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speaking to Kim Crawley and Ryan Wilson

CONTENT WARNING: mild salty language, concerning generative AI

https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251219-how-do-people-survive-a-chat-with-stopgenai - podcast

time: 32 min 48 sec

blog post version likely to come over the weekend

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 2 days ago

look, that sounds like tomorrow's problem

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago

who tf is zerophase (apart from a lunduke fan)

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago

they were on bluesky in the early days, recruited by the rationalists and neoreactionaries at bsky corp

the queer shitposters drove them the fuck off

the TPOTters were most put out that nobody accepted "oh no i'm not a nazi it's just my friend is" as an excuse

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

some liked pushing people around and being tastemakers (Watson, Myers)

not only is this the opposite of reality, your supporting link names neither

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

yes, it's Urbit failing to reach its target

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago

Part of the late 2010s blockchain-academic-industrial complex

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

https://www.spikeartmagazine.com/articles/user-error-angel-investors-on-holy-land-march-2023

here's the author's previous ramble mentioning urbit

reads like she was angling for Dimes Square funding and didn't get it

EDIT: and her earlier one much more about Urbit https://spikeartmagazine.com/articles/user-error-a-more-beautiful-computer

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

look some people just don't like women having hobbies

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

to ~~fuck~~ sell LSD to children

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

i am pretty sure i am shredding the Resonant Computing Manifesto for Monday

and of course Anil Dash signed it

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

"how foolish of you to believe the 24/7 barrage of propaganda about AI agents"

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

while the antifa FP crowd long jettisoned all Yarvin's works, it occurs to me that the fa FP crowd don't seem to talk about urbit or Yarvin any more either

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