archive (e: twitter [archive] too, archive for nitter seems a bit funky)

it’d be nice if these dipshits, like, came off a factory line somewhere. then you could bin them right at the QC failure

  • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systems
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    Wow people are not nearly scared enough of getting paper clipped.

    I can see why Microsoft preferred the old CEO. The new guy is harboring anti-clippy thoughts!

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    the first one of those is him arguing against the following claim: women being kinky is evidence that they’re desperate degenerates who have been impoverished by women’s lib. I fully support what he’s saying there

    the others are exactly what you would expect lol

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      I dug into that subthread a bit and some of the extended downthread replies are a bit weird, but the dynamic they observe about is definitely a problematic thing and I agree there too

      Also holy fuck those tiktok screenshots…

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      He does seem to be employing dubious statistics, though. At leat based on the screenshot …he shared…

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          …and other bangers from the same crowd who is vociferously all about POSTING (so that people can find your shit)

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        btw idle suggestion to trim all the gunk on your URLs (the ?s=46&t=nT....) when sticking 'em into archivers, otherwise permas the trackershit

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          running our links through a tracker cleanup library by default (with an option to turn it off for edge cases) might be some good low hanging fruit once I’m doing lemmy features again (I need to start keeping a list of these)

          e: my brain completely skipped over the fact that the tracker links are being archived. still, squashing tracker shit on our end has been in the back of my head for a while

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            I’ve been eyeballing a solution for doing this on phone, and basilisk help me it might need to be a fucking app (because all other options are worse)

            I fucking hate apple’s bullshit walled garden self-protectionist feature-hampering stance on things so fucking much (the app store dev license fee; the hobbled browsers; the pageforcing that a lot of the internet has started doing and which the reduced feature scope of mobile safari explicitly blocks you from handling; …)

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              shit, dm me if you find anything. I used to have a Pythonista script that’d strip some types of tracking out of links, but it’s hideously out of date and didn’t tie that well into my workflow (it was a share extension that’d drop the cleaned up link onto the clipboard)

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            Well we are, I have written thousands of bots ready to manipulate public opinion on twitter. On that note, anybody know what: “SyntaxError: expected ‘:’” means? Help me my python is dying.

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                it would Increase Utility if they knew about it, but then also @self and @dgerard would have more work

                need some complicated Yud-math to solve this very clear intrinsically conflicted dilemma

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                  there’s comedy in them not knowing, and there’s also comedy in them knowing

                  we can’t go back to not knowing from knowing, so I’m enjoying the not knowing era of awful.systems while it lasts

    • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systems
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      My takeaway reading that was basically “Sure there are emboldened Neo-nazis marching in the streets who literally want to genocide people like you in particular. But they don’t want to kill me so I’m more concerned about real problems: an out of control paperclip factory.”

      Also jeez how much cool-aid do you have to drink to start tweeting “the end of all value” instead of “earth go explodey and everyone dead :(”. If I didn’t know about the AI weirdos I would have assumed it was some sort of capitalistic nightmare.

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        End of all value is different from earth go explody. They’re fine with earth go explody as long as there’s a second, slightly larger earth to replace it with more value.

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        Yeah I look at that and can’t imagine a variant of “worst people in the world” that doesn’t involve the death and torture of almost everyone & everything I care about. And he looks at that and imagines government by, I dunno, strawman socialists?

        If some AI freak said to me “if you don’t send your kids to mengele you’ll be potentially dooming the planet so pip pip, off you pop,” I’d find myself wondering if I could improve the paperclip maximizer’s odds on the coin flip.

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        Desperation of delusion. “End of all value” => “I don’t understand things, so I better at least have control!” I wonder if these kinds of people would send literal Nazis to my doorstep if I suggested that I don’t have any stake either way in the “coin flipping on the end of my world view.”

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      “Yeah sure the future is a boot stamping on a human face forever, but at least it has value now”.

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        Think of all the boots you could sell. And the leather coat upsell opportunities! The market provides!

        (/s, ofc)