Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Also, happy April Foolās in advance.)
My University Keeps Sending Me Stupid Emails About AI, a continuing series:
From the email:
The debate will be chaired by Michael Pike. Speaking for the motion are Prof. Gregory OāHare (TCD), Maeve Hynes, Prof. Gary Boyd and Chatgpt assisted by Student Curator Ruan McCabe, all UCD. Speaking against the motion are David Capener (UU), Lucy OāConnell, Peter Cody and Meabh OāLeary, all UCD.
I would also like to complain that I have finally started getting AI summaries in Google, and I may have to switch to a different search engine. Neither wanted nor needed!
The url manipulation trick doesnt work for you?
E: this I mean, somebody even made a site for it. My own setup is weird and I have ancient strange habits so I just added it to my search bookmark.
"So, [Elsevier] added an AI question and answer to my article in Computer & Education.
The answers are wrong! They did not ask permission! The answers are WRONG!
How is this science?!"
misread as Eliezer, semantic content unchanged
AI-Powered Wi-Fi 7 Versatile Outdoor/Indoor Mesh AP
weāre at the āthe washing machine without a dateclock is marked millenium-bug safe in its marketing brochuresā level of stupid
(that might seem like a stupid comparison but itās one of the things I most viscerally remember seeing from that time (when I was still a youngin who was still largely years away from computertouching))
An AI faceswapper/nudifierās database got leaked thanks to its nonexistent security - unsurprisingly, its loaded with explicit images, including massive amounts child porn and almost certainly some revenge porn.
WIRED tried reaching out to the company behind the āimageryā, but they nuked everything and closed their doors in response.
New video from Jessie Gender, providing one long sneer at gen-AI: How AI is Destroying our Dreams
My favorite meme message board on the internet keeps putting out bangers, but this one is extra good and relevant http://www.b3ta.com/board/11416629
NaNoWriMo? Na, No Moā. Does this have anything to do with their bungled AI policy? Maybe, maybe not, but hey, the news article that I saw this announcement in thought that it was pertinent to mention.
considering their endless history of scandal, good riddance
Not dating your press releases on your own site is a choice. (Lot more places do this and it is driving me slowly mad) So, did they drop this yday? Some weird schrodingers april fools joke deflection attempt?
Why does NaNoWriMo need a nonprofit anyway? Whatās next, No Nut November LLC?
As funny as that is, I am sure that there are nonprofits that are aiming to stop fapping.
however they are exactly canceled out by nonprofits aiming to promote fapping
the Effective Onanism movement
Refractorive Altruism
Thereās a fucking for profit that does this and itās used by the god damn USA Speaker of the House so that his son can monitor his fondling
I am familiar. Not a problem!
I am fairly certain that their stupid AI stance at least played a role. Iām part of a largish writing community, where at least several hundred people did NaNo each year, a good part of them donated too. Last year, no one partook, instead we did our own internal thing.
If this happened across other communities too, and I wouldnāt be surprised if it did, they must have felt it financially.
Iāll believe it! I didnāt want to make that claim since I had no evidence.
Their dumb contraction should have doomed the project from the startā¦
It is a CIA psyop to prevent revolutionary thought from arising in written media, in that itās a self-inflicted PIP that makes you feel inadequate in your creative writing ability. CIA funding (obviously funneled through NGOs via CIA front USAID) is how itās survived so long with such a stupid name. Of course, now that government spending on the CIA is going down, so is NaNoWriMo. All thatās left is for it to be supplanted by some benevolent Chinese competitor that people will say steals your data, or something.
/s /s /s
I demand you prove your assertion! preferably using wallspaghetti and alphabet soup, of course. soās I know itās totes legit and original!
(/s ofc, and link too (incase anyone didnāt see that))
[This is what tankies actually believe!!2!one!!!]
tip from a discord:
Iāve been doing some micro tasking to train LLMās the last few months to earn some extra cash, the last month itās all dried up, no tasks available. I canāt help thinking that is a sign of a bubble deflating.
Please please please
Gamers Nexus put out their April Foolās joke for this year, and became the first journalistic outlet to break Betteridgeās law of headlines in the process.
they shouldāve had an overlay tracking counter in that opening montage, goddamn
(just got to 4min:) āoh! itās not just opening montageā ahahaha
SMBC using the ratsphere as comics fodder, part the manyeth:
transcription
Retrofuturistic Looking Ghost: SCROOOOOGE! I am the ghost of christmas extreme future! Why! Why did you not find a way to indicate to humans 400 generation from now where toxic waste was storrrrrrrred! Look how Tiny Timās cyborg descendant has to make costrly RNA repaaaaaaairs!
Byline: The Longtermist version of A Christmas Carol is way better.
bonus
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Scrooge: I tried, but no, no, I just donāt give a shit.
Your mistake, distant future ghost, was in developing RNA repair nanites without creating universal healthcare.
Prize for least funny, laziest AFJ goes to, no surprise, LW:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2NGKYt3xdQHwyfGbc/lesswrong-has-been-acquired-by-ea
Additional āpointsā for the commenting system using local times in the userās browser, thereby timestamping further unfunny AFJ at 2 Apr in my timezone.
Hey wait a minute we already made that (obvious) joke here on Awful Systems!
Ed Zitron breaking out the anime references for April Foolās:
Jesus, fine, Iāll watch it already, God.
OpenAI: Nah, Iād become profitable
every so often I think of how Rat-brain is just bleach-dyed āthe power of positive thinkingā for nerds who donāt get out in the world enough
Finally Tim Pool will get what is wrong with AI
On the bright side, Derek Lowe has also escaped containment, which is nice
has he? where?
Lots of politics outlets have been linking his recent work. Heās done a great job documenting the consequences (and gravity) of the ongoing grant apocalypse for the AAAS journal Science. Iāve loved him for years for being the FOOF guy.
OK hear me out: they make a new season of Hell Girl, but she only gets people who use gen ai
