technocrit
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- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 1 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 weeks ago:
Imagine being this wacko.
- Comment on Tiny Model, Big Logic: Diversity-Driven Optimization Elicits Large-Model Reasoning Ability in VibeThinker-1.5B 2 weeks ago:
Real cool corporate press release smh.
- Comment on Amazon is testing an AI tool that automatically translates books into other languages 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Peak lib delusions.
- Comment on The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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.
- Comment on An activist has started using AI to identify ICE agents beneath their masks 2 months ago:
- Comment on An activist has started using AI to identify ICE agents beneath their masks 2 months ago:
Wait until you hear what empire is doing with facial recognition in palestine, etc…
- Comment on An activist has started using AI to identify ICE agents beneath their masks 2 months ago:
Are you talking about ICE? Yes, they have attacked many non-combatants and ruined many lives.
- Comment on An activist has started using AI to identify ICE agents beneath their masks 2 months ago:
Yes, the “AI” grift is annoying and completely untrustable.
As usual, there’s zero “AI” involved here.
It’s just facial recognition. Just more statistics on data.
- Comment on An activist has started using AI to identify ICE agents beneath their masks 2 months ago:
As usual there’s no “AI” involved at all. Just statistics on data. The nonstop grifting is further eroding the already destroyed credibility of mainstream journalism.
- Comment on New AI model predicts which genetic mutations truly drive disease 2 months ago:
And yet no “AI” exists here. Even “machine learning” is a stretch. It’s just statistical analysis on data.
All this his “AI” hype is undermining the credibility of apparently valid research.
- Comment on Microsoft AI launches its first in-house models 2 months ago:
Wow the whole world is going to be revolutionized! Will this AI destroy the planet? Or save humanity? Only time will tell!!!
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- Comment on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community 2 months ago:
Deified lemmings jump from one capitalist master to another.
- Comment on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community 2 months ago:
Yeah that’s why science is such a failure. There’s no actual progress in forcing information behind paywalls, etc. This is a major part of how/why science is used for the profits of the few at the expense of violence, planetary destruction, etc. for everyone else.
- Comment on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community 2 months ago:
it works.
You should check out the planet sometime.
- Comment on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community 2 months ago:
Of all people I’d expect scientists to have learned the lesson of Twitter and embrace fediverse
“Scientist” is just another job. The people who work these jobs are no magic. Many are not even scientists in any meaningful sense.