no, you’re not “left leaning”, also, “most people are stupid” is neither original nor true.
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flere-imsaho@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Hugging Face scrapes Bluesky, surprised when Bluesky users objectEnglish
6·11 months agoi bet that bluesky worked with them to get their company and all their personal accounts established at bluesky as the primary social media channel.
i don’t expect they will get anything more than a slap on the wrists, if at all.
flere-imsaho@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Hugging Face scrapes Bluesky, surprised when Bluesky users objectEnglish
11·11 months agothe aggrieved attitude of “but i am a socialist” is really adorable.
flere-imsaho@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Where's Your Ed At- The Cult of MicrosoftEnglish
10·1 year ago(it’s programming dot dev again, isn’t it?)
flere-imsaho@awful.systemsto
SneerClub@awful.systems•JD Vance outs himself as an SSCer, SSCers reactEnglish
9·1 year agothe problem is that you post things here, though i guess that by the time i’m commenting it has been alleviated.
flere-imsaho@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd November 2024English
7·1 year agooh dear, how sad, nevermind.
flere-imsaho@awful.systemsto
SneerClub@awful.systems•The walled marketplace of ideas: a statistical critique of SSC book reviewsEnglish
4·1 year agoprecisely my point.
flere-imsaho@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•the hackernewses whining that linus is so unfair in enacting legal sanctions against the russian who works in development for bomb components are comedy goldEnglish
9·1 year agostalinists, like pigeons, are gonna shit over every place where they congregate. it is a pity that they have half the brain and quarter of the cuteness of the pigeons though.
flere-imsaho@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•the hackernewses whining that linus is so unfair in enacting legal sanctions against the russian who works in development for bomb components are comedy goldEnglish
12·1 year ago…and that’s one of the dudes personally invited to the site by its main moderator (see, the public invite trees can be useful sometimes).
flere-imsaho@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•the hackernewses whining that linus is so unfair in enacting legal sanctions against the russian who works in development for bomb components are comedy goldEnglish
18·1 year agothere’s this lovely nostalgic thread by the very dude working for baikal, and you can play the game “spot the serb in the thread without looking at the names”.
flere-imsaho@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•US startup charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’English
6·1 year agoironic eugenics is genocidal the same way
flere-imsaho@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•US startup charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’English
7·1 year agothere is no unobjectionable eugenics
flere-imsaho@awful.systemsto
SneerClub@awful.systems•The walled marketplace of ideas: a statistical critique of SSC book reviewsEnglish
8·1 year agotbh i would not call richard hanania “an ex-white nationalist”; he’s a white supremacist through and through and never stopped, also, freddie deboer is as far to the left as the late unlamented gregor strasser, and probably much less.
and even with these caveats, it’s a pretty damning piece, even if every other careful reader is probably aware that siskind engages in whitewashing scientific racism and white supremacy for fucking decades.
flere-imsaho@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 20 October 2024English
4·1 year ago…or just use the qrencode’s
-t ANSI256or-t ANSI256UTF8output format and read your qr code directly from terminal.
flere-imsaho@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•The Nobel Prize in physics goes to Geoffrey Hinton for his work in computer science. What?English
3·1 year agooh, it’s like russia’s idea of ukrainian and belarussian. fucking orphans of the empires…
flere-imsaho@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•“Nice Guy” Matt Mullenweg, CEO of WordPress.com Cries Foul and Threatens Me With Legal ActionEnglish
11·1 year agoand perhaps a little bow to lem’s “cyberiad” (automateusz, translated as automatthew, from the story automatthew’s friend)
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TechTakes@awful.systems•NaNoWriMo gets AI sponsor, says not writing your novel with AI is ‘classist and ableist’English
2·1 year agowhee, i missed that one completely. it seems that some over-eager hachyderm mod suspended @dgerard@awful.systems 's account. nothing that can be done on our side. (unfortunately i don’t have a backchannel to the hachyderm mods).
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SneerClub@awful.systems•if you wait this long to create me for this bad of a reason, you'd better expect some re-educationEnglish
5·1 year agothank you, that’s perfectly awful :-)


I liked ptaček better when he still knew he doesn’t know everything.