that is who we reached out to. i think rat material would fit extremely well with what they’ve got going on and represents a significant gap in their current coverage

i am so sorry

new odium symposium episode, available on all platforms: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-7-whos-147209632

this time we looked at gerald schoenewolfe, a “gender centrist” psychoanalyst. lots of discussion of freud in this one

on a side note, we sent off an email hoping to get a podcast network to fund us to do a miniseries on rationalists. i think there’s basically no chance this sort of cold call works but 🤞🏼

the tea.xyz experiment section is exactly describing academic publishing

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

most well adjusted terf

2d6 psychic damage

just found out about the incredibly dystopian US prison “ADX”

Inside the federal supermax tucked away in Colorado’s high desert, prisoners spend 22 to 24 hours a day locked alone inside concrete cells that are smaller than a standard parking space. The prison, formally called United States Penitentiary Florence Administrative Maximum Facility but better known as ADX, has earned the nickname “The Alcatraz of the Rockies” because of its harsh conditions.

Contact with others is extremely limited; programming, such as anger management or religious services, is broadcast over televisions in the cells, while psychological evaluations happen through the steel doors. Belongings are also strictly limited and prisoners aren’t allowed to hang photographs or drawings on their walls. Exercise time out the cell happens alone inside large cages called “dog runs”, where prisoners can only walk a few paces each direction. Prisoners are given virtual reality goggles to simulate the outdoors or community. A former warden once called ADX a “clean version of hell,” and said that living there was “far much worse than death.” Olympic Park bomber Eric Robert Rudolph and Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, are both incarcerated at ADX.

https://boltsmag.org/death-row-clemency-adx-supermax/