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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 29 September 2024
  • I'm feeling a weird mix of emotions about this. It's not the cash grab by ol' salty dog; capitalism is doing its thing. I'm both elated that these idiot liberals feel betrayed by this turn of events and enraged that these liberal idiots exist to launder the reputation of techbros in the first place.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 22 September 2024
  • LinkedIn wants to scrape your posts about how your deep personal trauma taught you how to be a better middle manager so AI can just write them for you

    Edit: the news item is more about how linkedin has updated their privacy statement after user feedback. Linkedin has been scraping your data for years already :)

  • Microsoft says EU to blame for the world's worst IT outage
    www.euronews.com Microsoft says EU to blame for the world's worst IT outage

    Up to 8.5 million Windows devices were affected by Friday's IT outage after Crowdstrike's antivirus update went awry.

    Microsoft says EU to blame for the world's worst IT outage

    Kind of sharing this because the headline is a little sensationalist and makes it sound like MS is hard right (they are, but not like this) and anti-EU.

    I mean, they probably are! Especially if it means MS is barred from monopolies and vertical integration.

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    An AI beauty pageant? Miss me with that Miss AI.
    www.forbes.com World’s First AI Pageant To Judge Winner On Beauty And Social Media Clout

    In a contest sponsored by Fanvue, models and influencers crafted from artificial intelligence can now jockey for the title "Miss AI."

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    "The Better Angels of Our Nature" Part 2: Campus Lies, I.Q. Rise & Epstein Ties - If Books Could Kill
    www.buzzsprout.com "The Better Angels of Our Nature" Part 2: Campus Lies, I.Q. Rise & Epstein Ties - If Books Could Kill

    2 Better 2 AngelsSupport us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/IfBooksPodWhere to find us: Peter's other podcast, 5-4Mike's other podcast, Maintenance PhaseSources:Jeffrey Epstein’s Science of SleazePinker’s response to Epstein allegationsHow...

    Followup to part 1, which now has a transcript!

    As is tradition, I am posting this link without having listened to it. (too many podcasts)

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    Roko’s Basilisk gets a shoutout on CONAF, hypothetically dooming many unsuspecting listeners to… nothing, basically.
    www.earwolf.com Patton Oswalt Returns - Earwolf

    Comedian and actor Patton Oswalt feels radiant about being Conan O’Brien’s friend.

    Patton Oswalt Returns - Earwolf

    Discussion on AI starts at about 17mins. The Bas(ilisk) drop happens at 20:30. Sorry if ads mess up my time stamps. I think this is the second time it’s come up on the show.

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    A (non-tech) comedy podcast I like covered FTX!
    www.earwolf.com The Collapse of FTX w/ Josiah Johnson - Earwolf

    What’s Poppin’ Con-gregation? This week, Josiah Johnson joins the show to discuss Sam Bankman-Fried, once considered the biggest wunderkind of crypto, establishing his crypto currency exchange only for it to collapse in November 2022.

    The Collapse of FTX w/ Josiah Johnson - Earwolf

    Don't expect a good or deep analysis of FTX or any TREACLESy stuff here.

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