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- Comment on Fear that quantum computing is on the cusp of cracking cryptocurrency's encryption spurs a global investment firm to remove Bitcoin from recommendations 1 week ago:
Clickbait. It talks about fear of imaginary quantum computing in the headline, while talking about how crypto is resistant to quantum in the actual article.
- Comment on Fear that quantum computing is on the cusp of cracking cryptocurrency's encryption spurs a global investment firm to remove Bitcoin from recommendations 1 week ago:
It was only 13,000x faster, and in one specific task
Useless, contrived task.
- Comment on Fear that quantum computing is on the cusp of cracking cryptocurrency's encryption spurs a global investment firm to remove Bitcoin from recommendations 1 week ago:
Are people really too smug to even look at the price charts?
Bitcoin was at $40k two years ago and like $95k today.
- Comment on Fear that quantum computing is on the cusp of cracking cryptocurrency's encryption spurs a global investment firm to remove Bitcoin from recommendations 1 week ago:
Let’s take our money out of BTC and invest it in
fusion power plants and jetpacks and hover boards insteadwar, prisons, genocide, etc.Just being realistic.
- Comment on Fear that quantum computing is on the cusp of cracking cryptocurrency's encryption spurs a global investment firm to remove Bitcoin from recommendations 1 week ago:
It’s not even close lol why the panic
The quantum grift is very similar to the “AI” grift.
- Comment on Fear that quantum computing is on the cusp of cracking cryptocurrency's encryption spurs a global investment firm to remove Bitcoin from recommendations 1 week ago:
Businesses/orgs that have smart leaders are already implementing (or have already completed implementing) post-quantum encryption algs/methods into their systems to protect them for when quantum computers and quantum programming mature,
Is it actually smart though? Or are these people simply panicking about technology that may never exist?
And there’s really no technical reason why crypto can’t switch to quantum safe encryption. The better cryptos are already transitioning.
- Comment on Wikipedia inks AI deals with Microsoft, Meta and Perplexity as it marks 25th birthday 2 weeks ago:
It’s just WMF selling the work of free volunteers to the worst grifters on the planet for a quick buck.
- Comment on Wikipedia inks AI deals with Microsoft, Meta and Perplexity as it marks 25th birthday 2 weeks ago:
Why they would do it when this hurts their own business is beyond me.
$$$. Duh. The wikipedia dude has always been a “libertarian” (aka capitalist shill).
- Comment on Wikipedia inks AI deals with Microsoft, Meta and Perplexity as it marks 25th birthday 2 weeks ago:
People doing free labor for this “libertarian” somehow surprised when dude sells their work to the worst grifters imaginable.
- Comment on Russia cracks down on 'illegal' cryptomining with prison terms up to five years — Kremlin will begin prosecuting in 2027 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on AI Agents Break Rules Under Everyday Pressure— Shortened deadlines and other stressors caused misbehavior 1 month ago:
The anthropomorphic grift is strong here.
AI Agents
There are no “agents” just computers.
Break Rules
Computers don’t “break rules”.
Under Everyday Pressure
Computers don’t experience pressure.
caused misbehavior
Computers don’t “misbehave”. They function unexpectedly especially under abnormal conditions.
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 1 month ago:
It’s absolutely harmful to waste resources on worthless grifting at the expense of the planet and people suffering from very real deprivation.
That’s why it’s the same people promoting both the grift and the deprivation.
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 1 month ago:
They don’t need their bullshit grift to look good. They’re going to build it anyway.
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 1 month ago:
TBH the billionaires might survive along with other cockroaches. They’ll at least outlast the plebs above ground…
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 1 month ago:
This is a thing only a person that thinks space is magic would think is a good idea.
Pretty sure this is a primary basis of scientific “education”, worship of the moon/mars, etc.
It’s always been about extracting resources from rubes while actual humans suffer.
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 1 month ago:
Yeah, but that’s the point. It’s a boondoggle. Grifters need a bottomless hole for marks to pour money down.
- Comment on Behind the complaints: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today 2 months ago:
Imagine being this wacko.
- Comment on Tiny Model, Big Logic: Diversity-Driven Optimization Elicits Large-Model Reasoning Ability in VibeThinker-1.5B 2 months ago:
Real cool corporate press release smh.
- Comment on Amazon is testing an AI tool that automatically translates books into other languages 2 months ago:
And absolutely zero “AI” was used.
Apparently people will believe that any app is somehow “intelligent”.
- Comment on Amazon is testing an AI tool that automatically translates books into other languages 2 months ago:
I remember when this was called a translator app. Ofc now it’s “AI”. Same old grifter slop.
- Comment on Bluesky experiments with dislikes and 'social proximity' to improve conversations 2 months ago:
Using the fediverse is still a better love story than xitter or its spinoff.
- Comment on No, There Never Was a Biden Censorship-Industrial Complex 3 months ago:
Peak lib delusions.
- Comment on The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices 3 months ago:
Laws against “price fixing” have always been a joke. The state serves capital.
- Comment on New Deepseek model drastically reduces resource usage by converting text and documents into images — 'vision-text compression' uses up to 20 times fewer tokens 3 months ago:
I thought the same thing.
It’s an “AI” story so they bury the actual result behind a sensational headline:
This works really well for handling tabulated data, graphs, and other visual representations of information.
- Comment on Most people can’t tell the difference between AI and human voices, study finds 3 months ago:
Pretty sure they mean generated voices since “AI” doesn’t exist.
Grifts can’t exist with media hype.
- Comment on TIL "Cognitive Sovereignty," which argues that modern psychopolitics—subtle control via digital platforms—exploits attention, supported by a 2025 PNAS Nexus study 4 months ago:
Legit. I didn’t know about this term either. But I’ve ranted to friends about how advertisements are involuntary time-theft and mind control.
Capital is constantly trying to insert its propaganda into our lives. 100%.
- Comment on China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool 4 months ago:
Yes and there is already a sun shining above ground so global warming is no problem either… jfc.
- Comment on China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool 4 months ago:
Nothing better than destroying the planet for a quick buck off a cheap grift.
Chinese capitalism <—> Planetary destruction <—> USA capitalism
- Comment on Meta unveils new smart glasses with a display and wristband controller 4 months ago:
Nice to see this genocidal dumpster going up in even hotter flames.
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 4 months ago:
A major problem with the “AI” grift is that it spawns so many dependent grifts like this one. “Science” under capitalism is not actually science.
