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deadsimpletech.com Coding in a material world | deadSimpleTech

The common ideological kernel of all of this behaviour is a deeply embedded trope in anglosphere societies: a contempt for materiality, or the idea that the material world that we eat, sleep, drink, fuck and die in is somehow beneath the notice or the care of sufficiently important people.

Another response to Ptacek.

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www.nakedcapitalism.com Google's nihilists destroying open web and its own business chasing AI

Nihilism on the part of Alphabet's CEO explains Google's willingness to risk its search business and the open web itself to chase OpenAI.

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defector.com Toward A Theory Of Kevin Roose | Defector

“You can’t be a serious critic,” New York Times technology reporter Kevin Roose wrote on Tuesday, on Bluesky, about artificial intelligence, “if you’re in denial about how useful it is.” Narrowly, in strict terms, this is true: You can’t be a serious critic of anything if you are in denial about any...

Toward A Theory Of Kevin Roose | Defector
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www.polemics.md Manifest 2025 Update: Still A Tech Bro Eugenics Conference

Manifest, the conference for the prediction market website Manifold, got in hot water for inviting racists and eugenicists in previous years. Not much has changed in 2025.

Manifest 2025 Update: Still A Tech Bro Eugenics Conference
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Confronting the Crises of AI Through Research | UCLA

I found this seminar for spring quarter, does anyone have some suggested / related readings? Especially deep cuts or articles from the first AI winter.

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 04 August 2024
  • In the spirit of "worse is better", here is a ublock filter I just threw together to highlight all the comments less than a day old:

    ! Jul 31, 2024 https://awful.systems
    awful.systems##.comment article.comment-node :has-text("hours ago"):style(background-color:#7700AA)
    

    EDIT: fix bug with 1 hour and 20 minutes ago. regex is even worse is better.

    ! Jul 31, 2024 https://awful.systems
    awful.systems##.comment article.comment-node :has-text(/(hour|minute)s? ago/):style(background-color:#7700AA)
    
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