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The edge is where it’s at

Interview with Nick about the post:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5rLzNxRjEQ&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251107-nicholas-weaver-the-futile-future-of-the-gigawatt-datacenter - podcast

time: 26 min 53 sec

no plans to fix it, though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dOPo6eVv6E&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251105-ai-gets-45-of-news-wrong-but-readers-still-trust-it - podcast

time: 4 min 58 sec

How could all these benchmarks be fake, it’s a mystery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcYZN6sTZjQ&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251106-oxford-pretends-ai-benchmarks-are-science-not-marketing - podcast

time: 6 min 16 sec

the best ad Pepsi never paid for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0GU2ryjKZo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251104-its-the-fake-thing-coca-cola-tries-another-ai-christmas-tv-ad - podcast

time: 5 min 01 sec

The finest academic papers money can buy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShXvaJ46hI0&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251103-mit-releases-retracts-nonsense-ai-cybersecurity-paper - podcast

time: 5 min 59 sec

Dunning-Kruger for everyone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvmlb1S6ogE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251031-ai-makes-you-think-youre-a-genius-when-youre-an-idiot - podcast

time: 3 min 57 sec

and you thought living near a bitcoin miner was bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XREXd8V7Fck&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251030-ai-powered-by-old-jet-engines-near-you - podcast

time: 4 min 16 sec

from non-profit to no-profit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqyWoAjBM44&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251029-openai-goes-for-profit-what-happens-next - podcast

time: 8 min 06 sec

Call and demand a refund and reversion to Classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8bHlG_NvLU&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251028-australia-sues-microsoft-over-forcing-copilot-ai-onto-office-365-customers - podcast

time: 7 min 08 sec

Kushner ‘grew up playing their games,’ it’s fine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-rq9MOfM5s&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251027-electronic-arts-losing-income-and-crippled-by-debt-more-ai - podcast

time: 7 min 04 sec

Want to wade into the spooky surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Happy Halloween, everyone!)

‘the first browser that actively fights against the web’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jh4sCW4pz4&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251024-scrape-the-web-for-openai-with-the-atlas-browser - podcast

time: 4 min 18 sec

‘The citations are totally misleading’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ0sRcbUlBQ&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251023-anti-renewables-group-uses-ai-in-inquiry-submissions - podcast

time: 6 min 11 sec

we're back baybee

Par for the course of my recent comment regarding theprimeagen.

archive link: https://archive.ph/ONKkm

contextualizes the topic beautifully. you might learn a lot about how american racism relates to capital and art from this article

highlight: most of these guys are into classical art fascism but one of them, a bitcoin guy looking to build a 450 foot tall statue of prometheus, appears to be specifically into italian fascism. his favorite aesthetic is futurism and he hired a futurist sculptor with this "manifesto" on his website:

"Omarchy feels like a project created by a Linux newcomer"

(long post, the author says feel free to skip to the summary)

archive (if yr browser chokes on the katakana URL): https://archive.is/Ks8o5

New fundees include Servo, Let's Encrypt, systemd. Fediverse gets thrown a bone via Fedify.

Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

‘The overall quality was poor, and it was clear it had been hastily put together’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIUUy6pQUJ8&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251019-south-korea-blows-850m-on-failed-ai-school-textbooks - podcast

time: 4 min 36 sec

Hollywood calls the lawyers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By3GRSY2Ptw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251018-how-openai-dodged-hollywood-on-sora-2 - podcast

time: 4 min 45 sec

hi, I’m Misa! — uh, Ani

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzFVuQl7xp8&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251017-chatgpt-sales-flat-altman-offers-openai-adult-chat - podcast

time: 6 min 03 sec

Found this via a blog post by Cory Doctorow.

Fascinating analysis on market structure, future scenarios and use of what is essentially accounting fraud my major players in the "AI" space.

Reddit versus Sam Altman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYsNrQ1EX7A&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251016-ai-boyfriend-users-radicalise-against-openai-self-host-their-chatbot-companions - podcast

time: 5 min 31 sec