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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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Eric "I will come to Harvard and espouse Numberwang Racism if you deign to invite me" Weinstein:

Invite me back to Harvard as the co-founder of the Science and Engineering Workforce Project in the @HarvardEcon department and I will give a talk on how this really works. You don’t have to pay me a cent if you video it.

I’ll cover:

The need to fire Claudine Gay.

The need to end activist studies depts.

University Bioweapon research

String Theory

CPI Cost of Living

Evolutionary theory applied to Humans

Low Dimensional Geometry

NSF STEM Shortage Panics

DEI hiring against merit

Epstein and Science

Cognitive abilities expectations in Geographicly widely separated populations.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 1 points 5 hours ago

You've got to be shitting me

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 2 points 9 hours ago

In using xcancel to look up Eric Weinstein's bonkers rants on Xitter, I exposed myself to Sabine Hossenfelder's comment section. The drivel, the fawning, the people asking chatbots about quantum gravity... It hurts, it hurts.

I am going to scrub my brain with Oliver Byrne's edition of Euclid.