overview for dgerard

the EAs have access to so much money that other orgs have to dance to their tune, and are discovering the professionals think the EAs are fucking nutters

the comments are darling also

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Everybody hates the AI, more and more (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 3 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Take heart, you’re not alone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABcEse_MEtk&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260825-everybody-hates-the-ai-more-and-more - podcast

time: 3 min 50 sec

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Twitch AI class action: inept and written with ChatGPT (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 4 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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chatbot bad court thingy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzyI8pUmsfg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260824-twitch-ai-class-action-inept-and-written-with-chatgpt - podcast

time: 5 min 50 sec

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th August 2026 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 5 days ago

bup-pow!

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th August 2026 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

where's the rationalist smoking gun? or is that just The Argument?

There Will be no Redemption for Ezra Klein in c/morewrite@awful.systems

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

Ezra Klein so centrist, he could both-sides a Moebius strip

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good thing bitcoin is anonymous and donating to Ukraine is a use case (bsky.app)

submitted 5 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/buttcoin@awful.systems

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text:

Binance reportedly handed Russian investigators data on IT specialist Yuri Belenky, who donated around $700 in crypto to Ukraine’s military while living in the EU.

The information was later used as evidence in a Russian “terrorism financing” case against him.

There Will be no Redemption for Ezra Klein in c/morewrite@awful.systems

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

ah but if you assume a perfectly spherical polity of uniform density in a vacuum at absolute zero,, klein will still be wrong

There Will be no Redemption for Ezra Klein in c/morewrite@awful.systems

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 5 days ago (9 children)

there's this: https://nymag.com/news/features/ezra-klein-2014-2/

While Klein is being circumspect about the operational details of Project X, he suggests that breaking-news squibs could be very short and attached to constantly updated background articles, a bit like Wikipedia entries written by professional journalists. Long features might be regularly freshened up.

There Will be no Redemption for Ezra Klein in c/morewrite@awful.systems

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 5 days ago (3 children)

yeah, it was so inept and un wikilike that you would hardly believe it, but they honestly thought it would compete.

There Will be no Redemption for Ezra Klein in c/morewrite@awful.systems

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 5 days ago (16 children)

I wrote a thing a decade or more ago I can't find now, about the early history of Vox's "explainers". They were literally wanting to replace Wikipedia as a go-to.