swlabr

joined 2 years ago
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yes, exactly. The same capitalist/colonialist/imperialist forces that exploit the global south are the same that want AI to automate everyone into abject poverty. We can do better and show class solidarity by not perpetuating these racist stereotypes.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 13 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Let’s drop the “indian” part of this and come up with something else, please.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 5 days ago

Don’t look up who the president is, it might come as a shock /s

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 5 days ago

Making a startup named Sphinctr

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You're welcome!

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 14 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Pre-watch: With the prior knowledge that her main job prior to this was wrestling promoter, the ol’ overtonussy is preeeetty loose

Post-watch: lol

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

New animation (1:20) by theforestjar about AI art.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
 Rupi Kaur 

   should sue
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don’t know that we can offer you a good world, or even one that will be around for all that much longer. But I hope we can offer you a good childhood. […]

When “The world is gonna end soon so let’s just rawdog from now on” gets real

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How much of this is the AI bubble collapsing vs. Ohiophobia

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

JFC I click on the rocket alignment link, it's a yud dialogue between "alfonso" and "beth". I am not dexy'ed up enough to read this shit.

 

On the hottest and coldest days, when demand for electricity peaks and the price rockets, the bitcoin miners either sell power back to providers at a profit or stop mining for a fee, paid by ercot. Doing so has become more lucrative than mining itself. In August of 2023 Riot collected $32m from curtailing mining and just $8.6m from selling bitcoin.

Archive link: https://archive.md/O8Cz9

 

Kind of sharing this because the headline is a little sensationalist and makes it sound like MS is hard right (they are, but not like this) and anti-EU.

I mean, they probably are! Especially if it means MS is barred from monopolies and vertical integration.

13
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by swlabr@awful.systems to c/meta@awful.systems
 

Wish I had a screengrab of this, but occasionally when I open the awful.systems page, it looks like I've logged in as a different user. Just now the username "autumnal" appeared instead of my own. Don't know how to reproduce.

This has happened in chrome on macosx a few times, haven't seen it elsewhere.

22
VoughtCoin (the-boys.fandom.com)
 

TIL that television program “The Boys” has an in universe cryptocurrency as a satire of, well, cryptocurrency in general but also specifically that time when DJT was selling NFTs. They occasionally tweet about it.

It has a listing on the “BSCScan” crypto tracker under the name “VTC” so someone might have actually minted it? It might surprise some of you that I have no way of telling the realness of such a thing.

 

Uncritically sharing this article with naive hope. Is this just PR for a game? Probably. Indies deserve as much free press as possible though.

 

As is tradition I am sharing this link without having listened yet.

 

The video game in question:

 

Followup to part 1, which now has a transcript!

As is tradition, I am posting this link without having listened to it. (too many podcasts)

view more: ‹ prev next ›