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[redacted] enthusiast, robot combat enjoyer, distressingly Appalachian, father of ninjas

  • This could be its own post. Very nice!

  • I hear ya. I mean, Stross's George Clooney stood and fought the horrors, while ours ran away to France. (The book really captured the unique American flavor of High Weirdness and the stickiness of Amerca's belief in its own mythos, didnt it though?)

    In the here and now, I try to remind myself that they're the ones who suck and that they should hide.

    When Woke 2 comes we're going to be insuffferable.

  • Hero!

    Here's a screenshot in case it vanishes:

  • It does seem kind of vulnerable to a determined gonzo journalist, doesnt it?

  • Axios publishes an ad for Anthropic. tptacek bravely defends a corporation from unimpressed fellow hackers

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902909

    Edit: tptacek implies that Ludic no longer stands behind Contra Ptacek's Terrible Article On AI, which I don't believe.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906403

    tptacek explains that the one armed bandit addiction loop is good actually:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46905142

    Edit2: He took off to his Xafe space. Getting Mozilla Jake vibes. lol at tptacek calling it the orange site:

    https://xcancel.com/tqbf/status/2019493645888462993

  • Imagining an LW enjoyer attempting to tackle Proust and getting straight armed into the Shadow Realm.

  • heh heh

  • Heckin yeah, are you going through a union?

  • Tangentially on topic:

    Just finished The Regicide Report by friend of the instance Charles Stross. Hell of a finish to the main series! I'll likely start a re-read of the whole series soon, and I'm hopeful that it'll win all the awards.

    Had a couple of shower thoughts afterward:

    1. In the previous novel, a bunch of American computer bois with brainworms concocted a plan to disassemble the moon and turn it into orbital datacenters, which is lol
    2. Ghislaine Maxwell is the Iris Carpenter of pedos.
    3. Keeping speculative fiction ahead of current events must be exhausting.
  • Tradesmen sharing tales of the worst bathroom they've ever encountered (positive). A++

    Also, you dont look your age

  • The vibes were wretched. Why do people to have to battle emotional abuse from a goddamned web browser?

    but hey, at least this way we now just know and don’t have to guess. so much easier

    +1, yeesh. Btw, if Dingus McGee there resides in the UK, might some of that shit might be legally actionable? I'd certainly have strong feelings about being defamed by the representative of a rather well-funded technology company lol

  • Thanks for lighting his ass on fire. o7

  • Very much "sweaty guy hovering over two buttons"

  • R3call

    Buisness plan: daily reminders to Recall the Recall Recall. It's memento mori for CEOs as a service.

  • An orange kitty can have ketamine or an iphone, but never both.

  • When Woke 2 comes, we'll nationalize SpaceX.

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Kicking Robots, by James Vincent

    harpers.org /archive/2025/12/kicking-robots-james-vincent-humanoids/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    ‘Atoms for Algorithms:’ The Trump Administration’s Top Nuclear Scientists Think AI Can Replace Humans in Power Plants

    www.404media.co /nuclear-rian-bahran-iaea-international-symposium-on-artificial-intelligence/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Greenland 'Freedom City'? Rich donors push Trump for a tech hub up north

    www.reuters.com /world/europe/greenland-freedom-city-rich-donors-push-trump-tech-hub-up-north-2025-04-10/