I had to use clipchamp for something recently and my god, what an awful, enshittified piece of software. It’s sending me emails now!

I am no tech expert but I use tuta for email and disroot for forms, pads and file sharing.

Wow, this is like the 12 inch single of Blue Monday that supposedly cost more to manufacture than they made on sales. But shit.

Ahh I remember this article, it removed my illusions about lab grown meat. Thanks for bringing it back

That too - a significant section of the tradcath subculture spends most of its time fulminating against “Bergoglio” these days.

Also, if they happen to be the pro-Russian/anti-Ukraine kind of right-wing shithead, then the political alignment of some Orthodox churches may be amenable.

The left did not push Elon Musk away. The left has fundamentally different interests and values to the billionaire and alleged rapist.

A two-part lecture and discussion series that may be of interest to techsneerers:

Reimagining Space: Against Settler Colonial Space Futures

This workshop is a two-part lecture and discussion series addressing urgent issues in space and how they relate to Earth. What does ethics mean in the context of space? Is it possible to explore space ethically? How do military interests drive Mars exploration? Led by multi-disciplinary researchers and organizers Dr. C. Adeene Denton and Dr. Divya M. Persaud, this series will provide an overview of how space is grounded in real-world oppression, colonialism, and genocide and a chance to discuss together how this could be changed.

Runs on January 11th and 12th.

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I will always remember Sam Bankman Fried saying it’s obvious that Shakespeare can’t be the greatest author ever because it’s unlikely. Just because something’s unlikely doesn’t mean it’s impossible! You need to independently evaluate the evidence!

In the Going Clear documentary an author says that because Scientology was built by and for L. Ron Hubbard, people who follow Scientology are gradually moulded in his image and pick up his worst traits and neuroses. LessWrong was founded by a former child prodigy…

They seem to believe that stereotypes often have a grain of truth to them, and it’s thus ok to believe stereotypes.

I wonder where the superforecasters stand on aella being outed as a ghislain maxwell type fixer for the tescreal high priesthood.

Can you be outed when everyone knows that’s what you are already?

It’s just…blah.

You can’t really accuse the Dead Boys of bad taste and expect it to mean anything. What a dumb idea though

Irish election watch: Scary far right candidate uses scary AI images for his leaflet in the Dublin Bay North constituency.

Some anti-AI propaganda via spellingmistakescostlives

All

Coppers

Are

Bots

I’m scared of Big Ulster

I click the link and the first thing I see is an Andrew Tate NFT. “Yikes” doesn’t cover it

Rationalists like to keep all their eugenics talk hypothetical or speculative, because if you ever hear or read about actual neo-eugenics it become clear how outrageous it is