Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? 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 so 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.)

  • flere-imsaho@awful.systemsEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    here’s another very good take from baldur bjarnason, answering the question if he had hardened his stance against LLMs.

    (the answer is “not exactly”, and you want to read the whole thing, because the answer itself is the least interesting part of the essay.)

    • BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPEnglish
      15·
      2 days ago

      The whole thing’s worth reading, but this snippet in particular deserves attention:

      Tech companies have done everything they can to maximise the potential harms of generative models because in doing so they think they’re maximising their own personal benefit.