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swlabr awful.systems swlabr@awful.systems
Joined: 2023-07-04
#202 · Quote Reply
David Gerard wrote:
anthropic has large gametes

a rationalist, catcalling: "nice gametes"
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fiat_lux lemmy.zip fiat_lux@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-04-24
#203 · Quote Reply
YourNetworkIsHaunted wrote:
Off-topic, but the ongoing retraining process has hit a point where my wife and I are starting to throw out applications again after taking what ended up being a couple years off the market. Any tips or advice would be appreciated given that we've been out of the loop for a bit. In particular, does anyone have advice on how to vibe-check smaller employers? My wife has an interview for an accoun...

I'm going to assume you're in the US for this.

Things you can check for general info:

  • Local traditional media mentions to see if they do charity, or quotes about any topic
  • https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup for political donations
  • Industry-specific news sites for any media releases or interviews
  • LinkedIn or one of the scrapers like RocketReach's public listings to see what their key people's backgrounds are
  • SEC EDGAR database (if they're a business which has to file reports) to see if their money is going to interesting places
  • State gov site (if they have online public records) of business registration info. Look at what other businesses share the same address, or key people, or family shell companies
  • Online court records
  • local churches / halls / "pro life" or whatever activist groups social media posts for mentions of the business and key people

Things you can check for the far-right:

  • The business listings for social media site but I don't want to boost their SEO. Use the URL bag.com/businesses to access the list and bypass the sign up wall, but the domain name is backwards.
  • Conservative business or job board lists. Same SEO issue here. One is this:🎈(the color and object). The other has a 6 letter word commonly seen on UI buttons which doubles as the type of "culture" conservatives blame for all the world's problems, followed by the layer 3 in the OSI model.

And don't stop sending out CVs and interviewing. If they are awful, just keep taking their money until you've got enough runway or an offer you can be more confident about. Make sure you don't mention the words related to disability or health conditions in the CVs to prevent AI rejecting them.

Good luck.
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YourNetworkIsHaunted awful.systems YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems
Joined: 2024-03-22
#204 · Quote Reply
CinnasVerses wrote:
Sheffield's toots and boosts: music sites are full of slop and bots making money from free donwloads! social media is full of propaganda where computer-generated influencers repeat talking points! a professor fell victim to AI psychosis! A follower's family member was encouraged in delusions and paranoia by a chatbot! Mr. Sheffield, should we stop using chatbots? LLMs are mind augmentation prog...

They amplify what you tell them with no discretion despite their reassuring interface design. Thankfully I'm a genius who only has perfect thoughts to feed into it, so for me it's an unambiguous positive.
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sc_griffith awful.systems sc_griffith@awful.systems
Joined: 2023-08-13
#205 · Quote Reply
Architeuthis wrote:
He absolutely does. No idea if it's supposed to be a bit.

it's a golden... bowler hat?
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gary infosec.exchange gary_alderson@infosec.exchange
Joined: 2024-03-20
#206 · Quote Reply
Amoeba_Girl wrote:
I love the way people who go “yeah but IN REAL LIFE with real stakes you would totally chose the red button” are entirely missing the point of thought experiments, why the fuck would you comply with such a fucked up scenario in real life lmao you worm

@Amoeba_Girl @corbin it's easy to go along with the crowd
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