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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)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

just changed the litter tray, you may wanna repost in the fresh new stubsack

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

pivot-to-ai.com needs a new theme. Blocksy looks really nice - but it doesn't work with WP Dark Mode and caches badly.

Need a 2 column blog theme suiting full short posts on the front page, that plays nice with Dark Mode. Any tips?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@BlueMonday1984 @dgerard The completely open 'I'm scamming the elderly' at the end is kinda chilling

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Its a surprisingly good complement to OP Chris Paxton's Tweet about "normie opinion on AI", given it shows why said "normie opinion" is so resoundingly negative.

I've made some brief nods to how the AI bubble is rapidly souring public perception of tech (here and here), but it really feels like AI has, to quote @datarama, "made tech synonymous with “monstrous assholes” in a non-trivial chunk of public consciousness".

I feel like I should collect my thoughts on that front - I could probably make an interesting post out of it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I'm pretty sure that if the community "takes out the trash" (i.e. downvotes to dead status[1]) the mods won't bother to ban the user.


[1] I happen to believe thta this is not sufficient to get rid of bad actors

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Libertarian nerds run straight into actual California, not the AI-generated dreamland they imagine

Mercury news: "Billionaires’ utopia company California Forever scraps plan for ballot initiative in wake of damning report"

https://archive.ph/UbdBw

The report released late last week by Solano County said the proposed new city of 50,000 — possibly up to 400,000 decades from now — would likely cost the county billions of dollars and create substantial annual financial deficits, while slashing agricultural production, damaging climate-change resilience, and potentially threatening local water supplies. The project, according to the report, “may not be financially feasible.”

HN shows what they think of the 3 people with actual thoughts on the issue by downvoting them to death

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41047746

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Who could have predicted this except for everybody ! There's a reason none of these galt gulches ever get built.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

which spent more than $800 million buying more than 60,000 acres of mostly agricultural land near Fairfield

Marc Andreessen and Reid Hoffman, just in case anyone thought there was a difference

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@dgerard

Was the stumbling point when they explained to the county the part about the perpetually tortured child?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Turns out that load-bearing children are out of code.

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