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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.

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

New piece from The Atlantic: The Age of AI Child Abuse is Here, which delves into a large-scale hack of Muah.AI and the large-scale problem of people using AI as a child porn generator.

And now, another personal sidenote, because I cannot stop writing these (this one's thankfully unrelated to the article's main point):

The idea that "[Insert New Tech] Is Inevitable^tm^" (which Unserious Academic interrogated in depth BTW) took a major blow when NFTs crashed and burned in full view of the public eye and got rapidly turned into a pop-culture punchline.

That, I suspect, is helping to fuel the large scale rejection of AI and resistance to its implementation - Silicon Valley's failure to make NFTs a thing has taught people that Silicon Valley can be beaten, that resistance is anything but futile.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Like Vitalik Buterin creating eth because he was mad his op WoW char got nerfed, we now have more gamers lore. J D Vance played a Yawgmoth's Bargain deck.

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

the harris campaign must get his list. if he ran only three dark rituals the election is over

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

We cannot allow a dark ritual gap.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"O Cent O Pence (R)" is an anagram for "Necropotence"

Trump is clearly campaigning on the critically overlooked black draw engine platform, possibly to spite blue voters.

Edit: "One Percent Co." was right there! It's all coming together now!

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Zitron's given commentary on PC Gamer's publicly pilloried pro-autoplag piece:

He's also just dropped a thorough teardown of the tech press for their role in enabling Silicon Valley's worst excesses. I don't have a fitting Kendrick Lamar reference for this, but I do know a good companion piece: Devs and the Culture of Tech, which goes into the systemic flaws in tech culture which enable this shit.

[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Musk's twitter is unleashin/g/ the worst posters that the CS world has to offer

[–] self@awful.systems 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

the raw, mediocre teenage energy of assuming you can pick up any subject in 2 weeks because you’ve never engaged with a subject more complex than playing a video game and you self-rate your skill level as far higher than it actually is (and the sad part is, the person posting this probably isn’t a teenager, they just never grew out of their own bullshit)

given how oddly specific “application auth protocol” is, bets on this person doing at best minor contributions to someone else’s OAuth library they insist on using everywhere? and when they’re asked to use a more appropriate auth implementation for the situation or to work on something deeper than the surface-level API, their knowledge immediately ends

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

have implemented jwt (used the library, first in the company)

[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago

the absolute worst type of coworker from my cubicle days: heard about a technology at a conference, decided they invented it

[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

so uh, they keep self-fellating on Twitter about how they invented their own CAD program over the objections of the haters

here it is, it’s an extremely thin wrapper around the typescript version of manifold with live reloading on changes. note that not only is manifold already a CAD library, they already have a web-based editor that reloads the model on code changes, and kache’s live reloading is just nodemon. the server part looks like it’s barely modified from a code example. the renderer is just three.js grabbed from a CDN.

it’s so weird they didn’t take the necessary 2 weeks to learn how to write the CAD parts of the CAD system they made!

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

hackers and builders (both in the a16z definition of) are some of the fucking worst things out there today

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago

founder mode derogatory? [flagged]

[–] istewart@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Marc the Builder employs many elite code ninjas who are experts at prompting ChatGPT for npm commands

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago

chatgpt: for people who don’t want to be gaslit only by bad cli tools

[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact: The plain vanilla physics major at MIT requires three semesters of quantum mechanics. And that's not including the quantum topics included in the statistical physics course, or the experiments in the lab course that also depend upon it.

Grad school is another year or so of quantum on top of that, of course.

(MIT OpenCourseWare actually has fairly extensive coverage of all three semesters: 8.04, 8.05 and 8.06. Zwiebach was among the best lecturers in the department back in my day, too.)

[–] self@awful.systems 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

I almost want to go Twitter diving to see if kache has the requisite unhinged rant about how universities are only making quantum physics hard to get money/because of woke or whatever

e: holy shit I already regret this

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago

Oh. He retweets Cremieux.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

yeah, 3b1b animations can take you through all of undergrad math in probably a month if it all existed and you used anki

We could bottle this arrogance and sell it as an emetic.

And besides, we all know that mathematics videos peaked with the Angle Dance.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

yeah don't do it to yourself. I forget how I originally noticed this weirdo, it may have been through amolitor99's continuous anthropology safari of TPOT freaks. Speaking of which, somebody needs to get that guy over here

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago

i have tried occasionally but will try again

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

oh, cool, they also claim to be a twitter engineer. that’s probably telling too (if true)

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago

i see your twitter engineer and i raise you elite promptfondler