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  • oh yeah loved that format, perfect

    however, Better Offline makes money

  • I thought I was looking into the camera, but phones are annoying

  • if i stop saying "um" all the time that's half an hour less in post right there

  • HEY GUYS CHECK THIS OUT

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1yHrZR_Sgg

    with the awful (systems) assistance of self, fasterandworse and jp of this parish

    no idea when i'll do another one, this one was 3 hrs faff for 5 min video lol

    things I need: a better mic, a chair that doesn't swivel

    EDIT: done two more since, let's see how we goooo

  • I've read Masnick for over 20 years and he's never learnt to write coherently. At least this one isn't blaming Europe.

  • he started writing about this stuff and it struck a chord with people

  • sadly not directly

  • we now have a Reliable Source for Cremieux being Lasker, which we were previously only 99.999999% sure of

  • the entire pitch is not having to spend money on employees

  • The Information's Dealmaker newsletter is talking today about downrounds in AI venture funding

  • it's been an ongoing exit scam

    OpenAI buys services from a pile of Altman's other portfolio companies

  • Text removed in Mozilla TOS update:

     
                   {
                   "@type": "Question",
                   "name": "Does Firefox sell your personal data?",
                   "acceptedAnswer": {
                       "@type": "Answer",
                       "text": "Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise. "
                   }
               },
    
      

    here's the diff

  • i am presuming his lawyers, and a special crypto bro pardon

  • yep that's the stuff. they HINT HINTed what they wanted the LLM to do.

  • Buttcoin @awful.systems

    On bitcoin topping $100,000

    SneerClub @awful.systems

    2023 study: how EA uses double meanings for a milk-before-meat strategy

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    UK local papers go weird as Reach pivots to AI from journalism

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Enterprise has no idea what to do with generative AI. This means it’s early days, and not that AI is a bubble

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    AI-generated travel influencers — marketers love them! Real travelers, not so much

    SneerClub @awful.systems

    Does AI startup Extropic actually … do anything?

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Meet the underpaid workers in Nairobi, Kenya, who power OpenAI

    SneerClub @awful.systems

    LessWrong House Style (2023)

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Data centers drain Ireland’s power grid, add their own fossil fuel-powered generators

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Synthetic nostalgia: Punk band Dead Boys plans album with AI Stiv Bators, current vocalist quits in disgust

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Hugging Face scrapes Bluesky, surprised when Bluesky users object

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Data centers are driving up your power bills — and it’s only going to get worse

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Spines: a VC-funded vanity publisher with added AI

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Roll out the barrels of pork: Congressional committee recommends AI ‘Manhattan Project’

    Buttcoin @awful.systems

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

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    the tech utopia fantasy is over

    Buttcoin @awful.systems

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

    TechTakes @awful.systems

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

    TechTakes @awful.systems

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

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    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