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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 12 May 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 2 points 2 years ago

My Jesus wanted characters for drawing borders and playing card suits, which is why He handed down to us Code Page 437. Using the upper 128 characters for things like vowels with funny marks on them is catholic heresy (nuts to Latin 1, down with Unicode).

“Crypto is already a giant video game — and we are here to make it more fun and rewarding.” in c/buttcoin@awful.systems

[–] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago

Something about "Gangster Arena" and "Gangster Arena 2"? BRB, seeing if Jauwn covered that first.

Techbro develops AI-powered sex toy to “save the world” in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[–] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

snicker floppy dick drive

"The Monkey Fraud": An interview with Ryder Ripps in c/buttcoin@awful.systems

[–] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 4 points 2 years ago

There were times in the interview where I was like "what question does he think he's answering?" because it was all so stream-of-thought nonsense

Fast food, one of the most relentlessly Taylorised processes in all of labour, is going "AI" apparently. Looks like Taco Bell/Pizza Hut's CTO got promptfondled in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago

Oh, "major journey" is corporate-hack-speak for a complex process / workflow. At some point in the last few years someone decided to call them that. Basically this guy is saying, "I went to business school to learn how to use pretty words to fuck over labor while also gutting value from anything I touch."