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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The post Xitter web has spawned so 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. What a year, huh?)
I admire how persistent the AI folks are at failing to do the same thing over and over again, but each time coming up with an even more stupid name. Vibe coding? Gas Town? Clawdbot, I mean Moltbook, I mean OpenClaw? Itās probably gonna be something different tomorrow, isnāt it?
Garbage sports teams rapidly cycling through logos until they magically become good
Counterpoint: these guys
(Expect the Las Vegas Raiders to announce their organization-wide AI initiative some time after the Super Bowl)
Now Iām just imagining an AI quarterback and the whole team revolting at following plays called by something that wonāt end up at the bottom of the 1000lb pile of meat if they fuck it up.
In a way it is amazing, as the science fiction idea is agis behaving like agents to help us out. We dont have agis, but they started to make the agents regardless. Feels very cargo cult, but for fiction. Beam me up Scotty im done.
Reminds me that the state of art short story collection also had a story where they give a semi smart teleport machine the wrong instructions so it teleports itself. (Causing the start of ww3 on earth basically, which fails because corporations suck).