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On “Safe” C++: An Odyssey of Sneers in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 4 hours ago

good thing Rust is only run by Palantir

I hear bitcoin is supposed to be good now. Is it a new bubble yet? in c/buttcoin@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 4 hours ago

nor any other

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I hear bitcoin is supposed to be good now. Is it a new bubble yet? (davidgerard.co.uk)
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ChatGPT in the classroom: OpenAI continues its education push with two new courses for teachers (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Whoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racist in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 15 hours ago

Mao just read his Adam Smith

Whoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racist in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

especially for such important things like fucking tenant screening.

you must understand: this is a feature

Whoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racist in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 16 points 17 hours ago

sorry that sign's been updated

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Whoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racist (pivot-to-ai.com)
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Centrists Don't Fucking Be Like This challenge not achieved yet again

https://social.kernel.org/notice/AoGpED4fw3LSGhxTLU

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 1 day ago (15 children)

The mask comes off at LWN, as two editors (jake and corbet) dive in to frantically defend the honour of Justine fucking Tunney against multiple people pointing out she's a Nazi who fills her projects with racist dogwhistles

https://lwn.net/Articles/998196/

hey remember the LAUSD school district's AI bot Ed, that crashed and burned earlier this year? anyway the CEO of the vendor has just been charged with fraud in c/techtakes@awful.systems
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hey remember the LAUSD school district's AI bot Ed, that crashed and burned earlier this year? anyway the CEO of the vendor has just been charged with fraud (awful.systems)
 

bust report (archive)

an earlier piece on the, uh, issues in this case (it's pretty juicy)

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 17 points 3 days ago (6 children)

now seeing EAs being deeply concerned about RFK running health during a H5N1 outbreak

dust specks vs leopards

Coca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expect in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 3 days ago

they'll have to comfort themselves with a Coke(tm), apparently it's a Surreal Thing

Pumping the AI bubble: a data center funding craze with ‘novel types of debt structures’ in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 3 days ago

not many people are quite aware that the word "systemic" is economics jargon meaning "RED ALERT RED ALERT HOLY SHIT RED ALERT"

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Pumping the AI bubble: a data center funding craze with ‘novel types of debt structures’ (pivot-to-ai.com)
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago

i mean, the Ray Charles one sounds fun. My 1st year maths lecturer demonstrated the importance of not dividing by zero by mathematically proving that if 1=0, then he was Brigitte Bardot. We did actually applaud.

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Razzlekhan gets 18 months for war crimes against music (financialpost.com)
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HarperCollins offers $2,500 to feed a book to AI, some authors still not keen (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Coca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expect (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Substack readers may be paying for AI-generated newsletters, Medium full of slop too (pivot-to-ai.com)
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I Attended Google's Creator Conversation Event, And It Turned Into A Funeral (www.giantfreakinrobot.com)
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a good piece on Bluesky, how it works, how decentralised it isn't in practice and the consequences of it winning (anderegg.ca)
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Peter Singer introduces the Peter Singer AI to elevate ethical discourse in the digital age (boldreasoningwithpetersinger.substack.com)
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