[-] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 4 months ago

The site does tend to fall over if there are more than 300 comments on a post…

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago

Dude needs to take a page from the Republicans - if you can't influence society via culture, just capture the judicial branch.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 6 months ago

Ah these are the dudes with the unbelievably cringe Reddit dating history.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 8 months ago

The remarks at the end on how EA is actively trying to recruit and convert young uni students to their cause is chilling.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 8 months ago

"Mr. President! We can't allow... a ChatGPT gap!"

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 9 months ago

Maybe I'm paranoid but I can't help but feel that the recent spate of "omg people have having too few children!" on HN is just another way to promote anti-abortion policies to the non-religious.

Representative example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39499490 (linked article originally published on Quillette, natch)

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 9 months ago

Jacobin is proof that being Terminally Online is its own fucking ideology.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 11 months ago

Their crippling addiction

My worthy pastime

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago

I believe there's a normal progression for any cult where they are convinced that The Man is out to get them.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 1 year ago

"My previous bullshit term didn't take off, time to try to launch a new one".

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago

What both sides have is an unrestrained contempt for the Fourth Estate:

Every journalistic outlet whose journalists credulously reprinted this patent bullshit should investigate those journalists to see who their connections are with whatever PR firms Andreessen Horowitz has hired; and then, regardless of the results of that investigation, should fire every one of those journalists for being one of either corrupt or hopelessly gullible.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago

A variant of this organism was first created in 1985, and volunteers deliberately inoculated themselves with the modified strain. This has, to our knowledge, caused no ill effects since.

Who needs the FDA when you have vague hunches?

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