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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.
Riffing on this fun subthread:
- Will AI invent the Philosopher’s Stone?
- Can AI duck the Zuck?
- WIll AI divide by zero?
- Can AI give you diarrhea?
- Will AI make “fetch” happen?
- Will AI have a second helping?
- Does AI unlock the secret to making the Moon happy again?
- Can AI stop eating after only one marshmallow?
soooooo, what you’re saying is that AI can cure constipation
use cases everywhere!
You know, I feel like it’s only a matter of time before someone in the overlapping griftoverse tries their hand at immanentizing the eschaton by creating their own second coming - the MessAIah.
The whole space scene really depresses me now. The Musk cult and TESCREAL and more overt ideologies (I’ve seen claimed old time L5 people throw around ‘spiteful mutant’ and other stuff). The whole thing just seems to be going nasty.
Astronomy thankfully is still chill.
more of a nsfw, a post on pointing and laughing at the fash. figured y’all may also enjoy reading it
Not read it yet, but I do enjoy that Harris Dr Who’ed Trump.
I missed that (largely because I try to avoid taking in horserace content), got a link?
No I mean the whole ‘aren’t they weird’ matches that dr who episode. Basically Who gets disappointed with the PM he is traveling with, and tells her ‘I will end your carreer with a few words’ and then whispers ‘doesn’t she look tired’ to one of her aides.
I like most of this article but
Instead, hundreds of couples gathered in a public space and sucked face. The women wore what we might call immodest clothing and the couples groped each other and kissed and kissed and kissed some more. For the police and the Turkish regime, this was an “irresolvable dilemma.” The police could not possibly turn violent against these smooching protesters. They would look brutal and, in some ways, silly. The public would surely sympathize with the kissing anti-authoritarians if force were deployed. Police are trained to respond to force, not non-violence. In this case, they slinked away and the protesters cheered and, in some cases, made out a little more.
did the law change
The townspeople didn’t engage the neo-nazi marchers with threats and force. Residents and local businesses instead pledged money for every mile the fascists walked in their journey to Hess’ burial site. They raised about $12,000 and gave the money to an organization dedicated to de-radicalizing young people trying to exit extremist groups. Protestors threw rainbow confetti on the neo-nazis as they passed the finish line of the marathon route the pro-democracy group had created as a way of mocking the little fascist walk. These adherents to a hideous political ideology were made into subjects of ridicule. They were made to be fools by folks who smartly refused to engage them the way they wanted to be engaged: With violence.
did they stop marching to the grave
idk the answer to the previous two questions but that he didn’t say is pretty sus
Pro-democracy activists have shown that far-right demonstrations of power have six core goals: To legitimize their views, strengthen their self-image as part of the downtrodden, unite their squabbling factions, attract new people to the movement, control media coverage, and feel powerful and heroic. All of these goals were met with the violent counter demonstrations in Charlottesville. It could not have turned out better for the fascists.
Charlottesville was an unmitigated disaster for the far right
In fact, movements with a mere 3.55 percent of the population actively supporting them have never failed, according to Pranksters vs. Autocrats, a comprehensive review of nonviolence and dilemma actions.
credulous
Smearing your opponent as weird and out of step with the American voter is as good a strategy as we’ve seen in the 21st century. Is it high minded and philosophical? No, it’s not. Are normies high minded and philosophical? No, they’re not. This is why Marxists have largely failed to gain power. They think too much.
the attack line comes from leftist podcasts
In fact, movements with a mere 3.55 percent of the population actively supporting them have never failed, according to Pranksters vs. Autocrats, a comprehensive review of nonviolence and dilemma actions.
Weird to see this argument come back. Last time I saw it ‘we only need to convince 10% of the population to fully believe in it, and science shows we will win all the time!’ it was being said by fascists a decade ago. Not sure if it makes sense, because there are true believers on the other side as well. Anyway, just wanted to mention how odd it is to see this argument be recycled after only seeing it on the far right a long time ago.
(I should say there’s a handful of places I don’t entirely agree with the writing/references, but I don’t think it kills the whole)
all their points about cville are pure post hoc speculation trash; this is way too close to the “but but violence is bad!”; laughing at the fash is good; beating up the fash while laughing is even better.
a long AI sneer on gabi belle’s channel
the comments also have some bangers. a quick selection:
My mom used to transcribe calls for companies as work, but then her work implemented AI to transcribe the calls, leading to work calls having sentences in them such as: “Thanks for watching!” “This venue has the best beat” and putting in random websites that DONT EXIST into the calls, when the caller said nothing like that.
imagine this in financial or medical services
had a survey from my university about how staff feel about AI implementation for our university. One question that concerned me was “how do you feel about AI being used for grading?”
The issue with AI grading assignments is that students will most likely get the mindset that if the professor or TA doesn’t care enough to put in the effort to look at my work to give me feedback to do better, why the hell should I put in the effort and spend thousands to do this?
please come to our university, it costs 500k for a year and we pinky promise that the prof/TA won’t get more than 10% of it, your learning is our “top priority”
My friend and I entered an art contest a few months ago and she lost to very obvious ai “art”. She spent months on a self portrait oil painting that even when putting my bias aside was amazingly beautiful and definitely deserved to win. There was ai competing in the charcoal category with me too but luckily someone looked at competing pieces before the judges actually scored anything and bombarded the hosts of the competition to remove the piece and they did eventually. It’s incredibly frustrating especially considering part of the first place prize was a scholarship that my friend definitely deserves and needs, and the contest hosts were very hesitant to remove the ai “art”.
it’s weird how a chunk the art world continues being bad at handling fakes
For additional context, training ChatGPT-3 took enough energy to propel the titanic at full speed for 37 hours. Or around 920 tons of coal.
just absolutely mental
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