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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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[–] earthquake@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

https://marshallbrain.com/youve-had-your-turn-the-case-for-euthanizing-everyone-at-age-65

The "How Stuff Works" guy ~~decides to be normal~~ argues that retirement should be eliminated and the elderly executed "because they're not productive". In a further fit of normalness, he endorses EO Wilson without qualification.

[–] mii@awful.systems 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Jesus Christ, this guy read A Modest Proposal and took it as fucking inspiration.

Why is it always eugenics and euthanasia with these chucklefucks? The idea of exterminating large amounts of humans seems to tickle something in some people’s brains.

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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

with advent of HapsburgGPT inevitable, what's the next overhyped dumb thing cryptobros turned promptfondlers will turn to?

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

they've been trying quantum but as awesome as quantum computing will be when it arrives, it'll be a bit obvious that in 2024, these expensive lab toys can't quite factor numbers so high as 35

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 8 months ago

nanomaterials got worn out already? i mean these are real but quite underwhelming, it's always some sensor or shiny powder, not nanomachines

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

(PDF) The Role of Blockchain in 6G: Challenges, Opportunities, and Research Directions.

So this buzzword laden document was published by the IEEE. As far as I can tell it doesn't actually say much besides a breathless stream-of-consciousness about how blockchain and AI will make everything amazing and is terribly relevant to wireless communication protocols because reasons.

But... just read it. If you can make it to the end without your brain oozing out of your ears then you win the grand prize!

“Extreme edge”: 6G networks need to facilitate the spatial translation of many core services from the cloud to the edge networks for achieving extremely low latency communications and instant networks. The trustworthy coordination and transparent resource bookkeeping can be attained with blockchains in these systems [20].

In 4G, AI was not yet applied, while in 5G there is already a limited partial use. We expect a much deeper integration of AI on all levels of the 6G network communications with the ultimate goal to make our society super smart, super efficient and more green.

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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 8 months ago (4 children)
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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 8 months ago (13 children)
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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 8 months ago (4 children)

from HN:

I got frustrated with ChatGPT for hallucinating sometimes, and my friend said "could be worse, could hallucinate all the time." And I thought it'd be fun to make that, and then we came up with a few more, and now we have this: https://cap-gpt.onrender.com/

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 8 months ago

could hallucinate all the time.

oh sweet summer child...

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