that second link, man. at the top i was actually willing to buy his excuse (“i was just a college student”! sure. honestly, fine) but as soon as it got to the pollack part i went absolutely fucking feral. zero evidence of learning. what a fraud

especially amusing considering this, published only nine months after vox launched. not sure how much objective resource building the professional journalism would be buying you there, ezra

https://deadspin.com/46-times-vox-totally-fucked-up-a-story-1673835447/

i read a bit about that. i couldn’t find quotes from the site employees saying they were trying to be wikipedia, so i didn’t mention it because id have had to digress. but almost everyone who talked about the launch mentioned their weirdass card system for linking other articles, and that it was wikipedia like. and all the descriptions sounded AWFUL, like it would just be throwing useless rotating shit at you all the time

adrian still hasn’t responded

thank you for sharing the garbage

So last night I finished editing the latest odium symposium episode (“ezra klein is a disgusting worm,” https://www.patreon.com/OdiumSymposium/posts/1-ezra-klein-is-166891080 ), and i went to upload it to our rss host, zencastr. friends. zencastr is so fucked now. the only interface, as far as i can tell, is an llm, and it tormented me. im just gonna dump the screenshots. this is a fragment of an exhausting hour of back and forth.

note that i apparently have 10k credits, which i assume are temporary and there as a welcome to the new service. a single credit is a few bucks and in total the bill just for the conversation came out to about 6-7 dollars

it also tried to get me to use this absolutely horrible episode description

i asked it to schedule the episode for 9 am Tuesday, aug 18th, same as the patreon, and it said it did. turns out it went out this morning. cool! if you listen by rss it’s out now i guess.

i posted on reddit asking how to switch hosts. the ceo found that post today and offered his hand, which i bit

i keep thinking about that bit in a philip k dick novel where the protagonist’s door tries to chisel tips out of him before opening, and threatens to sue him when he bypasses the lock. i hate the future/present so much

New odium symposium episode: https://www.patreon.com/OdiumSymposium/posts/22-on-chasers-ft-165582005

We talked to trans philosophy professor amy marvin about the intersection between trans chasers and stand up comedy

new odium symposium episode. we look at the work of conservative philosopher, grifter and tobacco lobbyist Roger Scruton.

https://www.patreon.com/OdiumSymposium/posts/21-mr-rogers-164372632

New Odium Symposium episode. We talk about /r/fuckingfascists, a fascist domination roleplay subreddit intended for good liberals, which instead ended up getting eaten alive by nazis.

https://www.patreon.com/OdiumSymposium/posts/20-death-of-162994026

New Odium Symposium episode: we look at Charles Krauthammer and his pretentious and racist best-of collection, Things That Matter.

https://www.patreon.com/OdiumSymposium/posts/19-nightmare-161582344

was there an ownership change or something? this is atrocious

New pride month Odium Symposium episode. We go through the life and activism of notorious homophobe and orange juice queen, Anita Bryant

https://www.patreon.com/posts/18-swallowing-of-160587597

i don’t think she should be allowed to say “the ghetto.” doesn’t matter whether it’s problematic when someone else says it, she definitely doesn’t get to

i have already seen ai enthusiasts make quite clear that they imagine the purpose of formal theorem verification is to act as a bolt on for llms

she badly underestimates my capacities as a hater

new odium symposium episode (at the link and on all platforms). we talk to professor of africana studies danielle procope bell about her recent paper “‘Pick-Me’ Black women: tactical patriarchal femininity in the Black manosphere.”

https://www.patreon.com/posts/17-introduction-159058420

oh my god lmao. finally we understand how that happened

anyone know of activities you can do to improve your mic skills? looked around a bit for open mics in my area, not a lot going on

fun fact: even vixra has had an anti ai paper policy for idk how long, at least ten months

https://bsky.app/profile/scgriffith.bsky.social/post/3lsek4cpnpk2n

rightwing ‘pro child’ policy in practice always seems to consist of oppressing women and gesturing vaguely when asked how this fixed anything