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the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and then Reddit

https://davidgerard.co.uk/

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in sneerclub@awful.systems•Mangione "really wanted to meet my other founding members and start a community based on ideas like rationalism, Stoicism, and effective altruism"

The whole internet loves Alleged CEO Murderer, a handsome fellow who is alleged to murder CEOs! 5 seconds later We regret to inform you the alleged CEO murderer is a rationalist.

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in techtakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th December 2024

it’s mean to make fun of marc andreessen’s superior brain pan sizing

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in sneerclub@awful.systems•EAs at VOX malding at the latest NY time hit piece.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/ which seems also to be a bit active again

we started this one cos it originally shut down when Reddit pissed off most of the mods

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The dregs of Dimes Square after the election: the most despondent winners you ever saw(thepointmag.com)

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Sorry kid, we killed your robot — Embodied goes broke, AI social devices will stop working(pivot-to-ai.com)

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Eliezer Yudkowsky on discovering that the (ALLEGED) ceo shooter was solidly a member of his very own rationalist subculture: "he was crazy and also on drugs and also not a *real* e/acc"

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BrandShite: RPG about taking down other people's entire websites(lvngbth.itch.io)

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Sabine Hossenfelder: Google's quantum announcement is the usual puffery(x.com)

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Itch․io taken down by bogus AI-sourced phishing claim from Funko Pop, BrandShield(pivot-to-ai.com)

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in which Edward Ongweso, Jr. beats Casey Newton repeatedly around the head with a clue bat(thetechbubble.substack.com)

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Survey: UK financial services add more AI, mostly machine learning(pivot-to-ai.com)

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A polite disagreement bot ring is flooding Bluesky — reply guy as a (dis)service(pivot-to-ai.com)

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OpenAI’s $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro — maybe there’s a market!(pivot-to-ai.com)

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