swlabr 1h ago • 100%
This is both old news and kinda… not that surprising when you think about it, but I searched and didn’t see any commentary on this here.
swlabr 8h ago • 100%
It’s something of a tradition to occasionally frankenstein together a backronym for bills/acts. Feel free to search “worst US backronyms” or similar for more!
swlabr 11h ago • 100%
make me, fucko
swlabr 11h ago • 100%
(psst. hey buddy. all eugenics is genocidal. It’s in the fucking name. Also. racism and fascism have historically been sanitised and presented as scientific or commercial endeavours. They’re the cornerstones of capitalism. Think of how the weapons industry is printing money because of israel’s decades long genocide against the palestinians.)
swlabr 12h ago • 100%
Sub Elon tier, as Elon would call it 『ZA WARUDO』.
swlabr 12h ago • 100%
I feel like calling this supervillain shit elevates Ol’ Salty too much.
swlabr 12h ago • 100%
Doesn’t even know the basic strats for these pattern questions, SMH, Do You Even IQ Test? (trying to start DYEIQT)
swlabr 12h ago • 100%
tbh that sounds like a pretty easy script to write! Too bad I am not near a computer rn
swlabr 23h ago • 100%
Reminds me of how marriage advice has its roots in white supremacy. (CW: a lot. self harm, SA, abuse)
swlabr 3d ago • 100%
I see. Please forgive this philistine!
swlabr 3d ago • 100%
I know you probably had no intention behind the number, but I just had to check. 2686 days ago was 12 June 2017. Pretty sure we’ve known about how google fumbles shit from way before then!
swlabr 4d ago • 100%
Bob Dylan has responded to a Bitcoin Groyper account
swlabr 4d ago • 100%
hang on I have another.
NPU? More like, N-Pee-eeeww!!
swlabr 4d ago • 100%
BRB making a video for a cold fusion based kickstarter. I smell money
swlabr 4d ago • 100%
Who knew that the only thing stopping nuclear power, the most morally and environmentally correct power source (uranium is only produced by popes shitting in the woods), was that Google and Amazon hadn’t thrown money in the direction of Chernobyl first. It was so simple this whole time. Now it’s solved and I can go back to gaming.
swlabr 4d ago • 100%
I’m sure they have further plans that aren’t public yet.
Nah dawg you’re just too stupid to see how bubbles work.
swlabr 4d ago • 100%
just one more SMR bro
swlabr 4d ago • 100%
I don’t get it. Is this a spartacus situation or a stolen valour situation? Just claiming satoshi-nature isn’t enough to acquire satoshi’s-wallet-nature.
swlabr 4d ago • 100%
@titotal@awful.systems mentioned!!!
maximumfun.org
This is somewhat tangential to the usual fare here but I decided to make a post because why not. I’ve been listening to the back catalog of the Judge John Hodgman podcast, and this ep came up. This ep is the second crypto based case after “crypto facto” in [ep 333](https://maximumfun.org/episodes/judge-john-hodgman/judge-john-hodgman-episode-333-live-london-podcast-festival-2017/). John Hodgman is a comedian, probs best known for being the “I’m a PC” guy in the “I’m a Mac” ad campaign from ancient times. In the podcast, he plays a fake judge that hears cases and makes judgements. In this ep, “Suing for Soul Custody,” he hears a case in which a husband wants to sell his soul on the blockchain, while his wife does not want him to do that. Some good sneers against the crypto bro husband (in both this case and the other I linked). Brief spoilers as to the rulings in case you don’t want to listen: ::: spoiler 333 Judge rules that the husband should continue to mine ETH until his rig burns down his house. ::: ::: spoiler 556 Judge rules that the guy shouldn’t sell his soul, for symbolic reasons. ::: Note: I like John Hodgman. He’s funny. He’s not really inside the tech space, but he is good friends with Jonathan Coulton, who is. If all you know of him is the “I’m a PC” ads, he has an entertaining wider catalogue worth checking out.
www.economist.com
> On the hottest and coldest days, when demand for electricity peaks and the price rockets, the bitcoin miners either sell power back to providers at a profit or stop mining for a fee, paid by ercot. Doing so has become more lucrative than mining itself. In August of 2023 Riot collected $32m from curtailing mining and just $8.6m from selling bitcoin. Archive link: https://archive.md/O8Cz9
www.euronews.com
Kind of sharing this because the headline is a little sensationalist and makes it sound like MS is hard right (they are, but not like this) and anti-EU. I mean, they probably are! Especially if it means MS is barred from monopolies and vertical integration.
Wish I had a screengrab of this, but occasionally when I open the awful.systems page, it looks like I've logged in as a different user. Just now the username "autumnal" appeared instead of my own. Don't know how to reproduce. This has happened in chrome on macosx a few times, haven't seen it elsewhere.
the-boys.fandom.com
TIL that television program “The Boys” has an in universe cryptocurrency as a satire of, well, cryptocurrency in general but also specifically that time when DJT was selling NFTs. [They occasionally tweet](https://xcancel.com/VoughtIntl/status/1812170121881727002#m) about it. It has a listing on the “BSCScan” crypto tracker under the name “VTC” so someone might have actually minted it? It might surprise some of you that I have no way of telling the realness of such a thing.
www.gamesradar.com
Uncritically sharing this article with naive hope. Is this just PR for a game? Probably. Indies deserve as much free press as possible though.
The video game in question: 
www.buzzsprout.com
Followup to [part 1](https://awful.systems/post/1056266), which now has a transcript! As is tradition, I am posting this link without having listened to it. (too many podcasts)
Just a lil tidbit of news of some web3 based company going away.
www.lesswrong.com
Found this because an article on Helen Toner popped up in my feed and I wanted to find out more, and boy did I find out more.
Not sure how much needs to be said here. Sometimes I come back to a tab with a.s open and refresh, then get logged out. I’m using chrome on iOS but this might be reproducible on other browser/platform combinations.
www.earwolf.com
Discussion on AI starts at about 17mins. The Bas(ilisk) drop happens at 20:30. Sorry if ads mess up my time stamps. I think this is the second time it’s come up on the show.
www.earwolf.com
Don't expect a good or deep analysis of FTX or any TREACLESy stuff here.