Chinese Rooms

Chinese Rooms

Timely blast from the past: A Twitter user dispels the illusions of machine learning and artificial intelligence.   Here's the news report on the mystery. It turns out a YouTuber illegally uploaded clips from a fifteen-year-old Japanese TV show that featured "Over Your Shoulder" by Dinosaur Jr. Japanese viewers started…
February 25, 202127 Comments
Alt Revolt out of Control

Alt Revolt out of Control

A recurring theme since the sci fi genre began has been the machine revolt. Whether you date that beginning to Frankenstein or "Rossum's Universal Robots", science fiction has always conjectured that one day, man's inventions would get fed up with us and push back. This sci fi conceit is, perhaps…
October 15, 202023 Comments

What They Do in Darkness

Mister Metokur's good friend Mister Anti-Bully has become the latest high-profile victim of the renewed social media purge. Given the account's outspoken proclivities, its termination isn't exactly a mystery. What does raise questions is the timing. Mister Anti-Bully survived Twitter's previous purges aimed at suppressing the spread of "misinformation" pertaining…
July 3, 202045 Comments
Policy Rationale

Policy Rationale

Online dissident circles were abuzz yesterday with word that technocleric Mark Zuckerberg had issued a fatwa against the infidels on his company's index of Dangerous Individuals. The uproar broke out when alt-lite journalist Paul Joseph Watson discovered an ominous update to Facebook's community standards allowing threats of "high-severity violence" against…
July 10, 201918 Comments
Adpocalypse II: Chain Reaction

Adpocalypse II: Chain Reaction

A slap fight broke out between a malignant narcissist and an edgy conservative™ this week. That's to be expected from time to time. Edgytarians need to maintain their street cred by occasionally hopping the fence and counting coup over in blue check Twitter. You could get away with it as…
June 6, 201919 Comments
Let the Trust Busting Begin

Let the Trust Busting Begin

I and many others who've been censored for dissenting from Big Tech's diabolical campaign of social control have long urged the Trump administration to take the only feasible solution. It is therefore a great pleasure to report that the Justice Department is officially investigating Google for possible antitrust law violations.…
June 3, 201917 Comments
Sweden Destroys the Internet

Sweden Destroys the Internet

Back in September I passed along Mister Metokur's dire warning that the EU was about to destroy the internet. Now, his dread prophecy has come to pass. By a 74-vote margin, the EU parliament has approved the Directive 11 link tax and Directive 13 upload filter. Adding extra large squeaky…
March 27, 20195 Comments
A Simple Solution

A Simple Solution

Leading Hispanic author Jon Del Arroz recently took to Facebook to explain why those who boycott major platforms such as Patreon, Indiegogo, and Amazon, mainly hurt indie creators on their own side, despite having the best of intentions. Well-meaning commenters soon arrived to propose workarounds. The solution is very simple.…
February 27, 201915 Comments
A Hot Mess of Algorithms

A Hot Mess of Algorithms

International Lord of Hate Larry Correia suspects foul play from Facebook in regard to his most recent BOOK BOMB. TL; DR: Larry Book Bombed his departed friend Zach's posthumous first novel, hoping to drive sales and boost the book's Amazon ranking as much as possible. That means getting as many…
February 22, 201910 Comments
Machine Learning Disability

Machine Learning Disability

Wherein a Twitter user dispels the illusions of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Here's the news report on the mystery. It turns out a YouTuber illegally uploaded clips from a fifteen-year-old Japanese TV show that featured "Over Your Shoulder" by Dinosaur Jr. Japanese viewers started to binge on the videos,…
February 19, 201917 Comments