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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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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.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pay no attention to the three LLMs stacked together behind the curtain!

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

felon: the most divorced man to ever live

sammy: the most swirly-short edgelord to ever walk

that tweet is as unhinged as felon tweets tho

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You just might be a techbro if you're worth billions and still can't resist mouthing off on Xhitter.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Mouthing off in a way that makes me go 'ow god it IS all a scam and he knows it!' all hype and showmanship. I wonder if he practices this type of writing like this stance was also so obviously practiced.

(When it all implodes and the final step of the grift is the drama movies about it, I'm at least happy that Rick Gomez will make a passable Sam Altman (No idea why that blog didn't use a normal picture of Sam, but they decided to put Sam and Rick in the teleporter))