So last night I finished editing the latest odium symposium episode (“ezra klein is a disgusting worm,” https://www.patreon.com/OdiumSymposium/posts/1-ezra-klein-is-166891080 ), and i went to upload it to our rss host, zencastr. friends. zencastr is so fucked now. the only interface, as far as i can tell, is an llm, and it tormented me. im just gonna dump the screenshots. this is a fragment of an exhausting hour of back and forth.

note that i apparently have 10k credits, which i assume are temporary and there as a welcome to the new service. a single credit a few bucks so in total the bill just for the conversation comes out to about 6-7 dollars

it also tried to get me to use this absolutely horrible episode description

i asked it to schedule the episode for 9 am aug 18th and it said it did and it turns out it went out this morning. cool! if you listen by rss it’s out now i guess.

i posted on reddit asking how to switch hosts. the ceo found that post today and offered his hand, which i bit

i keep thinking about that bit in a philip k dick novel where the protagonist’s door tries to chisel tips out of him before opening, and threatens to sue him when he bypasses the lock. i hate the future/present so much

New odium symposium episode: https://www.patreon.com/OdiumSymposium/posts/22-on-chasers-ft-165582005

We talked to trans philosophy professor amy marvin about the intersection between trans chasers and stand up comedy

new odium symposium episode. we look at the work of conservative philosopher, grifter and tobacco lobbyist Roger Scruton.

https://www.patreon.com/OdiumSymposium/posts/21-mr-rogers-164372632

New Odium Symposium episode. We talk about /r/fuckingfascists, a fascist domination roleplay subreddit intended for good liberals, which instead ended up getting eaten alive by nazis.

https://www.patreon.com/OdiumSymposium/posts/20-death-of-162994026

New Odium Symposium episode: we look at Pulitzer prize winning columnist Charles Krauthammer and his pretentious and racist best-of collection, Things That Matter.

https://www.patreon.com/OdiumSymposium/posts/19-nightmare-161582344

was there an ownership change or something? this is atrocious

New pride month Odium Symposium episode. We go through the life and activism of notorious homophobe and orange juice queen, Anita Bryant

https://www.patreon.com/posts/18-swallowing-of-160587597

i don’t think she should be allowed to say “the ghetto.” doesn’t matter whether it’s problematic when someone else says it, she definitely doesn’t get to

i have already seen ai enthusiasts make quite clear that they imagine the purpose of formal theorem verification is to act as a bolt on for llms

she badly underestimates my capacities as a hater

new odium symposium episode (at the link and on all platforms). we talk to professor of africana studies danielle procope bell about her recent paper “‘Pick-Me’ Black women: tactical patriarchal femininity in the Black manosphere.”

https://www.patreon.com/posts/17-introduction-159058420

oh my god lmao. finally we understand how that happened

fun fact: even vixra has had an anti ai paper policy for idk how long, at least ten months

https://bsky.app/profile/scgriffith.bsky.social/post/3lsek4cpnpk2n

so we now have an invitation to do an episode of posting through it, which is a (really really good) podcast on the far right. we pick a topic, no other specifics. i am thinking this can be something to do with rationalists and the far right, probably something race sciencey.

SSC leaps to mind but im not sure that’s where ill want to start for an audience that doesn’t necessarily know anything about rats. any thoughts?

it’s a golden… bowler hat?

i feel like people in real life would be far less likely to press the red button, because twitter is almost wall to wall nazis and real life is not

When I was about 12, I got into a discussion about the environment with another kid at school. She told me that it didn’t matter if we ruined the environment of the countries we all live in now, because we could all just move to the Arctic or Antarctica.

this is the level the median hackernews poster thinks on

anthropic is the most moral ai company in the universe

guys

People generally do not like being killed.

source?