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Cake day: October 8th, 2023
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They blarney engines got to my patent lawyer.
I’m sooo ready for this shit to be done.
knock knock
Wallet Inspector!
Solid call to action
Hey, we hailed our @self!
A new conspiracy theory that I made up just now:
Transformer-based LLMs are a North Korean op to destroy the West’s ability to generate 10x rockstar coders. Within two years America will be rendered helpless.
We’re getting codemogged by the Juche Machines. They have played us for absolute fools!
Magnificent
Apologies for missing it first time around!
Nifty, thanks!
@dgerard hey, I saw your bsky post and had an idea. Have you weighed in on Nscale and the UK’s sovereign scafolding reserve? I hope that it gets noticed by the wider public, because that shit is 10/10 hilarious.
It gets better! According to Trashfuture, Nscale never even bothered to buy the scaffolding yard, which is still in operation.
https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/unlocked-scaffold-to-heaven/
Ars sure drank the koolaid didn’t they?
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Yesterday i explained something so bleak to my therapist she asked me if we could pause for a minute so she could think about it. I’m getting close to winning therapy i can feel it in my bones.
A lateral move from pointing at the unbelievers and screeching, really
Hey, he’s posted here before!
That story is rad as hell. I was ready to run through a wall for those folks at the end. Appreciate you, Robert!
It sucks. :(
Honestly, the article reminds me of Scott Alexander, but succinct. “Here are several true things and an absolutely batshit wrong thing, presented together with equal earnestness.”
The wrong thing being “Believing that LLMs are trash is a mental disorder (not really but wink wink).”
Why do this now, when it’s all coming apart? It’s baffling.
A hackernews notices that HN autoflags 404 Media articles. A little downthread, dang bullshits unconvincingly in reponse.
This really seems to be the case.
Wew, Cory Doctorow sure is posting through it
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/12/normal-technology/#bubble-exceptionalism
Labor theory of value, but worse
Delve removed from YCombinator
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47634690
IIUC, it looks like they lied to YC about stealing another company’s Apache 2.0 licensed slopware. Turns out they weren’t tall enough for this ride.
Delve claims to offer “Compliance as a Service”