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 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.
this article/dynamic comes to mind for me in this, along with a toot I saw the other day but don’t currently have the link for. the toot detailed a story of some teacher somewhere speaking about ai hype, making a pencil or something personable with googly eyes and making it “speak”, then breaking it in half the moment people were even slightly “engaged” with the idea of a person’d pencil - the point of it was that people are remarkably good at seeing personhood/consciousness/etc in things where it just outright isn’t there
(combined with a bit of en vogue hype wave fuckery, where genpop follows and uses this stuff, but they’re not quite the drivers of the itsintelligent.gif crowd)
https://mander.xyz/post/13749821 that’s probably this not sure if it ever happened
Transcript: a post by Greg Stolze on Bluesky.
how exactly did he get googly eyes on a pencil. big “then an eagle flew around the classroom” energy
yeah, was that. not sure it happened either, but it’s a good concise story for the point nonetheless :)
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