dgerard

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

volunteer idealism — the usual mix of spite and whimsy

my god

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

and the sequel, 2 Blade 2 Run

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

NEW MISSION: we must show Elon Musk "Naked Lunch" so his next car is a cyber cockroach typewriter

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago

it's pretty publicly known

the VCs are gonna take one heckuva bath

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

this user has failed peer review and has been retracted

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

training your sperm to pass raven's progressive matrices

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

oh?? please do tell!

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

momty python style giant sabot descends on Microsoft data centre

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago

it's a little magical and not entirely reliable so i'm not a fan, but the switch is there

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i am hearing that ProQuest has been quietly contacting small publishers to see if it can ingest their published output for AI training.

ProQuest has an AI thing now, but it's denied it's training on hosted content ... yet.

if you are, or know, an author who's had a letter of this sort recently, mentioning ProQuest or no, i'd love to know and please tell your friends - email is dgerard@gmail.com

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

i have already had whiny shits demand that I (a) set dark mode default (b) remove the switch

default is currently set to whatever your browser thinks is the default and you can switch it otherwise

 

and I have long ebony black hair (that's how I got my name) with Objectivist streaks and helpful tips that reaches my mid-back and icy rational eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Vitalik Buterin (AN: if u don't know who he is get da hell out of here!). I'm not related to Satoshi Nakamoto but I wish I was because he's a major fucking hottie, allegedly. I'm a Bitcoiner but my teeth are straight and white. I have pale white skin. I'm also an anarcho-capitalist, and I go to a magic school called Ethereum in Zug, Switzerland where I'm in the seventh year (I'm seventeen). I'm a Libertarian (in case you couldn't tell) and I wear mostly black. I love the Ron Paul forums and I buy all my ideas from there. For example today I was wearing dark markets with matching escrow around it and a black leather iPad cover, grey weed logo bag and black combat boots. I was wearing no makeup, none of that clown paint. I was walking outside Mom's basement. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of banksters stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.

 

investors include Saudi Arabia, the country whose wealth rests on fossil fuels

now you might wonder if this initiative will lack a certain greenness

 

I'm in our daily standup and it's turned into exchanging fucked up sysadmin redundancy tales.

One place I worked lost a machine room. They'd fired people so fast that nobody remembered where the boxes were any more.

I knew, but they didn't ask me. Oh well!

The cycle of IT binge and purge is eternal. Post your tales here.

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