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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.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)

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[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I read the headline yesterday and thought, "This is 100% fundraising bullshit."

This strikes me as being exact same class of thing OpenAI does when they pronounce that their product will murder us all.

What do we call this? Marketerrorism?

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 days ago

i see how it's critihype but i don't understand where's money in this one

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

CRITIHYPE, thank you! I couldn't find the word!

If I had to guess a motive, it would be to bring mirror biology out of the obscurity of pure research (who funds that anymore?) and to instead plant it firmly into the popular zeitgeist as a "scary thing" that needs to be defended against. This can lead to it becoming a trendy topic, and therefore fundable by grant-awarding agencies.

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 days ago

as in, funding for writing ratty screeds? because they specifically want to cut funding to d-proteins and such. this also works for fundraising

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Maybe I'm being too cynical. It wouldn't be the first time this week that someone drew a spooky picture, would it?

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