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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 21 April 2024 (awful.systems)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

A choice selection of musks deposition with TurdRationalist™ ajacent brainrot shibboleths:

Q: (By Mr. Bankston) And this quote says from the Isaacson book, "My tweets are like Niagara Falls sometimes and they come too fast," Musk says. "Just dip a cup in there and try to avoid the random turds." Do you think that's an accurate quotation from you?

A: (By Elon) That is acutally not -- not accurate. [...] The things that I see on twitter, not the [...] posts that I make are like Niagara Falls. [...] my account is the most interacted with in the world I believe. It is physically impossible for, you know, any one person to see all of the interactions that happen. So the only way I can really gauge the interactions is by sampling them essentially.

Q: Got you. So would it be fair to say that Isaacson made a mistake here and what thus really should say is not my tweets are like Niagara Falls, but everyone else's tweets are like Niagara Falls?

A: Not exactly. It means [...] all of what I see when I use the X app, [...] all the posts that I see and all the interactions that happen with those posts, are far to numerous [...] for any human being to consume.

Q: Okay. So when this quote talks about random turds; these are other people's random turds?

A: I mean I suppose I -- I could be guilty of a random turd too, but [...] what I'm really referring to is that the only way for me to actually get an understanding of what is happening on the system is to sample it. Like try to do -- just like in statistics, you don't -- you do -- try to do -- you sample a distribution in order to understand what's going on, but you cannot look at every single data point.

I can only gauge truth from first principled anecdotal sampling of my nazi friends, I can't look at everything alas, I'll leave community notes to deal with pesky liberals

[Which btw in other parts of the deposition he says, for a community note to be surfaced people must vote the same note as being helpful, where they previously disagreed, which doesn't sound at all like it couldn't be gamed, and doesn't at all sound like it would sometimes force "centrism" with nazis]

On a all too sadly self-aware note

Elon: I may of done more to financially impair the company than to help it.

You think?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Is that the same Mark Bankston who represented the Sandy Hook families?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

yes, and the best bit is when he unhinges his jaw and swallows Spiro

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I believe it is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes it is. I'm just waiting for the Knowledge Fight boys to have a podcast on this deposition.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

They said they would if the actual audio is ever released, so far we only have the transcript...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Musk is weirdly into the Rationalist ideas, but also he doesn't get them. He once explained the 'we live in a simulation' ancestor simulation argument, and made it even dumber. Just mentioning statistics and distribution sampling isn't really it.

Anyway, because he mentioned Niagara Falls: A Dance

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Btw, deleted this because the vid needed a content warning, but I was too lazy to edit it in properly.