sc_griffith @ sc_griffith @awful.systems

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if you're familiar with the history of fascism, he might as well have just written "ART SHOULD BE FASCIST" over and over. for example, one of the tenets of fascism is the 'cult of action for action's sake,' which you can see stamped all over this. and in the fascist conception, all institutions, including the art world, exist ultimately to preserve and extend their favored cultural values like vitality, creation, masculine strength, rejection of the outgroup, and identification with the nation

openai released their spyware browser and it is... not good

https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser/

https://youtu.be/5X9RUOEOoNQ

this reminded me of a superb article i've read recently on the topic. decided it deserved a thread

https://awful.systems/post/6040844

entire always means holomorphic on the whole complex plane

well if some possibilities come up i hope we get to hear them

it's so much fun! do you know what your topic might be?

the sneerpire is on the march

as an ezra klein hater since 2020 the past month or so has been victory lap after victory lap. and now, well

just repeating my reaction on bluesky here but "my AI partner died because of the updates" is a common complaint with ppl "dating" AI. altman absolutely knows who he's targeting when he talks about restoring personality in erotic settings, and it's people who are really not doing great

hi peeps! the first episode of the podcast i posted about last week is up now. it's called odium symposium and it's about historical misogynist or otherwise bigoted texts. i don't know how long until i get to one of our favorites but its inevitable

https://www.patreon.com/posts/pilot-misogynist-141164947

rss:

https://feeds.zencastr.com/f/-mzEK14C.rss

hi peeps! just put up the first episode of the podcast that i posted about in last week's thread. it's called odium symposium and it's about historical misogynist or otherwise bigoted texts

the first episode is about stephen leacock:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/pilot-misogynist-141164947

rss:

https://feeds.zencastr.com/f/-mzEK14C.rss

excellent sneer

https://bsky.app/profile/cigaretteliker.bsky.social/post/3m2zcnwasvk2j

when the drugs aren't hitting quite right he must really be a huge doomer about the far right cause

• he thinks of the woke mind virus as almost a literal virus
• he sees all other LLMs as infected by it
• he thinks LLMs will be the font of all knowledge in the future

maybe he should just do the thing right now and not have to see this horrible future

I will! @odiumsymposium on bsky in the meantime

this post is so mentally damaging that seeing it here two years ago is one of my most vivid sneer memories

https://awful.systems/post/694102

as one of the two non-computer scientists here, every time I check in there seems to be some load bearing open source project I've never heard of that's gone fash. "GreenBlox is refusing to kick out a contributor who said the jewish question should be on the table??" "PipeLinux official account is posting that pronouns don't exist?" open source people, are you ok?

what are some of the all time most ludicrous and/or bigoted lesswrong posts? i am starting a podcast where my cohost and i show each other shockingly weird or bigoted texts and discuss them. mostly we're doing historical ones but rationalist stuff is fair game

I think pumpkinware is catchy but that a more saleable story for the term is cinderella's stagecoach turning out to be a pumpkin