Following up on this comment re: the TESCREAL wikipedia page https://awful.systems/comment/4332398

It's now been nominated for deletion (again), the discussion has blown up because it was noted on social media, and the nominator seems to be an... interesting... character

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/TESCREAL_(2nd_nomination)

Edit I now see they have admitted conflict of interest and visually downgraded their "Delete" nomination (I have no fucking clue if that actually affects anything, it would not surprise me that Wikipedia considers strong formatting a valid signal for determining weight of opinion)

OT: since we’ve occasionally featured a music thread and such, any interest in a music sub? it could be pair well with this, the awful pub.

the awful pub sub[0], if you will

this thought brought to you by prior threads as well as this that I’m listening to in late-afternoon 26C weather

[0] you know I had to, I couldn’t not

Witnessed an AI doomer freaking out over a16z trying to deep-six SB1047.

Seems like the "AI doom" criti-hype is starting to become a bit of an albatross around the industry's neck.

Tangentially topical, here's a startup (of course) who offers CNC-milled marble statuary:

Bloomberg: This Startup Will Make a Sculpture of Your Dog for $10,000

https://archive.is/xHcHH

Via this HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41248112

Not really TESCREAL, more really really late stage capitalism.

Although weirdly I'd be up for one of those really cool late Roman Republic realist busts.

Capitalist blames lazy workers for not putting in the hours to make themselves obsolete.

WSJ: Eric Schmidt Says Google Is Falling Behind on AI—And Remote Work Is Why

Archive: https://archive.is/JXvtV

Tangentially related. In 1878, some asshole exhumed 25 human skulls from an abandoned cemetery in far Northern Sweden and took them to Helsinki, where he and his buddies measured them to "prove" that people from the region were less advanced.

Now the skulls are finally being re-interred thanks to pressure from the local community.

Here's a background on the cemetery and the skull-snatching (in Swedish):

https://kulturmiljonorrbotten.com/2023/09/29/akamella-odekyrkogard/

Google’s Search Dominance Leaves Sites Little Choice on AI Scraping (no archive - archive.ph appears to have died)

Because Google literally can't stop being evil even when the world's eyes are on it

Worldcoin manages to convince Bloomberg it's 2022 and not 2024

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-08-12/how-worldcoin-is-building-digital-ids-to-combat-the-ai-apocalypse

oh god the slop machines are coming for the scientific world

chechen warlord ramzan kadyrov brags about cybertruck technical and praises musk for allegedly giving him it in grozny (take it with a heap of salt, like everything that clown says). they want to send it to the frontline armed with nothing more than NSV (think soviet M2 Browning) https://xcancel.com/NOELreports/status/1824820843463000392#m

Kadyrov claimed that Elon Musk supposedly gave him a Cybertruck in Grozny. According to Kadyrov, he plans to send this armed vehicle to the "SVO" zone.

“I express my sincere gratitude to Elon Musk! This is, of course, the strongest genius of our time and a specialist. Great man! Well, the cybertruck turned out to be a powerful project. Undoubtedly one of the best cars in the world! I literally fell in love with this car.”

would be a nice future addition to oryx's list, if they actually put it outside of chechenya

Cosmos Magazine publishes AI-generated articles, drawing criticism from journalists, co-founders

Latest from Cyberstuck: Just see for yourself. I... I have no words.

Update: I may have been bamboozled by computer imagery. Someone call Captain Disillusion.

Surprise Aella cameo!