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"utopian anarchist" I assume means "it would be nice in theory".

I want a menu!

What do you think is the venn diagram of "people who go to The Network School" and "men who believe in the meat-only diet"? I imagine there's a lot of crossover

What a pisstake. Shit I don't want to use palemoon, are there any other browsers???

Alan Moore wrote a comic book story about AI about 10 years ago that parodied rationalist ideas about AI and it still holds up pretty well. Sadly the whole thing isn't behind that link - I saw it on Twitter and can't find it now.

Grindr has been used to out people everywhere from Palestine to Egypt to Chechnya to America, so training a chaotic, insecure LLM on user data seems like the privacy disaster from hell.

Can't really say I'm surprised that Mr Facebook takes this attitude. His whole fortune is built on the belief that aggregating and hosting content is more valuable than creating it

Eric Schmidt, genocidaire

Musk looks like his own Madame Tussaud's waxwork

Eurgh!

I was not prepared for how many words would land in my inbox 💀

I didn't realize I was still signed up to emails from NanoWrimo (I tried to do the challenge a few years ago) and received this "we're sorry" email from them today. I can't really bring myself to read and sneer at the whole thing, but I'm pasting the full text below because I'm not sure if this is public anywhere else.

I have a lot of time for nostalgia about older versions of the web, but it really ticks me off when people who actively participated in making the web worse start to indulge in nostalgia about the web. Doesn't Yarvin get a lot of money from Peter Thiel?

There were women and people of colour on the old web, and feminists and radical anti-racists too - they were just outnumbered and outgunned. One of the earliest projects listed on the cyberfeminism index are VNS Matrix, who were "corrupting the discourse" way back in 1991.

Christ, it's like Gamergate never ended

Indubitably.

Thank you for getting in touch! I was absolutely baffled by this.

You know, if you want to combine Irish rural kitsch with strange space-age imagery, you call Seán Hillen.

See, 90s electronic album cover style stamps would have been boss. But we got these instead.

Oh no, I think I've seen people talk about her memoir! I've heard it's good!

Ultracrepidarianism, apparently.

Surely that's an AI generated pfp