sc_griffith @ sc_griffith @awful.systems

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wild article about content scraping nonprofit common crawl

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/common-crawl-ai-training-data/684567/?gift=iWa_iB9lkw4UuiWbIbrWGQv84IP0_-K67yuVC013Fx4

tl;dr they've been faking deleting data upon request (in ways that I find very funny) and their head is noxious even for a tech bro

also is it just me or does SV have a particular gift for perverting the nonprofit concept

I haven't touched image generators and idk how different their products are, if at all. but I think of this as the default AI "illustrated" style. very low on detail outside of the objects of focus, heavy line work, flat, rounded, muted colors

frankly that's the most detailed I've seen it get. usually it's more like this

apologies for just linking to my own bsky post but I'm lazy: https://bsky.app/profile/scgriffith.bsky.social/post/3m4qjnkeyls23

tl;dr I've gotten a bit suspicious that "AI users will be genocided" posts on reddit are a nazi op

just drop it through a hole in the floor of the floor of the dyson sphere

i see. i misunderstood your previous post, thought you meant that "none of these companies is profitable" is essentially his only conclusion and that you considered it justifiable enough

his conclusions are a lot more complex than "none of these companies is profitable"

i have mixed feelings here. on the one hand, a lot of the article hinges on the suggestion that zitron is somehow concealing that he works with AI companies. i've listened to his podcast, i've read his articles, he is pretty up front about what his day job is and that he is a disappointed fanboy for tech. the dots are 1/1000th of an inch apart. it also devotes a remarkable amount of time to remarks from casey newton and the like, who have nothing to offer the world.

on the other hand, i do find it genuinely repulsive that he'll work with a company like DoNotPay. while it might be hackwork to suggest he's concealing it, I don't like the association whether he's open about it or not.

on the... third hand? when i've read his posts, i've found myself totally unable to evaluate his financial claims. the evidence always seems unimpeachable, i just do not know whether the conclusions he draws from that evidence make sense, so i never cite him. i think a more honest and interesting version of this article, one that went further than trying to insinuate he's an ignorant fraud, would involve collaborating with someone with a lot of financial expertise and examining how rigorous his work actually is. but wired apparently wasn't interested in trying to make that article happen

If these plugs are too much, please let me know: the second episode of our podcast on historical bigoted/misogynist texts is out now. "Woman, thy name is russia."

https://bsky.app/profile/odiumsymposium.bsky.social/post/3m4cjzttdek2f

any of y'all watch a good movie or tv show lately? what was it

my laptop is a budget model from 2016 and it runs xfce smoothly and happily lol. i code on it and watch streams and play slay the spire and all the usual stuff. idk how the stylus changes things but the required specs for doing quite a lot with linux are negligible

if you're familiar with the history of fascism, he might as well have just written "ART SHOULD BE FASCIST" over and over. for example, one of the tenets of fascism is the 'cult of action for action's sake,' which you can see stamped all over this. and in the fascist conception, all institutions, including the art world, exist ultimately to preserve and extend their favored cultural values like vitality, creation, masculine strength, rejection of the outgroup, and identification with the nation

openai released their spyware browser and it is... not good

https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser/

https://youtu.be/5X9RUOEOoNQ

this reminded me of a superb article i've read recently on the topic. decided it deserved a thread

https://awful.systems/post/6040844

entire always means holomorphic on the whole complex plane

well, we're doing the show with the presumption that we're going to have five or six listeners. it's still quite fun and exciting

well if some possibilities come up i hope we get to hear them

it's so much fun! do you know what your topic might be?