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Lightcone is so *outraged* at the Guardian article that they have started a prediction market about it in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 14 points 5 months ago

Lightcone is so *outraged* at the Guardian article that they have started a prediction market about it in c/sneerclub@awful.systems

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 26 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Imagine being such losers that you get owned by the fucking Guardian, and as your brilliant followup, you start screaming "I'M NOT OWNED"

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 16 June 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40631663

Orange site post with a bunch of people saying burnout is a learning experience and that its okay to be perpetually depressed because it makes you more disruptive.

I don't have anything clever to say about this.

wow. sensible in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 19 points 5 months ago

Don't sell me potential if you're not a battery manufacturer.

At the AI Chatbot conference, an event suffused with use cases for guillotines in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

It must be exciting when you find out your startup is in the only industry that's in VCs sightlines, and it must be fucking exhausting crafting a pitch for them.

The VERA story of pet euthanasia reinforces my bias that there is nothing good to be gained at an industry conference, so I'm tempted to believe it's true. Either it's truly insane marketing copy crafted to suck up sociopathic VCs attention because these people live in hell, or it's actually real and they're happy that they've created ~~Uber~~ a killbot for dogs because these people live in hell.

Even when you luck out and somehow get a chance to win at capitalism by a coincidence of destiny, it still eats your soul.

Sam Altman is full of shit (and totally has a thing for Scarlett Johansson) in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 49 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

ScarJo being what takes down Saltman's wannabe Sky~~net~~ isn't what I have on my bingo card, but ~~would be~~ is insanely funny.

Remember how ChatGPT totally aced the bar exam? Wow! yeah, turns out that was just a lie in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Eclipse could generate templates for me, and I think we collectively agreed to stop using Eclipse like 20 years ago, so why are we trying to bring it back.