Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.
For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community
OT: since we’ve occasionally featured a music thread and such, any interest in a music sub? it could be pair well with this, the awful pub.
the awful pub sub[0], if you will
this thought brought to you by prior threads as well as this that I’m listening to in late-afternoon 26C weather
[0] you know I had to, I couldn’t not
Google’s Search Dominance Leaves Sites Little Choice on AI Scraping (no archive - archive.ph appears to have died)
Because Google literally can't stop being evil even when the world's eyes are on it
Following up on this comment re: the TESCREAL wikipedia page https://awful.systems/comment/4332398
It's now been nominated for deletion (again), the discussion has blown up because it was noted on social media, and the nominator seems to be an... interesting... character
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/TESCREAL_(2nd_nomination)
Edit I now see they have admitted conflict of interest and visually downgraded their "Delete" nomination (I have no fucking clue if that actually affects anything, it would not surprise me that Wikipedia considers strong formatting a valid signal for determining weight of opinion)
glancing at their profile, they have "what if I were king tho", something that claims to focus on "sensitive use of language" (it links to "wokism")
oh and to really add that flavour, they have this at the very top of their profile:
As of 26 Jul 2024, I have a new plan to get a job in 2025, a new plan to save democracy from itself, …, and …. And it all started on Wikipedia.
Applications of genetics, such as exploring ethical boundaries related to Eugenics... and maybe someday doing it right.
just a real winner of a human being that everyone would definitely want to be around
(e: jesus fuck I just looked at that political party too. wat.)
Worldcoin manages to convince Bloomberg it's 2022 and not 2024
Audacious and Absurd Defender of Humanity
Your honor, I'd rather plea guilty than abide by my audacious counsel.
Tangentially topical, here's a startup (of course) who offers CNC-milled marble statuary:
Bloomberg: This Startup Will Make a Sculpture of Your Dog for $10,000
Via this HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41248112
Not really TESCREAL, more really really late stage capitalism.
Although weirdly I'd be up for one of those really cool late Roman Republic realist busts.
@BasedBeffJezos replying "cracked" to this is the rancid cherry on a shit sundae.
Tangentially related. In 1878, some asshole exhumed 25 human skulls from an abandoned cemetery in far Northern Sweden and took them to Helsinki, where he and his buddies measured them to "prove" that people from the region were less advanced.
Now the skulls are finally being re-interred thanks to pressure from the local community.
Here's a background on the cemetery and the skull-snatching (in Swedish):
https://kulturmiljonorrbotten.com/2023/09/29/akamella-odekyrkogard/