[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 8 points 3 weeks ago

I'm not sure Ive still knows how to design things that actually work as opposed to beautiful objects for Dubai yacht dwellers to look at and show off.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 8 points 11 months ago

Perhaps that's part of why so many SV types are backing Trump. Grifting off Trump may be their fallback after the AI bubble collapses.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

“On my Substack I am doing non-ideological, data-driven reporting!”

I don’t believe the son of pro-gun propagandist John Lott is capable of doing non-ideological reporting.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago

They also mean "the wrong people are having too many children".

Also:

Poor black people with lots of kids, using government assistance: "Don't have kids you can't afford!"

Middle-class white people putting off having kids because they can't afford them: "Don't give us that excuse, start breeding!"

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

Sounds like they called it "Turing" in the midcentury law enforcement sense.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

To be fair though rodents can have pretty huge balls. Like dragging on the ground behind them huge.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago

"If I can find a girlfriend who is 10% better every year, then in 7 years I'll have a girlfriend who is twice as good as you."

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

In the old days rich people just donated money to build a chapel, with priests or monks continually praying for the rich dead person's soul.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For all the talk about "sticking it to Wall Street", it's quite likely that most of the biggest "winners" in the GameStop mess were Wall Street types. Either trading for their employers or trading in their personal accounts.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago

A PhD student got an opinion piece published on the hill dot com.

Also of course he has his own EA organization / grifting engine.

Which looks like they probably use Twelve Monkeys as a role model.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago

He has quite possibly written more words about Harry Potter than She Who Shall Not Be Named, herself.

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago

If it were an NFT that would be proof that we'd been designed by an evil demiurge.

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