froztbyte

joined 2 years ago
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can’t stress enough how important it is to be careful who you trust with your life

strong agree

minor upside: it's going to be a good time to make lists of people who suddenly feel comfortable to mask off

fucking fuck this sucks

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago

ugh that sucks, I'm sorry

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago

anyway post your favorite fuckhead accelerationist here, mastodon’s a shooting gallery tonight

I've intentionally been avoiding feeds the last few days because I just do not have the headspace for it, but I quickly checked on shit now

and

fuck

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Stephanie Kirchgaessner is the deputy head of investigations for Guardian US, based in Washington DC

Hannah Devlin is the Guardian's science correspondent, having previously been science editor of the Times. She has a PhD in biomedical imaging from the University of Oxford.

so is it that both these fuckers are ideologically bankrupt, or are they willing complicit ghouls?

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago

(as usual) I made the mistake of looking at their posting history

three internet cookies if you know what’s behind door number one

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago (10 children)

go sealion on someone else’s doorstep

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago (6 children)

the poster themselves would have to answer but generally I find the answer to be no

a rather particular form of inductive reasoning. not quite induncetive, but close

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago

I don't mean just raytheon/MICshit but also the broader use of the technique by extraction-grifters

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

yep, and alongside: go-nowhere hype-du-jour businesses are a remarkably good vehicle for pushing money from A->B for many of these people

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 17 points 2 months ago (24 children)

this post gave me a couple rounds of whiplash but this was the hardest turn on the rollercoaster:

when they tried to summarize the findings of growth mindset and quickly dismissing it without couching in the ongoing reproducibility issue in psychology

do you people come off a factory line like this?

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

[*] and I feel like I have to specify here

and like all C things, the specificities of pointer mechanics might mean any one of a number of things and they're all correct

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