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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This fucking thread on HN right now.

OP is an enlightened freelance webdeveloper who is very scared about ghosts from their computer.

"I find myself in a unique position here, as my diverse background and experiences have given me a perspective that allows me to see the potential impact of AI more clearly than large parts of the society I'm living in"

Another poster is also very scared about ghosts from the computer and converted their entire net-worth into NVidia shares. Now that they are heavily invested in a company deeply entangled with ghosts from the computer the apocalypse basically has to happen. After all it couldn't be that they overreacted.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 12 points 6 months ago

Computer ghost phobia:

spooked by AI 🤝 Falling for jump scare flash games

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago

How to deal with the AI-pocalypse as a regular guy?

This is an antinomy so, problem solved I guess?