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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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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)
[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

leading to the obvious consequence

not even blue check helped him. some intern will just pop another SIM card and start all over

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

surprised that happened to quickly. I guess it got Accelerated ban treatment because of eyes..

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 6 months ago

still just suspended, not banned even that it's pretty clear it's a bot

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 months ago

mass reports will do that. i mean, mass reports above noise baseline

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

new business idea: use chatgpt for programming but instead of paying openai use prompt injection on twitter bots

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago

I strongly suspect a lot of people are going to be finding a lot of ways to achieve this in all the various places prompts are easily accessible, if they haven’t already. Infra I can see/envision for it is something the equivalent of captcha farms

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago