[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 19 points 2 months ago

"I was somewhere in the middle of your mother last night, Trebek!"

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 19 points 3 months ago

Downvoting because you are a dorkus

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 19 points 3 months ago

Altman's line is what you write when you have nothing novel to say about physics but really, really want to say disparaging things about gay people.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 19 points 3 months ago

[ChatGPT interrupts a Scrabble game, spills the tiles onto the table, and rearranges THEY ARE SO GREAT into TOO MANY SECRETS]

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 19 points 4 months ago

From an article about a boutique brand that sells books to rich people:

Assouline has made its name publishing tomes that sell for $1,000 or more.

Oh, so they publish textbooks.

"They represent stealth wealth, intended to tell you what your hosts are about and to provide visual evidence: that the owners are people of wealth, education and taste."

🎶 Please allow me to introduce myself 🎶

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 19 points 5 months ago

ChatGPT was a significant help in writing this book, serving as a creative muse [...] and for refining my understanding of technical topics that are likely to be well represented in its corpus.

Nate Silver

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 19 points 6 months ago

Fetish content for the world's most divorced man.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

They want sneers about Yud's lack of qualifications? Fine:

Noncy prig who never went to high school founded a cult for people who can't leave it behind! How's about that, eh?

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 19 points 9 months ago

Why did 3.6 million people watch this hour long video dunking on flat earthers? Because the topic of people believing crazy things is fun and interesting.

Dan Olson's In Search of a Flat Earth is most definitely not just an hour of dunking on flat-Earthers.

It pivots to discussing QAnon at 37:30.

From the comments:

This just went from 0 to 100 real quick.

Lord, the cry of pure anguish I gave out in response to that line...

Props to the Qanon guy's kid for standing up to him and saying "nobody's gonna help you" when he kidnapped them, that must have been terrifying

Occasionally rewatch this while dealing with the loss of my own parents to conspiracy lunacy. Even tried using this video to pull them back from the edge. Ended up precipitating cutting contact with them, something that has done wonders for my mental health. I have since realised they were deeper in than I thought, and were never going to listen to their child, and unlikely to listen to people they actually might have respected the opinions of.

The person I used to consider my father now believes that viruses aren't real and is getting deep into transphobia and Putin worship. He is likely to already be a holocaust denier. There is no bottom to the conspiracy theory abyss and few ever seem to find their way back from the depths.

Thank you for crushing that last bit of remaining hope I didn't even know I had.

It's honestly kind of chilling to see him effectively spending half an hour predicting the Jan 6th riot.

"Fun and interesting"?

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 19 points 9 months ago

Reject modernity (wrong number of fingers), embrace tradition (SPIRAL EYE-HOLES ARE WATCHING YOU)

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 19 points 1 year ago

In 2002, psychologist Richard Lynn and political scientist Tatu Vanhanen published their seminal book

Ah, "seminal" in the sense of "cum-bucket"

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 19 points 1 year ago

Gee, one might almost think that EA was hostile to women.

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