David Gerard @ dgerard @awful.systems

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yeah. it's important to remember that in general, charities are fucking incompetent and suing them for being useless MFs tends to do nothing useful.

Someone who really hates you can try to make trouble using the statements, but it's mostly trying to get the IRS to pull your charitable status. But the IRS is also aware there are a lot of dumb assholes who try to make trouble. Depends if someone serious can make it stick.

The main issue is if the IRS thinks it's a scam in charitable clothing and not a genuine charity. But I think that our friends are very sincere in their charitable purposes and generally incompetent, and the IRS is extremely used to that combination.

I've noted on Reddit sneerclub previously that this is not an outrageous sort of amount for a Bay Area nonprofit to pay a C-level or a high level specialist. We might look and go "he's a high level specialist in dumb nonsense", but it's not a facially outrageous number. Those region 2 DVDs aren't going to buy themselves, you know.

lol, Oliver Habryka at Lightcone is sending out begging emails, i found it in my spam folder

(This email is going out to approximately everyone who has ever had an account on LessWrong. Don't worry, we will send an email like this at most once a year, and you can permanently unsubscribe from all LessWrong emails here)

declared Lightcone Enemy #1 thanks you for your attention in sending me this missive, Mr Habryka

In 2024, FTX sued us to claw back their donations, and around the same time Open Philanthropy's biggest donor asked them to exit our funding area. We almost went bankrupt.

yes that's because you first tried ignoring FTX instead of talking to them and cutting a deal

that second part means Dustin Moskovitz (the $ behind OpenPhil) is sick of Habryka's shit too

If you want to learn more, I wrote a 13,000-word retrospective over on LessWrong.

no no that's fine thanks

We need to raise $2M this year to continue our operations without major cuts, and at least $1.4M to avoid shutting down. We have so far raised ~$720k.

and you can’t even tap into Moskovitz any more? wow sucks dude. guess you’re just not that effective as altruism goes

And to everyone who donated last year: Thank you so much. I do think humanity's future would be in a non-trivially worse position if we had shut down.

you run an overpriced web hosting company and run conferences for race scientists. my bayesian intuition tells me humanity will probably be fine, or perhaps better off.

from the youtube browser comments, "Ladybird is our last hope" seems to be the new standard promotional cut'n'paste phrase

last hope for what, you might ask? well the true anti-woke browser, which is much more important than actually, say, working.

presumably brave is too SJW for these guys, as well as basically working insofar as it's just a chrome reskin

they want the TRUE GLORIOVS FVTVRE that only a nonexistent thing that doesn't fucking work, and won't cos the lead bozo is vibe coding it, can offer.

in fashtech, promises of future glory always beat present day actually fucking working

dunno, what does the article say?

by the guy behind PaleMoon who is a bit of a chud

coming in rizz i'm sure

sadly, Floorp is going AI browser. I mean, "choice" to pick the bits of rat poop out browser.

welcome to lemmy-mastodon interop! here's your accordion

this is the cheapass one they sell on ali

uh have you tried xydfgq-blurble browser it's my home brew fork of chromium and firefox i call it "chromefox" which is also my fursona

thinking of changing the name to something lighthearted, marketable and non-objectionable like "GNU-Scrotum"

i am the only maintainer and i keep up with 110% of security issues

we are not in the android store as the oppressive statists at google said that if i ever switched on this uh "piece of shit" in a built up area theyd cut my nuts off, but

ignore the FUD about chromefox spilling your bank account and leaking your tastes in hentai and fucking your cat it's all LIES FILTHY LIES by THAT BITCH ANDREW he is SUCH an asshole

anyway free software stallman was right peace out

oh yeah, Suno does the same, it has about 12 songs

as i said this is a completely unsurprising result, but it's amusing to know what the twelve templates actually are

I got an email from the author, he says the paper was a passing observation and he's surprised it's got as much attention as it has

skill issue

it's the actual cite, you've been led to the water, come the fuck on it's not even a paywall

honestly, whomst amongst us isn't Pompous Interior Design

look, that sounds like tomorrow's problem

who tf is zerophase (apart from a lunduke fan)

they were on bluesky in the early days, recruited by the rationalists and neoreactionaries at bsky corp

the queer shitposters drove them the fuck off

the TPOTters were most put out that nobody accepted "oh no i'm not a nazi it's just my friend is" as an excuse

some liked pushing people around and being tastemakers (Watson, Myers)

not only is this the opposite of reality, your supporting link names neither