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

You are mistaken in my reasoning, I'm saying a person with a well paid university position (which gives him access to money and the university library, which I assume pays for access to their books/papers and doesn't libgen or equivs them) should understand that a lot of training material is indeed not free. This being in addition to the university paying him for his own research, and him prob being pretty annoyed if he was replaced with an iSandberg bot and now was homeless. (This is in addition to what Yud said).

Turns out making papers about replacing the earth with fruit is something Anders-GPT can do perfectly well on its own.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 14 points 3 months ago

which I assume pays for access to their books/papers and doesn’t libgen or equivs them

wrong assumption tbh. the open-access fight is happening because the publisher cartels are extortionate and access is extremely uneven. I (personally/directly) know more than a few people presently in academia who roll libgen on a daily basis because it is easier/quicker/the only option/the only actually working option for the things they need

[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

it's often easier to pirate the published version of your own paper than to access it by official means

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

Fair enough, my bad. No idea it had gotten that bad. But still, I wasn't intending to rag on libgen, just his idea that these things (which also includes education) are free already.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago

if you want to get really mad, shibboleth "elsevier". it'll be a speedrun of learning some of the worst of what's fucked atm

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