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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
And on the subject of AI: strava is adding ai analytics. The press release is pretty waffly, as it would appear that theyād decided to add ai before actually working out what theyād do with it so, uh, itāll help analyse the reams of fairly useless statistics that strava computes about you and, um, help celebrate your milestones?
https://press.strava.com/articles/stravas-athlete-intelligence-translates-workout-data-into-simple-and
Definitely saw an ad today for an AI-powered workout machine. It looks like if Bowflex was made by Tesla and promises to āoptimize your workout with every repā or some such nonsense.
I tried to remember the name of it by googling āAI exercise equipmentā and despite the slick branding (itās called Tonal btw) it was like 5th on the list. Do you think itās awkward having all these overlapping grifts? In the pre-internet days Iām imagining like 10 unique traveling snake oil salesmen trying very hard to sell their bullshit over everyone elseās in the same tiny frontier town without inviting anyone to look too closely at any of them.
Oh no this will make Luke-Jr so mad.
Context, Luke-Jr is an early Bitcoin adopter, literal Florida man, and all-around kook. His wikipedia user page used to be a work of art with an ordered list of his obsessions[1], starting with sedevacantism and including Tonal, an early attempt to promote hexadecimal. Hereās a long page on the old Bitcoin wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Tonal_Bitcoin. Sadly it never caught on, people donāt want to say ābong bitcoinā apparently.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Luke-Jr&oldid=593942679
Iām vaguely remembering this and not sure where to look for confirmation, but wasnāt Luke-Jr the bitcoin maintainer who put his foot down and blocked a design change that wouldāve made bitcoin much more efficient because it would have made it inconvenient for him to run a full node on a slow Florida residential cable internet connection?
thatās weird, Iāve known so many guys whose whole personality is bong bitcoin
he also got verry angy when bitcoin ordinals were a thing for like two months
he used to distribute a Bitcoin client that censored addresses belonging to an early gambling service, people were mad
heās fractally weird
the lack of self-awareness is definitely something
Yes he led the charge against the ābitcoin maxisā who wanted to increase the actual block size to contain more info. (this later became Bitcoin Cash). We had to endure stuff like āUASFā (user activated soft fork) for complicated reasons no-one can explain now.
I am so happy Iāve seen this, itās so bad.
I will now forever pronounce $2^{16}$ as bong.
yet another way to write shitty python