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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago

Sounnds like she used her internal voice externally

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Oliver Habryka truly understands the soul of SneerClub in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago

Never raise an eyebrow without dropping the banhammer

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The New York Times published a hit piece on Mamdami, citing Crémieux (www.mediaite.com)
 

Found this article on the front page of r/nyc

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 17 points 9 months ago (12 children)

The blue check reaction to the totally cracked treasury zoomers showcases a complete rejection of the importance of domain knowledge. It's 10x software engineer syndrome metastasized.

They're saying that the ice cream hair kid - who has never worked on a real world system because he's STILL IN COLLEGE - is going to do us proud because he translated a greek scroll in high school? Good for him, but so what? Ben Carson split babies in half like Solomon and he's still a moron.

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AI weapon detection system at Antioch High School failed to detect gun in Nashville shooting (www.nbcnews.com)
 

...because the shooter hid it from the cameras. What a shocker.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th January 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 15 points 10 months ago

I've been a big fan of HN comments lately

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The article in which Scott compares John Henry's mining capacity to the Machine's (www.astralcodexten.com)
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th November 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

Words words words and more words that link to even more words (that you can ctrl-f for the relevant bits!)

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th November 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The worst part about Trump being president is Trump being president for a year. The second worst part is Vance being president for the next three (after Trump dies of heart failure). The third worst part is the fact that I've been owned in a way I can't even explain to my closest friends.

Where's Your Ed At- The Cult of Microsoft in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a solution for helping the low-achieving kids?

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd November 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've gotten too offline to sniff out ironic posts. This nearly sent me to my grave

Whoops! Google's reached a new level of JAQing off and decided to answer the questions instead of just leading to them in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

so the short answer is the model most likely made the numbers up

Right crime, wrong perp. The Google overview "correctly" sourced the IQ scores from one of Arthur Jensen's "studies" where he reports the IQ of every country in the world and fully makes up numbers for over a third of them

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Whoops! Google's reached a new level of JAQing off and decided to answer the questions instead of just leading to them (arstechnica.com)
 

Hermansson logged in to Google and began looking up results for the IQs of different nations. When he typed in “Pakistan IQ,” rather than getting a typical list of links, Hermansson was presented with Google’s AI-powered Overviews tool, which, confusingly to him, was on by default. It gave him a definitive answer of 80.

When he typed in “Sierra Leone IQ,” Google’s AI tool was even more specific: 45.07. The result for “Kenya IQ” was equally exact: 75.2.

Hmm, these numbers seem very low. I wonder how these scores were determined.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 20 October 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 20 October 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 0 points 1 year ago (19 children)

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

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No, intelligence is not like height (theinfinitesimal.substack.com)
 

It earned its "flagged off HN" badge in under 2 hours

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41366609

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TP0 gets a mention in a frontpage Atlantic article - ‘Race Science’ Is Inching Its Way Across the American Right (www.theatlantic.com)
 

Ali Breland has written some fantastic entry pieces on the new right, including right wing anons and maga tech; now he has an article about the nooticers

Other anonymous far-right accounts have accrued more than 100,000 followers by posting about the supposed links between race and intelligence. Elon Musk frequently responds to @cremieuxrecueil, which one far-right publication has praised as an account that “traces the genetic pathways of crime, explaining why poverty is not a good causal explanation.” Musk has also repeatedly engaged with @Eyeslasho, a self-proclaimed “data-driven” account that has posted about the genetic inferiority of Black people. Other tech elites such as Marc Andreessen, David Sacks, and Paul Graham follow one or both of these accounts. Whom someone follows in itself is not an indication of their own beliefs, but at the very least it signals the kind of influence and reach these race-science accounts now have.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240820173451/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/08/race-science-far-right-charlie-kirk/679527/

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