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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 so 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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I saw this headline:

Engineer Says It’s Time to Rebuild the Twin Towers With Giant Data Centers, Huge Tech Labs, and Anti-Aircraft Lasers on the Roof

And thought nothing in the body of the article could possibly top the headline. I was wrong:

Now, a long-shot effort seeks to rebuild them in an unlikely locale: Chicago

he’s even gone so far as to get a tribute to the original World Trade Center tattooed on his arm.

fireproof steel I-beams

a dedicated fire department

Journalists know that they don't have to cover every random crank on the internet right? I suppose it's my own fault for clicking on it.

[–] samvines@awful.systems 2 points 3 hours ago

Misaligned incentives. You read the news to be informed. Journalists write "news* to generate clicks and "try to go viral"

I agree though, It would be great if they didn't provide oxygen to these flaming idiots

[–] fiat_lux@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

The title is Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’. He then seemed to slightly walk back the claim, but it might be slightly more accurate to say that:

"Huang said we've achieved AGI. Because he thinks everyone except him is a replaceable idiot"

[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 1 points 30 minutes ago

@fiat_lux @BlueMonday1984

Is it "We achieved AGI, the Machine is now Conscious" Day again already? It comes around so fast

[–] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 6 points 8 hours ago

"Congratulations guys, we did it. Job well done. You're all fired."

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Apropos of nothing, archive.is ddos-d a website and altered page snapshots as part of some sort of inscrutable net drama causing Wikipedia to stop using it.

So if anyone cares about such things here's a wayback machine link instead

That said: lmao. Where are all these billion dollar LLM-run Tamogotchi feeding startups hiding? Still in the strawberry counting phase of starting a business?

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

i see elsewhere that wikipedia after all restricted a bit more use of chatbots, and i'm very interested how much kicking and screaming did it involve

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 15 hours ago

44 comments in support, 2 in opposition, discussion closed early under the "there's a snowball's chance in Hell of the situation changing from here" clause:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Oh sure, but when I send a cover letter where claude code told me about serious security issues and I used that knowledge to replace their internal app portal with my face I've "violated the computer fraud and abuse laws" or whatever.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 5 points 14 hours ago

Every week I learn I'm a n00b when it comes to leveling up with Al.

I'm hiring for facilities maintenance, and specifically seeking a high-agency self-starter who can help us optimize bathroom breaks. An internal candidate sent over multiple Claude Code generated iterations of the 💩emoji. One of them had blonde hair and Madonna's famous cone bra.

I was speechless.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

This account is just that sort of shit 24/7, just constant linkedin lunacy that everyone should treat as rage bait and move on.

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I know, but there's just so much to sneer at (especially lately).

[–] BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 10 points 15 hours ago

I find it very unsatisfactory to sneer at skeets from the above author. It's just junkfood at this point and not like good junkfood, just like stale off-brand popcorn in a bag that has a picture of a sad clown on it. Why is the clown sad? Because the clown has to constantly look at different variations on the same theme written by people whose brains are melted by LinkedIn.