idea: end of year worst of ai awards. “the sloppies”

odium symposium christmas bonus episode: we watched and reviewed Sean Hannity’s straight-to-Rumble 2023 Christmas comedy “Jingle Smells.”

https://www.patreon.com/posts/146610014

small typo.

So guess what Mozilla did? When you update Firefox, tt re-enables the AI! And if you disable the AI again, it re-enables it again next update! Choose correctly, user!

“tt” should be “it”

maybe my favorite pivot to ai article yet, definitely top three at least. wonderful work

We have a new odium symposium episode. This week we talk about Ayn Rand, who turned out to be much much more loathsome than i expected.

available everywhere (see www.odiumsymposium.com). patreon episode link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/haters-v-ayn-146272391

i’ll cut the coiners some slack on this one because requiring a login to view is an account level privacy option. i don’t know what the option is supposed to accomplish. but that’s what it is

article in large part about our friends

https://bayareacurrent.com/meet-the-new-right-wing-tech-intelligentsia/

some of the people involved with kernel are pretty unhappy about this and claim the piece is in bad faith/factually wrong (see the replies to https://bsky.app/profile/kellypendergrast.bsky.social/post/3ma55xfq7d22y )

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“you should be able to provide an LLM as a job reference”

source https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1998753499002048589

the fifth episode of odium symposium, “4chan: the french connection” is now up. roughly the first half of the episode is a dive into sartre’s theory of antisemitism. then we apply his theory to the style guide of a nazi news site and the life of its founder, andrew anglin

EDIT: btw if you like the episode please tell people about it! frankly we have no idea how to market or otherwise promote a podcast sooo we’re kind of just hoping the listeners do it

archive link

https://web.archive.org/web/20250917164701/https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/help-information/site-moderation/how-to-detect-ai-audio

the centre of this piece is her explicitly saying for several paragraphs that she takes bribes lol

fortunately, yud clarified everything in his recent post concerning the zizians, which indicated that… uh, hmm, that we should use a prediction market to determine whether it’s moral to sell LSD to children. maybe he got off track a little