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dgerard David Gerard @awful.systems

the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and then Reddit

https://davidgerard.co.uk/

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Crypto magnate Barry Silbert pivots to AI for a 2018-style ICO token pump
  • how do they think they solved these fundamental issues in their proposed design?

    number go up

  • Crypto magnate Barry Silbert pivots to AI for a 2018-style ICO token pump

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    blog.avas.space the tech utopia fantasy is over

    i talk about how the idea of a humanity-saving tech revolution from the usual tech suspects is dead (for me).

    the tech utopia fantasy is over
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024
  • note that cwebber wrote the ActivityPub spec, btw

  • On “Safe” C++: An Odyssey of Sneers
  • good thing Rust is only run by Palantir

  • I hear bitcoin is supposed to be good now. Is it a new bubble yet?

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    ChatGPT in the classroom: OpenAI continues its education push with two new courses for teachers

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    Whoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racist
  • especially for such important things like fucking tenant screening.

    you must understand: this is a feature

  • Whoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racist

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024
  • The mask comes off at LWN, as two editors (jake and corbet) dive in to frantically defend the honour of Justine fucking Tunney against multiple people pointing out she's a Nazi who fills her projects with racist dogwhistles

    https://lwn.net/Articles/998196/

  • hey remember the LAUSD school district's AI bot Ed, that crashed and burned earlier this year? anyway the CEO of the vendor has just been charged with fraud

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024
  • now seeing EAs being deeply concerned about RFK running health during a H5N1 outbreak

    dust specks vs leopards

  • Coca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expect
  • they'll have to comfort themselves with a Coke(tm), apparently it's a Surreal Thing

  • Pumping the AI bubble: a data center funding craze with ‘novel types of debt structures’
  • not many people are quite aware that the word "systemic" is economics jargon meaning "RED ALERT RED ALERT HOLY SHIT RED ALERT"

  • Pumping the AI bubble: a data center funding craze with ‘novel types of debt structures’

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024
  • i mean, the Ray Charles one sounds fun. My 1st year maths lecturer demonstrated the importance of not dividing by zero by mathematically proving that if 1=0, then he was Brigitte Bardot. We did actually applaud.

  • Razzlekhan gets 18 months for war crimes against music

    financialpost.com 'Crocodile of Wall Street' Gets 18 Months in Crypto Case

    The woman who dubbed herself the “Crocodile of Wall Street” and “Razzlekhan” in rap videos was ordered to serve 18 months behind bars for helping her hacker husband…

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    HarperCollins offers $2,500 to feed a book to AI, some authors still not keen

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    Coca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expect
  • there are apparently two other prospective ads that do include AI renditions of human actors and they're as bad.

  • Coca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expect

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    Peter Singer introduces the Peter Singer AI to elevate ethical discourse in the digital age
  • look, if you just check these objectively calculated numbers,

  • Substack readers may be paying for AI-generated newsletters, Medium full of slop too
  • it's so fitting that these guys are so into the AI slop as well

  • Substack readers may be paying for AI-generated newsletters, Medium full of slop too

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    www.giantfreakinrobot.com I Attended Google's Creator Conversation Event, And It Turned Into A Funeral

    I recently attended a funeral. It was called the Google Web Creator Conversation Event and took place on October 29, … Continue reading "I Attended Google’s Creator Conversation Event, And It Turned Into A Funeral"

    I Attended Google's Creator Conversation Event, And It Turned Into A Funeral
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    a good piece on Bluesky, how it works, how decentralised it isn't in practice and the consequences of it winning

    anderegg.ca Maybe Bluesky has “won”

    November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X. Many are choosing Bluesky. I’ve seen a bunch of takes about this recently, but I keep seeing things I disagree with. I figure that’s a good enough excuse to write more about this weird-assed social net...

    Maybe Bluesky has “won”
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    Peter Singer introduces the Peter Singer AI to elevate ethical discourse in the digital age

    boldreasoningwithpetersinger.substack.com Introducing Peter Singer AI: Elevating Ethical Discourse in the Digital Age

    In today's rapidly advancing technological landscape, the importance of integrating ethical considerations into our innovations cannot be overstated.

    Introducing Peter Singer AI: Elevating Ethical Discourse in the Digital Age
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    AI and venture capital are going nuclear

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    Ed Zitron yelling abuse at CEOs for twenty-three minutes

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    OpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any further

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    ProQuest is quietly trying to license academic books to feed an AI

    a bit of completely original journalism based on reader tips, thank you

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    Michael Lewis "Going Infinite" to become an Apple movie, script by Lena Dunham

    variety.com Lena Dunham to Write Sam Bankman-Fried Movie for Apple, A24

    Apple and A24 are in development on a film version of Michael Lewis' "Going Infinite" with Lena Dunham attached to write the script

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    Anthropic protects the welfare of possible future AIs. Present-day humans, not so much

    oh yes, this one is about our very good friends

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