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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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[-] khalid_salad@awful.systems 14 points 1 week ago

how come every academic I have worked with has given me some variation of

they already have all of my data, I don't really care about my privacy

i'm in computer science 🙃

[-] self@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago

the marketing fucks and executive ghouls who came up with this meme (that used to surface every time I talked about wanting to de-Google) are also the ones who make a fuckton of money off of having a real-time firehose of personal data straight from the source, cause that’s by far what’s most valuable to advertisers and surveillance firms (but I repeat myself)

[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The thing is, I'm pretty sure the overwhelming majority of the data is effectively worthless out of the online advertising grift. It's thoughtlessly collected junk sold as data for its own sake.

It works because no one working in advertising knows what a human beings is.

[-] self@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

my strong impression is that surveillance advertising has been an unmitigated disaster for the ability to actually sell products in any kind of sensible way — see also the success of influencer marketing, under the (utterly false) pretense that it’s less targeted and more authentic than the rest of the shit we’re used to

but marketing is an industry run by utterly incompetent morally bankrupt fuckheads, so my impression is also that none of them particularly know or care that the majority of what they’re doing doesn’t work; there’s power in surveillance and they like that feeling, so the data remains extremely valuable on the market

[-] Architeuthis@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

When people start going on about having nothing to hide usually it helps to point out how there's currently no legal way to have a movie or a series episode saved to your hard drive.

I suspect great overlap between the nothing-to-hide people and the people who watch the worst porn imaginable but think incognito mode is magic.

[-] self@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago

what’s wild is in the ideal case, a person who really doesn’t have anything to hide is both unimaginably dull and has effectively just confessed that they would sell you out to the authorities for any or no reason at all

people with nothing to hide are the worst people

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