BelovedAntipop

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by BelovedAntipop 3mo ago
Too bad they weren't disbarred for their AI-dependent shenanigans.
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by BelovedAntipop 3mo ago
It's not just Thiel and Musk misreading classic sf/f. It's most of you. How many you have actually read Mary Shelley closely enough to realize that Victor Frankenstein was the villain of the piece? How many of you have read M
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by BelovedAntipop 3mo ago
As an independent contractor, I job hop regularly and use the expiration of every contract as an opportunity to demand a better deal for myself. I don't give a damn about "promotions"; what would I want to be besides a ronin
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by BelovedAntipop 3mo ago
I had a cat named Molly who would flip switches.
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by BelovedAntipop 3mo ago
At risk of sounding like a typical HN pedant: you already had the words you needed. There was no need to use the word "content", or is the max size on the title textbox so small that there wasn't room for "Ask HN: where
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by BelovedAntipop 3mo ago
I don't consume content. If somebody calls themselves a content creator, I write them off as being unworthy of my time. If a writer doesn't believe in themselves enough to call themselves a writer, then why should I read them? As
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by BelovedAntipop 4mo ago
Why does the law even permit him to do this?
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by BelovedAntipop 4mo ago
If you prefer to avoid Substack because they still host neo-Nazi Richard Spencer, you should avoid seeingthesystem.com as well because it's hosted on Substack.
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by BelovedAntipop 4mo ago
Thanks for the correction, but I'm going to leave my original post alone even if I could still edit it. I've no more use for Ronny Chieng's ideas as to what I should do with my life than I would Conan O'Brien's or E
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by BelovedAntipop 4mo ago
I'm not a boomer, but I've got my tiny violin. What I want to know is what this guy did to be tasked with writing for Fortune about the effects Boomers have on the economy. That has got to be the journalistic equivalent of a pun
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by BelovedAntipop 4mo ago
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. This is the closest we're likely to get to justice for Near being driven to suicide by these assholes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_(programmer)#Death <joke cruelty-l
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by BelovedAntipop 4mo ago
tl;dr: *non serviam* Had I been part of Harvard's class of 2026, I'd boo Conan O'Brien on principle. He just stuck his head into Hume's Guillotine, trying to derive an ought from the "is" that is GenAI screwing
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by BelovedAntipop 4mo ago
> My clients don't send spam. I can understand this being your viewpoint. Nevertheless, I disagree with you. I use Fastmail instead of Gmail or Outlook, but as far as I'm concerned, everything in your list but transactional mes
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by BelovedAntipop 4mo ago
It's almost as if some lawmakers are the worst kind of cynics; they know the price of everything and the value of nothing. But this is a democracy, and as H. L. Mencken put it: > “Democracy is the theory that the common people know
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by BelovedAntipop 4mo ago
I would settle for everybody in tech reading Mary Shelley and realizing that Victor Frankenstein was the real monster. It won't even cost you money; the OG of science fiction has been in the public domain for decades. https:/&#x2
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by BelovedAntipop 4mo ago
And I don't blame them. If I subjected myself to that nonsense I'd start getting more misanthropic, too. Hell, I figured out years ago that if my primary form of engagement on a platform is blocking people I've decided are bo
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by BelovedAntipop 4mo ago
My leverage is in not depending on "AI", and in possessing the experience, judgment, and discernment no LLM can emulate. That, and my willingness to maintain complete confidentiality; no LLM can be trusted to do that. Also, I can
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by BelovedAntipop 4mo ago
> At the same time, companies are desperate for high-leverage hires. ClickUp, let go 22% of their workers, and introduced new $1M salary bands to attract agentic-native humans. I'm sorry, but what does "agentic-native" eve
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by BelovedAntipop 4mo ago
Given that my playlists are hand-curated from MP3s I rip from CDs or buy via Bandcamp, I'd love to see AI slop even try to come for my playlists. This only a problem if you depend on streaming instead of picking artists and albums fo
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by BelovedAntipop 4mo ago
> I merely think about something and would you look at that, a new post / video / comment / blog / article / etc. about what I’m thinking about, but trying to ragebait me for attention. It also tries to get a rea