for a tech hub up north

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The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence

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Salesforce invites a horse into the hospital

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Oklahoma, Alabama Now Have AI-Powered Vending Machines That Sell Bullets

  • Curious what a study on relative AI uptake by Parkinson's patients and my fellow adhd'ers looks like. The same dopaminergic systems whose underperformance drives symptoms also makes us more likely to get hooked on gambling than average.

    Edit: also, AI-to-cocaine is the new cloud-to-butt

  • Ha, glad to hear that the Onion is making it!

    Sorry about my poorly specified post! My complaint was aimed more at Jeff Bezo's bizzare idea that people who go out of their way to pay money to to a legacy media newspaper want ai slop rather than human-curated investigative journalism.

    Google gives out slop for free. Why pay for it?

  • Do studio executives universally suffer from aphantasia or what?

  • Why do they think people buy newspapers in 2025? Good god

  • The only thing gen ai is good for is being a stick to threaten labor with.

  • They'll do anything to avoid giving away extra guac, won't they?

  • Curtis Yarvin is just an internet age Julius Evola for the type of people who are somehow also impressed by Julius Evola.

    Quality sneer!

  • Fr, eschewing the command line is the cs guy version of not being able to change a flat tire

  • I bet you're right on the money.

    Edit: someone deep in the thread dared him to post a video of one of his coding speedruns if it's so good, which tickled me

  • hackernews enthusiast tpacek is filled with incredulity when some friends won't join his new religious movement. This of course has triggered a 1200 reply long thread:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163063

  • Rukia's Basilisk would explain how Bleach just kept right on going forever like that

  • First we mine, then we craft hey does anyoune else smell burnt toast?

  • When I get a minute, I intend to do a back of the napkin calc to figure out how many words 100 million of these things would hear on an average day.

    100 million sounds like a target that was naively pooped out by some other requirement, like "How much training data do we need to scale to GPT-5 before the money runs out, assuming the dumbest interpolation imaginable?"

  • Yeah, it kind of grew a religion on it since then, didn't it?

  • It's kind of encouraging that this dumb shit isn't new innit?

  • Perfect title no notes