[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 16 points 4 months ago

that would explain npm.

[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 16 points 5 months ago

He also wants us to know that Hannania is much less right than he’s made out to be

Also he doesn't grasp that people hate Hanania because he's a racist, not because of where he falls on the forced left/right spectrum.

[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 18 points 5 months ago

Is the header image on that page an intentional joke at the expense of GenAI, or did someone seriously make that and add it to the page? Do they autogenerate their pics?

a generated image of an open newspaper that says the guardian in one page and contovicsy on the other, in front of some monstrous microscope and a distorted chessboard and a chess piece in an orb

[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 14 points 5 months ago

But betting? There’s being an insider and then there’s profiting, and aren’t most journalists prohibited from trading or betting on their covered areas?

[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 18 points 5 months ago

is it considered acceptable journalistic ethics at Vox for a journalist who reports on EAs and prediction markets to make prediction market bets on how a journalistic outlet will follow-up a story on prediction markets and EAs? My eyebrows have just levitated so high they've collided with a starlink swarm.

[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 17 points 5 months ago

There’s only one way in the US, where most employment is at-will, to have a contract that prevents getting fired for a completely boneheaded reason.

/me bursts into chorus of L’Internationale and is dragged to the gate by admins, off-key singing the entire track listing of Chumbawamba’s “English Rebel Songs 1381–1914” dopplering off into the distance as I go.

[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 16 points 5 months ago

I get this is a dumb question, but if sexbots and uterine replicators will make women redundant, why am I supposed to be threatened by trans women? In Roko's framing, all women, trans and cis, will be replaced by robots. I got no problem if my secret post-andropocalypse wilderness tent at Camp Hothead Paisan is the home of both cis & trans women.

[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 19 points 5 months ago

Oh, but you’ve provided us with statistics! Please, though, for the peer reviewers: we need the baseline measurement. How many women do you date who don’t break up with you? And are they all in Canada?

[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 19 points 5 months ago

The woman-explainer has arrived in the thread.

[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 15 points 5 months ago

Oh man, I once bought the most glorious winter coat at an army-navy store. Lightweight, cheap, and so warm.

Once I had money I discovered the glory of high-quality thermals, but if you don't have money and live in a cold house, you try to keep at least one room warm with a lot of closed doors, plastic on the windows and draft stopper door snakes if the house is drafty, warm socks, layers. Nobody without money is buying pregnancy corsets from Etsy to stay warm, what the shit is that.

[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 18 points 6 months ago

can't goosestep without great boots.

[-] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

My vibe is that the Guardian UK still thinks it's a left wing feminist stance to be transphobic ^1^, and unrelatedly, the Collins articles keep getting printed because everyone involved


the Collinses, their PR people, the Guardian -- know perfectly well what ragebait is. A click is a click.

1: Somehow. What the hell is in the water in the UK? ^2^

2: Cryptosporidium

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