saucerwizard

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th April 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] saucerwizard@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

'Our goal is AI for all,' Carney says in Liberal convention speech edit: god knows what this exit tax shit is going to mean for Waterloo

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th April 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] saucerwizard@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago

I'm just shocked the managers/supervisors are praising me honestly (I'm very very hard on myself).

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th April 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] saucerwizard@awful.systems 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

OT: got a job selling tires and I’m really happy to say theres no AI as far as I’ve seen so far. Big relief.

(I get to see all kinds of cars - a Rivan of all things showed up my first day - and I’m learning stuff I can apply to being an RMT. I gotta say I’m pretty content).

HIGHLIGHTS from the AI panel at the 2026 Liberal Party of Canada convention, feat. Yoshua Bengio and Minister of AI Evan Solomon, world class ding dong in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] saucerwizard@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Minister of Slop

The AI bubble and the global polycrisis in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] saucerwizard@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

'sufficiently experienced as a weasel'

Aella's Influence on Rationalist Kink Practices (cursed phrase) in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] saucerwizard@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I recall there was a recent critical piece about it but I can’t remember where it was.

Duolingo is dying celebratory thread in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] saucerwizard@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

I used Duolingo when I visited Crete and found it totally useless.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] saucerwizard@awful.systems 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Prosperity's Path: OpenAI has shown it cannot be trusted. Canada needs nationalized, public AI https://archive.ph/QLg2D

tldr tech bullshit requires ur tax dollars. what ever you do don't question the all knowing laurentian technocrats!

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] saucerwizard@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

OT: Turns out nicotine patches really do give you vivid dreams. This totally rules, I should have tried to quit this way a LONG time ago.

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The current TPOT implosion (nitter.net)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by saucerwizard@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
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Is uh, anyone else watching? This dude (chaos) was/is friends with Brent Dill.

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Yud offers more weight loss discourse (nitter.net)
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The Big Lie (nitter.net)
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Cold viruses and bitcoin mining oh noes (nitter.net)
 

Blood Music was way cooler then this just saying.

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TESCREAL hallucinations: Psychedelic and AI hype as inequality engines (akjournals.com)
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Aella and company want to put GM bacteria in your mouth (www.lanternbioworks.com)
 

“ We have unusually strong marketing connections; Vitalik approves of us; Aella is a marketing advisor on this project; SlateStarCodex is well aware of us. We are quite networked in the Effective Altruism space. We could plausibly get an Elon tweet. ”

From the short investor spiel document. Also they want to just bypass the FDA?

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Another twist in the Ziz saga (cw death/shooting) (www.tumblr.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by saucerwizard@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
6 comments fedilink
 

I don’t think I posted this before, but if I did lemme know.

https://archive.ph/bVUba

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The rise of the new tech right (archive.ph)
 

Caught the bit on lesswrong and figured you guys might like.

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‘Before its too late buddy’: A Code Red Warning about TESCREALism (www.truthdig.com)
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Yud goes full seed oil-ist (nitter.net)
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The Museum of Retro Technology (www.douglas-self.com)
 

Its like tvtropes but for exotic IC engines.

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Roko flips out about rumors (twitter.com)
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