Want to wade into the sandy 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: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
This isnāt a particularly novel stupid take, but it was made by a bluesky engineer, and it is currently dunking-on-bluesky season so here we are.
āIf you imagine that an ai is a person, then saying bad things about it is bigotryā
Welp, theyāve got me there. Guess Iāll never say anything bad about anything again, because it is racism, if you think about it.
https://bsky.app/profile/hailey.at/post/3m2f66lgh2c2v
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A bluesky post by dystopiabreaker.xyz
And two replies by hailey.at
āsome of the most bigoted thingsā
You mean stuff like āno this is stupid, wtf is wrong with youā or ālol, look they really think LLMs are aliveā stuff like that? The worst I saw (granted I didnāt look very hard) was āok boomerā.
Of course actual meanings of words mean nothing to AI fans.
(Also, thing which is a personal gripe, the skeet before the ābigotry neuronā has 2 images in it, without alt text. If you are going to pretend to value progressive values, at least put in some effort).
Said engineerās also brainstorming new ways to spy on users and adding a new misfeature that scans everything you post, in direct response to getting clowned on.
Ah, the beauty of the fundamental theorem of concern-troll linguistics. If you can change the words in a sentence so that the new sentence is racist, the original must be as well. Example:
Aaron: The weather is just ok.
Baron: OMG. I canāt believe you just said that. What if I changed the noun and adjective, like this: ā<ethnic group> is <negative adjective>ā. Go home and think about what you did.
(an exception can be made for people repurposing real-world slurs and putting a techy spin on them. fuck directly off with āwirebackā and similar shit)
i read that there was one based on a mexican-slur, but i couldnāt think of it
spent weeks trying to rhyme āwetā with something, couldnāt come up with it, damn i guess iām not a poet at least i know it
āwireā ā fuck me that is so lazy
If I imagine that my butt is a rocket, then I can fart my way to the moon