no, you’re not “left leaning”, also, “most people are stupid” is neither original nor true.
flere-imsaho
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flere-imsaho@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Hugging Face scrapes Bluesky, surprised when Bluesky users objectEnglish6·6 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 objectEnglish11·6 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 MicrosoftEnglish10·7 months 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 reactEnglish9·7 months 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 2024English7·7 months agooh dear, how sad, nevermind.
flere-imsaho@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•The walled marketplace of ideas: a statistical critique of SSC book reviewsEnglish4·7 months 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 goldEnglish9·7 months 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 goldEnglish12·7 months 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 goldEnglish18·7 months 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’English6·7 months agoironic eugenics is genocidal the same way
flere-imsaho@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•US startup charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’English7·7 months agothere is no unobjectionable eugenics
flere-imsaho@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•The walled marketplace of ideas: a statistical critique of SSC book reviewsEnglish8·7 months 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 2024English4·7 months ago…or just use the qrencode’s
-t ANSI256
or-t ANSI256UTF8
output 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?English3·7 months 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 ActionEnglish11·7 months agoand perhaps a little bow to lem’s “cyberiad” (automateusz, translated as automatthew, from the story automatthew’s friend)
flere-imsaho@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•NaNoWriMo gets AI sponsor, says not writing your novel with AI is ‘classist and ableist’English2·7 months 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).
flere-imsaho@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•if you wait this long to create me for this bad of a reason, you'd better expect some re-educationEnglish5·9 months agothank you, that’s perfectly awful :-)
I liked ptaček better when he still knew he doesn’t know everything.