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fullsquare@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•GDP Growth in Second Quarter Slows to 1.5%, No Evidence of AI Productivity BoomEnglish
0·1 day agoEven then that’s extremely charitably assuming that this hypothetical productivity gain is put to good use, with ai-pilled management that’s just adding bloat 10% faster with a side of mindless tech debt
fullsquare@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026English
0·4 days agoi think that poking a pressurized vessel is a bad idea in general, whether it is attached to a hostile robot or not. it’s gonna be LOUD and perhaps throw fragments, or take way longer than practical depending on what it was made from. (what if only one of two is damaged?) there are so many things that can go wrong with the alleged failsafe (what if pressure drops slower than designed?)
fullsquare@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026English
0·5 days agosounds like he took the hedge part out of hedge fund, and then margin call took out the fund part
fullsquare@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026English
0·6 days agobut you see, in case of accident they can just dump reactor core into seawater which will provide ample cooling and shielding. no biggie, just put multi thousand ton object that requires a village of engineers to work out on high seas
there are normal nuclear powerplants that use seawater as coolant and they’re all on shore. these require a lot of corrosion resistant heat exchangers along the way. there is one power barge like this, it provides power to russian far east, whole 70MW of it, costed 414 million dollars and needs 300 people onsite. your guess is as good as mine how many of them are military. 70MW, aka two or three aeroderivative gas turbines
fullsquare@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd August 2026English
0·9 days agoIt’s lowkey expected considering how hard it draws from self-help movements
fullsquare@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026English
0·11 days agoah yes famously non-far-right cryptobros and downright woke russian and iranian sanction evaders
fullsquare@awful.systemsto
Ukraine@sopuli.xyz•Ireland "Finds" "No Evidence" Aughinish Alumina Exports to Russia Support War Effort
2·11 days agoboth alumina and raw aluminum, it’s alloyed to spec after smelting
fullsquare@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026English
0·11 days agothey had big corporate contracts for their other, boring and profitable part of the business, but that won’t save them from openai going broke. it’s like 50x less than they need
fullsquare@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026English
0·13 days agoi have been informed that the faster the company explodes the faster they can iterate, so eventually they’ll make company that doesn’t explode
fullsquare@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th July 2026English
0·13 days agoand also crypto https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1254 surviving cryptobros are nonplussed
fullsquare@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026English
0·19 days agothere’s been a wave of spam posts on writefreely couple of days back not sure if there’s a relation
fullsquare@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026English
0·20 days agoHey, gotta pump up these self-citation numbers somehow
fullsquare@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Terrorists are using AI — and the chatbot is killing themEnglish
0·22 days agoTerrorist adoption of AI has thus advanced further and more systematically than prior analysis has recognized
salafi extremists that declared western education sinful are now world-leading AI-first village-burning-as-a-service jihadist startup. okay whatever
It has aided in attack planning, weapons troubleshooting, and the design of explosive devices, as users have successfully circumvented some safeguards.
surely their contacts within ISIS or any number of other islamic militias couldn’t have taught them that previously, no they have to rely on movie plot ideas from chatbots. it probably helps that some people heard about them but peak years of their activity were in 2014-20 before ISWAP eaten their support base whole by not raiding villages and trying to replace state instead
also, when trying to make sure that i got this right i’ve learned that apparently al-qaeda pivoted to app development
fullsquare@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th July 2026English
0·22 days agoi thought that pause ai was just rationalist controlled opposition
fullsquare@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th July 2026English
0·24 days agowelcome to the abyss, it sucks here
fullsquare@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th July 2026English
0·26 days agoIf you delete account on twitter it doesn’t stay marked as deleted, anyone can register that name later. But this would have had to happen before 2015, if they were EA mockers after that then some kind of takeover seems more likely (who knows how many people posted from there, maybe one of them changed sides for whatever reason and locked out others)
fullsquare@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th July 2026English
0·26 days agoConsidering that they think that chatbots are as important as nukes, there is a precedent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/816_Nuclear_Military_Plant



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