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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st December 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 53 minutes ago)

It irks me to see people casually use the term "brutalist" when what they really mean is "modern architecture that I don't like". It really irks me to see people apply the term brutalist to something that has nothing to do with architecture! It's a very specific term!

The minutest detail of Yudkowsky - the play "about" him, as described by the author, Bobby Silverman in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] maol@awful.systems 1 points 1 month ago

Depends on if your cat writes a review.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th August 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] maol@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Funnily enough, there are a lot of data centres in Ireland. Maybe there will be a missile strike and Ireland's population will shrink back to 19th century numbers

Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] maol@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago

I'm aware of the idea, but it's still very weird for someone to pretend to be Jewish and also be a Nazi!

The shocking rise of one of the tech right’s favorite posters in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] maol@awful.systems 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Close enough, welcome back Rachel Dolezal. Although in fairness to Rachel Dolezal*, she at least went to work for the NAACP, rather than becoming a footsoldier of fascism.

No wonder this guy thought Zohran Mamdani was trying to lie about his racial identity: he lies like he breathes, and assumes others do too

*You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to Rachel Dolezal

Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] maol@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Fucking hell. Not the most important part of the story, but his elaborate lies about being Jewish are very very weird. Kind of like white Americans pretending that they're Cherokee I guess?

Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] maol@awful.systems 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I have become aware that there is a very right wing Catholic podcaster who has a Catholicism AI chatbot app. It's called Truthly.

Your Trusted Catholic AI Conversation Companion Deepen your understanding, explore ideas, and engage in meaningful dialogue—anytime, anywhere.

If someone could call up Pope Leo and get him to excommunicate the guys who invented this, that would be great.

Microsoft lays off the staff who make the money to fund AI that doesn’t in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] maol@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago

I should really start looking into Linux huh

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"Asked to think like a paedophile or act suicidal: Workers training Meta's AI in Ireland speak out" (www.thejournal.ie)
 

God help us. These workers are employed by a subcontractor, Covalen.

Multiple workers from Covalen’s ‘AI annotation’ service spoke to The Journal Investigates about their roles. Their day-to-day work involves creating prompts that are fed to Meta’s AI platform so the system can be trained according to guidelines.

In order to do this, some workers have spent entire shifts pretending to be paedophiles online seeking child sex abuse related information, or suicidal people looking for details on how to kill or hurt themselves.

Covalen also does moderation for Meta, with workers forced to watch extremely violent and disturbing footage that has been flagged for moderation.

“Sometimes in my dreams I am the victim, but sometimes – and this is far worse – I am the perpetrator,” they said.

One bright spot:

Over 100 Covalen employees have now joined the Communications Workers Union (CWU). The toll that dealing with sensitive content and inconsistencies in wellness break length were extra motivating factors for the move.

They are also asking for a better rate of pay, as they are currently earning an average of €29,700 per year.

Steven Pinker in race-science podcast shocker in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] maol@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago

Fork found in kitchen

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th May 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] maol@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago

That Michael Kove guy is one un-self-aware twat. Apparently all millennials work in high paying tech jobs.

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Data centre energy usage has outpaced growth of renewable energy in Ireland (m.independent.ie)
 

"Total demand for electricity last year grew by 4.4pc, or 1.3 terawatts (TW), but 80pc of that increase, or 1.1TW, was from data centre growth."

Training data for LLMs = higher energy prices and environmental degradation.

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Reimagining AI | Planet Critical (youtube.com)
 

A video interview with the artist John Wild about AI, AGI, eugenics and Silicon Valley TESCREAL cultism. Posting without watching.

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Interview with Dr Abeba Birhane on Irish radio (www.rte.ie)
 

"AI for dummies" interview from Irish radio with Dr Abeba Birhane, who's on a UN advisory board about AI.

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Spotted this ad in an old copy of Smash Hits. Possible tagline for this server? (awful.systems)
 

According to wikipedia, Runaway received "mixed reviews".

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Dan McQuillan on Resisting AI | Yeah Nah Pasaran! On 3CR (www.3cr.org.au)
 

Interview on Australian anti-fascist radio show Yeah Nah Pasaran! with Dan McQuillan, computer lecturer and author of "Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach To Artificial Intelligence". Interesting comments on AI as a tool of/for austerity politics, and an argument that AI is inherently anti-worker. Probably nothing new to people in here, but eloquently stated and put into a wider political context.

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Building an entirely new city from scratch in Northern California: an environmentally friendly way of providing more housing, according to some silicon valley types (www.theguardian.com)
 

Sure, why attempt to improve the climate resilience or affordable housing in the cities where millions of people already live, when you can just buy land upstate and get a whole new toy to play with? And why tell local, state or national government anything - they'll only be supplying the land, water, sewerage, utilities & transport links. You pay your taxes, you deserve to get something back.

This is going to be one hell of a planning application. What's the land use code for "feudal stronghold"?

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