mawhrin

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[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago

i would be very, very happy to be fooled in this instance.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

so unless it's a very clever ploy, it seems that jms has lost the plot:

The standalone book of Harlan Ellison's I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I MUST SCREAM is taking preorders, with writing essays by Harlan, and since MOUTH was the first AI story, for fun we fed it into an AI system and asked for its opinion. The reply is fascinating.

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

yeah, he got got very badly.

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

i wonder what the bluesky's brandon paddock (brandonlive.com), the microsoft's ms word ai architect has to say about it.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

sometimes you neet to transform the graph to achieve the expected results, but generally yes.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

there's a new variant of the old crypto affinity grift around, too: banning crypto projects is transphobia.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

there are two things that are obvious in his blog: first, michał is an incredibly privileged dude (who doesn't notice his privilege because, coming from poland, he sees himself as underprivileged), and second, the moment people finally leave the vicinity of the formalized skeptic movement is strictly dependent on how much misogyny and racism they tolerate.

2017, three years post gamergate, is quite much.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

westerners and their clever takes about eastern europe, eh.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago

that's ableism, and as always with ableism, entirely unwarranted.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago

how does union busting help?

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

it focuses entirely on britain, so that's understandable

 

tl;dr: nsf requested that python software foundation affirms that they “do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws”.

the psf has withdrawn the proposal instead.

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