V0ldek

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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

I haven't seen the YouTube recommendation page in so long I wouldn't know. Invidious my beloved <3

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

Median age is usually 19-25

Good news, now they're 40-50 and severely divorced!

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

TIL Hank Green, the milquetoast BlueSky poster, also has some YouTube channel. How quaint.

I think every time I learn That Guy From BlueSky also has some other gig different from posting silly memes I lose some respect for them.

E.g. I thought Mark Cuban was just a dumb libertarian shitposter, but then it turned out he has a cuntillion dollars and also participated in a show unironically called "Shark Tank" that I still don't 100% believe was a real thing because by god

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's up with all the websites that tell me "you've reached the limit of free articles for the month" even though I've literally never entered that site before in my life. Stop gaslighting me you cunts.

Anyway, here's the archive

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago

All of those people, Krauss, Dawkins, Harris (okay that one might've been unsalvageable from the start, I'm really not sure) are such a great reminder that you can be however smart/educated you want, the moment you believe you're the smartest boi and stop learning and critically approaching your own output you get sucked into the black hole of your asshole, never to return.

Like if I had a nickel. It's hubris every time. All of those people need just a single good friend that, from time to time, would tell them "man, what you said was really fucking stupid just now" and they'd be saved.

Clout is a proxy of power and power just absolutely rots your fucking brain. Every time a Guy emerges, becomes popular, clearly thinks "haha, but I am different, power will not rot MY brain", five years later boom, he's drinking with Jordan Benzo Peterson. Even Joe Fucking Rogan used to be significantly more lucid before someone gave him ten bazillion dollars for a podcast and he suffered severe clout poisoning.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not really any more insane than any other white-collar corporate job I've seen in my life

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Spoiler: there are no actual dragons in either book 😞

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

This is always what you get when your fundamental belief is "capitalism good", so no matter how close you get to "and the problem is capitalism" you can never actually get there, like in a crazy version of edging.

What I'm saying is that libs are philosophical gooners

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

"Engineering a Compiler" is a better read than the Dragon Book anyway

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every time I learn one single thing about how academia works in the USA I want to commit unspeakable acts of violence

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I was thinking about ethics ~~in game journalism~~ in software engineering and I think it might be easier to create a whitelist than a blacklist:

What are some serious software/hardware companies that have NOT participated in the AI bubble? No AI nonsense in their marketing slides, no mentions of AI on their landing page, etc.

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