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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

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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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 5 months ago (7 children)
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

lol at the “delved” there. Wonder if it’s some intentional contrarian

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The response of the grant evaluator is even worse. Just excuses, no admission that they fucked up. Barely even a consideration that this is the sort of thing people have done with flash games, and created in literal weekends at game jams

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 10 points 5 months ago

Nah man we had so much fucking dosh flowing in we had no idea what to even do with it! I mean, how could I possibly resist not allocating some of it to my friends?

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Obviously the most effective of altruisms is whatever is most likely to create more paperclip believers. The EA games (it's in the game!) philanthropic singularity will allow us to reach the next stage of human evolution: all economic output devoted to mosquito nets and button press simulators.

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

bit of a combo-sneer this morning

CNBC put out an article uncritically repeating yet another round of lieboy pulling the exact same shit. I don't recognize the authors immediately, not sure if they're typical bootlickers or not

openai is going in hard, hiring ex-NSA person that was appointed by the walking talk racist mop (via dan gillmor). for the .... safety role! ah yes, I'm sure we'll all be so very surprised by this attempt consolidation of power.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

to their credit, they did manage to get past the editor:

This is all far-out stuff even for Musk, who is notorious for making ambitious promises to investors and customers that don’t pan out — from developing software that can turn an existing Tesla into a self-driving vehicle with an upload, to EV battery swapping stations.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

yeah, fair call on that. I just live in hope that we can get to a point where “lying fucker with history of failures and grandiose statements has made another ridiculous grandiose statement probably composed of lies” can be the actual type of headline, instead of this constant simping bullshit

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[–] saucerwizard@awful.systems 9 points 5 months ago (12 children)
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