Want to wade into the snowy 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.
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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.)
My God this is so bad. So in addition to lying about AI what they actually offered wasnāt speedy compliance as a service to get you certified, it was speedy certification as a service by bypassing actual compliance. This is such a silicon valley move and I honestly suspect that a number of people using and investing in these asshats knew exactly what was going on and simply didnāt care.
I meanā¦ Yeah. I think if you read it any other way youāre a massive rube. Like itās obviously not possible to do the former in ādaysā as they advertise.
Doesnāt surprise me in the slightest that all the companies listed in that substack as having used Delve are also AI slop companies (vibecoding, AI ācustomer serviceā, AI āvideo meeting assistantā (whatever that would be))
At best itās the same shitty arguments we heard from crypto grifters and their suckers. Letās take a process thatās complex and manual by design to allow for independent validation and securing against fraud and make it faster by cutting those parts out and throwing some high-tech nonsense at the problem that we can claim replaces all the verification and validation. (The fact that they called their system ātrustlessā in the face of this is deeply ironic.) But maybe itās the cynicism talking but Iām even less inclined to give anyone other than maybe the author of that sub stack the benefit of the doubt that they actually believed it.
The ideal customer for this service is the kind of āVisionary Leaderā with the āFounder Mindsetā and āDrive to Innovateā that lets them see that all those privacy, security, fraud prevention, anti-embezzlement, and whatever else those standards and their associated compliance mechanisms are meant to provide are just pointless obstacles on the path to making obscene amounts of money by burning the world behind you. Often the shit we talk about here makes me think the world has gone mad or stupid, but every so often I feel like Iām staring at the face of capital-E Evil and this is one of those times.
From that substack:
Ye man, then youāre complicit. If I were one of the clients, auditors, investors, Iād be printing that out on an A1 sheet and rushing to file as evidence, this is just plain fraud