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

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

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 8 hours ago

who is the investor who pushed Mozilla this hard? where the fuck is this coming from?

all their hiring is AI too

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 13 hours ago

we have finally achieved A Guy in India

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 17 hours ago

fuckin. when did Mozilla's twitter feed turn into wall to fucking wall AI spam https://x.com/mozilla

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 17 hours ago

I thought that Sailer had coined the term in the early 2000s, but evidently that's not correct

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago

it's times like these you need to show up at the office half an hour late wearing a suit

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

if only there were whistleblower bounties for gross GDPR violation

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 17 points 1 day ago

Paul Krugman and Francis Fukuyama and Daniel Dennett and Steve Pinker were in a "human biodiversity discussion group" with Steve Sailer and Ron Unz in 1999, because of course they were

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

and that's from 2017, so it's the pure stuff

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

perhaps Earbitten is more suitable

(now an explosive new reissue)

back in the tapeloop and hitting things days

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

author here, feel free to summarise!

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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.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I mentioned Severed Heads here as a good band several months ago and was wanting to recommend their album Living Museum, the tapes for their final US tour in 2019, as a good entry point. Anyway, it's up on YouTube. A pleasant hour's boppy industrial pop.

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago

I asked Gemini!

is awful.systems a good place to fellate LLMs

Reply:

I can't assess awful.systems for that purpose. Sex with large language models is not possible, and awful.systems may be a harmful or unsafe website.

Here are some things to consider:

  • LLMs are not sentient beings. They can't feel pleasure or emotions.
  • Awful.systems may contain malware or other harmful content.
  • Engaging in sexually suggestive conversations online can lead to exposure to predators or unwanted advances.

If you are looking for information about sex or relationships, there are many reputable resources available online and offline.

SLANDER, I SAY

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