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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 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.

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

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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago

occasionally mentioned here Jan Marsalek implicated in surveillance (sometimes comically bad) and planned murder of journalists who crossed him https://theins.press/en/inv/279034 https://www.euronews.com/2025/03/07/uk-court-convicts-three-bulgarians-of-spying-for-russia

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

we live in hell https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funded-moscow-based-global

(this is compounded by how some segment of heavy ai boosters/users - former cryptobros, but not only them - were already immersed in this particular bubble)

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

Ow look the thing I worried about on r/scc (yes I know my own fault for touching it) which could not happen 'because you dont understand how llms work' happend.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

It's going down wrote an article on Doge, Trump and the NRx.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

since the name popped up elsewhere: what's the feel on venkatesh rao?

(I often see the name in 🚩 places, but dunno if that's because the areas or because the person)

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We talked about that on r/sneerclub in the past, can't recall the specific consensus. Seems post-rational, has innovation on rationalism from binary 'object vs meta' to 2x2 grids.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

thanks, I'll go check in the archives :)

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I did a quick search on Ribbonfarm (I couldn't recall what his blog was called quickly) myself. And see how much I had forgotten, it should have been called meta-rationality, and yes, insight porn, that was the term. (linking to two posts where ribbonfarm/this stuff was discussed).

E: Sad feels when you click on a name in the sub from years ago and see them now being a full blast AI bro.

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