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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

Palantir's public relations team explains how it helped America win the Global War on Terror

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44894910

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago

This whole story is unhinged. Thanks for chasing it down!

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

Let me fix that for you

neo-Luddite (based)

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

Her kick's so fast the call it the "quad laser"

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago (8 children)
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago

The ideological version of Mr Burns's diseases getting in each other's way

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

aw man I'm glad you brought that up. I generally like their show, but gestures broadly at all of that. I also wonder how much of it is money-driven.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"usecase" is a cursed term. It's an inverted fnord that lets the reader know that whatever follows can be safely ignored.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Looks like the bologna engine generated some balogna.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Some days it feels like developers are headed for a Morlock/Eloi split, except the Eloi are sickly and unappetizing due to a steady diet of glue pizza and mushroom surprise

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Brian Merchant's article about that lighthaven gathering really struck me.

The men who EAs think will end the earth were in the building with them, and rather than organize to throw them out a window (or even to just make them mildly uncomfortable), the bayes knowers all gormlessly moped around their twee boutique hotel and cried around some whiteboards.

Absolute hellish brainworms

 

This is peak laziness. It seems that the reading list's author used autoplag to extrude the entire 60 page supplemental insert. The author also super-promises this has never happened before.

 

Absolutely delusional wishcasting on the part of our very good friends.

 

By Timnit Gebru and Emile P. Torres

Pro-tier sneers by seasoned veterans, get em while they're hot!

Edit: I am reliably informed that it is no longer hot.

 

From the Uplifting News Department, an event that was brought to our attention by Wandering.shop member David Croyle. Specifically, that time that the administrators of rpg.net bluntly declared that their website is officially a No Nazis Bar.

There were no follow-up questions: https://wandering.shop/@croyle/113980700961699526

 

Looks like a local boy did good.

I linked the /r/nashville post since it has a good description of the website. Users can see a history of rent prices for a given property and its neighbors, which gives some leverage in negotiations. For more context, local rent prices are down 6% from highs.

I'm curious to see if it takes off, and how robust it is against adversarial tactics like bogus reports and nuisance lawsuits.

EDIT: Fixed "Blocked" issue by linking to archive

EDIT2: Also linked to the correct archive page

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Rojava has built what seems like a robust, equitable, bullshit-resistant mutual aid system in the face of incredible resistance. The idea of a system that can be an autonomous administration in some areas while operating--possibly legally--in parallel with a nation-state government in others is something I find very appealing.

I'm having a hard time understanding how the underlying system works in detail. I think this is largely due to a language barrier.

Any recommendations for Bookchin/Öcalan type reading for beginners? I've procrastinated on it because I hate reading theory (and it's always embarrassing to need hand holding at my age), but needs must. I haven't had much luck turning up English language stuff that lays out how the system works in a way I could share with a casual observer.

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John Mulaney gets paid by prompt fondlers to tell jokes at a party. He spends 45 minutes telling them that they are idiots, which is nice.

 

When you think MURDER, think MARCUS MUNITIONS!

 

(Found by way of @cstross@wandering.shop)

Tweet 1 - Oct 19, 2023:

I'm sorry but if you're paying $200k for a smart contract engineer you're ngmi

"no, the smart contract needs to be perfect and audited" bro hit $100k in daily volume then worry about it being perfect

Tweet 2 - Jun 5, 2024:

tldr; got $40k drained just now

i was submitting OP retro grants app. had to make github repo public for a sec. forgot i had my secret key in there (cuz i'm quite literally retarded, my IQ is 26). got drained of everything.

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