[-] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 4 days ago

Ah, gotcha. I guess I'm sensitive to people using the word "misandry" from years spent in bad corners on the internet. I can't speak for others too much but it's an loaded term for me.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Oh for sure. It’s probably why I feel so unmoored in today’s culture (jk)

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 5 days ago

No problem, chud!

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

ok so couple stub sneers I thought of when reading this:

  1. One way to look at EA is as an extension of the middle-manager's syndrome of injecting metrics everywhere to allow them to spin up narratives of growth and improvement to justify their existence. I can't decide who I hate more!
  2. following on from 1, it's kind of funny that the EAs, who you could pattern match to a "high school nerd" stereotype, are intellectually beaten out by an analog of the "jock" stereotype of sports fans: fantasy league participants who understand the concept of "intangibles" that EAs apparently cannot grasp.
  3. it absolutely tracks that EAs, who see charities that spend money on administrating themselves as inefficient and incompetent, are dumbfounded and bereft of answers when any of their organisations implode

E: linking 1 and 3: together: EAs are self hating middle managers.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 5 days ago

DYK about what happens when you boil a pot of crab-frog mutant hybrids of varying degrees of crab and frog nature? The hybrids with a higher frog-nature quotient (FQ) don't notice the pot's temperature increasing. The ones with low FQ notice and try to jump out of the pot, but those with high crab-nature quotient (CQ) grab them as they try to jump out of the pot, dooming the hybrids to a their boiled fate.

You exhibit both high CQ and FQ yet are dumber than either a crab or a frog. Curious!

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 22 points 6 days ago

Folks, huge W today. I was hanging out with my parents today and my mother was scrolling her feed, commenting out loud about everything she saw when she came across some autoplag content. “This is fake!” she said, and I could not be prouder. Not just because she IDed the slop, but because it meant she at least has a better brain than my trumper family members that habitually repost trumper slop.

Cherry on top: she showed me a text chain where she was trolling a “my phone died, this is my new number” scammer.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 6 days ago

skibidi purges

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 45 points 1 month ago

This is great.

What I’ve heard from my endless hours of comedy podcasts is that at corporate gigs like this, sometimes some execs start getting the idea that, because comedy is being performed, that they get to make some jokes too. Once they get up on stage, the worst possible mask off shit just pours forth. I kind of want to know if that happened.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 79 points 1 month ago

A wallpaper app? What is this, 2008?

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 48 points 2 months ago

ATTN: If you're coming into this thread to say, "The output of AI is bad because your prompts suck," I'm just proud that you managed to figure out how to use the internet at all. Good job, you!

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 87 points 2 months ago

LLMs, and everyone who uses them to process information:

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 46 points 5 months ago

You’re right. We should move onto feeding it orphans

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Just a lil tidbit of news of some web3 based company going away.

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Found this because an article on Helen Toner popped up in my feed and I wanted to find out more, and boy did I find out more.

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submitted 1 year ago by swlabr@awful.systems to c/meta@awful.systems

Not sure how much needs to be said here. Sometimes I come back to a tab with a.s open and refresh, then get logged out. I’m using chrome on iOS but this might be reproducible on other browser/platform combinations.

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Discussion on AI starts at about 17mins. The Bas(ilisk) drop happens at 20:30. Sorry if ads mess up my time stamps. I think this is the second time it’s come up on the show.

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Don't expect a good or deep analysis of FTX or any TREACLESy stuff here.

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