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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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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

LWer suggests people who believe in AI doom make more efforts to become (internet) famous. Apparently not bombing on Lex Fridman's snoozecast, like Yud did, is the baseline.

The community awards the post one measly net karma point, and the lone commenter scoffs at the idea of trying to convince the low-IQ masses to the cause. In their defense, Vanguardism has been tried before with some success.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qcKcWEosghwXMLAx9/doomers-should-try-much-harder-to-get-famous

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

New piece from Brian Merchant: De-democratizing AI, which is primarily about the GOP's attempt to ban regulations on AI, but also touches on the naked greed and lust for power at the core of the AI bubble.

EDIT: Also, that title's pretty clever

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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Satya Nadella: "I'm an email typist."

Grand Inquisitor: "HE ADMITS IT!"

https://bsky.app/profile/reckless.bsky.social/post/3lpazsmm7js2s

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[–] Al0neStar@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

Personal rule of thumb: all autoplag is serious until proven satire.

[–] dovel@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Beff back at it again threatening his doxxer. Nitter link

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

what a strange way to sell your grift no one knows what it's for. "bad people want to force me to tell you what it is we're building."

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[–] aninjury2all@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Local war profiteer goes on podcast to pitch an unaccountable fortress-state around active black site (what I assume is to do Little St James-type activities under the pretext of continued Yankee meddling)

Link to Xitter here (quoted within a delicious sneer to boot)

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

Building a gilded capitalist megafortress within communist mortar range doesn't seem the wisest thing to do. But sure buy another big statue clearly signalling 'capitalists are horrible and shouldn't be trusted with money'

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[–] saucerwizard@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That Keeper AI dating app has an admitted pedo running its twitter PR (Hunter Ash - old username was Psikey, the receipts are under that).

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

🎶 Certified Keeper guy? Certified pedophile

(the joke presented itself, I had to :P)

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

Recently stumbled upon an anti-AI mutual aid/activism group that's being set up, I suspect some of you will be interested.

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