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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

this post from the guy who writes explainers about consumer financial structures hits different if you know he met and is exchanging tweets with noted race scientist Jordan Lasker (cremieux)

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/chicago-casino-investment-offering/

maybe it's me but i'm hearing ultrasonic frequencies

probably nothing, right?

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago

Every pasty-white blogger is inching towards becoming a March violet.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 4 points 6 months ago

Oof yeah, that's rough. The AI generated header image isn't helping his credibility, either. Didn't he happily trot along to one of the rat conventions in Berkeley, and everyone was wondering why?

The Bally's story is its own source of hilarity - not only are they scrambling to fund this Chicago thing, they're also making promises about a Las Vegas resort that will host the ex-Oakland A's in what would be the smallest major league baseball stadium; with equally ??? funding gaps that their client press is all too happy to ignore.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

It's term time again and I'm back in college. One professor has laid out his AI policy: you should not use an AI (presumably Chat GPT) to write your assignment, but you can use an AI to proofread your assignment. This must be mentioned in the acknowledgements. He said in class that in his experience AI does not produce good results and that when asked to write about his particular field it produces work with a lot of mistakes.

Me, I'm just wondering how you can tell the difference between material generated by AI then edited by a human, and material written by a human then edited by an AI.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Here is what I wrote in the instructions for the term-paper project that I will be assigning my quantum-physics students this coming semester:

I can’t very well stop you from using a text-barfing tool. I can, however, point out that the “AI” industry is a disaster for the environment, which is the place that we all have to live in; and that it depends upon datasets made by exploiting and indeed psychologically torturing workers. The point of this project is for you to learn a physics topic and how to write physics, not for you to abase yourself before a blurry average of all the things the Internet says about quantum physics — which, spoiler alert, includes a lot of wrong things. If you are going to spend your time at university not learning physics, there are better ways to do that than making yourself dependent upon a product that is a tech bubble waiting to pop.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago

I was talking to someone recently and he mentioned that he has used AI for programming. It worked out fine, but the one thing he mentioned that really stuck with me was that when it was all done, he still didn't know how to do the task.

You can get things done, but you don't learn how to do them.

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

following on from this comment, it is possible to get it turned off for a Workspace Suite Account

  1. contact support (? button from admin view)
  2. ask the first person to connect you to Workspace Support (otherwise you'll get some made-up bullshit from a person trying to buy time or Case Success or whatever, simply because they don't have the privileges to do what you're asking)
  3. tell the referred-to person that you want to enable controls for "Gemini for Google Workspace" (optionally adding that you have already disabled "Gemini App")

hopefully you spend less time on this than the 40-something minutes I had to (a lot of which was spent watching some poor support bastard start-stop typing for minutes at a time because they didn't know how to respond to my request)

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 6 points 6 months ago

Thanks. I simply switched to Fastmail over this bullshit. (“Simply” mileage may vary)

[–] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Banner start to the next US presidency, with Wiener Von Wrong tossing a Nazi salute and the ADL papering that one over as an "awkward gesture". 2025 is going to be great for my country.

Incidentally is "Wiener Von Wrong" or "Wernher Von Brownnose" better?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 6 months ago

Perhaps "Wanker von Clown"?

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