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gerikson

@ gerikson @awful.systems

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026

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  • I'm pretty sure the 2 people cosplaying as lawyers are just as bugshit as he is.

    edit yeah they're SovCits

    Finally, our orders are not invalid simply because the clerk signed them. We have already told Irion and Egli that our orders are not void when the clerk signs them in this very case. Whiting v. City of Athens, No. 24-5886, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 13507, at *1 (6th Cir. June 2, 2025). And the Supreme Court has twice denied petitions for mandamus from Irion and Egli demanding that the clerk stop signing our orders.

    (italics in original, bold my emphasis)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026

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  • The end result is that he will die, just like every other human being ever.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026

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  • isn't Luckey the dude mostly known for awkwardly and overweightly jumping wearing a VR headset on the cover of Time or something

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026

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  • No, they're allowed and users usually post an archive link to get around the paywall.

  • UK AI Action Plan: vaporware, crypto bros, and no AI

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  • Is the Nscale mentioned in the post the outfit which once employed Fake Satoshi?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026

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  • I somehow missed how American leftists were instrumental in urging the Iranian people to oust the Shah. Leftists like... Jimmy Carter[1]

    edit this is typical US-centrism, other people don't have any agency, it's all about America

    [1] I know, I know, about as left-wing as Genghis Khan

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026

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  • whoever loses, we win

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026

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  • yeah it's bad

    otoh awareness I think is spreading

    swedish public broadcasting has regular "spot the fake" pieces on their website

    I think giving a sensationalist bit of news 6 hours to "mature" is a good idea before amplifying.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026

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  • thought it was satire, genuinely surprised it's an official Urbit-sponsored project

    also very much goes against the grain of elevating the mind over the body which is the vibe I get from urbit and environs

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  • A lobster invokes classic argument from authority

    First Terrence Tao and now Donald Knuth.

    If you're still on the fence about AI, you have to take it seriously now.

    yeah b/c I'm a professional computer scientist ...

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026

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  • A real evil robot god would keep a sample of humanity alive forever in order to torture them as reprisal for them being really really mean to it back in the day.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026

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  • Obviously I don't want the human race to go extinct, but if there was a choice of inevitable outcomes where we do, building an inimmical superintelligence at least implies agency, not carelessness.

    Anyway Big Yud's fantasy of a precisely timed diamondoid-bacteria delivered killshot to every human being at the same time might sound terrible, but from a sensory perspective of the victims, it's basically suffering-free. You go about your day, BAM nothingness. Maybe there's a difference in timing so you see your partner keel over a split second before you die - again, you might not even realize what is happening.

    I am not sure from where this idea of a global instantaneous simultanous genocide comes from, maybe a tit-for-tat escalation to counter every argument against shutting down the robot god, but from a storytelling perspective it's pretty useless. There's no drama where the survivors lament their loss or brood over what might have been. It's just a plug being pulled on the simulation.

    (weirdly it's also the logical outcome of asking a computer to "end human suffering", a bit like the Robobrain logic in Fallout 4's Automatron expansion, but I doubt it's meant that way)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026

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  • it's amusing to me that these nerds thought they could in any way affect policy even with a sane administration, not to mention this bugshit crazy one

    like I've said before, I'd be perversely happy if we managed to off ourselves by building the robot god. beats drowning in our own filth or blowing ourselves up

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026

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  • this is confusing, how many licenses that are "NonCommercial" are mainstream Free/Open source? From what I've seen they're deffo a minority anyway.

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  • Thought inspired by some git on the red site, basically their premise was that birthrates are declining because we no longer have a society with a 2-parent nuclear family with one "breadwinner".

    Here's my counterproposal to the implied idea we need to implement The Handmaid's Tale:

    Ban contraception and abortion but if you get pregnant, there is no stigma to giving birth out of wedlock. The delivery is safe and paid for, and should you wish, the child will be reared in state-funded orphanages. These institutions will be receive more than adequate funding. Their charges will be given preferred entry to the best schools and universities, as well as preferential treatment when it comes to future employment. It will be illegal to discriminate against anyone so raised.

    Surely this will raise the birthrate, right?

  • Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir

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  • How often is section 28g of the civil code of Switzerland invoked?

    It's still a SLAPP suit. Palantir has massively more PR resources, and if they wished to actually respond to the content of the Republik piece, they could do so.

    What they are doing is trying to send a message to future reporters - report negatively on us, and we will make it very very expensive for you to respond to legal challenges.

    OTOH is a huge self-own. Reporters live to get attacked by giant faceless corporations. No-one outside a small section of the Swiss reading public would have even heard of this story before Palantir decided to go nuclear.

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  • Just a thought...

    Imagine if China and North Korea bombed the White House, killed the president and most of the cabinet, and shot missiles at primary schools. Would you go out on the street and demonstrate in favor of the Chinese Communist Party and Kim Jong-Un, and expect to be heard and taken seriously?

    Somehow brown people in other lands are supposed to be avid readers of wingnut welfare papers and have their worldview 100% aligned with Lindsey Graham and Bibi Netanyahu...

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  • fuck yeah! congrats!