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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.

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[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The faithful are worried that Great Sky Father Graham is not dealing with this in a timely manner

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40118778

I'm honestly perplexed that HN doesn't have any kind of string filtering facility considering its centrality in the tech ecosystem.

[–] self@awful.systems 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

wow, the fucking bitterness in that thread as the site for clever hackers gets taken down by a really basic spam attack and doesn’t have even obvious mitigations in place (like a signup queue, one of the few anti-spam measures Lemmy implements)

I keep saying this, but the only thing I’ve seen the orange site’s anti-spam mechanisms consistently do is silence marginalized folks and anyone who tries to speak up for them. those mechanisms are fucking terrible at actually handling any volume of real spam, but in spite of what dang and company claim, they’re not really meant to deal with spam at all.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They should get some of those bayesianists on the problem, stat!

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A Plan for Spam

no no I meant a plan for making spam

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As a Trained Rationalist Bayesianist, I thought the A Plan for Spam was easy. But turns out everybody else has the wrong definition of what Spam is, so I need to first make documents that make it possible for people to know what Spam actually is, but turns out language is imprecise ergo, we first need to develop language again from first principles. So please read my book where we construct an alphabet from first principles, The Spamquences. Soon the second book will be released, the SpamSpamquences, and we are working on a site: SpamSpamSausageEggsBaconSpamquences.com.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Can I have fries ~~with~~ instead of that? And a milkshake

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 7 months ago

Yes sure, and can we supersize your order for one dollar extra? Great value!