Evinceo

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

This guy's idea of thermodynamics is basically... he thinks that speed running universal heat death is... the highest calling of life?

Kinda the slowest and least exciting way to annihilate the universe, but it seems to exist mostly to justify irresponsible energy use.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Be careful, one us might escape the confines your imagination.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Isn't he paying for Twitter now? He has the blue check. He could actually save money by not posting.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I genuinely wonder if years of training one's self to be "rational" makes you forget how fundamental stories are to the human experience. Journalists write stories about real life, for good or ill. If something happens in real life but isn't a story, it doesn't get printed. "Random lady plagiarized her thesis" is not a story, but "lady related to major plagiarism story also plagiarized her thesis" is a story.

His observation that EA suddenly got piled on is missing a more subtile point: lots of the coverage of EA was probably an extension of the tech beat and thus benefitted from the access journalism and rosey-glasses'd that was rampant in the early aughts before a more critical eye was cast in the last few years. Tech Won't Save Us does a good job explaining the phenomenon (ctrl+f "access" in the transcript) in part of its Musk series.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Scott is to Journalists as other Scott is to Women.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I actually didn't recognize the name (or I would have made a big deal out of it in the OP) but this being the CRT guy tracks.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

I can't believe you targeted him 🎯 by googling his name and finding out he's eugenicist scum.

(Seriously, thanks for slogging through the comments to find gems like this.)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Sometimes the author includes images that are just a pun. A better illustration for this article might be a man angrly flinging a newspaper into a trash can.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Does any license slow you down

I certainly comply with software licenses so yes, that does slow me down. As they pointed out this precludes it from appearing in Linux distros and such.

Incidentally, I've gotten into very long and stupid arguments with people about Stable Diffusion's Definitely Not Open Fucking Source license.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

“Real” musicians turned their nose up at digital music when it first came out

You got any evidence for that? What do you even mean by "digital music?" That's not a category I think musicians recognize. You may he confusing digital with electric which was not exactly as you're describing it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Also notable because I don’t think it’s very often that eugenics grievances breach the surface in such an obvious way in a public siskind post

This one comes to mind.. Like EY's recent endeavor it's written as a roleplay so as to be nigh-unreadable by anyone without extreme tolerance for not getting to the fucking point.

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