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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

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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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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)
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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I think there's a level of US cultural stuff I don't understand here but I'll just sneer away, hoping no-one quizzes me on it.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I now regret asking for and getting this information.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

how long have you been here

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 7 months ago

I recall reading some of this around the time, seeing the rest of it is even more wild. Talk about a bad trip, heh

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Small thread on eschatological AGI things by xriskology interesting because the eschatological Christian apocalypticists are looping it back into religion by calling AGI the False Prophet.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Mind dropping an archive of it? Can’t access Twitter threads without being logged in these days

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

the archives can't get threads either, unfortunately. But in this case there's only a second tweet: https://twitter.com/xriskology/status/1778833319263687104

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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Grimes popping back into the sneerstream reminded me about that time Janelle Monáe demonstrated how sexy robot songs can be good actually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFK6k-pvXmI

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 7 months ago

adobe firefly also had a bit of the steals

I wonder what the outcome would be for one of these things trained only on consent-knowingly-provided (vs "implied because of a default-on checkbox that got added to user prefs without announcement") data. or even just what the comparative dataset size would be. if the whole internet isn't enough for them to steal...

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