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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Someone made a... thing where you run all your mastodon toots through a prompt before posting them and thought it would be a great idea to let us lemmy users know. Comes with ugly autoplag image on the github. The names of the "bots" are hilarious: "ennui" for low-effort posts; I don't think that word means what you think it means. "Legion" for automatic spam posts. Cause that's not a dogwhistle or anything.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

“Legion” for automatic spam posts. Cause that’s not a dogwhistle or anything.

Their name is Legion, for there are too fucking many.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Im going to assume they meant it as a reference to the Castlevania boss.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So the code doesn't make use of any LLM, it's just incredibly basic shit like string.toUpper(). It's curious how much the author wants to make it seem like it does. Even one guy on lemmy asks

Is it so that you don't have to read replies?

It will be added

Aargh, what's the point??

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I'm struggling to understand the fucking purpose here o.O. It feels like someone desperately trying to make anything for their portfolio or smt