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

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?

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

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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

Eugenics in action:

Danish parenting tests under fire after baby removed from Greenlandic mother

Psychometric tests are widely used in Denmark as part of child protection investigations into new parents, and have long been criticised by human rights bodies as culturally unsuitable for Greenlandic people and other minorities.

In a 2022 report, the institute said that because the tests were not adapted to take cultural differences into account, Greenlandic parents ran “the risk of obtaining low test scores, so that it is concluded, for example, that they have reduced cognitive abilities, without there being actual evidence for this."

Psychological assessments of her were made by a Danish-speaking psychologist. Kronvold, whose first language is Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic), is not fluent in Danish.

I think it happens often enough when someone rich and/or famous becomes disabled or has a disabled kid. See the whole world of alternative treatments for autism.