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Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025
  • I can honestly say that I have never played Umamusume Pretty Derby because on my PC the sound keeps cutting out and the cutscenes don't play which greatly disappointed me.

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025
  • The Supabase homepage implies AI bros are two levels below "beginner", which I found somewhat amusing:

    Skill Level

    A list of different skill levels including: 1. AI Builder 2. No Code 3. Beginner 4. Developers 5. Postgres Devs

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025
  • The Gentle Singularity - Sam Altman

    This entire blog post is sneerable so I encourage reading it, but the TL;DR is:

    We're already in the singularity. Chat-GPT is more powerful than anyone on earth (if you squint). Anyone who uses it has their productivity multiplied drastically, and anyone who doesn't will be out of a job. 10 years from now we'll be in a society where ideas and the execution of those ideas are no longer scarce thanks to LLMs doing most of the work. This will bring about all manner of sci-fi wonders.

    Sure makes you wonder why Mr. Altman is so concerned about coddling billionaires if he thinks capitalism as we know it won't exist 10 years from now but hey what do I know.

  • Roko has ideas
  • Allow people to privately borrow against the taxable part of the future incomes or other economic activities of their children.

    "Sorry Junior, I know you wanted to be an artist but you see back in 2025 I got really really into a gatcha game called Umamusume Pretty Derby and long story short you're legally obligated to become a doctor."

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025
  • I found this footnote from Sam Altman's blog amusing in light of your comment:

    *By using the term AGI here, we aim to communicate clearly, and we do not intend to alter or interpret the definitions and processes that define our relationship with Microsoft. We fully expect to be partnered with Microsoft for the long term. This footnote seems silly, but on the other hand we know some journalists will try to get clicks by writing something silly so here we are pre-empting the silliness…

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025
  • Bonus: He also appears to think LLM conversations should be exempt from evidence retention requirements due to 'AI privilege' (tweet).

    Now I'm all for privacy, and this is a good reminder that 'the cloud' is not as private as maybe it should be. But clearly AI privilege is not a thing that should exist.

  • The New York Times published a hit piece on Mamdami, citing Crémieux
  • Taking bets on no correction from the NYT calling him an "academic".

    Aside: the willingness of news, politicians, and the general public to listen to non-peer reviewed nonsense from (often) anonymous "scientists" is an awful trend. Besides this smear campaign it's also come up in anti-vax nonsense, election fraud conspiracies, and "reports" against transgender healthcare. It's like everyone still knows science is cool beans, but forgot what science is in the first place.

  • The New York Times published a hit piece on Mamdami, citing Crémieux
  • I looked at his substack and he also writes a bunch of super skeevy transphobic concern trolling. Not a nice person all around.

  • The New York Times published a hit piece on Mamdami, citing Crémieux
  • Another NYT Opinion writer, Jamelle Bouie, had criticized the article before being forced to delete his posts: https://bsky.app/profile/jamellebouie.net/post/3lt44uitxc22x

    The deleted posts in questions: https://bsky.app/profile/karmamylanta.bsky.social/post/3lt4dqeigfs2m

  • The New York Times published a hit piece on Mamdami, citing Crémieux
  • NYTimes has posted on Twitter about the feedback* (copypasted to bluesky via screenshots lacking subtitles lol). But don't bother reading it because it says absolutely nothing.

    * Their word. I'm not sure I'd call this "feedback" so much as everyone talking about how irredeemably terrible they are.

    https://xcancel.com/patrickhealynyt/status/1941262786006483418#m

    https://bsky.app/profile/nytimespr.bsky.social/post/3lt6cza4vr22d

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025
  • Dude came up with an entire "obviously true" "proof" that music has no value, and then when asked how he defines "value" he shrugs his shoulders and is like 🤷‍♂️ money I guess?

    This almost has too much brainrot to be 100% trolling.

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025
  • Today in linkedin hell:

    Xbox Producer Recommends Laid Off Workers Should Use AI To ‘Help Reduce The Emotional And Cognitive Load That Comes With Job Loss’

    https://aftermath.site/xbox-microsoft-layoffs-ai-prompt-chatgpt-matt

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025
  • including possible effects on the protocols from issues like such as AI fuzzing attempts, to social engineering by AI's,

    "You know those massive problems we already had going back decades? Well what if the same problems happened in the future but with the letters 'A' and 'I' prepended? Scary!"

    through to how we deal with and approach and facilitate Avatars and Agents.

    Gosh darn it don't tell me LLM hype is going to ruin the existing definition of "agent" already well established in web standards.

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025
  • Alright that's it: anime streaming needs to return to fansubbing (note: this link contains a skintight anime bosom so don't open it in front of your boss unless your boss is chill)

    https://bsky.app/profile/pixeldoesthings.bsky.social/post/3lswcbtkwec2t

  • $219 Springer Nature AI textbook was written with a chatbot
  • The one human-written slop text I've read in my life was a textbook for a philosophy 101 class. The text was wordy and meandering to the point of being almost unreadable.

    The whole department was corrupt though. The textbook was written by the dean, expensive, and was filled with exercises on perforated pages that had to be ripped out and turned in (no photocopies allowed, and hence no secondhand market for the book). The teacher also showed obvious favoritism towards Christian students and found a way to make the entire class about god.

    So anyway that's why I never minored in Philosophy.

  • ‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work
  • Before LLMs came along no one cared what tools I did or didn't use at work. Hell will freeze over before I let a text predictor write code for me even if that eventually costs me a job. I'm the sort who can't stand any sort of auto-completion or other typing "help", much less spending all my time reviewing LLM output.

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025
  • Sure maybe the "Showcase" link doesn't do anything, the "Watch video" link goes to a password protected file, and none of the "Learn More" buttons do anything; but at least they tell you who invested in them as the very first thing on the page!

    Also haha I clicked on the blog and this was at the top of the first post:

    Here's a Substack post draft that introduces videogame.ai with a compelling and engaging tone suitable for readers interested in games, tech, or the future of creative work:

    New use case for AI found: extracting money from venture capital without actually doing any real work.

  • People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"
  • We should improve society somewhat.

    Yet you participate in society. Curious!

  • Ilya Sutskever's new AI super-intelligence startup raises a billion dollars. Unclear what they actually do.

    https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-co-founder-sutskevers-new-safety-focused-ai-startup-ssi-raises-1-billion-2024-09-04/

    http://web.archive.org/web/20240904174555/https://ssi.inc/

    I have nothing witty or insightful to say, but figured this probably deserved a post. I flipped a coin between sneerclub and techtakes.

    They aren't interested in anything besides "superintelligence" which strikes me as an optimistic business strategy. If you are "cracked" you can join them:

    > We are assembling a lean, cracked team of the world’s best engineers and researchers dedicated to focusing on SSI and nothing else.

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    www.eurogamer.net Olympics ditched Mario & Sonic series to explore NFTs and esports

    The International Olympics Committee walked away from its partnership with Nintendo and Sega for the long-running Mario…

    Olympics ditched Mario & Sonic series to explore NFTs and esports

    Saw the title and knew I had to post here. Not quite as big of a self-own as Square selling Tomb Raider for a blockchain / AI pivot; but amusing nonetheless.

    > Join the excitement of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 with nWay's officially licensed, commemorative Paris 2024 NFT Digital Pin collection! > > You can claim a legendary or epic pin showcasing the Paris 2024 mascot holding a flag and waving. You can add these digital gems to your collection through Magic Eden’s friendly NFT marketplace as part of Coinbase's Onchain Summer event. Be sure to have an ETH L2 Base-supported wallet to secure yours today!

    Remember when companies let you download wallpapers or something instead of figuring out what the heck an ETH L2 Base-supported wallet is?

    I remember.

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    OpenAI vs. Elon Musk 2 - Whoever wins, we lose
    openai.com OpenAI and Elon Musk

    We are dedicated to the OpenAI mission and have pursued it every step of the way.

    OpenAI and Elon Musk

    Follow up to https://awful.systems/post/1109610 (which I need to go read now because I completely overlooked this)

    Now OpenAI has responded to Elon Musk's lawsuit with an email dump containing a bunch of weird nerd startup funding drama: https://openai.com/blog/openai-elon-musk

    Choice quote from OpenAI:

    > As we get closer to building AI, it will make sense to start being less open. The Open in openAI means that everyone should benefit from the fruits of AI after its built, but it's totally OK to not share the science (even though sharing everything is definitely the right strategy in the short and possibly medium term for recruitment purposes).

    OpenAI have learned how to redact text properly now though, a pity really.

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    Bitconeeect

    OK OK old news I know. But this is a metal cover of a bitconnect speech that I found pretty amusing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ-Ayj-ht_I

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    openai.com Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation

    We’re developing a blueprint for evaluating the risk that a large language model (LLM) could aid someone in creating a biological threat. In an evaluation involving both biology experts and students, we found that GPT-4 provides at most a mild uplift in biological threat creation accuracy. Whil...

    Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation

    OpenAI blog post: https://openai.com/research/building-an-early-warning-system-for-llm-aided-biological-threat-creation

    Orange discuss: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39207291

    I don't have any particular section to call out. May post thoughts tomorrow today it's after midnight oh gosh, but wanted to post since I knew ya'll'd be interested in this.

    Terrorists could use autocorrect according to OpenAI! Discuss!

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    Buttcoin Classic - Zuckerberg's Music Videos

    #1 We're All Gonna Make It: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp0diaVLPrQ

    #2 Ethereum: https://www.facebook.com/randizberg/videos/nobodyme-ok-heres-another-music-video-had-a-blast-on-this-collab-with-hila-the-k/531145045349722/

    #3 Hello This Is Defi: https://twitter.com/randizuckerberg/status/1494416366710910992

    Surgeon General's Warning: watching all of these back to back may make your brain ooze out of your nose.

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    Hacker News on Homeschooling quickly veers into transphobia

    Don't mind me I'm just here to silently scream into the void

    Edit: I'm no good at linking to HN apparently, made link more stable.

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    sailor_sega_saturn Sailor Sega Saturn @awful.systems

    I am the journeyer from the valley of the dead Sega consoles. With the blessings of Sega Saturn, the gaming system of destruction, I am the Scout of Silence... Sailor Saturn.

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